Church Music for Concert Band

Johannes Brahms was not a religious man in the usual sense of the term, so it should be of no surprise that when he wrote the German Requiem; it did not follow the prescribed five movement form of the...

Herzliebster Jesu/Ich bin's, Ich sollte büssen/Was mein Gott will/Mir hat die Welt/Wer hat Dich so geschlagen/Wie wunderbarlich

Some songs have a distinct, inherent value even long after they are written. There is a beauty in the simplicity of Leonard Cohen's classic song, 'Hallelujah' which was captured by many artists and ar...

Blasorchester in Mitteleuropa musizieren seit langem in Kirchen. Vielfach wurden sie sogar im 19. Jahrhundert als 'Orgelersatz', vor allem im ländlichen Raum, gegründet. Folglich ist dem besonderen Be...

Mit Sologesang (ad lib.). Der katholische Liedermacher und Musikproduzent Albert Frey (*1964) beeinflusst und prägt seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre die deutsche christliche Musikszene. Er hat mehr als 12...

Der 'Elias' ist ein Oratorium von Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy über die Geschichte des biblischen Propheten Elias. Die erste konkrete Ankündigung Mendelssohns, dass er eine Vertonung des Elias-Stoffes...

'Es ist ein großes Privileg, seit frühester Kindheit in intensivem Kontakt mit Musik zu stehen. Noch nicht einmal auf dieser Welt, hatte ich schon das große Glück, den Klängen einer klavier- und cello...

Der Mensch lebt nicht nur mit seiner Familie zusammen, sondern oft auch in Gemeinschaft mit Freunden und Gleichgesinnten. Es sind gerade diese Verbindungen, die dem Leben Halt geben und Sinn stiften....

Psalm for Band is a piece constructed from a single germinating harmonic idea. There are three distinct sections - a sustained chordal mood, a forward moving chorale, followed by a Paean culmination o...

Psalm for Band is a piece constructed from a single germinating harmonic idea. There are three distinct sections - a sustained chordal mood, a forward moving chorale, followed by a Paean culmination o...

Psalm for Band is a piece constructed from a single germinating harmonic idea. There are three distinct sections - a sustained chordal mood, a forward moving chorale, followed by a Paean culmination o...

The Messa di Gloria (Mass of Glory) is among the most beautiful works that the not yet thirty-year-old Rossini composed in the fruitful period in which he worked in Naples (the years of 'La donna del...

The Latin Mass has always been a source of inspiration for numerous composers, many of whom produced works of immense musical and spiritual value, such as the Polyphonic Masses by Palestrina and a num...

This beautiful long flowing melody comes from Humperdinck's famous opera Hansel and Gretel (1893). In addition to being a delightful concert work it is also a useful as a tone study for practicing pla...

The introductory theme of this composition echoes the majestic size of the mountains that are visible from the picture-postcard Cortina d'Ampezzo-the socalled 'Queen of the Dolomites'. Then we hear a...

Als Grundlage diente hier das bekannte Kirchenlied.

Adeste fideles' is the title of one of the best known Christmas carols. The German version is known as 'Nun freut euch, ihr Christen' or also as 'Herbei, o ihr Gläubigen', the English as 'O Come All Y...

eXplora Grade 1+ DONA NOBIS PACEM is an ancient Latin vocal piece with a very calm and peaceful melody. The text is a prayer to God. In order to emphasize the questioning and asking element of the tex...

German composer Otto Nicolai (1810-1849) started work on the overture based on Martin Luther's chorale 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' (A mighty fortress is our God) in the summer of 1836. In the foll...

German composer Otto Nicolai (1810-1849) started work on the overture based on Martin Luther's chorale 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' (A mighty fortress is our God) in the summer of 1836. In the foll...

German composer Otto Nicolai (1810-1849) started work on the overture based on Martin Luther's chorale 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' (A mighty fortress is our God) in the summer of 1836. In the foll...

German composer Otto Nicolai (1810-1849) started work on the overture based on Martin Luther's chorale 'Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott' (A mighty fortress is our God) in the summer of 1836. In the foll...