Sacred Music

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 addition to his world-famous film scores ('Godfather', 'La dolce vita'), Nino Rota also composed chamber and vocal music, with choral music playing a prominent role. The three choral pieces selecte...

The Pater noster for choir a cappella, is an homophonic setting of the Mozarabic melody and is suitable for both liturgy and concert. The Mozarabic traditional text includes an extra verse after Panem...

This work with its calmly pleading character lives on the contrast between the freely metric, virtually Gregorian passages and the strict time-beating sections. It is especially in the 'Da pacem' call...

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...

Andreas Pieper's overall artistic aim to 'build a bridge of confidence to the world behind things' with his music can be heard clearly in his setting of Tollite iugum meum. The Latin-language motet fo...

Chorpartitur für gemischten Chor a cappella - lateinisch Klangsinnlich, freudig und kontrastreich entfaltet sich über 15 Minuten eine leuchtende, teils impressionistisch angehauchte Harmonik, der die...

With Zwei lateinische Marienmotetten for mixed a cappella choir (SATB) and interlude for organ or string quintet, Andreas Pieper has created two gems of Marian devotion which are perfect for being use...

The fact that Pascal Martiné is a real expert in the field of sacred choral music shows once again in the 'Three Motets' for mixed a-cappella choir (SATB) by the Mainz-based composer and (choir) teach...

The Spanish composer Rafael Sánchez Mombiedro set the well-established text 'O Magnum Mysterium' on the Coming of God to music in a new and inspiring way. He plays with dynamics and strange harmonies,...

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...

Der 1795 geborene Robert Lucas de Pearsall gilt als einer der Wegbereiter des Cäcilianismus, einer kirchenmusikalischen Restaurationsbewegung mit Rückbesinnung auf den aus Renaissance und Barock überl...

Mit seinem 'Ave verum' hat Alwin M. Schronen ein wahres Kleinod geistlicher A-cappella-Chormusik geschaffen. Der Vertonung für vierstimmigen gemischten Chor (SATB) liegt der altbekannte Text der Eucha...

Meine Seele dürstet nach Gott, nach dem lebendigen Gott - diese Psalmvertonung wird von einem kleinen und einem größeren Chor antiphonisch vorgetragen. Mit zarten Harmonien, ruhigem Gestus und spannun...

Szymon Godziemba-Trytek, born in Poland in 1988, already is one of the acclaimed choral composers of our time and has been awarded numerous prizes at national and international composition competition...

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 extremely compositional versatility of Enjott Schneider is evident even in the small(est) form of choral music. In his about four-and-a-half-minute sacred choral work Ubi caritas for six-part mixe...

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...

Alwin Michael Schronen has long been known for his versatility and ability to compose works of varying degrees of difficulty. His setting of the Agnus Dei for eight-part mixed choir a cappella (SSAATT...