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.
für Soli, Doppelchor und Orchester (1843)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235347
Marienantiphon
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234985
Marienantiphon
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234983
à 8 in due cori con Istromenti
Stuttgarter Vivaldi Ausgaben - Urtext
Basso continuo - Coro 1
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), 2 string orchestras
Basso continuo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234754
Fk 83
Einzelstimme Va.
for: 4 soloists (SATBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234164
Fk 83
Einzelstimme Vl. 1
for: 4 soloists (SATBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234162
Kantate zum 9. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233620
Kantate zum 10. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233568
Kantate zum 10. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233567
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB); basso continuo ad lib.
Single part(n)
Item no.: 232608
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB); basso continuo ad lib.
Single part(n)
Item no.: 232605
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATBB, SATBB), orchestra
Single part Violin 3
Item no.: 232573
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Viola
Item no.: 232361
for: Choir (one voice), mixed choir (sam/sam), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 230591
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 230526
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 230143
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 230028
Bestimmung unbekannt
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233516
Kantate zum 2. Sonntag nach Trinitatis bzw. zum Reformationsfest
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233259
Kantate zum 1. Advent
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Single part Violin
Item no.: 369376
Kantate Nr.2 BWV2 Violine 2
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 232711
Ein Singspiel zu Lukas 15,11-32
Leichtes Singspiel zu biblischem Text für den Gottesdienst von Kindern und Erwachsenen
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Single part(n)
Item no.: 231398
MH 826
Einzelstimme Org.
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 237762
MH 826
Einzelstimme Vc. (Kb.)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237761
op. 51; Da Israel aus Ägypten zog
Einzelstimme Va.
for: Women's choir (SSAA) [male choir (ttbb)], orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235342
KV 117 (66a = 47b)
Einzelstimme Org.
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 234961
ZWV 13
Einzelstimme Fg. (Vc.)
for: 6 soloists (SSAATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part(n)
Item no.: 236961
ZWV 13
Einzelstimme Vl. 2
for: 6 soloists (SSAATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236959
Große Credomesse
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236703
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 189476
Quattro pezzi sacri Nr. 4
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 670471
Passions-Cantate, nach der Poesie des Herrn Buschmann HoWV I.2
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 772554
Beatus vir
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), 2 oboes, 2 string orchestras, 2 organs
Single part(n)
Item no.: 424261
aus der Notenbibliothek von Johann Sebastian Bach
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 424181
Hob. XXIIIc:4a-d
for: Choir, orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 401282
op. 49
for: Choir, orchestra
Single part Cello/Double bass
Item no.: 483450
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 771656
for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 677346
Requiem
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235419
Kantate zum Sonntag Jubilate
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 213115
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Flute
Item no.: 1545133
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 1544887
nach Sprüchen aus 4 Jahrtausenden
for: Mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 784908
for: Choir
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 644666
for: Mixed choir (SATB) [male choir (TTBB)], orchestra
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 202270
for: Mixed choir [children's choir] (3 voices), string quartet
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 103187
for: Male choir (TTBB), concert band
Single part Trombone 1
Item no.: 204615
for: Soloist (baritone), male choir (TTBB), concert band
Single part Organ
Item no.: 308230
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