Sacred Music

Cantate Domino is a short, lightly dancing setting of Psalm 95 cast technically very much in the same mould as the mass, though the key is Bb, with two pairs of voices (S/A, T/B) doubling each other a...

Following an initiative by Princess Caroline of Monaco/Hannover to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the reign of his Highness, Prince Rainier III of Monaco, composer Arvo Pärt was commissioned to c...

Littlemore Tractus was commissioned first in 1999 so that its first performance in February 2001 would coincide with the 200th anniversary of the birth of the English priest, poet, nineteenth century...

Littlemore Tractus was commissioned first in 1999 so that its first performance in February 2001 would coincide with the 200th anniversary of the birth of the English priest, poet, nineteenth century...

In principio takes its words from the Gospel of John 1:1-14 and puts them into a five-movement form. This work, as in all of Pärt's music, is governed by a strict formal design, with the clarity of th...

Composed in 1990, and revised in 1991, for SATB Choir or soloists with organ accompaniment, Pärt's setting of The Beatitudes is one of only a handful of works (Litany and And One of the Pharisees also...

Arvo Pärt says of this work: In the 1960s I became so fascinated by that central idea of Christianity 'Love your enemies' that it gave birth to my composition Credo. The work comprises two musically o...

Partitur = Orgelstimme.

When Arvo Pärt sets words to music, he gives the impression of having entered into the depths of his chosen text and returned to the surface with an entirely fresh impression of what it's all about. T...

Pärt's take on the Te Deum text, also known as the Ambrosian Hymn, employs his signature tintinnabuli style of composition. The melodic lines, as well as their harmonies, strictly follow the rhythms o...

Instrumentierung: für Solisten: Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bass, Chor SATB Orgel und Orchester

Für Solisten: Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bass, Chor SATB, Orgel und Orchester. Sprache: altkirchenslawisch.

Gottwald always seems to find forgotten gems, and these Three Songs by Hans Sommer are an example. Based on texts by Goethe, they are arranged in inspired form for mixed chorus. For advanced choirs.

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...

UE choral editor Clytus Gottwald brings us Three Early Songs of Anton Bruckner (Frühlingslied, Herbstkummer, and Im April), originally for voice and piano and now in settings for six-part choir. For a...

With songs translated by Clytus Gottwald, these three short songs for choir are a perfect introduction to Austrian composer, Joseph Marx's, body of work.

Composer and choir master Clytus Gottwald comments on his transcription of Anton Webern’s Im Sommerwind (1904) as follows: 'First of all I had to eliminate all those parts of the source material that...

Unlike the works Karol Szymanowski composed during the first two decades of the 20th century, his Stabat Mater could only have been written in a country with Slavic culture. Drawing on his musical roo...

Unlike the works Karol Szymanowski composed during the first two decades of the 20th century, his Stabat Mater could only have been written in a country with Slavic culture. Drawing on his musical roo...