Easter Music Sheet Music for Choir and Orchestra: Sacred Grandeur

The St. John Passion, Bach's first passion oratorio, can hardly be understood as 'one' work. Between 1724 and 1750 the work was performed at least four times in various Leipzig churches under the comp...

Unlike Bach's other oratorio compositions, there is no definitive version of the St. John Passion. The first version of 1724 which is today's standard version represents a mixture of different reading...

Dvorák's great "Requiem" was commissioned for the renowned music festival in Birmingham. Since its premiere there under the composer's direction in 1891, it has enjoyed great popularity. It is based o...

Dvorák's great "Requiem" was commissioned for the renowned music festival in Birmingham. Since its premiere there under the composer's direction in 1891, it has enjoyed great popularity. It is based o...

„Der geistlichen Musik die Kraft zuzuwenden, bleibt ja wohl das höchste Ziel des Künstlers“, schreibt Robert Schumann im Januar 1851 - und das, obwohl er bis dato kaum als Komponist geistlicher Musik...

Turning one's energy to sacred music remains the artist's highest goal, wrote Robert Schumann in January 1851 - even though he had hardly appeared as a composer of sacred music up to that point. In fa...

The British composer Grayston (Bill) Ives (*1948) has dedicated himself to choral music in many different ways. He was a tenor with the legendary King's Singers and later worked for 18 years as an org...

The British composer Grayston (Bill) Ives (*1948) has dedicated himself to choral music in many different ways. He was a tenor with the legendary King's Singers and later worked for 18 years as an org...

Pietro Metastasio's libretto for La Passione di nostro Signore Gesù Cristo from 1730 is a prototype of the Italian-language Catholic oratorio in the 18th century. The text of the Bible is completely t...

Auftragskomposition der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Landeskirche Sachsens für die Landeskirchenmusiktage 2024 "grenzenlos" Uraufführung am 13. April 2024, Johanneskirche Meißen Chor der Teilnehmenden der...

Auftragskomposition der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Landeskirche Sachsens für die Landeskirchenmusiktage 2024 "grenzenlos" Uraufführung am 13. April 2024, Johanneskirche Meißen Chor der Teilnehmenden der...

Auftragskomposition der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Landeskirche Sachsens für die Landeskirchenmusiktage 2024 "grenzenlos" Uraufführung am 13. April 2024, Johanneskirche Meißen Chor der Teilnehmenden der...

The Easter oratorio BWV 249 was first performed on Easter Sunday 1725 with the text "Come, make haste and run". In the counting of the new BWV, this is already BWV 249.3, following two congratulatory...

The Easter oratorio BWV 249 was first performed on Easter Sunday 1725 with the text "Come, make haste and run". In the counting of the new BWV, this is already BWV 249.3, following two congratulatory...

Gabriel Fauré's Requiem is the key work among the French master's sacred compositions. The work was already a success with the public during the composer's lifetime and remains so to this day. Due to...

The musicologist Malcolm Bruno created a new reconstruction of the work on the basis of the funeral ode BWV 198, which has since been established as a parody model. Welcome Comeback Bach's St. John an...

Every era hears and interprets Bach anew, and every era also evaluates the sources afresh and with new eyes. 40 years after the publication of the St. Matthew Passion in the New Bach Edition, Klaus Ho...

The English conductor and composer Howard Arman has presented us with a completed version of Mozart’s Requiem. “Another one?” you might ask, since this publication is only the latest in a long line re...

Keith Christopher gives this classic contemporary song a fresh approach in this setting that sparkles with Easter joy. Quoting "Christ the Lord Is Risen Today," this celebratory anthem is quickly lear...

Current creativity from the Christian song charts takes on choral potential in this outstanding arrangement. Enriched by well-conceived vocal part writing, this piece entwines a message of spiritual c...

Three distinctive sections (Preparation, Prayer and Promise) are woven together with compelling narrative to create a moving work for SATB choir, congregation and narrators. Beloved Easter hymns, mast...

Using Above All as the focal point, this new Easter musical is filled with incredible songs of praise. The arrangements and orchestrations are spectacular. A biblical based narrative is included. It c...

A jubilant re-imagining of a classic spiritual captures the joy of the triumphal entry. Brief but powerfully effective, this festive octavo would make an excellent introit for Palm Sunday. Score and P...

(from "A Journey to Hope")

This is a fresh statement that through the blood of Jesus, the cross has conquered death, and Love has brought us a brand new day. Duration: ca. 3:10.