Par MARX KARL / SCHMEEL DIETER. Gattungen: Kirchenlieder, Sätze - Verwendung / Kirchenjahr: Ende des Kirchenjahres, Epiphanias, Jahreswende -/ Répertoire / Choeur Mixte

Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme. Par STERN HERMANN. Gattungen: Kirchenlieder, Sätze - Verwendung / Kirchenjahr: Ende des Kirchenjahres, Himmelfahrt, Ostern und nachösterliche Freudenzeit -/ Répertoire / Choeur Mixte

Verschiedene (S. Einzeltitel). Introiten von Advent bis Karfreitag und Psalmen zur Austeilung des Heiligen Abendmahls / Psaumes / Répertoire / Choeur Mixte

Uses: General youth praise team Advent world peaceScripture: Isaiah 57:19; Romans 15:13Come alive with peace hope and joy with this exciting new sacred choral from songwriter Sarah Moore. HeatherSorenson adds her arranging magic and the results are an exhilarating contemporary statement for the worshipping church. Available: SATB LiteTrax CD. Duration: ca. 3:05.

Gustav Mahler's Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen expertly arranged for Baritone solo and 8-part Choir (SSAATTBarB) by Bo Holten (2010). Text by Friedrich Rückert. Programme note Gustav Mahler: Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (arr.: Holten 2010) is an arrangement for baritone soloist and 8-part choir of one of Mahler’s Rückert-Lieder. There is already an often performed arrangement for 16-voice choir by Clytus Gottwald which Holten has himself conducted a few times. But Holten does not really think that Gottwald does justice toMahler’s song; among other things it lacks a soloist who can express the “Ich” that is so central to the text. Holten takes his cue from Mahler’s piano setting but with Mahler’s own sublime orchestral setting firmly in mind. The choir thus functions as an (orchestral) accompaniment for the soloist. Holten has taken pains to stay as close to the model as possible within the constraints of what in fact can be sung by a choir. And he has striven to function solely as an arranger and as far as possible to avoid mixing his own personality with Mahler’s.(Klaus Møller-Jørgensen 2012)

The choral ensemble creates a spare and stark vocal atmosphere with steady pulsating vocal effects as the solo lines emerge from the texture. First Soon ah will be done and then I wanna die easy are combinedin a powerful collage of sonority that expresses the drama and emotion of this powerful music. Duration: ca. 5:50.

Incorporates My Lord What a Morning-Uses: Advent Concert Scripture: Matthew 24:27-30; Isaiah 60:1-3 This Advent best-seller delivers the hope and joy of the coming Light in a cheerful quartet style. The inclusion of the spiritual My Lord What a Morning providescontrast and depth. Available separately: SATB a cappella TTBB a cappella.

Over the years, the need for a new edition of Mahler's Symphony #2 became apparent for several reasons. First, many new sources for this work have become accessible since 1970, when Erwin Ratz completed the first critical edition of this symphony, the most significant being Mahler's personal reference score in which he recorded changes to be made (his last entries were made in September 1910). The second reason was the significant strengthening of the editorial standards of the critical edition in recent years. The music is now computer-generated. Previously, changes to the score could be made only by retouching the film of old engravings. Computerizationalso ensures a concurrence between the score and performance materials. Editorially, the new edition benefits from expanded texts that describe and assess the source materials, document and explain the editors' decisions and provide detailed information on the work's origin, the history of the published scores, performance practices, etc. Over the past five years, Renare Stark-Voit and Gilbert Kaplan, editors of the new edition of Symphony #2, have identified, evaluated and analyzed every significant source, and as a result of their work a substantial number of errors have been corrected. (Reinhold Kubik, taken from the preliminary note) Oh believe, my heart, oh believe:Nothing is lost with thee!Thine is what thou hast desired,What thou hast loved, what thou hast fought for!(Gustav Mahler in the Finale of Symphony #2) / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Piano

Having been considered as a 'fashionable' and 'cliché' composer of his day Hahn's compositions are possibly not as well-known as they ought to be. Rondels for SATB choir and Piano however shatter these prejudices held representing the engaging diversity of the composer's music. Venezuelan born Reynaldo Hahn (1875-1947) entered the Paris Conservatoire at 10 years old. He received a high standard of musical education from Decombes Lavignac Dubois and Massenet before becoming a prolific and versatile composer himself writing works for all genres. For Hahn music was a magical art and his compositionsoften contain expressions of his otherwise hidden emotions and moods. Rondels is made up of twelve movements depicting different aspects of nature. Hahn's Rondels contains a variety of different features making for a pleasant and evocative work for advanced choirs.

Nine Motets)-Setting the text from Isaiah VI vv1-8 this is a challenging setting for SATB choir.