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Commissioned for the International Choral Festival 'Europa cantat', this little cheerful madrigal was written in 2006 by the composer Enjott Schneider (*1950) from Munich. The Latin text ('Trinklied'...

Commissioned for the International Choral Festival 'Europa cantat', this little cheerful madrigal was written in 2006 by the composer Enjott Schneider (*1950) from Munich. The Latin text ('Trinklied'...

Taking as his theme the use of traditional birds' names as pet names for women, Vasks has created a very poetic piece of music based on a text in the Latvian language. German and English translations...

Written for church services, Bertold Hummel's motets were first performed by the choirs of the Würzburg Cathedral. This Dankhymnus enjoys remarkable popularity. The text from the first Christian centu...

A zippy song to be sung with extra motions: clapping and stomping.The big hit at the Open Singing events at the Europa Cantat Festival in Mainz!

Unter diesem Titel sind 'A Choral Fanfare' und das 'Signum' des Festivals 'Europa Cantat 2006' zusammengeführt. Die beiden kurzen, prägnanten Stücke können auch einzeln a cappella aufgeführt werden, m...

During his second American tour (1938) Paul Hindemith wrote numerous songs for musical amateurs, including traditional children's songs for American schoolbooks, amongst others. The songs provided wit...

This Ave Maria is an arrangement made by Bertold Hummel in December 1997 of his motet Gegrüßet seist du, Maria [Hail Maria] (C 53714) which he had composed on 20 May 1993 with a dedication in memory o...

Erst kurze Zeit vor seinem Tod schrieb Genzmer ein Werk für gemischten Chor a cappella über die berühmten Schlussverse aus Goethes 'Faust'. Er widerstand der naheliegenden Versuchung einer übertrieben...

Viktor Ullmann composed his choral arrangements of Hebrew, Yiddish and Chassidic songs in the ghetto of Theresienstadt in 1943/1944. In the function of 'Head of the Studio for New Music', Ullmann made...

Die Motette Gegrüsset seist du, Maria komponierte Bertold Hummel am 20. Mai 1993 und widmete sie dem Gedenken seiner tief gläubigen Schwester Erika. Mein Vater, der im selben Jahr auch das Würzburger...

Naji Hakim, born in Beirut in 1955, is one of the most important organists and organ composers of today. He studied with Jean Langlais as well as at the Paris Conservatoire, was organist at Sacré-Coeu...

When it was possible to celebrate the Catholic Mass in the German language as well, Bertold Hummel wrote his motet Ehre sei Gott for mixed four-part choir. This piece is a 'German gloria' and can be p...

In addition to his world-famous film scores ('Godfather', 'La dolce vita'), Nino Rota also composed chamber and vocal music, with choral music playing a prominent role. The three choral pieces selecte...

Easy-to-sing motet of moderate modernity, to be used in church services or sacred concerts. The whole piece is structured in simple intervals which gradually change into more complex multiphonics. The...

Easy-to-sing motet of moderate modernity, to be used in church services or sacred concerts. The whole piece is structured in simple intervals which gradually change into more complex multiphonics. The...

Musical setting of a classical text from the responsories of the Holy Week. The dark sonority of the piece represents the mysterious atmosphere of the text.

Andreas Pieper, born in 1958, studied church music at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Westfalen-Lippe and composition with Roland Ploeger at the Lübeck Music Academy. In 2002, he was among the pri...

The Pater noster for choir a cappella, is an homophonic setting of the Mozarabic melody and is suitable for both liturgy and concert. The Mozarabic traditional text includes an extra verse after Panem...

Georg Christoph Biller, direttore del coro della chiesa di San Tommaso a Lipsia, si è proposto di arrangiare il brano strumentale probabilmente più popolare del suo grande predecessore in questa posiz...

Georg Christoph Biller, choirmaster of St. Thomas' Church in Leipzig, set out to arrange the probably most popular instrumental piece of his great predecessor in this position: the famous 'Air' from t...

This work with its calmly pleading character lives on the contrast between the freely metric, virtually Gregorian passages and the strict time-beating sections. It is especially in the 'Da pacem' call...

In the last decade, Krzysztof Penderecki composed a Sanctus and Benedictus for treble choir, and he has now used these movements as the basis of his Missa brevis. The new mass setting adds male voices...

Above the central prayer of Christianity, the composition with its dense sounds and atmospheric colours develops a mood of profound awe and self-contained strength. An expressive composition of our ne...

Above the central prayer of Christianity, the composition with its dense sounds and atmospheric colours develops a mood of profound awe and self-contained strength. An expressive composition of our ne...