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), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 937743
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 937731
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 937719
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1324708
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Score
Item no.: 1117515
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1115635
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Viola 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 675704
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), chamber orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 629910
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir score
Item no.: 552447
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1096031
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 959618
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 959480
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097739
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 1097408
for: Choir (2 voices), piano
Choir score
Item no.: 1097320
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 138252
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Choir part Alto
Item no.: 1738823
for: Women's choir [male choir] (3 voices)
Item no.: 283461
for: 2-4 voices [choir], instruments
Set of parts
Item no.: 158140
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 308178
Cantata for the 27th Sunday after Trinity
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Violino piccolo (orchestral part)
Item no.: 762465
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Harmony parts (complete winds)
Item no.: 362091
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 648480
for: Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 631361
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309495
for: Choir
Score
Item no.: 309404
for: Mixed choir (SATB/SAB) a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309136
Cantata for the Feast of Annunciation Day
Bärenreiter Urtext
for: 3 soloists (STB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Cello, double bass (orchestral part)
Item no.: 385524
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1628350
Weihnachtsoratorium (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 2 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 187742
Weihnachtsoratorium (Urtextausgabe) (Urtext)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 158231
for: Solo voice (soprano), mixed choir (SATB) a cappella
Set of parts
Item no.: 309579
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra [strings, organ]
Set of parts
Item no.: 175507
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Score
Item no.: 309680
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Cello (orchestral part)
Item no.: 764115
for: Mixed choir (SATB), piano
Item no.: 1627477
Cantata for Christmas
for: Mixed choir (SATB), strings, basso continuo
Violin 1 (orchestral part)
Item no.: 1552090
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 886516
for: Mixed choir a cappella
Choir score
Item no.: 138735
for: Male choir (TTBB), piano
Choir part Bass 1
Item no.: 242758
for: Male choir (TTBB), organ
Partitur
Item no.: 204639
for: Choir
Choir score
Item no.: 1625641
for: Children's choir, instruments
Einzelstimme
Item no.: 354649
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 811722
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 810367
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 809503
for: Choir
CD
Item no.: 807419
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