Mixed Choir with Orchestra

Orchestration: 2 fl, ob, 2 cl, bsn, 2 hn, glock, hp, strings In this classic Rutter anthem the flowing choral melodies perfectly complement the positive message of the well-known thanksgiving text by...

'This is the best of me', wrote Edward Elgar after the final measure of his Dream of Gerontius. Premiered in 1900, in Great Britain the work has long been a standard work in the repertoire of large or...

for mezzo-soprano and baritone soloists, SATB choir, and full orchestra or small ensemble. This large-scale work sets a poem by American writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson that depi...

It is regarded by many as his masterpiece in the non-operatic sphere: Britten's War Requiem, premiered in 1962 to celebrate the opening of the new cathedral at Coventry, built to replace the one destr...

Joseph Haydn's monumental oratorio "The Seasons" (Hob. XXI:3) is a masterpiece of Viennese Classicism and one of the most important secular vocal works in music history. Following the great success of...

The richly orchestrated Missa in C minor K. 317 was probably one of the first church music works that Mozart composed at the beginning of 1779 as the newly appointed Salzburg court organist. With a la...

In this classic Rutter anthem the flowing choral melodies perfectly complement the positive message of the well-known thanksgiving text by F. S. Pierpoint. Also available in versions for SA and TTBB v...

The Miserere in C minor ZWV 57 is a late work by the Bohemian composer Jan Dismas Zelenka. According to the entry in the autograph score, it was completed on March 12, 1738. The work can thus be place...

Requiem Novum, an evocative musical work from Swedish composer Mårten Jansson, weaves drama, emotion, and exquisite compositional technique info a masterpiece for our time. The choir (singing the trad...

In Part II: The Rise of Humanity from Terra Nostra, Garrop has selected text by John Gillespie Magee, Jr. which describes the nearly spiritual arrival in space ('Oh, I have slipped the surly bonds of...

Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B minor BWV 232 is considered one of the most important works in music history and the composer's "opus ultimum". In this monumental setting of the complete Catholic Or...

This publication offers a source-critical edition of Mozart's fragmentary 'Requiem' as well as an alternative to the traditional Süßmayr version. It makes it possible to perform 1) the fragment, ident...

Feel the Spirit is a cycle of seven familiar spirituals equally suitable for concert, school, or church use. These vivid and expressive arrangements can be performed individually, or as a complete cyc...

One World deals with a fractured world (populist governments, plagues, climate change, human trafficking, disrespect for basic human rights, terrorism, war) and heralds a vision of a peaceful and egal...

Immer dann, wenn die Nacht sich dem Ende neigt, vom Boden frostige Kälte aufzieht und man den herannahenden Morgen eher träumt als sieht, erscheint der Himmel in einem tiefen Blau. Auch die Sterne sie...

Johann Adolf Hasse's Requiem in B flat was probably composed in the second half of the 1750s and is presented here for the first time in a printed version. Nothing is known about the purpose of this b...

Mozart's Requiem is known to the general public in the version by his pupil Franz Xaver Süßmayr, which was completed immediately after Mozart's death. The attacks against Süßmayr's addition began in 1...

This warm and legato arrangement of Silent night is an offprint from Benedict Sheehan's musical dramatization of A Christmas Carol.

BA 5103-90 replaces the previous vocal score. The article number remains unchanged. > The text appears in slightly larger type size and a clearly legible font. > The pagination has been adopted from t...

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 story of the Requiem's creation is shrouded in anecdotes and legends. Overwork from composing and performing La Clemenza di Tito and The Magic Flute as well as an acute infection led to the compos...

The performance material is derived from the scholarly-critical editions of the 'Das Erbe deutscher Musik'' series, on which the informative Preface and Critical Report were based. The new piano-vocal...