Mixed Choir with Orchestra

Handel set the myth of the love of the shepherd Acis for the sea nymph Galatea from Ovid's Metamorphoses a total of three times: in the cantata "Aci, Galatea e Polifemo" HWV 72 (1708), the masque "Aci...

This edition of Franz Schubert's 'Magnificat' D 486 is based on the composer's autograph score and is the first to make use of his authorised performance material. It offers alternative readings that...

Inspired by patterns from the Commedia dell'Arte, the plot, set in Seville, introduces the old "graybeard" Don Belflor (retired bullfighter and womanizer), his young wife Coraline and her lover Tracol...

> Urtext edition of Mendelssohn's last orchestral psalm > Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng) and Critical Commentary (Eng) > Words underlaid in both German and English > Piano reduction based on the first p...

With his composition "L'Aurore" (Dawn) in 1905, Maurice Ravel started his fifth and last attempt to win the coveted "Prix de Rome" of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His renewed elimination in t...

Anyone who is familiar with Bruckner's symphonies and great masses will probably be astonished upon hearing his Missa solemnis of 1854: can the tradition of the Viennese classics still be so clearly e...

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...

Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah caused a sensation at its world première performance, sung in English, in Birmingham UK in August 1846. The huge forces marshalled for the occasion delighted the au...

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...

Louis Spohr’s *Des Heilands letzte Stunden* (The Savior’s Last Hours), composed in 1835, is one of the most significant Passion oratorios of the 19th century. The freely adapted text by the well-known...

Louis Spohr’s *Des Heilands letzte Stunden* (The Savior’s Last Hours), composed in 1835, is one of the most significant Passion oratorios of the 19th century. The freely adapted text by the well-known...

Andreas Mücksch's new mass is a grandiose work with plenty of drama and dynamics. He wrote it for large orchestra, band, choir, solo soprano and mezzo-soprano. 70 minutes of exciting sacred music in L...

Composed in 2019, James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio is a summatory work in his output, collecting together settings of poetry, liturgy and scripture which explore themes related to the birth of Jes...

The Missa in c was so dear to Mozart that he cited it as 'evidence of the reality of my vow to marry” his beloved Constanze and to complete the only half-finished mass. Nevertheless, one of Mozart's g...

The Ballad of the Ancient Mariner World premiere: A work by John Glenesk Mortimer unites a professional orchestra with a youth orchestra, a choir and a soloist. The work was commissioned by the pedago...

The Ballad of the Ancient Mariner World premiere: A work by John Glenesk Mortimer unites a professional orchestra with a youth orchestra, a choir and a soloist. The work was commissioned by the pedago...

The Ballad of the Ancient Mariner World premiere: A work by John Glenesk Mortimer unites a professional orchestra with a youth orchestra, a choir and a soloist. The work was commissioned by the pedago...

The Ballad of the Ancient Mariner World premiere: A work by John Glenesk Mortimer unites a professional orchestra with a youth orchestra, a choir and a soloist. The work was commissioned by the pedago...

Garrop's major work Terra Nostra is a contemplation of the world, from its pristine beginnings, to man's advancement across the globe and into the air, to the critical need to now come to terms with t...

Leroy Anderson's winter frolic has never sounded cooler! This sleigh ride swings in big band style, offering bright (and sometimes tight) harmony paired with jazzy rhythms for a truly refreshing versi...

In this resplendent anthem, John Rutter sets Psalm 47 to a joyous melody, with rapid metre changes that build towards an exhilarating finale.

This is an arrangement of the 19th-century hymn by Philip Bliss, with words by Horatio Spafford following several personal tragedies. Wilberg keeps the first two verses in unison, before allowing full...

This anthem by Mack Wilberg is lyrical, sweeping, and full of rich harmonies. With a text by David Warner that includes the repeated phrase 'we thank thee, Lord', this piece is a gentle but stirring p...