Masses

The Latvian composer Vytautas Mi(s

The Latvian composer Vytautas Mi(s

Melodiös, leicht singbar und rund ums Jahr verwendbar Die rund ums Jahr bestens verwendbare Kirchberger Singmesse hat bereits einen festen Platz im Repertoire vieler Chöre. Die acht melodiösen und seh...

The 'Missa brevis in E flat minor' for mixed choir a cappella has been composed in the tradition of the short Mass (without Credo) and can be easily managed by most choirs. Thanks to its conciseness,...

Mårten Jansson is internationally known, particularly for his masses; the Missa brevis in E-flat minor and the Missa Popularis are regularly performed in concert programmes. The new Missa Brevis Arosi...

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...

The Strathclyde Motets are communion motets setting propers of the mass for various Sundays and feasts. Latin text from the Graduale Romanum. Suitable for intermediate standard choirs.Pascha nostrum i...

The Strathclyde Motets are communion motets setting propers of the mass for various Sundays and feasts. Suitable for intermediate standard choirs. The Canticle of Zachariah takes Luke chapter I as its...

Five-movement work for mixed chorus a cappella with mutiple divisi and semi-chorus.A setting of a poem by Michael Symmons Roberts (English) with Latin text from the mass and an English traditional rhy...

Composed in 1980 and revised in 2010 this is a setting of verses from Aquinas's Pange lingua in modern English translation. The choral writing is appropriately hymn-like, with one a cappella passage....

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...

In Paradisum sets a prayer from the Roman Catholic Burial Service, often used as a movement in settings of the Requiem Mass. The opening emerges from silence and builds in texture until all eight part...

Composer's note:Each year at their Summer Festival in Tavistock, the Exon Singers feature the music of a living composer. In the summer of 2008 I was privileged to be the chosen composer. Salve Regina...

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...

A beautiful short setting of the ordinary of the Latin mass (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus & Benedictus, and Agnus Dei) by emerging Cornish composer Becky McGlade. The Kyrie finds beauty in its simplicity, w...

When it was possible to celebrate the Catholic Mass in the German language as well, Bertold Hummel wrote his motet Ehre sei Gott for mixed four-part choir. This piece is a 'German gloria' and can be p...

In the last decade, Krzysztof Penderecki composed a Sanctus and Benedictus for treble choir, and he has now used these movements as the basis of his Missa brevis. The new mass setting adds male voices...

The work interprets in a sensitive way the effect Pope Frances, who was elected in March 2013, has on people. Based on three Argentine folk songs, the mass with its powerful and quiet parts arouses fe...

Nino Rota's Mass was composed in Rome in 1962, the very same year when the Second Vatican Council formally opened in 1962, whose fundamental changes regarding the use of liturgical music directly foun...

The mass was composed to be easy to rehearse and accessible music for church services. A notable feature of this mass is the complete absence of accidentals, making it a 'white key mass'. The range fo...