Classical Sheet Music

The joyful, cascading introduction begins from a unison note, setting the tone for Narverud's canonic-like setting of the famous Teasdale poem Life has loveliness to sell.   Like a heartbeat, the rhyt...

Motet for five voices (SATBB) for Feasts of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

In 1994, for the 500th anniversary of the University of Aberdeen, Judith Weir wrote two settings of 17th century English verse and choir, entitles Two Human Hymns. In 1997, Weir arranged the first of...

The enormous range of publications for mixed choir is published in the Choir Library in volumes for secular and sacred repertoire, respectively. The secular repertoire is divided into two volumes of u...

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...

The fact that Miklós Rózsa wrote choral works in addition to film scores, orchestral works and chamber music is only known to a few people today. The best known is the motet "To Everything There Is a...

The motet "The Vanities of Life" op. 30 was written by Miklós Rózsa in 1964 as a commission for the Pacific Lutheran University Choir in Tacoma, Washington. The choir performed the work for the first...

Swiss up your choir! The choral collection Swiss Choral Music is a real treasure trove of recent choral music from Switzerland. As diverse as the country itself, this volume of approximately 30 choral...

The Mendelssohn family cultivated a very special form of house music in their garden cottage on the family estate: the so-called Sonntagsmusiken (Sunday musicales). Perhaps this inspired Fanny Hensel...

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina’s Missa Papae Marcelli is one of the most famous works of the Renaissance age. And it’s not just the early 17th-century myth that this piece “saved” polyphonic sacred...

During his stay in Rome in 1841 and 1842, Hiller and his family were the center of the German artists' colony in the "eternal city". The versatile composer studied Roman vocal polyphony after Giovanni...

Poem by Paul Painlevé. Text in French and English. Includes Soprano and Baritone solos.

Midwintersong is written for the winter solstice and is intended to be sung by as many as possible. The song originated around bonfires as a teachable singalong and has been formalized into the choral...

A work that will move both the performer and the listeners, the text explores the extreme conditions of the Holocaust and the impact on its victims, for advanced choirs.

A stunning setting of a Sara Teasdale poem written for VOCES8. Gorgeous harmonies that are written to be accessible for advanced choirs.

A sonnet that contemplates a solitary figure standing between darkness and light. The poem’s imagery—marble stillness, Cleopatra’s defiant resolve, and a beacon shining through storm—suggests a quiet...

Petr has crafted a special setting of a very special poem by Sister Delores Dufner, OSB, for a commission from Robert Strusinsky, director of the St. Thomas Liturgical Choir in St. Paul, Minnesota. Du...

Delicate and elegiac, furthest removed from celebratory indulgence, Duddell set Grace Nichol's Ode to English with artful simplicity (Tom Service, The Guardian)

This large-scale choral work for 24 voices sets passages from Thomas de Quincey’s essay, an extraordinary text whose authorship is ambiguous, but which has, for me, something of the austerity and absu...

This collection gathers some of Percy Grainger’s most characteristic choral works – from the haunting beauty of Mo nighean dubh and the lyrical simplicity of Irish Tune from County Derry to the exuber...

Bach newly interpreted - a songbook for mixed vocal ensemble or small choral ensemble containing unusual arrangements of instrumental works by Johann Sebastian Bach. The arrangements range between cla...