Instrumental Pieces for Concert Band

Ola Gjeilo, born in 1978 in Norway, moved to the United States when he was 23 years old to study composition at the Julliard School. He composed this dense and richly textured setting of the Sanctus f...

Melody is the very essence of music. ' -W. A. Mozart (1786) Mozart confirmed this view on melody by writing the Ave Verum Corpus near the end of his short life. Originally written for chorus, strings,...

Missa Brevis, written for choir and wind band, was commissioned by the Conseil Départemental pour la Musique et la Culture de Haute-Alsace (Dir. : Philippe Pfisterer) in Guebwiller (France), in celebr...

The work We Hymn Thee is a sacred piece by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov and comes from his famous Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. This music is strongly inspired by the tradition of the Rus...

The work We Hymn Thee is a sacred piece by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov and comes from his famous Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. This music is strongly inspired by the tradition of the Rus...

Come, Let Us Worship is an impressive excerpt from the All-Night Vigil (Op. 37) by Sergei Rachmaninov, a masterpiece of Orthodox church music composed in 1915. This work opens the celebration with con...

Come, Let Us Worship is an impressive excerpt from the All-Night Vigil (Op. 37) by Sergei Rachmaninov, a masterpiece of Orthodox church music composed in 1915. This work opens the celebration with con...

Alleluia, Behold The Bridegroom is an anonymous work from the 18th century and comes from the rich European repertoire of sacred music. Inspired by a liturgical text about waiting for the coming of Ch...

Alleluia, Behold The Bridegroom is an anonymous work from the 18th century and comes from the rich European repertoire of sacred music. Inspired by a liturgical text about waiting for the coming of Ch...

We Praise Thee, Op. 27 No. 6 by Pavel Chesnokov is an important work of the Russian sacred repertoire, characterized by fervour and deep spirituality. Rooted in the Orthodox tradition, it is character...

We Praise Thee, Op. 27 No. 6 by Pavel Chesnokov is an important work of the Russian sacred repertoire, characterized by fervour and deep spirituality. Rooted in the Orthodox tradition, it is character...

The Chorus of Angels is a movement from *The Christmas Story* (Weihnachts-Historie), SWV 435, a German-language setting of the Christmas story composed by Heinrich Schütz and presumably premiered in D...

The Chorus of Angels is a movement from *The Christmas Story* (Weihnachts-Historie), SWV 435, a German-language setting of the Christmas story composed by Heinrich Schütz and presumably premiered in D...

Großes Blasorchester und Chor SATB ad lib. Die Festliche Singmesse ist nun auch in einer Ausgabe für großes Blasorchester und gemischtem Chor erhältlich, passend zur Chorausgabe SATB! Dieses Arrangeme...

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...