Easter Music Sheet Music for Choir: Extensive Sacred Selection

The St. John Passion was first performed in Leipzig on Good Friday of 1724. Written three years before the St. Matthew Passion, it was a work Bach revised during the rest of his life, in fact he did n...

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...

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...

I. Kings - II. The Deathtree - III. Symphonia Resurrectus Detailed Instrumentation: Solo Baritone Voice: SSATB Chorus: 2+1.2.3+Eb Cl+ACl+BCl.2: AATB Saxes: 4.3 Crnt+2 Tpt.3.Euph(TC or BC).2: Timp.Perc...

In 1988, Holsinger received a commission to compose a work for the US Marine Band. The resulting work, The Deathtree for winds, percussion and solo baritone voice, was conceived as the middle movement...

Thomas Simaku's The Rose Of The World for Soprano, SATB choir and Chamber Ensemble (9 players). A setting of the W. B. Yeats poem of the same name. Composed 2014-5. Published 2015. Instrumentation: So...

This arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Glory' (Slava, Op.21) by Terry Price brings this popular Russian anthem to a wider audience. The original Russian text has been replaced with a hymn by the arran...

This rousing arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's 'Glory' (Slava, Op.21) brings this popular Russian anthem to a wider audience. The original Russian text is replaced by a hymn by the arranger that is par...

Whitbourn's setting of the Magnificat And Nunc Dimittis for mixed chorus with Tenor solo also includes parts for Organ and optional Tam Tam percussion. The setting was first performed at King's Colleg...

Ring in the joy of Easter with this choral carillon of jubilant sound! Like chimes pealing the good news, this festive gesture announces Resurrection Sunday with style and flair. Using the tune VESPER...

Ring in the joy of Easter with this choral carillon of jubilant sound! Like chimes pealing the good news, this festive gesture announces Resurrection Sunday with style and flair. Using the tune VESPER...

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...