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
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237161
Motetto in Festo Omnium Sanctorium
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236211
aus: Messias, Zweiter Teil, Nr. 31
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra [organ]
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236037
Wq 217
Einzelstimme Coro 1: Vl. 2
for: Soloist (alto), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), 2 orchestras
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 421972
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 229791
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 817408
Kantate zum 13. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 673205
Cantata for the 23rd Sunday after Trinity
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 673162
Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 678997
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 Organ
Item no.: 676801
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 642784
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1557076
Cantata for the 15th Sunday after Trinity
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1050370
Psalm 98, TVWV 1:1345, also in the set of parts
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1043098
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 171820
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 171635
für Soli, Chor und Orchester
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 296871
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 224969
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, organ
Horn 1, 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1351879
C-Dur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Trumpet 1, 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 672671
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 274905
Am 29. Juni 1751 anläßlich der Einweihung der neuen katholischen Hofkirche in Dresden erstmals aufgeführt
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237452
Kantate zum Fest Mariae Heimsuchung (Leipziger Fassung)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 497401
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 424248
for: Soloist (baritone), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 677347
for: Children's choir, instruments
Single part Percussion
Item no.: 354784
"The harp that once thro' Tarra's halls"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano [harp, string orchestra]
Single part Harp
Item no.: 375975
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 1545560
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Violin 3
Item no.: 1545417
Oratorium für Soli, gemischten Chor, Orchester und Basso continuo
for: 4 soloists (SMezTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 681271
Negro-Spirituals
for: Mixed choir (SATB), combo
Single part bass
Item no.: 782032
for: Male choir (3 voices)
Single part 3
Item no.: 1136786
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Clarinet 1 in B flat (orchestral part)
Item no.: 663266
for: Mixed choir, instruments
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 663260
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 691290
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; orchestra ad lib.
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 479746
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ; orchestra ad lib.
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 479745
for: Male choir (TTBB), concert band
Single part Clarinet (E-flat)
Item no.: 204597
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1160956
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Viola
Item no.: 232242
Cantata for the 5th Sunday after Easter
BWV 87
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1703932
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, viola, basso continuo
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 691336
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 669208
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 664567
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 664564
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 655247
1st Sunday after Trinity
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 584396
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, organ
Single part Basso continuo (Organ)
Item no.: 555538
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