Intermediate Sheet Music for Women's Choir

Kurt Bikkembergs (*1963) studied composition and conducting at the renowned Lemmens Institute in Leuven. At present, he is the choir director of the Vlaamse Opera and musical director of the Cathedral...

Pēteris Vasks skilfully wove this song cycle from the lyrics and melodies of five Latvian folk songs.

The Latvian composer Vytautas Mi(s

Let all the world in every corner sing was commissioned by Colston's Girls' School in Bristol for the Chamber Choir and their Director of Music Matthew Redman, and was written in August 2008 for the s...

Commissioned by the Young People's Chorus of New York, composer Bruce Adolphe and lyricist Louise Gikow have created a comical tribute to choral singers and conductors everywhere. The concept of the p...

The sub-title is 'Blessed are those who hunger.' The music contrasts a peaceful, chant-like introduction and coda with an energetically rhythmic middle section that illustrates how our longings and hu...

'Laude' were short mediaeval devotional songs to the Virgin Mary, and Gavin Bryars has kept to the pure, lyrical style of the originals. Following the successful publication of Bryars' volumes 1-3 of...

'Sanctum' is a captivating setting of four movements of the Requiem text, inspired by the landscape of the west coast of Canada. Each movement depicts an aspect of Vancouver Island (the water, mountia...

Composer's note: 'On yesternight I saw a sight was set as a means of thanking Jo Tomlinson for promoting and recording my music with the excellent choristers of Farnham Youth Choir. Knowing that the g...

This Christmas carol was written in 2009 for the senior choir of Dr Challoner’s High School in Buckinghamshire, England. The text, taken from the 17th-century clergyman Joseph Beaumont’s poem ‘Christm...

This musical setting of a German poem by an unknown poet (English translation by Matthias Rein) has won second prize at the prestigious composition competition of the ChorVerband NRW in 2012, as has t...

Tuned wine glasses are made to vibrate and sing, creating a floating-ethereal bed of sound for this setting of Edgar Allan Poe's poem on transience. Dreamy, a little melancholy and harmonically simple...

Anyone who likes refined rhythms, razor-sharp articulation, lively melismata, and high soprano notes will certainly be in for a treat with the sacred choral composition Cantate Domino by Pascal Martin...

This extraordinary work by renowned composer Kurt Bestor has established itself as one of the truly remarkable additions to choral repertoire in the '90s. It has been performed by many of the finest c...

It is particularly in his choral music that Peteris Vasks reveals his strong attachment to his Latvian home country. Nature, customs and traditions and the idea of freedom are the central themes of th...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

Combining a text by Charles Anthony Silvestri with syllables inspired by the song tradition (joik) of the Sami people in Scandinavia, Sing the earth is a tribute to our common home, the earth, as well...

Frauenchor (SSAA) oder Männerchor (TTBB) mit Solo a cappella oder mit 4 Hörnern in F

Frauen- oder Kinderchor (SSAA)

P?teris Vasks composed this cycle for women's choir on poems by his Latvian compatriot Vitauts ??d?ns. The lyrics are taken from the poetry collections Blizzard in the Rye of 1971 and The Birch Bark P...

> Variety of composers, including Bob Chilcott, Alan Bullard, Jussi Chydenius, and Andrea Ramsey > Two or three vocal parts (SA/SSA) > Accompanied and unaccompanied settings > Well-known Shakespeare t...

Enjott Schneider's 'Missa brevis' is based on the medieval Easter chorale 'Surrexit Christus Hodie' the headline of which shapes the melody line like a signature. The basic air is characterized by a t...