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.
Trinitatismesse
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Timpani (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236697
Trinitatismesse
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Trumpet 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236692
Dominicusmesse
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Trumpet 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236656
Dominicusmesse
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Oboe 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236650
Dominicusmesse
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Flute 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236647
Eines der ergreifenden späten Kirchenwerke des gefeierten Opernkomponisten
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 238145
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, 2 violas, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 230303
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 230181
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 348319
Bis hin an des Kreuzes Stamm
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), 2 violins, basso continuo; 2 violas ad lib.
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 229718
Graduale
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Single part Organ
Item no.: 424076
Kantate zum 1. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 424069
Passions-Oratorium
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 424060
Graduale
for: Mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 423961
for: 2 soloists (SA), mixed choir (SATB), strings, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 476135
Kantate (16. Sonntag nach Trinitatis)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 349308
Offertorium de venerabili sacramento
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo; 2 violins, 3 trombones ad lib.
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 234913
O be joyful / O frohlocke in dem Herrn (Psalm 100)
for: 3 soloists (ATB), mixed choir (SSAATTBB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 230582
for: Mixed choir (SSATTB), orchestra
Single part Trombone 2
Item no.: 232217
Musikalisches Märchen für Sprecher, Chor und Orchester
for: Narrator, flexible ensemble (school orchestra); children's choir ad lib.
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 677045
Musikalisches Märchen für Sprecher, Chor und Orchester
for: Narrator, flexible ensemble (school orchestra); children's choir ad lib.
Tuba (orchestral part)
Item no.: 677036
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Viola 1, 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 335900
für Frauenchor, Oboe, Streicher und Orgel
for: Women's choir (SSA), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 623071
für gemischten Chor, Orchester und Orgel
Viola
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 576835
Kantate Nr.161 BWV161 Violine 1
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 623708
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 613040
für Sopran- und Bariton-Solo, Chor und Orchester
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 343037
Fragment, completed by Maximilian Stadler
KV 323, 1790 (terminus post quem)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 817070
Hunting Cantata
for: 4 soloists (SSTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Harpsichord
Item no.: 797994
Oratorio
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1209974
Motette
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben - Urtext
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 4 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 647491
Kantate zum 3. Osterfesttag
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Viola
Item no.: 642798
Deutsche Litanei. Aus: Zwölf geistliche Gesänge
for: Mixed choir (SATB); 4 melodic instruments (colla parte), double bass, organ ad lib.
Part 4
Item no.: 1160896
aus: Zwölf geistliche Gesänge
for: Mixed choir (SSATB); 5 instruments colla parte ad lib.
Single part 2
Item no.: 1160869
Show yourselves joyful to the Lord
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Instrumental part 4 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1160820
Show yourselves joyful to the Lord
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1160818
aus: Psalmen Davids
for: 2 favorit choirs (SATB, SATB), double bass, organ; 8 instruments colla parte ad lib.
Instrumental part 2 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1160710
for: 2 favorit choirs (SSATB, SATB); 5 viole da gamba, double bass, organ ad lib.
Instrumental part 4 (Choir 1)
Item no.: 1160679
O how fair are all thy dwellings
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 2 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1136827
Musikalische Exequien II
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); 8 melodic instruments (colla parte), basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 2 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 1121068
vierchöriges geistliches Konzert
for: 4 mixed choirs, orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1108922
Graduale in C
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237902
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 237809
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 237754
über Lukas 2,1-10
Leichtes Singspiel zu biblischem Text für den Gottesdienst von Kindern und Erwachsenen
for: Soloists, narrator, children's choir, keyboard
Percussion (orchestral part)
Item no.: 376685
Psalm 24
for: Favorit choir (SATB), double bass, organ; 2 chapell choirs (SATB, SATB, SSATTB) ad lib.
Single part Cor anglais
Item no.: 232120
Psalm 24
for: Favorit choir (SATB), double bass, organ; 2 chapell choirs (SATB, SATB, SSATTB) ad lib.
Single part Cornett 2
Item no.: 232119
Deutsche Litanei. Aus: Zwölf geistliche Gesänge
for: Mixed choir (SATB); 4 melodic instruments (colla parte), double bass, organ ad lib.
Single part Basso continuo
Item no.: 232011
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