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.
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 806957
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 862331
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 817042
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933234
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Book
Item no.: 928003
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 446982
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 811894
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 631887
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction (XL format, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 681279
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 661486
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 649538
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir book
Item no.: 617247
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Score
Item no.: 447192
for: Mixed choir, piano
Item no.: 576584
for: Mixed choir, piano
Score
Item no.: 374683
for: Choir (2 voices) a cappella
2 Scores
Item no.: 489617
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 554203
for: Choir (one voice), piano
Score
Item no.: 659214
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 147201
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 553534
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 142155
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 476389
for: Women's choir a cappella
Item no.: 477539
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Piano reduction
Item no.: 285515
Weihnachtsoratorium (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Piano reduction (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 284227
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1661546
Lobgesang der Maria für Solostimme (Alt) ,gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orchester
Basso Continuo
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Basso continuo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 680779
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 189405
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236156
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236154
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 148252
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 559801
Lobgesang der Maria für Solostimme (Alt) ,gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orchester
Violine 1
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 680775
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236157
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 559804
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 210134
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 189406
for: Male choir, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 562022
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 189404
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 559805
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 370921
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 343877
Lobgesang der Maria für Solostimme (Alt) ,gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orchester
Viola
for: Soloist (alto), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 680777
aus: 'Sechs europäische Weihnachtslieder'
for: Women's choir (SSA), harp [piano]
Choir score
Item no.: 1355927
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 633491
Christmas Oratorio
after the first edition of 1869
for: 5 soloists (SMezATB), mixed choir (SATB), string orchestra, harp, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 236155
Neuinstrumentierung (2001)
for: Mixed choir (SATB), instruments
Bass guitar (single part)
Item no.: 690349
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Choir score
Item no.: 184385
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