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.: 930931
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 930741
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 847296
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 847692
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 847677
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 945650
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 942308
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 933614
for: Mixed choir (SSATB) a cappella
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 935841
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 935617
for: Choir (3 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 935535
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 935475
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 656480
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Piano score
Item no.: 656472
Chorleiterband / Partitur
for: Mixed choir (SATB), organ
Choir book
Item no.: 663848
for: Women's choir [male choir] a cappella
Item no.: 443657
Europäische Weihnachtslieder in Sätzen für gleiche Stimmen, Heft 1
for: Choir
Choir book
Item no.: 495701
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 928975
for: Mixed choir (SAB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 928927
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 928810
for: Women's choir (SSA), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 944038
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Set of parts
Item no.: 943939
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 763298
for: Male choir
Choir score
Item no.: 763284
Die schönsten Advents- und Weihnachtslieder
Umfangreiche Chorsammlung in 2 Heften mit Kopierrecht und CD
for: Women's choir (SSA); piano [organ/keyboard/accordion/guitar] ad lib.
Score, CD
Item no.: 636168
for: Male choir, piano
Music score (piano accompaniment)
Item no.: 618690
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 901182
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 901151
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 900541
for: Mixed choir (SATB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 898920
for: Mixed choir (SAB); piano ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 905471
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 686242
for: Male choir, piano
Piano score
Item no.: 373447
Urtext Stuttgarter Mozart-Ausgaben
KV 49 (47d)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Piano reduction
Item no.: 236782
for: Choir
Set of parts
Item no.: 942524
for: Choir
Score, Parts
Item no.: 944758
for: Choir
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 945997
for: Women's choir [children's choir] (SAA); guitar [keyboard] ad lib.
Choir score
Item no.: 175316
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1042915
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1656600
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), narrator, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 1652433
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1652378
for: Mixed choir (SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339596
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 1339341