3 Sacred Choruses Op. 37

Organ Accompaniments- This companion volume provides organists with new dedicated three-stave accompaniments to twenty-four of the twenty-eight choruses in the main Sacred Choruses volume. In every case these organ transcriptions made by John Rutter are based directly on the original orchestral versions and willfacilitate church performances without orchestra.

Instrumentation : SA or SATB Soli?Org Title : Kirchenmusik Vol I(Ger./Lat./Eng.) 12 Sacred Choruses in 3?8 parts. Vocal Score Op. 23, No. 1?3; Op.39, No.1?3; Op.121; Lass, o Herr, mich Hilfe finden; Deines Kind's Gebet erhöre; Herr, wir traum auf deine

The sacred a cappella choral works by Johannes Brahms are amongst the most important Romantic works in the genre. This edition is based on reliable sources which include autograph manuscripts engraver?s copies and first editions.The collection contains the 7 Marienlieder Op 22 Two Motets Op 29 Three Sacred Choruses for female voices Op 37 Two Motets Op 74 Fest- und Gedenksprüche Op 109 and the Three Motets Op 110.

This selection of relatively short sacred works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart gives active choruses an opportunity to perform these pieces without having to hire an expensive instrumental ensemble. The works including the moving ?Te Deum laudamus ? (K. 141) the brilliant ?Jubilate? from ? Benedictus sit Deus? (K. 117) and the immortal ?Ave verum? are well-suited to performance in church services or concerts. Andreas Köhs has sensitively arranged the orchestral parts for organ using the original score to produce self-contained versions for chorus and organ. The vocal parts follow the Urtext of the New Mozart Edition.Self-contained versions with organ instead oforchestraIdeal for church services and concertsStraightforward easy-to-play organ partThe Bärenreiter Choir & Organ Series presents great choral works in arrangements for soloists choir and organ; no orchestra is needed.The original orchestral parts have been transcribed into easy-to-play organ reductions whereby the contemporary tradition of such arrangements has been taken into consideration. In some cases the original organ versions by the composer were used. The organ parts are presented on three staves. The choir and solo parts always remain true to the original. You need only one edition for soloists singers and organist alike.

This volume comprises twenty-eight of the finest oratorio choruses complete short choral works and movements from masses or requiems from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Drawing repertoire from Britain and mainland Europe the volume features renowned choruses and familiar cornerstones of the repertoire as well as some choral discoveries all in new carefully researched and practical editions. Playable piano reductions for rehearsal use are included in the main volume with a separate volume of purpose-made three-stave organ accompaniments and newly typeset orchestral material available on rental. Intended for choral societies and cathedral church and concert choirs this is a unique collection of choral classics for mixed voices and orchestra and an invaluable practical addition to any choir's library.

Johann Sebastian Bach's extraordinary legacy to all musicians and music-lovers is celebrated here with a selection of choruses from the great cantata canon. This volume provides a perfect and accessible introduction to the choral works of the genius-composer ranging from the well-loved 'Jesu Joy Of Man's Desiring' to the little-known but beautiful 'Chaconne' 'Meine Tage In Dem Leide' and 'O Jesu Christ Meins Lebens Licht'. An excellent source for concert programming and liturgical use.

for SATB and chamber ensemble A splendid curtain-raiser to Vivaldi's Gloria Francesco Durante's artful Magnificat has long been misattributed to his pupil Pergolesi in a version for four voices not five. Durante's vocally richer five-voice version has been chosen for the Sacred Choruses volume which this orchestration accompanies and merits performance as an alternative to the familiar four-voice version which may or may not have been Durante's own work.

L’Orfeo is an opera from 1607 based around the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. It is often cited as the earliest opera still regularly performed today. The libretto was written by the Italian lawyer anddiplomat Alessandro Striggio (1573-1630) for a carnival in Mantua. The music was composed by the Italian priest Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643) arguably the greatest composer of the Renaissance era who is bestknown for his madrigals as well as his sacred works such as the Vespers.The Choruses From L’Orfeo have been edited by the Italian composer musicologist and editor Gian Francesco Malipiero(1882-1973).