Chor Gesang Neuheiten Noten

A friend, the Swedish poet Einar Askestad, wrote a poem at my request about the love between father and son, brothers and God. This form of love is rarely sung about. The poem moved me deeply and I tr...

2016 marked the 100th anniversary of Max Reger's death. In addition to his best-known creative field, the organ works, his compositions for choir form another important part of his oeuvre. This editio...

Spirituals and gospels are booming and gospel choirs, workshops and concerts are springing up like mushrooms. However, polyphonic sheet music that is not too difficult and still sounds good is rare. T...

The Missa brevis in E flat minor for mixed choir cappella is in the tradition of the short mass (without Credo). It can be easily mastered by most choirs. Its concise brevity makes it suitable for use...

The two poems "Triptyk" (Triptych) and "Mörkblå tillit" (Dark Blue Trust) were written by the poet and hospital chaplain Kerstin Dillmar. "Triptyk" is an inner journey in three parts, so to speak - wi...

Tonight I Dance Alone for double choir a cappella is about three short scenes from the life of an old man. We meet him before his wedding, before the celebration of his wedding day and as an old widow...

Mårten Jansson has made a name for himself internationally with his masses in particular. The Missa brevis in E flat minor and the Missa Popularis appear regularly in concert programs. The new Missa B...

Bruckner's touching and clear movement is very popular with many choirs. It unfolds its sublime beauty with consistent dynamic work and meticulous intonation. Tried and tested thousands of times and a...

The simple but stylistically typical setting by Wolfgang Kelber is an ideal introduction to polyphonic gospel singing. Proven thousands of times over and always up to date: Bosse Verlag's choral colle...

Of all the Low German folk songs, "Dat du min Leevsten büst" is the best known. In the choral arrangement, we join a young couple who, in initially very tender, later passionately powerful tones, make...

As usual, the Bosse hits once again let the a cappella sparks fly. The double-choir arrangement of Handel's "Hallelujah" for mixed choir is full of groovy musical twists and turns, but never neglects...

With his arrangement of the American folk/gospel song for four-part mixed choir, Martin Kirchhübel enriches the Bosse Hits a cappella series. Despite its brevity, it is full of tonal colors and create...

This setting of the familiar opening lines of Henry Vaughan’s 'The World' was Lucy Walker's first commission as Composer-in-Residence with St Martin’s Voices, and was premiered by the ensemble in June...

Commissioned by St Martin’s Voices to mark Remembrance Day in 2024, There will come soft rains showcases the range of the choir’s musical colour-palette through the repetition of the opening motif in...

Love Flows was commissioned by the Choir of Wells Cathedral and Alexander Hamilton to mark the occasion of the installation of the Reverend Canon Toby Wright as Dean of Wells in June 2024. The etherea...

Written for the BBC Singers in 2019, Stars above, earth below is a hopeful and reflective setting of the poem Leaves by Sara Teasdale (1884–1933). The piece begins with celestial, descending lines acr...

Daybreak by Christi Jones, with contributions from her teenage son Carson Jones, is a powerful a cappella piece for developing mixed choir featuring body percussion. The music begins in a haunting min...

Melissa Roth Young’s Lux Aeterna offers a beautiful and heartfelt setting of the timeless Latin text, long used to honor those who have gone before us. The music reflects the text’s message of hope am...

This powerful setting of George Matheson's words juxtaposes ideas of yearning and resting within the text. The tension within the harmonies of this setting will linger through lengthy phrases, but rep...

Russ Robinson's arrangement of Be Thou My Vision is simplistic yet elegant. His addition of "color chords" adds musical interest without taking away from the original melody and harmonies.

The fact that Miklós Rózsa wrote choral works in addition to film scores, orchestral works and chamber music is only known to a few people today. The best known is the motet "To Everything There Is a...

The motet "The Vanities of Life" op. 30 was written by Miklós Rózsa in 1964 as a commission for the Pacific Lutheran University Choir in Tacoma, Washington. The choir performed the work for the first...