Sacred Music

Richard Strauss composed "Allerseelen" ("Place the fragrant resedas on the table") in 1885 as a 21-year-old, newly appointed court music director in Meiningen. Today, it is considered one of his most...

Richard Strauss composed "Allerseelen" ("Place the fragrant resedas on the table") in 1885 as a 21-year-old, newly appointed court music director in Meiningen. Today, it is one of his most popular son...

Danish composer John Høybye enjoys great acclaim at home and abroad, not just for his music but also for his work as a (choral) conductor and arranger. Presenting a medium level of difficulty, Hope. E...

The Requiem "Light Shines in the Darkness" is a composition for viola solo and mixed choir. John Høybye sets a text by Edward Broadbridge to music. The predominantly English-language poem contains Lat...

Das Gotteslob bietet eine Fülle an Möglichkeiten zur Feier der Tagzeitenliturgie in der Gemeinde. Auch mit dem dritten Chorheft regen die Herausgeber zu lebendigen Gottesdiensten an, die gemeinsam von...

Coro SATB, [4 Instr, Cb, Org]

Die Kompositionen von Guillaume Bouzignac (ca. 1587 bis nach 1643) waren für die Entwicklung der geistlichen Musik in Frankreich vor der Zeit von Jean-Baptiste Lully von großer Bedeutung; der frühbaro...

Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s impressive setting of the Latin canticle Te Deum opens with a striking introductory fanfare. It is familiar to millions, since it is the theme tune of the Eurovision TV broa...

First critical edition. Together with Debussy, Ravel, and Dukas, Lili Boulanger was one of the most important representatives of impressionism. Despite her short life of just 24 years, she developed a...

In seinem Passionsoratorium Christus am Ölberge gelang es Beethoven einerseits, an eine Tradition des 18. Jahrhunderts anzuknüpfen, andererseits aber auch die aufblühende Gattung des deutschsprachigen...

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, transcriptions of large (choral) symphonic works for two pianos were extremely popular, as they enabled a large audience to get to know classical compositions in...

Anton Bruckner's great Mass in E minor for eight-part choir, wind and brass is a captivating work with its expressive combination of archaic unison, strict counterpoint, and romantic-harmonic wind acc...

Antonín Dvorák's impressive "Stabat Mater" for soloists, choir and orchestra is probably the best known of the composer's sacred works. Dvorák's own painful experiences - his first daughter died in 18...

The British composer Grayston (Bill) Ives (*1948) has dedicated himself to choral music in many different ways. He was a tenor with the legendary King's Singers and later worked for 18 years as an org...

Tango Argentino meets Classic! The Argentine composer Martín Palmeri, whose Misatango is beloved by many choirs, has set Psalm 127 Nisi Dominus for solo soprano and mixed choir, accompanied by bandone...

Tango Argentino meets Classic! The Argentinian composer Martín Palmeri, whose "Misatango" is known and loved by many choirs, sets the 127th psalm "Nisi Dominus" to music for solo soprano and mixed cho...

The famous merchant's son and later founder of the order, Francis of Assisi, has repeatedly been taken as a source of inspiration from a wide variety of perspectives and Damijan Mocnik also follows in...

Coro SATB/SATB, Bc

Coro SATB/ATTB, Org

The cantata "Gelobet sei der Herr, mein Gott" BWV 129 is one of the choral cantatas that Bach subsequently added to the choral cantata cycle that was discontinued at Easter 1725; it was not composed u...

So populär die Motetten Bachs sind, so problematisch ist ihre Überlieferung. Nur von 2 Motetten sind Autographe und von Bach benutzte Stimmen erhalten, bei allen anderen müssen wir uns mit mehr oder w...

On April 1, 1725, Bach formed the Easter cantata "Kommt, gehet und eilt" BWV 249.3, which was to become the nucleus of the Easter Oratorio, from the Shepherd's Cantata BWV 249.1 he had composed a few...

The Gloria in D RV 589 is Vivaldi's best-known sacred work and is one of his most important church music compositions. It was probably composed as an independent single movement between 1713 and 1717...

Psalm 150 from 1884 is a composition from César Franck's creative maturity. The characteristic features of his style appear in a small space: the emphatically symphonic language, the bold, unmistakabl...