Hymns for Mixed Choir

Beginning with two main thematic ideas that are developed throughout the work: a 2-note gentle, lilting motive and a 4-note lyrical theme that travels throughout the voices, this 7 minute piece for a...

The first word of Psalm 119 is both the first and last word of this music - 'Blessed.' Written to celebrate the 750th anniversary of Merton College, Oxford, This music cannot be rushed. It is relaxed...

This short, 3 line prayer has found favor from presidents to world leaders and from the solo fisherman. Here it is set as a simple, a cappella duet for treble voices. This is a wonderful benediction f...

Heavenly Home is a 13-minute cycle of a cappella settings of beloved 19th century religious songs, all of which share the text imagery of heaven as 'home'. Each movement features newly-composed materi...

This piece has been set up to be easily learned, yet to produce a rich and exotic sound, so that even an inexperienced choir can have the pleasure of creating a Medieval Christmas fantasy. Published a...

In 1955, while in the midst of working on a musical version of Voltaire's Candide with the distinguished American playwright Lillian Hellman, Leonard Bernstein composed French and Latin choruses as in...

The latest composition by the former Brixen cathedral conductor Heinrich Walder excellently expresses the reverently astonished greeting to Mary with its almost floating, swinging sound. Since the bea...

Written for church services, Bertold Hummel's motets were first performed by the choirs of the Würzburg Cathedral. This Dankhymnus enjoys remarkable popularity. The text from the first Christian centu...

During his second American tour (1938) Paul Hindemith wrote numerous songs for musical amateurs, including traditional children's songs for American schoolbooks, amongst others. The songs provided wit...

When it was possible to celebrate the Catholic Mass in the German language as well, Bertold Hummel wrote his motet Ehre sei Gott for mixed four-part choir. This piece is a 'German gloria' and can be p...

In addition to his world-famous film scores ('Godfather', 'La dolce vita'), Nino Rota also composed chamber and vocal music, with choral music playing a prominent role. The three choral pieces selecte...

The Pater noster for choir a cappella, is an homophonic setting of the Mozarabic melody and is suitable for both liturgy and concert. The Mozarabic traditional text includes an extra verse after Panem...

This work with its calmly pleading character lives on the contrast between the freely metric, virtually Gregorian passages and the strict time-beating sections. It is especially in the 'Da pacem' call...

In the last decade, Krzysztof Penderecki composed a Sanctus and Benedictus for treble choir, and he has now used these movements as the basis of his Missa brevis. The new mass setting adds male voices...

Andreas Pieper's overall artistic aim to 'build a bridge of confidence to the world behind things' with his music can be heard clearly in his setting of Tollite iugum meum. The Latin-language motet fo...

Chorpartitur für gemischten Chor a cappella - lateinisch Klangsinnlich, freudig und kontrastreich entfaltet sich über 15 Minuten eine leuchtende, teils impressionistisch angehauchte Harmonik, der die...

With Zwei lateinische Marienmotetten for mixed a cappella choir (SATB) and interlude for organ or string quintet, Andreas Pieper has created two gems of Marian devotion which are perfect for being use...

The fact that Pascal Martiné is a real expert in the field of sacred choral music shows once again in the 'Three Motets' for mixed a-cappella choir (SATB) by the Mainz-based composer and (choir) teach...

The Spanish composer Rafael Sánchez Mombiedro set the well-established text 'O Magnum Mysterium' on the Coming of God to music in a new and inspiring way. He plays with dynamics and strange harmonies,...

The work interprets in a sensitive way the effect Pope Frances, who was elected in March 2013, has on people. Based on three Argentine folk songs, the mass with its powerful and quiet parts arouses fe...

Der 1795 geborene Robert Lucas de Pearsall gilt als einer der Wegbereiter des Cäcilianismus, einer kirchenmusikalischen Restaurationsbewegung mit Rückbesinnung auf den aus Renaissance und Barock überl...

Mit seinem 'Ave verum' hat Alwin M. Schronen ein wahres Kleinod geistlicher A-cappella-Chormusik geschaffen. Der Vertonung für vierstimmigen gemischten Chor (SATB) liegt der altbekannte Text der Eucha...

Meine Seele dürstet nach Gott, nach dem lebendigen Gott - diese Psalmvertonung wird von einem kleinen und einem größeren Chor antiphonisch vorgetragen. Mit zarten Harmonien, ruhigem Gestus und spannun...

Rolf Rudin has made a name for himself as an award-winning composer far beyond the borders of Germany. Among the large number of his sacred choral compositions is also the church music setting of 'Ave...