Spartiti per coro misto (SATB)

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...

Andreas Pieper's overall artistic aim to 'build a bridge of confidence to the world behind things' with his music can be heard clearly in his setting of Tollite iugum meum. The Latin-language motet fo...

The fact that Pascal Martiné is a real expert in the field of sacred choral music shows once again in the 'Three Motets' for mixed a-cappella choir (SATB) by the Mainz-based composer and (choir) teach...

The Spanish composer Rafael Sánchez Mombiedro set the well-established text 'O Magnum Mysterium' on the Coming of God to music in a new and inspiring way. He plays with dynamics and strange harmonies,...

The work interprets in a sensitive way the effect Pope Frances, who was elected in March 2013, has on people. Based on three Argentine folk songs, the mass with its powerful and quiet parts arouses fe...

Mit seinem 'Ave verum' hat Alwin M. Schronen ein wahres Kleinod geistlicher A-cappella-Chormusik geschaffen. Der Vertonung für vierstimmigen gemischten Chor (SATB) liegt der altbekannte Text der Eucha...

Kurze Cluster, die sich kaum merklich auflösen und die Harmonie verändern, umspielen das spätromantische Liebesgedicht. Größtenteils getragen und flächig verlangt diese Komposition eine gute Intonatio...

Das Liebesgedicht von Lord Byron lebt in dieser Vertonung durch feinste dynamische Unterschiede und sphärische Klänge. Der Komponist arbeitet mit Temposchwankungen und einer sehr expliziten Ausdeutung...

A modern interpretation and setting of the Christmas text about the Immaculate Conception by the award winning American composer Matthew Brown, who has had his choral works premiered all over the US.

The text of Hildegard von Bingen is interpreted with spherical and archaic sounds. Frictions form and dissolve, harmonies come and go. The piece is particularly suitable for chamber choir, demanding a...

'Daybreak' is a 16th-century love poem set to music by Matthew Brown for four-part chamber choir. Harmonic frictions spice up the tonal image of romantic love.

A quiet, meditative setting of the Charlotte Smith text by the young British composer Christopher W. Evans. Beautiful melodic lines move largely by step and interweave contrapuntally, creating second-...

E. E. Cummings' poem about a bygone love, about despair, indifference to acceptance is set for mixed choir. Brown's music relives the story with hovering and grating sounds, demanding courage to use e...

Zart und filigran wirken die feinen Melismen des vertonten Liebesgedichtes, die sich über herbe und archaisch anmutende Klänge erheben. Sie entführen Hörer und Sänger in die schroffe Landschaft Schott...

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...

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...

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...