Masses

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...

The Mass settings form the largest section in the fifth and last volume of the series Breitkopf & Härtel Choir Library for Mixed Choir - Sacred Repertoire. Two single movements are followed by seven c...

Chorbuch für gemischten Chor a cappella oder mit Orgel (Chorleiterband mit CD) Die Chortradition der britischen Kathedralen und Universitäten ist weltberühmt. Über die Jahrhunderte ist auf der Insel e...

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli is one of the most famous works of the Renaissance age. And it’s not just the early 17th-century myth that this piece “saved” polyphonic sacred...

Eine zeitgenössische Messe für Kammerchor-Konzerte. Die Messteile sind sehr verschieden gestaltet, bilden jedoch durch Cluster und Liegetöne eine Einheit und sollten unbedingt im Zusammenhang aufgefüh...

Die 'missa laudamus deum' für gemischten Chor a cappella ist nach der 'missa deus est caritas' (HELBL-C7206) Manfred Längers zweite Vertonung des Ordinariums. Leicht singbar und fast durchgehend viers...

Die Missa Brevis Akarana entstand im Auftrag des Auckland Symphony Orchestra unter der Leitung von Peter Thomas und spiegelt Chris Artleys Interesse für das klassische Kirchenmusik-Repertoire und die...

The Gloria from Latvian composer Laura Jēkabsone's highly popular Folk Mass, now available as a separate movement. This highly innovative work provides a fresh perspective on this Liturgical text. The...

The Credo from Latvian composer Laura Jēkabsone's highly popular Folk Mass, now available as a separate movement. This highly innovative work provides a fresh perspective on this Liturgical text. The...

The Sanctus from Latvian composer Laura Jēkabsone's highly popular Folk Mass, now available as a separate movement. This highly innovative work provides a fresh perspective on this Liturgical text. Th...

Die kurze Messe aus dem Jahr 1955 für gemischten, achtstimmigen Chor a cappella besteht aus den Teilen Kyrie, Gloria und Agnus Dei; sie enthält kleine solistische Einschübe, die aus dem Chor besetzt w...

A beautiful setting for unaccompanied choir. Text from the opening of the Mass Ordinary: Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison. Lord, have mercy. Christ, have mercy.

This JUBELMESSE by Gregor Simon was composed as part of the Dresden composition competition "Sing to the LORD a new song—New Choral Music" and was awarded first prize. The Mass is characterized by a c...