Chor Gesang Neuheiten Noten

The Berlin choirmaster and music teacher Michael Betzner-Brandt is known as a particularly creative mind in the choral scene - for example through his "I can't sing" choirs. In order to be able to sin...

The cantata Leichtgesinnte Flattergeister BWV 181, composed for Sunday Sexagesimae 1724, has only survived incompletely: IT is missing the obbligato instrumental part of the second aria, which was rec...

The cantata "Sie werden euch in den Bann tun" BWV 183 for Sunday Exaudi is one of the cantatas based on texts by the Leipzig poet Christian Mariane von Ziegler, with which Bach concluded his second Le...

The autograph contains no reference to the participation of instruments, and there is no doubt that a purely vocal performance would do full justice to the work. On the other hand, there is nothing to...

When we hear the words "Johann Sebastian Bach" and "Magnificat", we immediately think of his famous Magnificat in D major BWV 243 or E flat major BWV 243a. However, during his time as St. Thomas' Cant...

At less than 20 years of age, the youngest son of the Leipzig Thomaskantor Johann Sebastian Bach broke away from the Lutheran musical tradition of his family: Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782) went to...

Hosanna to the Son of David opens Telemann's cantata cycle "Musicalisches Lob Gottes in der Gemeine des Herrn" as a cantata for the 1st Advent. The year is based on poems by the Hamburg Jacobi chief p...

The Frankfurt Whitsun cantata from 1717 presents the choir and the four soloists with rewarding tasks and features a virtuoso recorder player in the opening chorus and in two of the three arias.

Antonio Vivaldi set Psalm 111 (112) "Beatus vir" three times ("Blessed is the man who fears the Lord"). Of these, two have survived that could hardly be more different: the extensive, double-choir wor...

contains: Dixit Dominus (Ps 109) in C Confitebor (Ps 110) in e Beatus vir (Ps 111) in B Laudate pueri (Ps 112) in F Laudate Dominum (Ps 116) in A Magnificat in C

contains: Solo aria "O coelitum beati" (G major); choral movement "Alleluia" (C major)

After Johann Adolf Hasse had finished his work for the opera stage and settled in Venice for good, he still wrote some church music. Out of old ties with the Saxon court, in whose service the composer...

Two complete Requiem settings by Johann Adolf Hasse have survived. Hasse composed the C major Requiem for the Saxon Elector Friedrich August II. Only a few weeks later, his son Elector Friedrich Chris...

The 30 or so mass settings by Johann Michael Haydn are masterpieces of their genre and were extremely popular during his lifetime. In his sacred music, the composer achieved a synthesis of counterpoin...

The "Requiem in B flat" is Johann Michael Haydn's second setting of the liturgical text of the requiem mass and also his last work, his "Opus ultimum" (another Requiem MH 599 turned out to be the work...

A new Latin setting of a Hildegaard von Bingen text, mimics chant and is a wonderful experience for the singers and audience members to experience Medieval-sounding music.

A new piece by noted composer, Melissa Dunphy. The harmonic writing is rewarding for both the ensemble and listeners, and offers the opportunity for antiphonal placement for the ensemble.

Written for, and recorded by Barnaby Smith, VOCES8 and the VOCES8 Choir and Orchestra. The US Premiere will be on July 19, 2026 by Quintessence. Utilizing inspiration from both sacred and secular idio...

An inspired collaboration of Mark Buller and Leah Lax, the extended work for advanced ensembles reflects on remembrance through a lens of light and peace.Contents:I. Lacrimosa for the MurderedII. Conf...

An exciting new setting of Psalm 100 for orchestra and chorus, "Jubilate Deo" features vibrant rhythms and lush harmonies. The work is inspiring and evokes a sense of hope and joy.

The Gloria movement from the large work Missa Gaia: Mass for the Earth by Libby Larsen.