Mixed Choir with Orchestra

How does a composer apply for a position at court? With your own music! When Luigi Cherubini wanted to recommend himself as Joseph Haydn's successor at the court of the Hungarian Prince Nicholas II Es...

How does a composer apply for a position at court? With your own music! When Luigi Cherubini wanted to recommend himself as Joseph Haydn's successor at the court of the Hungarian Prince Nicholas II Es...

Although Bach's Mass in B minor is one of the most frequently performed works by the Cantor of St. Thomas's, it is full of puzzles and problems. This applies not only to the question, still unanswered...

Orchestration: 2 Flutes, Oboe, Cor Anglais, 2 Clarinets in B Flat, 2 Bassoons, 2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in C, 2 Tenor Trombones, Bass Trombone Percussion (2 players: Glockenspiel / Snare Drum / Tam-ta...

Les Sept Paroles du Christ ("The Seven Last Words of Christ"), is one of Théodore Dubois's (1837-1924) two oratorios, and remains the composer's most frequently performed choral work. First performed...

For solo soprano, solo tenor, SATB choir and orchestra (1824 arr. 2024). Commissioned by Classic FM for Classic FM Live at the Royal Albert Hall. First performed on 22 April 2024 at Classic FM Live, R...

Boldly reimagined and completed by Martin Yates, The Future, a substantial non finito draft of a major choral setting of words by Matthew Arnold, dates from 1908, immediately after Toward the Unknown...

This motet was first performed at the dedication of the Battle of Britain Chapel in Westminster Abbey, London, and has an accordingly sombre tone.

A substantial work for four soli, SATB chorus and orchestra, using text from the translation of Stephen Mitchell's The Book Of Job. Like Vaughan Williams in his Job: A Masque for Dancing, Davies was i...

De profundis is the result of Christoph Schönherr's intensive study of the last years of Franz Schubert's life and is intended as a "homage" to the great Romantic composer in the subtitle. Musical quo...

For Narrator, Baritone Solo, Mixed Chorus and Orchestra.

This significant seven-movement work from Cecilia McDowall presents an imaginative pairing of extracts from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci with texts from the Latin Missa pro defunctis. Da Vinci's...

> Gounod's well-known mass in a new Urtext edition > Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng) > Idiomatic piano reduction > In preparation for the Gounod bicentenary year 2018 Sacred...

> Gounod's well-known mass in a new Urtext edition > Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng) > Idiomatic piano reduction > In preparation for the Gounod bicentenary year 2018 Sacred...

Mozart’s magnificent unfinished 'Great Mass in C minor K. 427' is impressive not only for its monumentality and musical beauty but for its fragmentary state which has fascinated scholars and performer...

Mozart's magnificent, unfinished "Missa in c" K. 427 impresses not only because of its monumentality and musical beauty, but also because its incomplete transmission has fascinated scholars and practi...

Orchesterbesetzung: 2 Oboen, 1 Taille (Englischhorn), Streicher und B.c.

Gabriel Fauré's Requiem is the key work among the French master's sacred compositions. The work was already a success with the public during the composer's lifetime and remains so to this day. Due to...

Monteverdi's "Vespers of Mary" has found its way into today's musical practice like hardly any other work of the 17th century. However, the "Vespers of Mary" also presents us with many puzzles. The so...

Iain Bell’s Beowulf, for soloists, chorus and large orchestra, is a retelling of the famous Old English epic poem. It was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 for the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and prem...

Celebrating the life of Robert Van Allan (20th October 1979 - 21st June 1999). Commissioned by Rosemary Pickering, the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, and the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Firs...

This richly expressive cantata sets five discrete texts, each reflecting a different aspect of Christmastide. The first movement sets a poem by Tennyson to an instantly memorable, eager melody. 'Good...

One Voice was written for performance by massed choirs and orchestra at the opening ceremony of the World Choir Games 2018. The theme of the composer's text is one of unity, and the music is uplifting...