Looking for something to inspire your local choir or choral society? Our extensive range of choral repertoire includes works for Mixed Choir, Male Voice Choir, Female Voice Choir, Children’s & Youth Choirs, and Senior’s Choir, singing a Capella, with piano accompaniment, and with various other ensembles up to full orchestra.
Choral singing began to take form in the 9th & 10th Centuries, with the unison Gregorian Chant or Plain Chant. From the early Renaissance period, through composers like Palestrina , di Lasso and William Byrd true polyphonic choral music blossomed, and crescendo-ed through to a wonderful climax with Thomas Tallis’ Spem in alium for 40 parts, divided into 8 choirs.
As the form developed through the Renaissance into the Baroque period, composers such as Bach, Telemann and Händel gave the choir more and more autonomy, and through early operas and oratorios, married solo voices, choirs and orchestras together, to create these new musical forms, and inspired audiences with combinations of colours and sounds they had never before experienced.
Although there were many operas and oratorios written in the Classical period, sacred music also took a prominent role in shaping the development of choral music. While the chorus became a very useful tool on stage, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven composed many Masses, Requiems, Te Deums and Anthems to help brighten the world of church music, and uplift the hearts and souls of the congregation.
As opera continued to expand and stretch dramatic boundaries, choral music of the Romantic period was characterised by choral motets and anthems, and the oratorio grew into an even more varied and contrasting form. The oratorios Elijah and Paul are particularly noteworthy, since despite using Sacred themes, through the various musical facets at Mendelssohn’s disposal, they began to take on a much more operatic narrative. This can also be seen in the Requiems of Brahms and Verdi, where the choir itself, along with the orchestra, lead the dramatic storytelling.
Through the 20th Century, composers such as Ralf Vaughan Williams, Anton Webern, Arnold Schönberg, Benjamin Britten and Edward Elgar composed extensively for varying choral forces. Through these composers and many others, we begin to see choirs being tested and stretched, both technically and dramatically, and being pushed out of their comfort zone in order to inspire, shock and entice the audience. Works like Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius and Schönberg’s Friede auf Erden made a huge impact on the choral landscape.
In the modern era, new choral genres such as Gospel Choir, Pop Ensembles and Jazz & Swing emerged. Composers like John Rutter, Karl Jenkins, Bob Chilcott and Andrew Lloyd Webber have become very popular.
First Edition
for: 4-5 soloists (SATB/SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237164
First Edition
for: 4-5 soloists (SATB/SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237162
aus: Messias, Zweiter Teil, Nr. 31
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra [organ]
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236039
für Soli, Doppelchor und Orchester (1843)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 235367
für Soli, Doppelchor und Orchester (1843)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235346
Messe
mit Textvarianten zu sieben herausgehobenen Festtagen
for: Women's choir (SSA), violin [Melody instrument in C], piano
Single part Violin
Item no.: 687743
Oratorium
BR-CPEB D 3 (Wq 240)
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1596279
for: Children's choir (1 voice), piano
Single part Melody instrument (C)
Item no.: 1555445
Cantata for the 20th Sunday after Trinity.
Leipzig Version.
Reconstruction Masaaki Suzuki
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello [Basso continuo] (orchestral part)
Item no.: 797125
Cantata for the 20th Sunday after Trinity.
Leipzig Version.
Reconstruction Masaaki Suzuki
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 797124
Warburton E 14
Responsorium. Mailänder Vesperpsalm
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Basso continuo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 693168
Kantate zum Sonntag nach Neujahr
Violine 1
for: 3 soloists (SAT), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 681096
Kantate zum 15. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 673152
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 611420
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 678996
für vier Soli, gemischten Chor, Harfe und Orgel (Violine, Klavier, Blechbläser ad lib.)
Musique sacrée francaise – Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), harp, organ; violin, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, piano ad lib.
Single part Violin
Item no.: 676805
WAB 45
Urtextausgabe
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 670485
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1355579
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1355081
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1355080
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1355006
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Single part Trumpet
Item no.: 1018734
"Great Mass in C minor"
reconstructed and completed by Ulrich Leisinger
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), 2 mixed choirs, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 694035
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Bassoon (orchestral part)
Item no.: 796854
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 796846
for: 7 soloists (SSATTBB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1355010
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1351882
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1018633
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1018630
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1018529
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 779175
Cantata for the 18th Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bachausgaben
Organ transposed
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 771444
for: Soloists, mixed choir, chamber orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 179271
for: Soloists, mixed choir, chamber orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 141020
Motet a 12
aus den "Symphoniae sacrae"
for: Mixed choir, wind ensembles, organ
Single part Trombone 2
Item no.: 1355098
Motet a 11
aus den "Symphoniae sacrae"
for: Mixed choir, wind ensembles, organ
Single part Trumpet 1, 2
Item no.: 1355084
Kantate
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 230145
Kantate
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 230144
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 230029
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), piano [harp]
Single part Harp
Item no.: 1115085
aus "Die Schöpfung" / Gekürzte Fassung ohne Solo-Passagen
Einzelabgabe ohne Chorpartituren nur mit Antikopier-Stempel
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 663184
Süßmayr-Version
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 564151
über Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr
TVWV 9:2
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1043184
zum Osterfest Christ lag in Todes Banden
for: Mixed choir, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1043155
Kantate für den 2. Sonntag nach Epiphanias
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 611422
aus: Psalmen Davids
Konzert
for: Favorit choir (at), chapell choir (SSATB), orchestra
Flute 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 231776
Sinfonische Kantate I
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Organ (orchestral part)
Item no.: 645647
BWV 244
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach Ausgaben
for: Solo voices, mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 671874
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