Choral N 1 Orgue

 La Missa festiva 'Orbis factor' est une oeuvre pensée pour la Liturgie catholique mais qui peut aussi être interprétée au concert, On y trouve l'intégralité du texte grégorien de la Messe XI qui est chanté en alternance par le Chantre, l'Assemblée et le Choeur, Les voix sont accompagnées par l'orgue de choeur, entrecoupé de brefs commentaires du grand orgue, Les deux orgues font penser à un cadre d'exécution grandiose, Collection Compositeurs alsaciens / Choeur Mixte Et Orgue

Répertoire liturgique / Partition / La parution originale des psaumes-chorals aux Éditions du Cerf date de 1956. Soit une année avant la mort de Joseph Samson. Joseph Gelineau, qui venait de composer ses Vingt-quatre psaumes (1953), s'était rendu à Dijon pour convaincre Joseph Samson de s'atteler lui-même à une tâche similaire. Celui-ci, bien que peu favorable à l'usage du français dans la liturgie, se laissa gagner voire enthousiasmer. `Les psaumes chorals`, organisent un dialogue permanent entre l'assemblée (accompagné par l?orgue) et le ch?ur polyphonique, en reprenant une même mélodie qui se transforme et s'adapte aux différents versets du psaume. Un hommage à ce musicien d'exception à l'occasion du 50e anniversaire de sa mort.

Par WHITBOURN JAMES. This glorious collection of beautiful choral music by composer James Whitbourn includes fifteen short works drawn from his oeuvre from the first few years of the 21st century. Many of his greatest compositions are included in The Choral Collection, with many of the pieces working perfectly for seasonal performances, while also reflecting the many fruitful collaborations of Whitbourn's distinguished career. All works are arranged for SATB Choir. James Whitbourn has become renowned throughout the world for his acclaimed compositions and settings of numerous texts. He has been described as truly original and an innovator of contemporary British choral music, collaborating with people like Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. The former appears here, as A Prayer Of Desmond Tutu, a setting of one of the Archbishop's prayers. His arrangements and compositions for the King's College Choir have been universally critically acclaimed, with A Great And Mighty Wonder, Nunc Dimittis and Were You There? representing these hugely popular collaborations. Whitbourn has also had a very close relationship with the BBC since his beginnings as a composer, working with them on three pieces within The Choral Collection. Eternal Rest and Give Us The Wings Of Faith were both composed specifically for television broadcast, the former (in its orchestral form) was played for the funeral of the Queen Mother in 2002. His longest work, for which he is most famous, is a setting of text from'the Diary of Anne Frank'. There Is No Speech Or Language comes from this work, taking its text from other sources, but that still maintain the beauty and tragedy of the wider piece. The Choral Collection of fifteen compositions by James Whitbourn is full of beautiful, haunting, uplifting and inspiring melodies for SATB Choir and Organ Accompaniment from one of the most treasured British choral composers. The brilliant choice of texts throughout is matched only by the sheer compositional skill of Whitbourn in evoking the emotions of the words in the musical form. Also included are suggestions for seasonal song use, a list of recordings, and fascinating song notes written by Whitbourn himself. The joy of choral singing is nowhere more evident than in a work by James Whitbourn, and performances of any piece within this collection is sure to be remembered for a long time to come./ Recueil / Choeur Mixte (SATB) et Orgue

Par VIERNE LOUIS. Scored for 2 Choirs and Organ and published in 1906./ Répertoire / SATB et 2 Orgues

Charles Gounod's Messe brève no. 2 pour les sociétés chorales (G-Dur) for Male Choir.This Mass is undoubtedly one of the best - if not the very best - of Gounod's works in this class. Its quality is emphasized by the fact that it has been the subject of more arrangements than any other among his shorter masses some of the arrangements having been publisher several decades after the appearance of the first edition.