Choir, Vocals

Dimitri Stepanowitsch Bortniansky (1751-1825) seems to have composed the majority of his liturgical works and most of his Sacred Concertos in the 1780s and 1790s, before he was appointed Kapellmeister...

Wolfram Buchenberg structured his setting of the Veni creator Spiritus as an urgent and powerful invitation to the creative spirit. The frequent reprises of this line of text, like a motto, are contra...

Das 16-stimmige Tombeau de Josquin Desprez, dessen Text auf die Inschrift der Grabplatte in St. Gudula, Brüssel, zurückgeht, ist eine Auseinandersetzung mit der Polyphonie Josquins. In seinem Verlauf...

Dum medium silentium, which sets a text from the Book of Wisdom, celebrates stillness as a prerequisite for the birth of God's word both in the world and in the human soul. With its composed dissolvin...

Dum medium silentium, which sets a text from the Book of Wisdom, celebrates stillness as a prerequisite for the birth of God's word both in the world and in the human soul. With its composed dissolvin...

Die reizvolle Motette für Chor a cappella beginnt mit einer ruhigen ostinaten Basslinie, zu welcher die anderen Stimmen nach und nach hinzutreten, bis das eingängige Thema erstmals im Alt, zusammen mi...

Hugo Distler's Weihnachtsgeschichte op. 10 is in a deeply heartfelt style, and his Christmas motets, written at various points in his life, sound just as vivid in their expression. With madrigalian en...

The 'Missa romana' is a mass setting in Latin. With a duration of c. 10 minutes, and a moderate level of difficulty, it is intended for performance in Catholic services. It combines jazzy chords and L...

Die Motette 'Bless the Lord, O My Soul' (2013) über Verse des 103. Psalms reizt die Möglichkeiten von Stimmkombinationen und daraus resultierenden Klangwirkungen in hohem Maße aus: Im Anruf 'O my soul...

Es mag vielleicht unbescheiden klingen, wenn man sagt, dass die schönsten Weihnachtslieder die polnischen seien. Wenngleich auch jede andere Nation dasselbe von ihren eigenen Weihnachtsliedern behaupt...