Richard Burchard

Composer Richard Burchard toggles the verses of this beautiful piece between monophonic chant and homophonic chorales. The two styles meld together, producing a piece that sounds both fresh and timele...

It was not until recently that Richard Burchard's music began to be published, but his reputation as a wonderful composer for a cappella voices has risen with remarkable speed. His harmonies are rich...

Composer Richard Burchard toggles the verses of this beautiful piece between monophonic chant and homophonic chorales. The two styles meld together, producing a piece that sounds both fresh and timele...

Selected for the Georgia Music Educator's Association High School All State Men's Chorus in 2016, Richard Burchard has composed a sensitive and touching melody to this famous 19th century text. The ha...

Selected for the Georgia Music Educator's Association High School All State Men's Chorus in 2016, Richard Burchard has composed a sensitive and touching melody to this famous 19th century text. The ha...

This sacred text focuses on the crucifixion, but this is a concert work, displaying a treatment of ancient liturgy with beauty and emotion. Good high school and college male voice choirs.

Many famous composers have set the heart-wrenching text of King David's weeping over the death of his son, Absalom. Burchard's setting is powerful and stirring and will not disappoint singer or listen...

Many famous composers have set the heart-wrenching text of King David's weeping over the death of his son, Absalom. Burchard's setting is powerful and stirring and will not disappoint singer or listen...

The fabulous thing about this piece is that it adheres to an Irish flavor while still giving us the thick and sonorous harmonies we expect from Richard Burchard. A wonderful concert closer, it pulls a...

Justin Miller, the amazing conductor of the Westminster Men's Chorus, launches his choral series with this beautiful work by Richard Burchard. This is a complex piece with multiple divisi, two solo pa...

Justin Miller, the amazing conductor of the Westminster Men's Chorus, launches his choral series with this beautiful work by Richard Burchard. This is a complex piece with multiple divisi, two solo pa...

Commissioned by The Westminster Chorus, Justin Miller, Director, for the 2019 ACDA National Conference, Richard Burchard has given us an arrangement for men's choir that is rich and moving. Interweavi...

This choral for male voices has all the right elements. Using a beautiful poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, Richard Burchard has weaved his signature musical lines into a deeply touching song. ÿThe commissi...

This choral for male voices has all the right elements. Using a beautiful poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, Richard Burchard has weaved his signature musical lines into a deeply touching song. ÿThe commissi...

Tod, du bist willkommen in meinen Armen, begleitet von tausend Reizen..., ein Text, der bis ins Jahr 1818 zurückreicht, spricht den menschlichen Wunsch nach einem friedlichen Ende des Lebens an. Diese...

Richard Burchards "The Swan" ist ein mitreißendes Stück für TB-Ensemble, Klavier und optionales Streichquartett, das die Eleganz des majestätischen Schwans ehrt. Burchards Meisterschaft und Rilkes poe...

Richard Burchard's dedication in the Jefferson Johnson Choral Series is scored for advanced and unaccompanied male chorus (TTBB divisi). For mature college/university or community choruses

In a few short years Richard Burchard has become one of the most sought-after and commissioned composers for choral music. ??His choral writing is romantic and rich harmonically with dense contrapunta...

Originally released for male choir, this revoicing evokes the mournfulness surrounding the crucifixion of Christ. Burchard's flowing lines, in and out of alluring suspensions, keeps us immersed in the...

This beautiful rendering of the love verses from I Corinthians 13 is a small masterpiece by Richard Burchard. Beginning with a simple chant sung in canon over a pedal point, the textures soon expand a...

This is a beautiful, plaintive song written in Burchard's inimitable style. The harmonic progression moves slowly while each chord is enriched with scrumptious inner movement. Rainer Maria Rilke's tex...

Gibbons first wrote the famous setting of his text in 1612. The clever poem shares when a swan's voice is heard and compares it to the state of human character. Burchard not only maintains the poem bu...

Burchard has become one of the most commissioned composers and for good reason. His madrigal style is consistently enthralling, with an easy harmonic flow, gentle suspensions, and a fluid density that...

Only Shakespeare commands words well enough to discuss growing old in a flattering way. Composed in primarily homphonic lines, the text comes through easily. The music is as lovely as the poem, with o...