Intermediate Sheet Music Downloads (PDF)

O magnum mysterium was written in 2013 and is dedicated to Dawn Herbert, the composer’s ex-wife and the mother of his son, Reginald. It was written while staying at her family’s farm in Cambridgeshire...

Let us build a house is the closing hymn of Kim André Arnesen’s large-scale work, The Stranger. Instead of a typical majestic ending to a large work, Arnesen went for a quiet one with only an unaccomp...

Commissioned by the Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, for the first ever BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong broadcast from the college, this introit or short motet was written to commemorate the occasion...

Adapted from Velvet Shoes by Elinor Wylie, the text of this carol portrays the tranquil, almost eerie, atmosphere of walking alone in fresh snow. The musical setting reflects scenery, with a soaring s...

Unbesiegbar - lautet die Übersetzung dieses Kammerchorwerks auf den Text des viktorianischen Dichters William Ernest Henley. Es beschreibt den inneren Kampf gegen und den Sieg über die wideren Umständ...

1. Miserere 2. Du, dem nie im Leben 3. Amplius

Text und Melodie: afro-amerikanisches Spiritual

After ending his studies with Sechter, Bruckner wrote his Ave Maria in 1861. On October 3, 1861 he reported in a letter: "I was, in the end, splendidly aplauded by my choir-twice.“ In this very sound-...

This gradual for the Feast of Holy Church Fathers was composed in 1879. The Lydian setting is, as Bruckner himself said, "without sharps, without flats, without triads on the 7th step, without six-fou...

In this interesting motet by Bruckner, short imitative choral sections alternate with monophonic chorale passages. There are also sections in the old falsobordone setting. The short work on a verse fr...