Classical Music

2016 marked the 100th anniversary of Max Reger's death. In addition to his best-known creative field, the organ works, his compositions for choir form another important part of his oeuvre. This editio...

Triptyk' ('Triptych') and 'Mörkblå tillit' ('Dark Blue Trust') have been written by hospital chaplain/author Kerstin Dillmar. In her work she often meets people who walk in the shadow of death and her...

The two poems "Triptyk" (Triptych) and "Mörkblå tillit" (Dark Blue Trust) were written by the poet and hospital chaplain Kerstin Dillmar. "Triptyk" is an inner journey in three parts, so to speak - wi...

'Tonight I Dance Alone' for double choir a cappella consists of three poignant episodes from the life of an old man. We encounter him before his wedding, before celebrating his wedding anniversary and...

Tonight I Dance Alone for double choir a cappella is about three short scenes from the life of an old man. We meet him before his wedding, before the celebration of his wedding day and as an old widow...

Gothic horror in music: This chamber choir miniature in 3/4 time, as entertaining as it is creepy, pays homage to Alban Berg's Wozzeck, which is directly quoted with the line 'Ein schöner Mord, ein gu...

Bruckner's touching and clear movement is very popular with many choirs. It unfolds its sublime beauty with consistent dynamic work and meticulous intonation. Tried and tested thousands of times and a...

The simple but stylistically typical setting by Wolfgang Kelber is an ideal introduction to polyphonic gospel singing. Proven thousands of times over and always up to date: Bosse Verlag's choral colle...

In Silvestrovs kurzem Chorsatz erklingt nur ein Teil der von Beethoven verwendeten Zeilen aus Schillers 'Ode an die Freude' - die Strophe 'Freude schöner Götterfunken' und 'Seid umschlungen, Millionen...

Alexander Glasunov's chorus 'Vniz po matushke po Volge' is unique, largely unknown and unpublished in the West so far. His elaboration of this elegiac Russian folk song evolves from the unanimously in...

A part song by the eminent English choral composer Herbert Howells.

Written for the Serenade in the Cloisters of Canterbury Cathedral, which takes place as night falls, this work embodies the tranquility and serenity of night as portrayed in the text by Henry Longfell...

This Hungarian-text edition of these gripping folksong settings includes a piano accompaniment for rehearsal purposes.

Heart-felt setting for SATB a cappella of words of Our Lady of Guadalupe to St Juan Diego, December 1531 (English), with bass 'cantus firmus' from a 14th Century Marian antiphon (Latin): 'Listen, put...

This carol, written for the choir Canticum, is an upbeat setting of a rarely-used 15th-century English text, and would be an exciting new addition to any mixed-voice choir's Christmas repertoire. A 's...

Setting for double SATB chorus a cappella of an anonymous medieval text about Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians.

The Mass in Bb was first performed in November 1915 by the choir of All Saints, Margaret Street, London. The Director of Music at the time, Dr Walter Vale, adapted movements from Rachmaninoff's Liturg...

A setting for SSATBB a cappella of a Latin text, adapted from Rachmaninoff's Liturgy of St John Chrysostom.

This straightforward setting of the eighth chapter of the Song of Solomon, which features two people's professions of love for each other, was written for the wedding of friends of the composer in 200...

A collection of three choral songs setting the words of three First World War poets, commissioned in 2014 by the choir Sospiri to mark the centenary of the start of the war. The songs are charged with...

This piece for unaccompanied mixed choir (with frequent voice divisions) was commissioned by Ralph Allwood for the 1987 broadcast of the Eton Choral Course on Radio 3. The inimitable poem by Phineas F...

This beautiful short work was commissioned in 2014 to celebrate the 20th wedding anniversary of two of the composer's friends. It was first performed by the chamber choir Tenebrae on their album of mu...

Composed in 2014 for the Wellensian Consort (conductor: Christopher Finch), At Evening is composed in the style of an evening benediction. As a result, it is wonderfully suited as the praise song of a...