Carus-Verlag Sheet Music

Look Around is a piece for four-part mixed choir by Polish composer and arranger Zuzanna Koziej. The message of the work is reflective: Koziej calls on us to pause, raise our awareness and enjoy the b...

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli is one of the most famous works of the Renaissance age. And it’s not just the early 17th-century myth that this piece “saved” polyphonic sacred...

The new Freiburg Choir Booklet is aimed in particular at smaller choirs and their subgroups, as well as at singing circles or spontaneous ensembles that want to make a church service musically varied....

Are you looking for operatic drama for the church choir? Then the "Messa di Gloria" for soloists, choir and orchestra by Pietro Mascagni is just the right work for you. Mascagni, whose opera "Cavaller...

Tis the season to be jolly - 'Tis the season for caroling! chorissimo! Winter und Weihnachten (Winter and christmas) offers a wide range of canons, quodlibets and carol arrangements for children’s cho...

Seit dem Erscheinen des überaus erfolgreichen ersten Freiburger Chorbuchs im Jahr 1994 hat sich die Chorszene verändert. Sie ist musikalisch internationaler, sozusagen vielfarbiger geworden. Tradition...

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...

The story of the Requiem's creation is shrouded in anecdotes and legends. Overwork from composing and performing La Clemenza di Tito and The Magic Flute as well as an acute infection led to the compos...

Zu Unrecht ist Diabellis Kirchenmusik weitgehend in Vergessenheit geraten, dabei schafft der österreichische Komponist der Bieder­meierzeit in der 'Pastoral-Messe in F' den Spagat zwischen künstlerisc...

Even during Ludwig van Beethoven's lifetime, the composer was so revered that contemporaries arranged his music – mostly the well-known instrumental works – for choir. In some cases, he may even have...

What does Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" have to do with Hercules? More than you might think at first glance. In the summer of 1733, the eleventh birthday of the Saxon Elector Friedrich Christian on 5 Se...

Louis Spohr’s *Des Heilands letzte Stunden* (The Savior’s Last Hours), composed in 1835, is one of the most significant Passion oratorios of the 19th century. The freely adapted text by the well-known...

What would love be without music - or music without love! Many couples associate unforgettable beautiful hours, a first meeting, or first kiss with a particular song. And composers have always been in...

Film music arrangements from the 'Hobbit' for SATB with optional piano or string accompaniment. In the movies of the Hobbit trilogy, the film music, which won a number of awards, plays an important ro...

In every century, love is probably the most frequently-celebrated theme. The choral anthology for the latest LIEDERPROJEKT installment brings together 40 love songs from all eras in well-known and new...

Der zweite Band der erfolgreichen Chorbuch-Reihe Loreley beinhaltet zeitgemäße Arrangements bekannter deutscher Volksliederbearbeitungen für Frauenchor. Da sich in der Singpraxis ein beständig wachsen...

The Folk Songs choral collection explores the musical world of Great Britain and Ireland. It contains 21 arrangements of English-language verse songs, canons, and ballads for mixed unaccompanied choru...

Repertoire of romantic choral music worth discovering: In his unaccompanied choral songs the expressive melodies of the song composer Schumann combine with a harmonically rich, sometimes even experime...

The Mendelssohn family cultivated a very special form of house music in their garden cottage on the family estate: the so-called Sonntagsmusiken (Sunday musicales). Perhaps this inspired Fanny Hensel...

Mit der neuen Volksliedsammlung - 'Laula kultani' (finnisch: 'Sing, mein Liebchen'), so lautet der Titel - wird den Chören attraktive Literatur angeboten, mit der sie ihr Repertoire erweitern und Konz...

In the cantata "Ich armer Mensch, ich Sündenknecht", Bach has created a high degree of expressiveness with minimal vocal means (solo tenor, only the final chorale in four voices). The last three movem...

Das Jugendchorbuch für gleiche Stimmen enthält rund 90 Sätze für gleiche Stimmen, überwiegend mit Begleitung durch Klavier oder Orgel. Der Schritt von der Ein- in die Mehrstimmigkeit ist gar nicht gro...