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.
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 847518
for: Choir
Playback-CD (without sheet music)
Item no.: 762504
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 843521
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 1620052
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1586825
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237600
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 283411
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 203048
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 202758
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204389
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 204751
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 280960
Galopp "Schön ist's im Winter"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 729951
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 309592
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 865951
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano, percussion
Single part Percussion
Item no.: 680907
for: Mixed choir (SSAATB) a cappella
Piano reduction
Item no.: 576327
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Score
Item no.: 1338061
Musikalische Gespräche über die Evangelia
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 cornetts [oboes/ violins], basso continuo
Violin 2 [Oboe/ Cornett 2] (orchestral part)
Item no.: 455700
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167673
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167559
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 1167512
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 965158
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003095
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002499
for: Choir
CD-ROM
Item no.: 1002362
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002346
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003378
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1002661
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 315854
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003343
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003289
for: Male choir (TB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003134
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 768955
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 564644
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 869495
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 885181
for: Mixed choir, strings
Score
Item no.: 379418
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 387952
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 464938
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 176497
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), organ
Score
Item no.: 199966
for: Mixed choir (5 parts) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 310492
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309793
for: Children's choir
Score
Item no.: 309097
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308772
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