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This setting of a Psalm text is reflective and evokes the mood and style of a folk song or hymn but with unexpected turns of harmony ultimately giving way to a more contemporary style. The gentle, lil...

Kitty Brazelton's O Joy! premiered at Twin Cities choir VocalEssence's 40th birthday, and has been heard on NPR's Performance Today. It incorporates her re-translation of Psalm 77:1-6 with medieval an...

This is a wonderfully accessible and exciting addition to worship. Scored for SATB choir and organ, composer David Brunner uses an original melody with a beautiful Medieval text and then combines this...

A beautiful rendition of the sacred text from the Gospel of Luke set for SATB divisi chorus and mezzo soprano soloist. This work has been recorded by the Vancouver Chamber Choir, Jon Washburn conducti...

Kodaly's Missa Brevis was first performed in 1945, just after the end of the Second World War. It is a hymn to hope in the divinity that provides comfort and strength in the most difficult of circumst...

Written for the Nashir Choral Festival in the Bronx, New York, Nick Page uses many elements from his arrangement of 'Niska Banja': the key of F, the piano ostinato, the pedal tones in the chorus, and...

Originally composed for treble voices and part of Nick's 'Nursery Rhyme Cantata,' this new arrangement for SATB voices captures the innocence of the original but adds lush beautiful harmonies.

Remarque du compositeur : le célèbre poète Rabindranath Tagore, qui a vécu de 1861 à 1941, fut le premier non-européen à recevoir le Prix Nobel de littérature (1913). Son élégante lyrique, qui fut une...

The message that one's worth is measured in their compassion and care for future generations is at the core of this inspirational piece. With sweeping melodic lines and grand choral writing, the celeb...

Here are five 'hymns' to the spirit of life. Calling on 'modern' poetry, and certainly using the modern harmonic language that Mechem is so well known for, each movement is an answer to the previous m...

Commissioned by Joseph Ohrt and the Central Bucks High School choir for a festival honoring Rollo August Dilworth. Dilworth's feel and insight for gospel music is reverent and accessible to all. In th...

Satz aus dem 'War Requiem' von Benjamin Britten

Considéré comme l'un des premiers madrigaux américains modernes.

Górecki dedicated this piece to Pope John Paul II for his third pilgrimage to his homeland Poland.

Akakomborerwa is composed in the spirit of choral music heard at the Episcopal Cathedral in Harare, Zimbabwe, in the summer of 1993. Shona is the majority tribe in Zimbabwe and its language. The text...

Jeden Sommer mobilisiert die Kathedrale von Chichester im englischen Sussex zusammen mit ihren Nachbarn aus Winchester und Salisbury alle Kräfte und stemmt eines der wichtigsten Krichenusikfestivals G...