Schott Musik

Szymon Godziemba-Trytek, born in Poland in 1988, already is one of the acclaimed choral composers of our time and has been awarded numerous prizes at national and international composition competition...

A demanding large-scale work for 16-part mixed a-cappella choir. Spherical sounds and changing harmonies are in contrast to expressive interjections. First prize at the International Composition Compe...

A joy for the audience and choir alike. This contemporary work plays with Gregorian motifs and combines late-Romantic elements with distinctive passages. Prize winner at the international composition...

The composition 'An Evening Prayer' for four-part mixed a-cappella choir (SATB) by Magdalena Zimmermann is based on a sacred poem by the English Baroque poet and philosopher Thomas Browne. To set thes...

Nino Rota's Mass was composed in Rome in 1962, the very same year when the Second Vatican Council formally opened in 1962, whose fundamental changes regarding the use of liturgical music directly foun...

This short piece for four-part mixed choir was composed by Krzysztof Penderecki in 2015 on the text of a well-known Polish Christmas carol. The traditional text is about common shepherds travelling to...

An elaborate Advent motet for eight- to multi-part chamber choir. Occasionally harmonically demanding, this piece is characterized by repeating motifs and broad chords occurring successively.

Andrej Makor, currently a master student of composition at the Conservatorio Cesare Pollini in Padua, has already won numerous international composition prizes. The highly respected works by the artis...

Altes mit Neuem kunstvoll zu verbinden - das zählt zu den Markenzeichen von Alwin M. Schronen. Dass dem vielseitigen Tondichter und Träger zahlreicher Kompositionspreise dieser künstlerische Spagat me...

The mass was composed to be easy to rehearse and accessible music for church services. A notable feature of this mass is the complete absence of accidentals, making it a 'white key mass'. The range fo...

Alwin Michael Schronen has long been known for his versatility and ability to compose works of varying degrees of difficulty. His setting of the Agnus Dei for eight-part mixed choir a cappella (SSAATT...

Altes Lied by Heinrich Poos for mixed a cappella choir (SSATBB) is a three-part sacred work which addresses a topic that had been frequently taken up in old times as well - love. In this case a tragic...

Peteris Vasks komponierte dieses Werk auf denText des gleichnamigen Gedichtes des 1936 in Riga geborenen Autors Knuts Skujenieks als liebevolle Hommage an die Landschaft seines Heimatlandes Litauen: W...

Peteris Vasks komponierte dieses Werk auf denText des gleichnamigen Gedichtes des 1936 in Riga geborenen Autors Knuts Skujenieks als liebevolle Hommage an sein Vaterland Litauen. Durch die Aussprachhi...

Das Vaterunser als höchstes Gebet des Christentums wird hier in einem schlichten, aber nicht banalen Satz von Javier Busto vorgelegt. Das Werk beschreibt einen sehr ruhigen, demütigen und leisen Chara...

Das Weihnachtswunder wird in dieser sechsstimmigen Vertonung von Javier Busto kanonisch bestaunt. Der Sopran führt, die anderen Stimmen folgen mit keinem Versatz. Das dreistimmige Halleluja, das zunäc...

Nel suo "Regina Caeli", il compositore Peter Wittrich mette in musica l'antifona mariana con uno stile moderno ma accessibile. Egli contrappone passaggi omofonici chiari a sezioni scritte in modo libe...