Musique sacrée

Dutch text: Frits Ham A highly expressive setting of the biblical text, this simple work is at once tender and profound. It was composed for a memorial service for Edward T. Chapman, the Director of M...

A surprising new setting for concert or worship.

Henry Purcell (1659-1695) held numerous appointments at the Royal Court and Westminster Abbey, and is considered by many to be the greatest ever English-born composer. His prolific work covered all fi...

Gounod's setting of Psalm 137, arranged in Tonic Sol Fa.

The Woman of Samaria (Op. 44) was a sacred cantata written for the Birmingham Triennial Music Festival in 1867. It was written in the style of Medelssohn's Elijah, which had premiered at the samefesti...

For an apparent folksong, On Ilkley Moor baht 'at has a very reliable provenance. The tune, Cranbrook, was devised in 1805 by Thomas Clark, a shoemaker of Canterbury and prolific composer of hymns for...

A wonderful blessing for any occasion can be found in this moving benediction by Ruth Elaine Schram. The soothing movement of the 6/8 meter, combined with lovely melodic writing for flute or other C i...

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) a écrit cinq messes de Kyrie-Gloria (Missa brevis) au cours de sa vie : la Missa de 1733, BWV 232, qui a ensuite été incorporée à la MASS en si mineur, et BWV 233-236...