Dmitry Bortniansky is credited with developing the genre of the sacred choral concerto - the musical centerpiece of the Orthodox "Divine Liturgy"- to its highest level. His thirty-five choral concertos for

Johannes Brahms’s Alto Rhapsody is published here in a new Urtext edition, modernized for present-day performance practice. It is based on the 2nd impression of the first printed edition, as

Peter Schindler's full-length secular choral work Sun, Moon and Stars tells a love story based on "old" texts, which are given a new interpretation through the musical implementation. The sentences deal

Matsushita’s Ave Maria is a very intimate short unaccompanied piece of true inward devotion. An experienced composer, Matsushita has chosen a tonal musical language for this homophonic piece. His

This choral collection contains original choral works and especially attractive arrangements of Beethoven's music from three centuries. During his lifetime, Beethoven was so admired that contemporaries

Belshazzar, with its detailed stage instructions and many short forms such as accompagnato recitatives and ariosi, is the most dramatic of George Frideric Handel’s oratorios. It is de facto a

There are few editions of this wonderful African-American spiritual set for choirs, and even fewer that are appropriate for concert settings. This a cappella arrangement with divisi has both spirit and

Often considered the most beautiful, pure vocal music of the 19th century, this Rheinberger Mass written for double choir obtains its special character through the use of compositional techniques of ancient

This work was composed as an art song and has been adapted for choir without losing any of the qualities of the original. There is a flexibility in form and expression, and the piano is very much one of the

This Folk Songs choral collection explores the musical world of Great Britain and Ireland. It contains 21 arrangements of English-language verse songs, canons, and ballads for mixed unaccompanied chorus.

The popularity of J.S. Bach's motets is matched by the problematic manner in which they have been handed down to us. The autograph scores and parts used by Bach have been preserved for only two motets. For

For soloists, SATB choir, chamber orchestra. First printing. Preface in Ger. and Eng. Dedicated to the Walddoerfer Kantorei Hamburg. Score, 39 p. Vocal score, 24 p.

The renowned conductor Frieder Bernius regards the motets of Hans Fährmann (1860–1940) as an "indispensable and extremely welcome addition to the late Romantic repertoire". Fährmann was born

The renowned conductor Frieder Bernius regards the motets of Hans Fährmann (1860–1940) as an "indispensable and extremely welcome addition to the late Romantic repertoire". Fährmann was born

For almost 30 years the conductor and musicologist Clytus Gottwald has made transcriptions of songs and instrumental pieces for unaccompanied choir by a wide variety of different composers, which have been

Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Elegiac Song in memory of Eleonore Pasqualati, the wife of his longstanding friend and patron Johann Baptist Freiherr von Pasqualati zu Osterberg, who died at a