Advanced Sacred & Church Music Sheet Music

The cantata "Aus der Tiefe ruf ich, Herr, zu dir" is one of Bach's earliest cantata compositions. It was composed in Mühlhausen in 1707 and does not yet have the elaborate arias and choral movements o...

The cantata "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" BWV 147 for the Feast of the Visitation of Mary (2 July) in 1723 belongs to a group of three Weimar Advent cantatas which Bach reinterpreted textually in...

The cantata "Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich" BWV 150 is one of Bach's earliest cantatas from his Mühlhausen period. For a long time, its authenticity was disputed, a fact which was not only due to the...

Published in collaboration with the Bach Archive Leipzig with the unfinished revision (1739) in the appendix. The St. John Passion is one of the great vocal works of Bach's Leipzig period. In contrast...

Alongside the double-choir St. Matthew Passion, the Christmas Oratorio, the Magnificat and the Mass in B minor, the St. John Passion is one of the great vocal works of Johann Sebastian Bach's Leipzig...

The double-choir psalm setting Dixit Dominus (Ps 109) is one of the most important works by the church composer Vivaldi. Here he draws on the old Venetian tradition of polychoral music, whose composit...

Since the two verifiable autographs of the Offertorium Misericordias Domini have been lost, Robert Münster has for the first time used the copies he has found from the Munich court music for this new...

The litany consists of six movements, which are divided into nine differently characterized sections. It is clearly based on the sacramental litanies of his Salzburg predecessors and contemporaries.

Cherubini's Requiem in C minor for mixed choir (without vocal soloists) and orchestra, which is presented here in a critically correct new edition, is one of the most important contributions to the ge...

Unlike in the well-known settings of the "Seven Words" by Schütz or Haydn, Franck comments on the sayings of the crucified Jesus in his opulently scored composition with passages from the Old and New...

Elijah is regarded as a milestone in Mendelssohns compositional output and as a high point in the oratorio literature of the 19th century. Mendelssohn composed his second great oratorio just a year be...

Schubert's Mass in E flat major is the last of his six settings of the Ordinarium Missae and also his most important work in this genre. The mass is full of varied drama and confessional expression an...

The Mass in C minor K. 427, Mozart's "Great Mass", is a torso - a circumstance that is extremely regrettable, especially in view of the monumentality of this work. Following his sensational reconstruc...

The Vienna Tonkünstlersozietät, a pension fund for the widows and orphans of professional musicians, also requested a choral work from Mozart for its benefit concerts in March 1785. Presumably not onl...

George Frideric Handel is regarded as the first and most important English representative of the oratorio genre. The Messiah in particular is regarded as the epitome of sacred music and is also one of...

Available on request. New edition with all performance material under 56.001/01.

The genesis of the oratorio is an adventurous one: the nucleus of the three-part work were numbers from the middle section, "Flight into Egypt", which Berlioz composed on a whim in 1850 and subordinat...

Chorpartitur zur Blasorchesterausgabe Nach mehreren großen Werken für Blasorchester und Singstimme (Cantate aux Étoiles, A travers le Temps, Missa Tornacum undMagnificat) schrieb André Waignein diese...

The new setting of the Walt Whitman text by noted composer Aldophus Hailstork provides a challenge for an advanced ensemble. The harmonic progressions and vocal treatments are adventurous and effectiv...

A stunning work for advanced choirs featured in the Craig Hella Johnson Series.

This profound work with text that resonates in a divisive society touches on our humanity and mutual struggle in this world. Contents:I. For Want of Refuge (Miserere)II. Credo in ExileIII. Peaceable K...

A movement from Mass of Exile, a work which explores finding personal faith within the confines of a strict religious past. Buller pairs complex harmonies with a rich text setting, resulting in a deep...

For advanced ensembles, this work explores the human experience of the universe as being simultaneously vast and open, yet intimate and personal on an individual level. It uses expanded performance te...