Choral Music

The movement “Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage” (Shout ye exultant this Day of Salvation) is an essential part of the Christmas music repertoire, but for many parishes a lack of instrumentalists and finances makes the performance ...

- BA 5103-90 replaces the previous vocal score. The article number remains unchanged.
- The text appears in slightly larger type size and a clearly legible font.
- The pagination has been adopted from the previous edition. This ...

Probably composed in 1690, the Messe de Minuït pour Noël, H 9, is perhaps Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s best-known composition after the Te Deum, H 146. The special appeal of this “Mass for the Midnight Service on Christmas Eve” lies ...

“Messiah“ occupies a unique position in Handel’s work. Its strongly universal character and directness of expression, which appeal to men of all creeds, make it the most renowned work in the whole of the composer’s monumental output.
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Saint-Saëns was just 23 years old when he composed his “Oratorio de Noël” in 1858 in only twelve days. Edited by Christina M. Stahl, this choral masterpiece is now available in a comprehensive scholarly-critical Urtext edition.
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Owing to its Latin text, Saint-Saëns’ Christmas Oratorio has found admirers all over the world. Saint-Saëns avoids theatrical effects in his church music and relies almost entirely on homophonic choral writing. Here the operatic allusions ...

Antonio Vivaldi’s Magnificat in G minor has come down to us in two conflicting versions. The earlier one, probably the original version (RV 610), is dominated by impressive but largely straightforward choral passages set against a few brief ...

Today the “ Gloria” RV 589 (BA 7674) is one of Vivaldi’s best-known compositions and one of the most frequently performed sacred vocal works from the Baroque period. Vivaldi wrote the “ Gloria” as a self-contained work in the style of a concertante ...

The “Gloria” RV 589 is one of Vivaldi’s most popular compositions today and one of the most regularly performed sacred vocal works from the Baroque era. The work was, in all probability, composed around 1716 during Vivaldi’s time at the Ospedale ...

After the success of "Christmas a cappella" (BA 7573) for mixed choir, Graham Buckland has now turned his attention to an edition for female voices.
This collection includes popular Christmas melodies in traditional as well ...

The most-loved Christmas carols for any choir!

Not all Christmas music is the same. Christians in Europe have always used music in ever new forms and mediums of performance to express their joy at Christmas. Christmas a cappella ...

“I have embedded this internationally well-known melody in a harmonic room of bells which is rendered by the male voices.
To enhance the feeling of two independent entities, the melody and the bell ostinato are performed in different ...

This wonderful carol melody is sung by the altos and is accompanied by an ostinato “motor” in the male voices.
The soprano part moves independently and comments, so to speak, on themelodic happenings.


“My music is ...