Church Music for Brass Band

When The Stars Begin To Fall is a traditional spiritual from African-American culture that is characterized by hope, faith and inner confidence. The melody conveys the expectation of a better world in...

Go Down, Moses is one of the best-known African-American spirituals and carries a strong message of freedom and hope. Inspired by the biblical story of the Exodus, the song calls on Moses to lead an o...

Go Down, Moses is one of the best-known African-American spirituals and carries a strong message of freedom and hope. Inspired by the biblical story of the Exodus, the song calls on Moses to lead an o...

O Happy Day, arranged by Jean-François Michel, reinterprets one of the best-known spirituals in the repertoire in an elegant and energetic way. Carried by an instantly recognizable melody, this work c...

O Happy Day, arranged by Jean-François Michel, reinterprets one of the best-known spirituals in the repertoire in an elegant and energetic way. Carried by an instantly recognizable melody, this work c...

The song on which this trombone solo is based on, is also known as "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" and "Wayfaring Pilgrim", a well-known American gospel tune. The melody was composed by the German composer...

Fairest Lord Jesus is arranged here for brass band with optional organ. It begins softly and sparsely, gradually building up to a powerful finale. Well-suited as a closing piece for Christmas concerts...

Composer Etienne Crausaz has created an attractive brass band orchestration of his own work Grant Us Peace, which was originally written for mixed choir. It offers various readings of a single phrase...

Composer Etienne Crausaz has created an attractive brass band orchestration of his own work Grant Us Peace, which was originally written for mixed choir. It offers various readings of a single phrase...

British composer Philip Sparke was asked to write this arrangement of Hymn to Frei for the Norwegian Brass Band Frei Hornmusikk. Sparke had already used part of this hymn by a composer well-known in t...

Have Mercy, Lord from J. S. Bach's St Matthew Passion is one of the most beautiful arias from the baroque period. In Philip Sparke's arrangement, it is envisaged that the soloists stand together as a...

These '30 Original Chorales and Warm-Ups' have been designed to develop the most important aspects of band playing, by providing material that can be used at the start of a rehearsal to test balance,...

These 30 Original Chorales and Warm-Ups have been designed to develop the most important aspects of band playing, by providing material that can be used at the start of a rehearsal to test balance, dy...

Sanctuary was commissioned by Eastern Bay of Plenty Brass from New Zealand and was performed as an own choice piece at the 2018 New Zealand National Brass Band Championships. It opens with an expressi...

Many of the numerous chorals Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) composed during his lifetime are still very popular today. An example is the melody Ich steh an deiner Krippen her (BWM 469) composed in...

Designed as an opener or finale for a concert or special occasion, Fanfare Prelude on 'Lobe den Herren' is based on Johann Cruger's majestic hymn tune which firs appeared in the Stralsung Gesangbuch i...

Diese Bearbeitung von Jacob de Haan basiert auf dem gleichnamigen Choral von Michael Frank, einem deutschen Dichter und Komponisten aus dem 17. Jahrhundert. Es ist das einzige Werk aus seiner Feder, d...

Pie Jesu is the famous aria for soprano and orchestra from Gabriel Fauré's Requiem, opus 48. Fauré (1845 - 1924) composed the work in 1887, two years after his father's death and only a short time bef...