Sheet Music for Choir and Vocals for all ensembles

This is an uplifting setting of the Latin Missa brevis. The choir may be accompanied by organ, chamber ensemble, or a selection of the ensemble instruments in combination with organ, opening up severa...

In a style influenced by Vaughan Williams and Finzi, this work evokes a reflective and sometimes other-worldly atmosphere. The seven movements may be sung as individual pieces. The text is in Latin fo...

For SATB and piano or orchestra - 3. 2. 2. 2-4. 3. 3. 1-timp-2perc-org-str - David Warner's text speaks of peace calming the strife after war is over and urges reconciliation. Wilberg's heartfelt arra...

This meaningful text by David Warner is accompanied by beautiful leaps and subsequent suspensions in the memorable melody, which is supported by rich textures in the organ and orchestra. Appropriate t...

Eleanor Daley sets well-loved texts by George Herbert in this suite of three pieces. They may be performed separately as part of a church service, or together for an impressive concert piece. This sui...

Eleanor Daley sets this Wesley text in an antiphonal style between the SATB choir and organ (or brass quartet, parts sold separately). The sound is majestic and declamatory, just as one would expect f...

A lyric and serene sacred song, foreshadowing the mood of the Requiem.

SATB, flute, and keyboard. Dicie uses movement in the accompanying vocal lines to add motion throughout this familiar hymn as the upper voices carry the melody. The text is based on Psalm 23.

A setting of the first five joyous verses of Psalm 108.

For SATB, accompanied by brass quartet and timpani, or trumpet and organ - Opening with a brass fanfare, this adaptation of Psalm 96 to the well-known tune 'Crucifer' makes a terrific piece for an Eas...

Perhaps Dering's most well-known work, this concludes the Society's series of Dering motets. The SSATTB disposition allows for plenty of antiphonal effects and rich textures. The work builds to a clim...

I composed this mass in the first years of my presence at Notre-Dame, before the creation of the association Musique sacrée à Notre-Dame de Paris and the restructuring of the cathedral's choir in its...

This piece was composed in 2013, when we cele­brated the 850th anniversary of the cathedral. It is dedi­cated to my great friend Lionel Sow who conducted the cathedral's choir from 2006 to 2014, an ex...

Why are you so far away Adonaï ? Psalm 9B (passim) The psalm 9B is a violent imprecation: the cry of a man hunted down by the enemy "lying in wait, hidden like a lion in the underbrush. Of this God s...

This work started with the study of a manuscript kept at the Strasbourg University Library. This manuscript is a chorus for mixed voices written by Marie Jaëll and dedicated to her husband. In Steinse...

The 37 spiritual canticles constituting the collection by Charles de Courbes were published in 1622 by the music printer of Louis XIII, Pierre Ballard. They are varied polyphonies, covering all the as...

The 37 spiritual canticles constituting the collection by Charles de Courbes were published in 1622 by the music printer of Louis XIII, Pierre Ballard. They are varied polyphonies, covering all the as...

The 37 spiritual canticles constituting the collection by Charles de Courbes were published in 1622 by the music printer of Louis XIII, Pierre Ballard. They are varied polyphonies, covering all the as...

For a catholic Breton like Jean Cras, it was only but natural to write a mass. To choose this "very special genre", an a cappella mass, was the result from his particular technical and aesthetic pursu...

Best known for his operas like Manon (1884) or Werther (1892), Jules Massenet (1842-1912) also wrote orchestral suites and an abundant vocal and choral production, dominated by his many art-songs, som...

Today best known for his music for organ, Alexandre Guilmant (1837-1911) was in his time a famous organist and improviser. His vocal compositions are a significant part of his production as they inclu...

Best remembered as an opera composer (Faust, 1859; Roméo et Juliette, 1867), Charles Gounod (1818-1893) also wrote an important body of religious music testifying to his catholic faith: cantatas, lati...

Two words summarize César Franck (1822-1890), a composer often labeled as a church musician: Christian and romantic. Today known for his symphonic music and his works for organ, Franck also wrote a la...

Léo Delibes left his native Sarthe in 1848 to Paris where he studied at the Conservatoire, whilst being a choir boy at la Madeleine church. A few years later, he became the organist at Saint-Pierre de...

The title of this piece comes from the magnificent great Gregorian antiphon Salve Regina, probably written in the 11th century that has been since inspiring musicians for almost a thousand years. This...