Church Choir Anthems for Rally Day

Based on Yiddish songs from the Central and Eastern European Jewish tradition, these six settings are equally traditional and modern, employing Western and Eastern harmonic devices as well as harmonic ideas

The well-known hymn tune by Sibelius set in English. Four verses, SSA with piano accompaniment in the key of A flat.

Ludwig van Beethoven composed the Choral Fantasia, op. 80 for the gigantic concert event that took place at the Theater an der Vien on December 22, 1808. It was given as the closing work, albeit without the

Combining a piano concerto and a cantata in one work is an undertaking that requires true mastery. Ludwig van Beethoven succeeded in this with his Fantasia for Piano, Chorus and Orchestra in C minor, Op.

In the case of the oratorio Christus am Olberge (Christ on the Mount of Olives), Breitkopf & Haertel can finally make amends to Beethoven for a slight committed more than 200 years ago. As

One of Bach's most celebrated choral works is presented here with the original German text and a singable English version in an Urtext edition for soloists, choir and orchestra. For the composition of the

Bach's chorales have become standard for all serious students of both music theory and choral singing. As early as 15 years after his death, published editions of his collected chorales began to circulate,

With regard to the anniversary of the Reformation in 2017, this version for solos, choir and organ by Torsten Sterzik originated to pave the Reformation Symphony's way into the church as well, restoring the

These four quartets op. 92 were composed in 1884 during Brahms' summer stay in Mürzzuschlag, Austria. The opening piece, however, was a revision of an earlier vocal quartet composed in 1877. Brahms had

A German Requiem is one of the world's most famous requiems, even though it does not set the customary requiem text to music. Brahms did not want to follow the Latin Catholic funeral mass,

The Urtext edition of the “Lobgesang” Symphony is the first to take into account the parts which were written for the first performances in Leipzig and which help clear up a number of discrepant

Originally for piano four hands and voices ad libitum, these Liebeslieder appear here for the first time as a modern Urtext edition in a hitherto little-known form for voices and piano two hands.

As is often the case with Beethoven's orchestral works, there are often several contradictory sources regarding the material used at the first performance and for the first edition - contradictions which

In his op. 112, Beethoven sets two poems by Goethe: Meeresstille (Calm Sea) and Gluckliche Fahrt (Prosperous Voyage). Several sketches reveal that Beethoven had already begun to take an

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's version of Handel's well-known oratorio. This edition is edited by August Eberhard Mueller and Johann Friedrich Rochlitz. The orchestration is scored for SSATB soloists, SATB

The Missa Sanctissimae Trinitatis was probably composed within a few weeks in the late fall of 1736, an occasion for the composition is not recorded. With this mass, the first in a series of five

The “Missa in c” was so dear to Mozart that he cited it as “evidence of the reality of my vow to marry” his beloved Constanze and to complete the only half-finished mass.

Previously, anyone looking for music on the theme of Pentecost and the Holy Spirit for church services and concerts usually had to do so in larger collections that cover the entire church year or parts of

For soli, choir and orchestra, choral score.

This cantata has survived without any information about the time of its composition, its purpose, or its scoring. The librettist is also unknown, although there is a comparatively similar text in the work

Alon Wallach was born in 1980 in Jerusalem, Israel. His musical education began with the violin, and later he developed as a guitarist, completing his degree at the music academy in Stuttgart, Germany.

The Sephardic culture originates from the Jewish population of Spain that was banished at the end of the 15th century and afterwards spread to the whole of the Mediterranean area, including the Balkans and