Par RUTTER JOHN. European Sacred Music est une collection de plus de 50 des plus beaux exemples de la musique chorale sacrée de l'Europe continentale, allant du XVIe au XXe siècles. John Rutter a préparé complètement nouvelles éditions de tous les éléments pré-XXe siècle, remontant au manuscrit premiers et les plus fiables ou de sources imprimées. De nouvelles traductions en anglais sont fournies chantant pour la plupart des morceaux, et les réductions de clavier jouable. Orchestrations sont disponibles à la location pour les huit articles accompagnés (Bach: Jesu O Christ, meins Lebens Licht - Buxtehude: Magnificat - Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine - Franck: Panis Angelicus - Gabrieli: Jubilate Deo - Mendelssohn: Verleih uns Frieden, Monteverdi: Beatus vir - Mozart: Ave verum Corpus) Certains articles de ce volume sont disponibles séparément sous forme de brochures de la série Oxford Choral Classics Octavo. John Rutter est né à Londres en 1945 et a étudié la musique au Clare College, Cambridge. Ses compositions embrassent la musique chorale, orchestrale et instrumentale, et il a édité ou co-édité plusieurs anthologies chorale dont quatre pour des volumes de Carols chorales avec Sir David Willcocks et l'Oxford Choral Classics série. De 1975 à 1979, il a été directeur de la musique au Clare College, et en 1981 il a formé son propre choeur, les Cambridge Singers. Il partage maintenant son temps entre la composition et la conduite et est recherché comme un chef d'orchestre invité pour le leader mondial des chorales et orchestres. / Niveau : Facile à Moyennement Difficile / Recueil / Chant

in Full Score for SATB. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Bach's most-performed sacred cantatas Nos. 1, 6, 19, 46, 60, 65, 79, Bach-Gesellschaft edition. Bach's most-performed sacred cantatas Nos. 1, 6, 19, 46, 60, 65, 79, Bach-Gesellschaft edition. / Profane / Répertoire / Choeur

Par BRUCKNER ANTON. This outstanding volume presents the finest of Bruckner's small-scale sacred choral works with instrumental accompaniment. All can be performed with Organ (or Piano) alone but are greatly enhanced by the use of Trombones and strings as specified. As with most of his works Bruckner revisited almost all of these motets and made revisions. The final versions for each have been chosen. This set provides the perfect opportunity for choirs to explore the work of this great composer, offering challenge and reward in equal measure./ Répertoire / SATB

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Great Sacred Choruses is a selection of choruses from the great cantata and motet canon, which display how Johann Sebastian Bach's wonderful legacy of religious music is celebrated. It is arranged for a mixed voices (SATB) choir by Denis McCaldin. It offers an accessible introduction to the diversity of the composer's choral works, ranging from the well-known 'Jesu, joy of man's desiring' to the rarely heard chaconne 'Meine Tage in den Leiden'.  The Choral Programme Series is a well-established programming tool for many choirs as it offers a wealth of fresh material from many eras and in many styles. Also offering great value for money as each volume in the series provides up to forty minutes of music. / Choral Music / Recueil / Voix Mixtes Piano et Orgue

Par BRITTEN BENJAMIN. Sacred and Profane consists of eight settings for unaccompanied voices of lyrics from RT Davis' collection of Medieval English lyrics, composed early in 1975 for Peter Pears and the Wilbye Consort of Voices. / Niveau : Elémentaire / Répertoire / Voix Mixtes

The text of Susanni is a translation of Martin Luther's hymn of 1535, Vom Himmel hoch . The music is based loosely upon the well-known chorale melody, which, at times, is quoted in full in both voices and organ. Except where indicated, singers should adopt a legato style, especially in the repeated quaver patterns. In the bars which appear to be in compound time, conductors should beat in crotchets. An inspiring selection of new works from a range of contemporary composers, the Novello New Choral Series offers pieces for all types of choirs, including sacred and secular works from simple, four-part settings to more expansive, yet accessible, repertoire in an exciting variety of styles. Bill Ives has spent his life in choral music - as a singer, conductor, teacher and composer (writing as Grayston Ives). He was a chorister at Ely Cathedral and later studied music at Cambridge, taking composition lessons with Richard Rodney Bennett. After Cambridge he sang in Guildford Cathedral Choir before joining the King's Singers, with whom he recorded and performed worldwide. For eighteen years he directed the Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. During his tenure the choir earned a Grammy nomination for a disc of music by Orlando Gibbons, and gave the première of Paul McCartney's Ecce Cor Meum, written especially for them. In 2008 his work as a composer and conductor of church music was recognised with the award of a Lambeth DMus and a Fellowship of the Royal School of Church Music. / Choeur SATB Et Orgue

There is no rose of such virtue is an anonymous mediaeval text, already well known through beautiful settings by Britten (in his Ceremony of Carols), John Joubert and others. The poem is 'macaronic' (it presents a verse in English, followed by a varying Latin refrain). This new version follows the illustrious examples above by remaining strophic and presenting broadly the same music in a succession of slightly different guises. The first verse is a straightforward four-part setting, the second gives the melody to the tenors and surrounds them with hushed, wordless writing for the other parts, and the third explores a freely canonic relationship between the tenor and soprano lines before carrying the previous verse-endings to a higher, more exalted pitch and mood. The fourth verse then expands its texture in a free climactic passage evoking the songs of praise sung by the angels. This subsides towards the final verse, where the texture of the music attenuates again to four parts, and canonic writing (based on the first four notes of the original melody) permeates all of them. This slightly extended statement leads to a hushed final cadence. Francis Pott (b. 1957) began musical life as a chorister at New College, Oxford. He held open music scholarships at Winchester College and at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he studied composition with Robin Holloway and Hugh Wood while pursuing piano studies privately in London with the distinguished British artist, Hamish Milne. Throughout the 1990s Francis was John Bennett Lecturer in Music at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and a lay clerk in the Choir of Winchester Cathedral. In 2001 he became Head of London College of Music, University of West London, later leading research across the University's Faculty of Arts and acceding in 2007 to its first Chair in Composition. Francis Pott has become recognised particularly for his sacred choral and organ music. This has been performed in concert and on radio in over three dozen countries worldwide, published by four major UK houses and released extensively on CD. Winner of four national composition awards, in 1997 he received first prize in the piano solo section of the S. S. Prokofiev Composing Competition, Moscow. In 2006 and 2011 he was a nominated finalist in the BASCA/BBC Annual Composer Awards. In summer 2012 he was winner of the international composing competition of the Cheltenham Festival, which sought new piano variations on the arioso song Bist du bei mir, well known in the arrangement by J. S. Bach. Francis lives with his wife and two children on the outskirts of Winchester. An inspiring selection of new works from a range of contemporary composers, the Novello New Choral Series offers pieces for all types of choirs, including sacred and secular works from simple, four-part settings to more expansive, yet accessible, repertoire in an exciting variety of styles. / Choeur Mixte (SATB)

Par . Until now, anyone looking for music on the theme of Pentecost and the Holy Spirit for church services and concerts usually had to do so in larger collections that cover the entire church year or parts of it. With Music for the Spirit, there is now a choirbook specifically for the feast of Pentecost for the first time, closing a gap for an important feast of the Catholic, Protestant, and Anglican churches. Over 500 years of choral music from Renaissance to the modern age are covered here with compositions from the German-, English-, Italian- and French-speaking regions. Almost all the great composers of European sacred music are represented, from Palestrina over Byrd, Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Gounod, and Bruckner to Reger, Parry, Stanford, and Distler. With the chronological order, the development of the genre of the Pentecost motet and sacred choral music in general can be traced easily. All pieces can be performed by mixed choir a cappella or with organ accompaniment. In some cases, the accompaniment has been supplemented or arranged by the editor Stephen Harrap, in individual cases also the choral parts, e.g. when the original was composed for male voices only. The scoring ranges from three to eight voices while the length and difficulty of the pieces likewise cover a broad range for a wide variety of choirs and ensembles. / Date parution : 2023-10-31/ Répertoire / Choeur Mixte et Orgue

The choir book Musica Sacra Hungarica provides a survey of the broad spectrum of sacred vocal music produced in Hungary during the 20th century. Following on from the romantic heritage an individual Hungarian vocal style was developed, which became known internationally through the sacred and secular vocal works of Béla Bartók, Zoltán Kodály and Lajos Bárdos./ Répertoire / Choeur Mixte

Par LACHNER FRANZ. Among his compositions, Franz Lachner, the long-serving Music Director of the Court of Munich and Director of the Royal Choir, left behind a considerable number of sacred works, including two settings of the Stabat Mater. The first Stabat Mater, op. 154, from 1856 was strictly for a vocal ensemble; the second, op. 168, from 1870 (see p. 5) included strings and organ, in which the darker timbre was achieved through the absence of the violins. In its harmonic expression the second composition is especially oriented towards the, at that time, modern style of the North German School centred around Liszt and Wagner, but without ever exceeding a moderate degree of technicaldifficulty in the voice parts./ Répertoire / Choeur SATB/SATB

Par LALANDE MICHEL-RICHARD DE. The grand motets of Michael-Richard de Lalande (1657-1726), principal Chapel Music Director for Louis XIV and Louis XV, marked the high point of sacred music under the ancien régime. De profundis is the best-known of Lalande's motets, and is a justly celebrated work.Edited by distinguished scholar Lionel Sawkins (editor of Charpentier's 'Te Deum', also published by Faber Music), this practical performing edition of 'De profundis Clamavi' brings the work of this still relatively unknown composer to light./ Recueil / Chorale

Choral SuiteInstrument : mixed choir (SATB) and piano (organ)Type : vocal/piano scoreNombre de Pages : 40As featured on the best-selling CD, this is a powerful and compelling account of the descent into and terrible consequences of war. Commissioned for the millennium by the Royal Armouries and dedicated to the victims of the Kosovo crisis, this work is a contemporary example of a mass based on the 15th-century French song L?Homme Armé (The Armed Man). The complete work sets sacred and secular texts including Tennyson, Kipling, The Koran and the Hindu Mahàbharàta within the framework of the Christian mass. Championed by Classic FM it has captured the imagination of music lovers everywhere to become not only a chart-topping CD but also one of the most currently performed and poignant choral works of the moment.This suite of five mass movements and the Hymn Before Action arranged for SATB chorus and piano/organ is suitable as a concert item or within a liturgical setting and will make a stunning contemporary mass alternative.Content : Kyrie - Sanctus - Benedictus - Agnus Dei - Hymn Before Action