Sacred Music

Orgelauszug = Chorpartitur

Words by Baron Gottfried van Swieten after J. Thomson's 'The Seasons'. Completed in 1801, first public performance on 24 April of that year. New Urtext Edition by Werner Seyfried > New English Transla...

A Meditation on the Sacred Passion of the Holy Redeemer, for Tenor and Bass solo, SATB, and Organ, with hymns for congregational participation. The text was selected and written by Reverend J. Sparrow...

for soprano and baritone soloists, SATB chorus, and the composer's original chamber instrumentation Orchestral and vocal material is available on hire. Organ plays from the vocal score.

Vocal score of Igor Stravinsky's Mass for mixed choir and piano reduction by Leopold Spinner.

This tender arrangement of the well-loved Irish folk melody Londonderry Air sets an uplifting poem by Howard Walter. I would be true has been recorded by the Cambridge Singers on the CD This is the Da...

The Oslo Gospel Choir is a gospel choir from Oslo, Norway, founded and directed by Tore W. Aas in 1988. The choir performs contemporary gospel music based on the American style, as well as the type of...

Although written in 1936, this work was not released for performance until 1980, for personal reasons of Howells'. It was the composer's wish that Requiem should be performed unaccompanied, however he...

In this version of the popular English hymn, Rutter adorns the well-known melody with an opening fanfare and soaring descant line over the final verse. Full scores and sets of parts for the brass ense...

Christ the Lord Is Risen Today is an arrangement of the Easter hymn tune 'Lyra Davidica'. Not to be confused with Rutter's own composition, Christ the Lord is risen again. Brass choir score and parts...

The Proclamation: Gloria in Excelsis Deo is the opening movement of Karl Jenkins' popular Gloria arranged for mixed voices and piano. Gloria is a large-scale festival piece commissioned by the Really...

Svyati - 'O Holy One' for choir and solo cello. Text in church Slavonic. Quoting Tavener: 'I began to write Svyati in early 1995: while sketching it, Iearned that John Williams, father of Jane, my dea...

The Miserere in C minor ZWV 57 is a late work by the Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka. According to the entry in the autograph score, it was completed on March 12, 1738. The work can thus be place...

As recorded by the Swingle Singers on "The Story of Christmas".

Fauré completed the work in 1887 at the age of 42. Fauré's main focus was actually on composing chamber music. As a result, his music has become little known outside his home country. Fauré's Requiem...

The work "Dona Nobis Pacem" by US composer Mary Lynn Lightfoot is a subtle and sonorous setting of the traditional Latin call for peace. The composition captivates with its flowing, lyrical melodies a...

Shortly before his death, Giovanni Pergolesi moved to the Franciscan monastery in Pozzuoli, where he composed his last works. Among these is his Stabat mater. The piece reveals the infusion into churc...

Chilcott's mighty setting of words from the Gospel of St John is a dramatic yet optimistic retelling of the Passiontide story. As with Bach's great Passion settings, the role of the Evangelist is take...

DAS JUGENDCHORBUCH FÜR GLEICHE STIMMEN ZU GOTTESDIENST UND KONZERT - BAND 1 auf Empfehlung der Fachkonferenz Singen mit Kindern und Jugendlichen im Chorverband in der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschla...

The Berlin Mass is intended to be sung liturgically during Pentecost, and includes the Veni Sancte Spiritus specific to that service. The gently unfolding repetition deliberately avoids dramatic and p...

Requiem Novum, an evocative musical work from Swedish composer Mårten Jansson, weaves drama, emotion, and exquisite compositional technique info a masterpiece for our time. The choir (singing the trad...

Francis Poulenc's motet setting of the Ave Verum Corpus is written for 3-Part female voices (Soprano, Mezzo-Soprano and Alto).

From the composer of the much performed Cloudburst, here is a new collaboration between Eric Whitacre and poet Charles Anthony Silvestri, drawing on the mystical moment between awareness and sleep. Wh...

The conductor Valery Polyansky tells how, after conducting Schnittke's Faust Cantata in Moscow in 1983, he asked the composer to write something for him and his choir. At first, Schnittke was not will...

A perfect example of a blended anthem, this praise song is expertly paired with a time-honored hymn. The arranging acknowledges the challenges of choral synchronization while respecting the energy of...