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: Mixed choir (SATB), cello
Single part Cello
Item no.: 796296
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 232240
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Single part Double bass
Item no.: 1170134
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 174294
Second version with the variant of the Osanna in excelsis and the Cum Sancto Spiritu Fugue from the first version
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 695403
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), strings, basso continuo; 4 soloists (SSAA) ad lib.
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 690710
for: Children's choir, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano [keyboard]
Single part Flute, Oboe
Item no.: 624858
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 183881
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Single part Violin 2
Item no.: 669212
for: 2 soloists (SB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 326560
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 171880
for: Soloist (soprano), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 292138
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1136602
Funeral Ode
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 299976
for: Mixed choir (SSATB), strings, basso continuo
Cello, bassoon, violone [double bass] (orchestral part)
Item no.: 326946
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Bass trombone (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1317007
Kantate über den 84. Psalm für vier Solostimmen (SSAB), gemischten Chor (SSATB) und Orchester
Trompete 2 in B
for: 4 solo voices (SSAB), mixed choir (SSATB), orchestra
Trumpet 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 676847
for: Children's choir (1–2 parts), instruments
Single part Cello
Item no.: 1652466
Symphonisches Gospeloratorium über Jesus von Nazareth
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Bassoon (orchestral part)
Item no.: 689637
for: Mixed choir, strings, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 613149
(Cannons)
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: Mixed choir (STTTB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 681890
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Trumpet 2
Item no.: 1317012
for: Mixed choir (SAB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 632730
zu Liedern aus dem EG
Keyboard 1
for: Mixed choir (SATB), rhythm group (piano/keyboard, guitar, bass, drums)
Single part Keyboard
Item no.: 673469
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Single part Organ
Item no.: 775818
mit Solisten aus dem Chor und kleinem Instrumentalensemble
Große Fassung
for: Soloists, children's choir, instruments
Oboe 1, 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 670361
(Fragment aus Johann Wolfgang von Goethes "Harzreise im Winter")
Bearbeitung für Altstimme, Männerchor und Kammerensemble
for: Soloist (alto), male choir (TTBB), flute, 2 violins, alto, cello, double bass
Single part Violin 1
Item no.: 778374
Motette
Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben - Urtext
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); basso continuo ad lib.
Instrumental part 2 (Choir 2)
Item no.: 768527
Ein Musical für Kinder
nach dem Gleichnis Jesu aus dem Lukasevangelium
für Kinderchor und Instrumente
for: Children's choir, instruments
Single part Violin
Item no.: 616426
Kantate zum Ratswechsel in Leipzig
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233775
Kantate zum 5. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233409
Kantate zum 2. Sonntag nach Epiphanias
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 232727
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1136640
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Single part(n)
Item no.: 387071
Kantate zum Sonntag Rogate
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233395
Kantate zum Sonntag Misericordias Domini
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233372
Kantate zum 2. Sonntag nach Trinitatis bzw. zum Reformationsfest
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 233260
for: 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB); double bass, organ ad lib.
Instrumental part 2 (Choir 1)
Item no.: 1043534
Urtext Stuttgarter Bach-Ausgaben
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 424388
for: Mixed choir (SATB), 2 violins, basso continuo
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 403393
Kantate zum 1. Sonntag nach Trinitatis
for: 3 soloists (SAB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 424066
Symphonisches Gospeloratorium über Jesus von Nazareth
for: Soloists, 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Oboe (orchestral part)
Item no.: 689623
Coronation Anthem IV
HWV 261
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), orchestra
Violin 2, 3 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1645536
Coronation Anthem III
HWV 260
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB), orchestra
Basso continuo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1645524
Coronation Anthem III
HWV 260
for: Mixed choir (SAATBB), orchestra
Violin 2, 3 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1645522
Coronation Anthem II
HWV 259
for: Mixed choir (SAATB), 2 violins, viola, 2 oboes, basso continuo
Single part Organ
Item no.: 1645512
Kantate zum Sonntag Sexagesimae
Leipziger Fassung, 1715(?)
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 655883
vierchöriges geistliches Konzert
for: 4 mixed choirs, orchestra
Instrumental part
Item no.: 648461
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