Musica Sacra

Missa Brevis is a major work for choir and brass band for performance in church or in the concert hall. For this mass, there are many performance possibilities depending on the musicians available. In...

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) scrisse numerosi corali che sono tuttora molto popolari. La melodia Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier (BWV 469), scritta nel 1736 e pubblicata per la prima vola nella r...

With his arrangement of Drei Könige, originally composed for voices, Robert van Beringen makes a welcome contribution to the christmas repertoire for bands. In this work by the German composer Peter C...

Tochter Zion, also known as See the Conquering Hero Comes, is the most famous chorus from the oratorio Judas Maccabaeus (1746) by the composer George Frideric Handel (1685-1759). The heroic epic based...

I numerosi mottetti, concerti sacri e pezzi religiosi del compositore organista barocco ceco Andreas Hammerschmidt, sono risolutamente sonori, melodiosi e coinvolgenti, caratterizzati da una struttura...

The well-known chorale Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Let the Earth Now Praise the Lord) was written by Martin Luther in 1524 and derives from a translation of a hymn from the 4th century before Christ...

The well-known chorale Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland (Let the Earth Now Praise the Lord) was written by Martin Luther in 1524 and derives from a translation of a hymn from the 4th century before Christ...

Klaas van der Woude has based his arrangement An Old Swedish Hymn on an old pastoral hymn from Dalarna. This beautiful melody even attracted ABBA as they used it as the opening music for some of their...

Jacob de Haan arranged the famous piece Amazing Grace for four-part variable ensemble, which may be complemented with percussion. With this intrumentation, it is possible to play the piece with almost...

Die Melodie des Schifferliedes von Friedrich Silcher ist ursprünglich eine Barcarolle aus der französischen Provence, auch bekannt als Es löscht das Meer die Sonne aus, nach der ersten Textzeile des L...

Der Mond ist aufgegangen, il cui vero nome è Abendlied, è uno dei poemi più popolari della letteratura tedesca. Fu composto nel 1779 da Matthias Claudius e messo in musica da Johann Abraham Schulz. Ja...

Cantica de Sancto Benedicto ist ein dreisätziges Werk für gemischten Chor, Sopran-Solist, sinfonisches Blasorchester und Orgel ad lib. - zu lateinischen Texten über das Leben des Heiligen Benedikt. Es...

This Christmas carol arrangement consists of two continuous parts: Introductie and Koraal. Jan de Haan has orchestrated the hymn Macht hoch die Tür and has added his own introduction based on the melo...

The lyrics to Der Mond ist aufgegangen (The Moon Is Risen) come from Matthias Claudius, one of Germany's best-known poets. The 1779 poem with the original title Abendlied (Evening song) was set to mus...