Sacred Choral Music

Par BRUCKNER ANTON. Great art in small forms ? Bruckner's smaller sacred works reveal a more personal side to the master symphonist and creator of large-scale orchestral masses. Throughout his life, Bruckner?s deep faith and dedication to the Catholic liturgy inspired him to write church music in smaller forms suitable for performance at Sunday services or in sacred concerts. The long phrases and shimmering sounds of Locus iste, the chromatic modulations and thrilling climaxes in Christus factus est (1884) and in Virga Jesse (1885), or the use of church modes in almost all the motets present a range of fascinating challenges to any choir.In addition to the well-known motets, the choral collection includes smaller sacred works such as short mass settings (a cappella or with organ) and simple liturgical songs and hymns, some with organ or occasionally with trombones. In addition, the volume presents two somewhat longer works from Bruckner?s youth: a Magnificat and a setting of Psalm 23, both with piano accompaniment.The Choral Collection Bruckner. Sacred Choral Music is an expanded new edition of the successful choral collection Anton Bruckner für Gottesdienst und Konzert (Sacred works for worship and concert, Carus 2.065).A detailed preface and several indexes supplement the musical scores in the editionCHORLEITUNG with information on the works and their liturgical usability. An affordable volume (editionCHOR) is also available for purchase, as well as separate editions in print and digital form.?,New expanded volume featuring 39 sacred choral works at all levels of difficulty?,For use both in worship and in concert / Date parution : 2023-06-01/ Répertoire / SATB et Piano

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 L'ESTRANGE ALEXANDER. ***Winner of Best Classical Music Education Initiative 2018 at the Music Teacher Awards for Excellence*** Wassail! Carols of Comfort and Joy is a sequence of 12 uplifting folk-inspired Christmas songs, exploring both sacred and secular aspects of the festive season. Including such favourites as The Sussex Carol, Gaudete and The holly and the ivy, Wassail! continues the highly popular series by Alexander L’Estrange of 40-minute choral works for SATB, unison children’s choir and jazz quintet. This vocal score is arranged with a piano reduction part. / Choral Music / Répertoire / Voix D'Enfants, Voix Mixtes et Piano

Par L'ESTRANGE ALEXANDER. Wassail! Carols of Comfort and Joy (this edition for unison and simple two-part voices and piano) is a sequence of 12 uplifting folk-inspired Christmas songs, exploring both sacred and secular aspects of the festive season. Includes such favourites as The Sussex carol, Gaudete! and The holly and the ivy. / Choral Music / Répertoire / Choeur A Voix Egales et Voix Hautes

Les oeuvres pour orgue de Gerard Bunk (18881958) sont de plus en increasinglyimportant à des concerts et des publications, tandis que sa musique chorale a jusqu'ici restée pratiquement inconnue.Cette première édition Urtext présente ses quatre oeuvres chorales les plus importants (op. 47, op. 72, op. 77 et op. 83), allant de trois parties choeur de femmes à travers de huit parties choeur mixte. Ces travaux sont idéales pour les choeurs ambitieux qui souhaitent élargir leur répertoire pour y inclure la musique attrayante dans styleand romantisme tardif qui peut être réalisé dans des concerts ainsi que des services religieux. première publication des oeuvres chorales de Bunk Avec une préface détaillée et un commentaire critique (Ger / Eng) Extension du répertoire pour choeurs ambitieux Chant choral dans le style romantique tardifles rédacteursJan Boecker est le petitfils de Gerard Bunk et rédacteur en chef de l'orgue et des oeuvres chorales de son grandpère.Klaus Eldert Müller a été maître de chapelle et organiste à la Stadtkirche St. Reinoldi à Dortmund depuis 2005. / Choeur

Messa d'morti. Par DURANTE FRANCESCO. The Requiem in C minor by Francesco Durante (1684–1755) is one of the most important works of this genre written in the first half of the 18th century. In his Messa de’ morti, Durante shows great creativity in combining traditional elements of church music with new ideas originating from instrumental writing and opera. The quality and originality of his Requiem make it an exciting rediscovery with the potential to establish itself as a core repertoire work of sacred choral music. Mainly known today as the teacher of Pergolesi and Paisiello, Durante spent much of his life working as music director at various conservatories in Naples and enjoyed great renown as achurch composer well into the 19th century. Despite its widespread popularity, indicated by the number of manuscript copies to be found across Europe, his Requiem never appeared in print. For this first publication, editor and leading British choral director Stephen Darlington has consulted many of the approximately 50 surviving sources of the work, presenting a critical edition which for the first time makes Durante’s Requiem available to a wider musical audience. - First publication - Urtext edition - Particularly suitable for smaller choirs and ensembles: soprano and alto solo, double choir (SSATB ATB) and strings (plus 2 horns in the Tuba mirum) - Full score and orchestral material also available (EP73044) The Requiem in C minor by Francesco Durante (1684–1755) is one of the most important works of this genre written in the first half of the 18th century. In his Messa de’ morti, Durante shows great creativity in combining traditional elements of church music with new ideas originating from instrumental writing and opera. The quality and originality of his Requiem make it an exciting rediscovery with the potential to establish itself as a core repertoire work of sacred choral music. Mainly known today as the teacher of Pergolesi and Paisiello, Durante spent much of his life working as music director at various conservatories in Naples and enjoyed great renown as achurch composer well into the 19th century. Despite its widespread popularity, indicated by the number of manuscript copies to be found across Europe, his Requiem never appeared in print. For this first publication, editor and leading British choral director Stephen Darlington has consulted many of the approximately 50 surviving sources of the work, presenting a critical edition which for the first time makes Durante’s Requiem available to a wider musical audience. - First publication - Urtext edition - Particularly suitable for smaller choirs and ensembles: soprano and alto solo, double choir (SSATB ATB) and strings (plus 2 horns in the Tuba mirum) - Full score and orchestral material also available (EP73044)./ Répertoire / Solistes, Choeurs et Piano

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

Par ESENVALDS ERIKS. Born in 1977 in Latvia, Eriks Ešenvalds is an original and sought-after voice of the Baltic music tradition. These two new collections, following on from the first four anthologies of his choral music, contain a selection of more recent sacred and secular works./ Recueil / Choeur Mixte SATB