Advanced Sacred & Church Music Sheet Music

For soprano or mezzo-soprano solo, SATB chorus and either full orchestra or chamber orchestra Minimum recommended string forces for the chamber ensemble are 2.2.2.1.1. Full scores, vocal scores, and i...

'This is the best of me', wrote Edward Elgar after the final measure of his Dream of Gerontius. Premiered in 1900, in Great Britain the work has long been a standard work in the repertoire of large or...

Although Bach's Mass in B minor is one of the most frequently performed works by the Cantor of St. Thomas's, it is full of puzzles and problems. This applies not only to the question, still unanswered...

The words of the Cantata Rejoice in the Lamb are taken from a long poem of the same name. The writer was Christopher Smart, an eighteenth century poet, deeply religious, but of a strange and unbalance...

Mozart's Requiem is known to the general public in the version by his pupil Franz Xaver Süßmayr, which was completed immediately after Mozart's death. The attacks against Süßmayr's addition began in 1...

The Gift of Life' is a six-movement choral celebration of the living earth and its creation. Setting a variety of sacred texts, including new words by the composer, the work includes the mystical 'Hym...

The attacks in Brussels on 22 March 2016 created a shockwave throughout Belgium and the rest of the world. Equally, the attacks in Paris and Nice led to great public indignation, fear and disbelief. B...

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...

John Rutter's Magnificat is a joyous celebration of the Virgin Mary, inspired by feast-day festivities in countries such as Spain, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Following the example set by Bach, the Magni...

Das Requiem von Gabriel Fauré gehört zweifellos zu den wichtigsten Werken seiner Gattung. Der weltweit gefeierte bulgarische Pianist und Komponist Emile Naoumoff, Schüler von Nadia Boulanger, schrieb...

Twentieth-century arrangements from choral and instrumental works - Seventeen contrasting Bach transcriptions originally published separately by OUP from 1925 to 1954 - Pieces carefully selected by M...

Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Ho...

This new vocal-score edition was published to mark the 60th anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's coronation, in June 1953. First performed as the new Queen processed out of Westminster Abbey, Walton's...

Unsurpassed examples of French classic organ composition: 'Majestic Messe pour les Paroisses', and 'Messe pour les Couvents'. Published when Couperin was only 21, his organ masses display not only a t...

JS Bach's Choral prelude for Organ, Wachet Auf, has become a favourite of wedding couples for processional or recessional music because of its joyous liveliness and beauty. The cantata Wachet Auf BWV...

This Passion oratorio Gethsemane und Golgatha was composed in the astonishingly short period from 22 to 28 July 1838 on a text by the evangelist Wilhelm Schuber, a close friend of Friedrich Schneider'...

Bruckner’s mighty "Mass in F minor" is one of his most significant creations and one of the great 19th-century choral works. The composer uniquely succeeds in exploring faith through the lens of music...

This composition not only demands extremely high technical skills of the cellist, but also a special ability of expression which reflects the spiritual message of the piece: By thinking, feeling, spea...

These nine instrumental pieces speak of the anxiety and distress of mankind in our time, of sickness and death, of love and of loneliness. Henze is concerned with questions of existential significance...

Requiem, 9 sacred concertos for piano solo, trumpet and large chamber orchestra' is the title of the original work of which Henze said: 'These nine instrumental pieces speak of the fears and needs of...

25 worship songs arranged for flute, clarinet or trumpet.