Classical Music

Im Oeuvre von Camille Saint-Saëns, der vor allem durch seinen Karneval der Tiere bekannt wurde, stellen die zwei Ende 1882 komponierten Chorstücke op. 68 eine echte Besonderheit dar. Vermutlich selbst...

This large-scale, intensive work (composed in 1972) is among the most powerful choral compositions by Veljo Tormis. The texts are in Estonian and in English.

A series of twelve songs with piano for children composed by Benjamin Britten between May 1933 and August 1934. Published as Friday Afternoons, Op.7, they were written for his brother Robert's prepara...

A flowing piano accompaniment and melody that capture the mystery of this beautiful Rossetti text. From Ola Gjeilo's album Winter Songs. Can be performed with piano only or with piano and string quart...

Der Name Lorenz Maierhofer steht für ansprechende und gut singbare Chormusik. Viele seiner Werke wurden zu Klassikern, zu Standards für Konzerte, Feste und Feierlichkeiten, für Chorbegegnungen und Cho...

62366-120; Agee, James, lyrics

Franz Schubert's popular 'German Mass' from 1827 follows on from Michael Haydn's 'German High Mass' in its idea of a German-language setting of the Ordinary. Due to its homophonic structure with large...

Originally composed for harp, string orchestra and solo soprano, next adapted for soprano and piano and now finally available for choir and piano. This SA setting takes a whimsical approach to the tex...

Everyday Wonders: The Girl from Aleppo tells the extraordinary story of Nujeen Mustafa, a Kurdish teenager with cerebral palsy forced by war to flee her home and embark on an arduous journey to Europe...

Adiemus is the first movement of Songs of Sanctuary, an extended choral work based on the European classical tradition, but where the vocal sound is more akin to world music. For female choir, recorde...

Morten Lauridsen's lyrical settings of Rilke's 'Les roses' have already become part of the mainstream choral repertory. Deftly crafted and elegant in their imagery, 'Les Chansons de Roses' enhance the...

The first three Nocturnes-'Sa Nuit d'Été' (R. M. Rilke), 'Soneto de la Noche' (Pablo Neruda) and 'Sure On This Shining Night' (James Agee)-may be performed either separately or as a cycle (in that ord...

The calm canon "Moeder Aarde, aardse moeder" (Level: easy) for five voices a cappella or with piano accompaniment was composed by Franco Prinsloo from South Africa (lyrics in Afrikaans). The catchy me...

Soleils de Septembre

O Nata Lux is a serene a cappella motet celebrating the Redeemer, and is part of the larger 'Lux Aeterna' (available from this site 0-571-52154-1) for Chorus, Orchestra and Organ. The changes in meter...

'Breath of Song' brings together ten exquisite works by contemporary women composers. Compiled and edited by Sarah Quartel, the collection features an eclectic mix of styles and colours, specially sel...

Arrangiert für gemischten Chor a cappella - Arranged for mixed choir a cappella. Gemischter Chor-SATB - Singpartitur

As a firm avant-gardist, Ursula Mamlock primarily focused on instrumental music, mostly with typically reduced means and expression. Text-based pieces, vocal music, especially choral music are excepti...

A simple and short but very beautiful setting of the well-known Christina Rossetti text by Cornish composer Becky McGlade. An atmosphere of cold, winter stillness is conveyed in this piece with its ge...