Christmas

Written for the 2025 BBC Radio 3 Epiphany Carol Service, broadcast from Pembroke College, Cambridge, Arise, shine sets the first three verses of Isaiah 60: 'Arise, shine, for your light has come, and...

Commissioned by the CBC and the choir of the church of St. Andrew and St. Paul in Montreal, Ruth has set the evocative Christmas text of Eliza Hewitt. The text is both majestic and intimate and the mu...

After a statement of the chorale in unison, Hal Hopson has taken the final movement from part 1 of J.S. Bach's 'Christmas Oratorio' 'Vom Himmel hoch' and set it using the words penned by Martin Luther...

This beautiful, traditional Christmas text, also known as 'Wind Through The Olive Trees', has been delicately set by Carol Barnett. The beautiful, three staff organ accompaniment provides the long bea...

Francesco Basili (Loreto, Milan, Rome) is one of the Italian composers who enjoyed great popularity at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries – both in church music and opera circles – but whose work...

für Soli (SATB), gem. Chor und Orchester

Die Kompositionen von Guillaume Bouzignac (ca. 1587 bis nach 1643) waren für die Entwicklung der geistlichen Musik in Frankreich vor der Zeit von Jean-Baptiste Lully von großer Bedeutung; der frühbaro...

Kuhnau's Magnificat in C major is - apart from his Biblical Sonatas - considered to be his most ambitious and best known work. However, as recent research has revealed, there are indeed many other lar...

The cantata O heilige Zeit [O Holy Time] of the former St. Thomas cantor Johann Kuhnau is the ideal baroque festive music for small scorings. Even though this is the larger of two cantatas with this t...

With the festive cantata "Gottlob! Nun geht das Jahr zu Ende" (BWV 28), Johann Sebastian Bach created a poignant masterpiece for the Sunday after Christmas. The work beautifully combines profound grat...

Bring festive brilliance to the holiday season with Johann Sebastian Bach's masterly cantata "Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes" (BWV 40) for the Second Day of Christmas. This expressive work is am...

Open the festive Advent season with one of Johann Sebastian Bach's most impressive masterpieces: The cantata "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland" (BWV 62, 2nd Composition) for the 1st Sunday of Advent radia...

Experience the festive splendor of the holiday season with Johann Sebastian Bach's masterful cantata "Ich freue mich in dir" (BWV 133), composed for the 3rd Day of Christmas. This deeply moving work r...

For advanced choir, this lyrical work highlights text-painting using the descriptive words from Isaiah 45:8.

For advanced adult choirs, this work sets the poem that depicts Mary's inner thoughts during the birth of Christ.

Of the 11 surviving settings of the Mass by Charpentier, the present work, the Messe de minuit, is without doubt one of the most popular. Although Charpentier's Parisian career is quite well documente...

As Master of the Queens Music, Sir Peter Maxwell Davies has written a new carol for Her Majesty the Queen each Christmas since his appointment began in 2004. Kings and Shepherds is the fourth and like...

'Chor zu dritt' wendet sich mit seinen dreistimmigen Sätzen für gemischten Chor an die vielen Chöre, die der zumeist vierstimmigen Chorliteratur mit ihrer Aufteilung in hohe und tiefe Männerstimmen ni...

Heft zum Advent

With "Folge dem Licht" (Follow the Light), Helbling Verlag presents a moving and resonant hymn that deeply touches both choirs and audiences alike. This choral piece is an intimate musical tribute to...