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SSAATTBB, SSATTB verse & organ First edited in the 1950s by Watkins Shaw and published privately, this magnificent anthem has been revised in honour of the centenary of Shaw's birth by his successor a...

The Church Music Society is proud to publish this mass setting by Anthony Caesar, written for St Paul's, K Street, Washington DC. The quieter sections are strongly influenced by plainsong, and the Glo...

William Turner was one of the most important composers writing at the time of the Restoration of the monarchy. This sprightly anthem, first performed at the coronation of Queen Anne, is well within th...

Following the recent release of a CD of Harry Bramma's church music, the Church Music Society is proud to publish this setting of words of St Augustine of Hippo, written for the Choir of St Martin's,...

Wesley set this text from Psalm 110 twice - once in 1814 for four voices and again in 1827 for six voices. This latter version, though short, has considerable drive and impact, making it highly suitab...

For SSATB and organ Written in 1852 in the wake of S.S.Wesley's groundbreaking Service in E this is an equally ambitious work with an important obbligato organ part. With only one change of tempo, it...

For SSATB and organ This completes the Church Music Society's set of four pieces by Samuel Wesley which were much acclaimed by Vincent Novello. The striding bass line of the opening sets the mood for...

Written in 1911, this work is mainly homophonic. Tenors and basses sing four phrases in unison and a soprano solo takes the phrase 'He rememb'ring his mercy'. The Gloria returns to the music of the op...

Continuing the Society's series of Dering motets, this setting of 'Ave Maria' from the 1617 'Cantiones Sacra' is mainly homophonic, with a few imitative phrases. It displays Dering's love of the augme...

Born 200 years ago this year and orphaned at the age of 3, Sterndale Bennett was brought up by his grandfather in Cambridge, where he sang in the choir of King's College before entering the Royal Acad...

A skilful arrangement for SATB of the Peter Tranchell's unison setting of Heber's well-known hymn; both are presented here. The harmonies display Tranchell's typical style and need some careful tuning...

Perhaps Dering's most well-known work, this concludes the Society's series of Dering motets. The SSATTB disposition allows for plenty of antiphonal effects and rich textures. The work builds to a clim...

This is a setting of the opening verses of the hymn attributed to Saint Bernard of Clairvaux which is used at Vespers on the Feast of the Holy Name of Jesus. It is typical of Dering's writing with mar...

Sweelinck's 5-voice (SSATB) Epiphany motet Ab Oriente, published in 1619, is a superb example of his polyphonic fluency and of his vivid response to the imagery of the text, depicting the steady, purp...

Francis Jackson's anthem 'Most glorious Lord of life' for SATB choir and organ was commissioned by the Edington Music Festival in 2009. The composer, aged 103, has now revised the score for its public...

This setting by Christopher Ouvry-Johns of verses from Robert Herrick's poem 'Litany to the Holy Spirit' for SATB and organ is suitable for Pentecost and for general use. The composer skillfully explo...

Ich habe diese Messe in den ersten Jahren meiner Anwesenheit in Notre-Dame komponiert, also vor der Gründung des Vereins Musique sacrée à Notre-Dame de Paris und der Umstrukturierung des Chors der Kat...

Dieses Stück wurde 2013 komponiert, als wir das 850-jährige Bestehen der Kathedrale feierten. Es ist meinem großen Freund Lionel Sow gewidmet, der den Chor der Kathedrale von 2006 bis 2014 leitete, ei...

Warum bist du so weit weg, Adonaï? Psalm 9B (passim) Der Psalm 9B ist eine heftige Verwünschung: der Schrei eines Mannes, der vom Feind gejagt wird, "der auf der Lauer liegt, verborgen wie ein Löwe im...

Diese Arbeit begann mit dem Studium eines Manuskripts, das in der Universitätsbibliothek Straßburg aufbewahrt wird. Bei diesem Manuskript handelt es sich um einen Chor für gemischte Stimmen, der von M...

Die 37 geistlichen Gesänge, aus denen die Sammlung von Charles de Courbes besteht, wurden 1622 von Pierre Ballard, dem Musikdrucker Ludwigs XIII. Es handelt sich um abwechslungsreiche Polyphonien, die...

Die 37 geistlichen Gesänge, aus denen die Sammlung von Charles de Courbes besteht, wurden 1622 von Pierre Ballard, dem Musikdrucker Ludwigs XIII. Es handelt sich um abwechslungsreiche Polyphonien, die...

Die 37 geistlichen Gesänge, aus denen die Sammlung von Charles de Courbes besteht, wurden 1622 von Pierre Ballard, dem Musikdrucker Ludwigs XIII. Es handelt sich um abwechslungsreiche Polyphonien, die...

Für einen katholischen Bretonen wie Jean Cras war es nur allzu natürlich, eine Messe zu schreiben. Die Wahl dieser "ganz besonderen Gattung", einer A-cappella-Messe, war das Ergebnis seines besonderen...

Jules Massenet (1842-1912), der vor allem für seine Opern wie Manon (1884) oder Werther (1892) bekannt ist, schrieb auch Orchestersuiten und ein reichhaltiges Vokal- und Chorwerk, das von seinen zahlr...