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During his second American tour (1938) Paul Hindemith wrote numerous songs for musical amateurs, including traditional children's songs for American schoolbooks, amongst others. The songs provided wit...

This Ave Maria is an arrangement made by Bertold Hummel in December 1997 of his motet Gegrüßet seist du, Maria [Hail Maria] (C 53714) which he had composed on 20 May 1993 with a dedication in memory o...

Erst kurze Zeit vor seinem Tod schrieb Genzmer ein Werk für gemischten Chor a cappella über die berühmten Schlussverse aus Goethes 'Faust'. Er widerstand der naheliegenden Versuchung einer übertrieben...

Viktor Ullmann a composé ses arrangements choraux de chansons hébraïques, yiddish et hassidiques dans le ghetto de Theresienstadt en 1943/1944. En tant que "chef du studio de musique nouvelle", Ullman...

Die Motette Gegrüsset seist du, Maria komponierte Bertold Hummel am 20. Mai 1993 und widmete sie dem Gedenken seiner tief gläubigen Schwester Erika. Mein Vater, der im selben Jahr auch das Würzburger...

Naji Hakim, born in Beirut in 1955, is one of the most important organists and organ composers of today. He studied with Jean Langlais as well as at the Paris Conservatoire, was organist at Sacré-Coeu...

When it was possible to celebrate the Catholic Mass in the German language as well, Bertold Hummel wrote his motet Ehre sei Gott for mixed four-part choir. This piece is a 'German gloria' and can be p...

In addition to his world-famous film scores ('Godfather', 'La dolce vita'), Nino Rota also composed chamber and vocal music, with choral music playing a prominent role. The three choral pieces selecte...

Musical setting of a classical text from the responsories of the Holy Week. The dark sonority of the piece represents the mysterious atmosphere of the text.

This cycle is a musical setting of three poems by Lorca: the transparent Zarzamora con el Tronco Gris (Blackberry with Grey Trunk), the dim Tarde (Evening) and the dark-coloured Canción de Jinete (Rid...

Andreas Pieper, born in 1958, studied church music at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Westfalen-Lippe and composition with Roland Ploeger at the Lübeck Music Academy. In 2002, he was among the pri...

Le Pater noster pour chœur a cappella est une composition homophone sur la mélodie mozarabe. Après ' panem nostrum quotidianum da nobis hodie ', le texte traditionnel mozarabe ajoute, au milieu de la...

This work with its calmly pleading character lives on the contrast between the freely metric, virtually Gregorian passages and the strict time-beating sections. It is especially in the 'Da pacem' call...

In the last decade, Krzysztof Penderecki composed a Sanctus and Benedictus for treble choir, and he has now used these movements as the basis of his Missa brevis. The new mass setting adds male voices...

Andreas Pieper's overall artistic aim to 'build a bridge of confidence to the world behind things' with his music can be heard clearly in his setting of Tollite iugum meum. The Latin-language motet fo...

Also available for a-cappella choir apart from the versions with piano or string orchestra: the Prayer for Peace of Saint Mother Teresa in a simple, densely woven musical setting as a romantic elegy....

Chorpartitur für gemischten Chor a cappella - lateinisch Klangsinnlich, freudig und kontrastreich entfaltet sich über 15 Minuten eine leuchtende, teils impressionistisch angehauchte Harmonik, der die...

With Zwei lateinische Marienmotetten for mixed a cappella choir (SATB) and interlude for organ or string quintet, Andreas Pieper has created two gems of Marian devotion which are perfect for being use...

Die Vertonungen der romantischen Liebesgedichte wirken sehr zart und einfühlsam. Durch zahlreiche Taktwechsel, die die größte Schwierigkeit von Asleep darstellen, bekommt das Stück einen etwas undurch...

The fact that Pascal Martiné is a real expert in the field of sacred choral music shows once again in the 'Three Motets' for mixed a-cappella choir (SATB) by the Mainz-based composer and (choir) teach...

The Spanish composer Rafael Sánchez Mombiedro set the well-established text 'O Magnum Mysterium' on the Coming of God to music in a new and inspiring way. He plays with dynamics and strange harmonies,...

With his three songs for mixed a-cappella choir (SSAATB) which were published under the speaking title of 'Fairy Land' in 2013, Hermann Große-Schware takes us to the wonderful land of fairy tales. All...

The work interprets in a sensitive way the effect Pope Frances, who was elected in March 2013, has on people. Based on three Argentine folk songs, the mass with its powerful and quiet parts arouses fe...