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.
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1703604
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1152685
for: Choir
Buch
Item no.: 1155304
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single parts Strings
Item no.: 663873
for: Children's choir, narrator, chamber orchestra [piano]
Flute (orchestral part)
Item no.: 445258
for: Mixed choir (SATB), basso continuo
Score
Item no.: 119167
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Item no.: 139414
4. Inmitten der Nacht
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 733115
Motette
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 742456
5. Der verschwundene Stern "Es stand ein Sternlein" / 6. Wacht auf, ihr schönen Vögelein
for: Women's choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 747060
Galopp "Schön ist's im Winter"
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir part Soprano
Item no.: 738320
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB) a cappella
Item no.: 464218
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 1341527
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1178770
Christmas Cantata
for: 2 soloists (SBar), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235820
Part 1 of the oratorio fragment "Christus" op. 97 MWV A 26
Urtext Stuttgarter Mendelssohn-Ausgaben
for: Soloist (tenor), mixed choir (SATTBB), orchestra
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 235662
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308562
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308910
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 308875
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1043759
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 891643
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 891560
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 647639
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1109820
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir score
Item no.: 1159250
for: Women's choir (SSA), organ
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 673763
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Download (Audio)
Item no.: 1355824
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 138252
for: Women's choir (SA), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1121489
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 678034
for: 5 soloists (SSATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Basso continuo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 678029
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 845852
for: Mixed choir (SABar) a cappella
Item no.: 128655
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Score
Item no.: 999551
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 931096
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 992460
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342190
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1342187
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1003288
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 984809
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 985306
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 892821
for: Women's choir (SSAA), piano, tambourine, castanets
Choir score
Item no.: 1014338
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 906048
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1158017
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1151820
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1152877
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 1159515