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The year 2000 is a jubilee year for the Roman Catholic Church. To celebrate this the Vatican Church commissioned Jean-Paul Lecot to compose a hymn for the festivities. The composition, 'Christ hier, C...

In 1725 J. S. Bach composed the cantata BWV79 'Gott, der Herr, is Sonn' und Schild for the celebration of the Reformation. Originally written for 3 vocal soloists, choir and orchestra Cantata No. 79 i...

In 1725 J. S. Bach composed the cantata BWV79 Gott, der Herr, is Sonn' un Schild for the celebration of the Reformation. Originally written for three vocal soloists, choir, and orchestra, Cantata No....

Remembrance Day (Totengedenken) is a chorale-like piece in memory of those who have died in service. Jacob de Haan composed this work for a concert by the symphonic wind orchestra Symphonic Winds, whi...

Remembrance Day ist ein choralartiges Stück zum Angedenken an die Verstorbenen. Die Komposition basiert auf einem Text aus Totengedenken, herausgegeben vom Volksbund deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge. Ein...

Based on traditional Easter chants Fantasia di Pasqua is a tremendous work to feature four of your players in a religiously inspired work. Often this work is performed in church concerts or religious...

August Eduard Grell (1800-1886) was a prolific composer and an equally brilliant organist. His compositions included an unaccompanied mass, an oratorio, psalms, motets, cantatas and many songs and due...

Roland Kernen has succeeded in creating a breathtaking arrangement of the well-known and popular chorale Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan. The song by Severius Gastorius, a cantor and composer in the G...

En 1524, Martin Luther publiait son premier recueil de cantiques, dont est extrait son magnifi que choral Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir (Du fond de l'abîme, je t'invoque, o Éternel)' d'après le Psa...

Schubert's famous Ave Maria was originally titled Ellens dritter Gesang and was the sixth song in the Fräulein vom See song cycle (after The Lady of the Lake by Walter Scott). Later the Latin prayer A...

Jacob de Haan begins his arrangement of the well-known hymn Allein Gott in der Höh' sei Ehr (All Glory Be to God on High) with a quotation from his own Missa Katharina, a mass for choir, soprano, and...

May the road be our oyster (Irish blessing) is certainly one of the most popular church songs of modern times. And no wonder, because this melody is immediately catchy. It turns every secular and chur...