Choral Sheet Music

This carol sets the final three verses of Sara Teasdale’s light-hearted retelling of the nativity story, in which a host of angels arrive at the stable, and herald the birth with their joyful song. Th...

The poet, Wendy Cope, conjures a heartwarming image of Christmas in the home. This setting of her comforting poem translates this imagery into a classic Christmas choral sound - a simple, memorable tu...

As an accessible and versatile opener or introit, this piece sets an uplifting verse of poetry by Nigerian poet Ozioma Ogbaji. Though not overtly sacred, the spiritual message of the text is hopeful a...

This short motet was composed in 2014 and first performed the following year by the choir of King's College Chapel, Cambridge. It sets a selection of verses from the Psalms which reflect on God's crea...

Motets is a set of intimate and spiritually uplifting a cappella choral works by Karl Jenkins, featuring new pieces and arrangements of a selection of movements from his most popular works, including...

This setting of the familiar opening lines of Henry Vaughan’s 'The World' was Lucy Walker's first commission as Composer-in-Residence with St Martin’s Voices, and was premiered by the ensemble in June...

A setting a poem by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, 'Rublev' ('One day, God walked in'), inspired by the famous Russian icon, The Trinity by Andrei Rublev (c1360–c1430). Simon Bea...

A setting a poem by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, 'Our Lady of Vladimir' ('To Our Lady'), inspired by the famous Russian icon, Our Lady of Vladimir by an unknown 12th-century ar...

Written for the BBC Singers in 2019, Stars above, earth below is a hopeful and reflective setting of the poem Leaves by Sara Teasdale (1884–1933). The piece begins with celestial, descending lines acr...

Written for a 2024 commission from Jonathan Harris for Newport Pagnell Singers, the music for Rejoice in the light came to composer Ben Ponniah in a dream. It possesses a rugged, medieval character si...

O Little One Sweet was commissioned by Simon Bell for the Chapel Choir of Dean Close School and Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum. Each verse of the carol becomes more animated and moves further harmon...

Two arrangements of the carols published in 1582 as part of the Medieval collection of Latin songs, Piae Cantiones. The melodies are taken from that collection, which also contains many well-known car...

A powerful setting for 8-part choir of three of the Good Friday responses at matins: 'Tenebrae factae sunt', 'Tradiderunt me' and 'Iesum tradidit impius'. Commissioned by Cappella Nova (director: Alan...

Andrej Makor, currently a master student of composition at the Conservatorio Cesare Pollini in Padua, has already won numerous international composition prizes. The highly respected works by the artis...

Das Vaterunser als höchstes Gebet des Christentums wird hier in einem schlichten, aber nicht banalen Satz von Javier Busto vorgelegt. Das Werk beschreibt einen sehr ruhigen, demütigen und leisen Chara...

Six poetic songs for choir (SATB) a cappella: Pēteris Vasks sets poems by Knuts Skujenieks to music with a striking musical language. A multifaceted cycle full of atmosphere, depth, and expressiveness...

An unaccompanied choral setting of Psalm 100 commissioned by Salisbury Cathedral. First performed on Sunday 5th July 2026 at Salisbury Cathedral by the Choir of Salisbury Cathedral directed by David H...

Johann Kuhnaus überliefertes Vokalwerk wird den Katalog von Breitkopf & Härtel in den kommenden Jahren vollständig ergänzen. In der Regel sprechen wir dabei con Kantaten, zumindest jedoch von Werken m...

The hymn from the tone poem Finlandia op. 26 for orchestra, one of the best-known works of Jean Sibelius, became the unofficial national anthem of Finland with the text of Veikko Antero Koskenniemi (1...

For his six "Songs and Romances," Op. 93a, from 1883, Brahms compiled various texts: a well-known Rhenish folk song, two folk songs from Serbia, and poems by Achim von Arnim, Friedrich Rückert, and Go...

Inspired by the writings on madness by the British historian Roy Porter, Beyond the Glass is a set of three studies in madness for mixed chorus, with texts by Thomas Jordan and Emily Dickinson, suroun...