Looking for something to inspire your local choir or choral society? Our extensive range of choral repertoire includes works for Mixed Choir, Male Voice Choir, Female Voice Choir, Children’s & Youth Choirs, and Senior’s Choir, singing a Capella, with piano accompaniment, and with various other ensembles up to full orchestra.
Choral singing began to take form in the 9th & 10th Centuries, with the unison Gregorian Chant or Plain Chant. From the early Renaissance period, through composers like Palestrina , di Lasso and William Byrd true polyphonic choral music blossomed, and crescendo-ed through to a wonderful climax with Thomas Tallis’ Spem in alium for 40 parts, divided into 8 choirs.
As the form developed through the Renaissance into the Baroque period, composers such as Bach, Telemann and Händel gave the choir more and more autonomy, and through early operas and oratorios, married solo voices, choirs and orchestras together, to create these new musical forms, and inspired audiences with combinations of colours and sounds they had never before experienced.
Although there were many operas and oratorios written in the Classical period, sacred music also took a prominent role in shaping the development of choral music. While the chorus became a very useful tool on stage, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert and Beethoven composed many Masses, Requiems, Te Deums and Anthems to help brighten the world of church music, and uplift the hearts and souls of the congregation.
As opera continued to expand and stretch dramatic boundaries, choral music of the Romantic period was characterised by choral motets and anthems, and the oratorio grew into an even more varied and contrasting form. The oratorios Elijah and Paul are particularly noteworthy, since despite using Sacred themes, through the various musical facets at Mendelssohn’s disposal, they began to take on a much more operatic narrative. This can also be seen in the Requiems of Brahms and Verdi, where the choir itself, along with the orchestra, lead the dramatic storytelling.
Through the 20th Century, composers such as Ralf Vaughan Williams, Anton Webern, Arnold Schönberg, Benjamin Britten and Edward Elgar composed extensively for varying choral forces. Through these composers and many others, we begin to see choirs being tested and stretched, both technically and dramatically, and being pushed out of their comfort zone in order to inspire, shock and entice the audience. Works like Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius and Schönberg’s Friede auf Erden made a huge impact on the choral landscape.
In the modern era, new choral genres such as Gospel Choir, Pop Ensembles and Jazz & Swing emerged. Composers like John Rutter, Karl Jenkins, Bob Chilcott and Andrew Lloyd Webber have become very popular.
for: Mixed choir (SATB), concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 621594
(with critical report)
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 260289
Opera in three acts HWV 33
Bärenreiter Urtext
Hallische Händel-Ausgabe. Serie II Volume 32
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 765049
for: 2 soloists (ST), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1640734
Operette in 3 Akten - Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe - Serie I/2/08
Partitur in den Fassungen A/B/C
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 684771
1 Act Drama after Oscar Wilde's poem of the same name
Richard Strauss Werke – Kritische Ausgabe (RSW) 3a
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 687683
Singspiel in drei Akten
Hamburg 1722. Braunschweiger Bearbeitung 1728 - Ariensammlung
Georg Philipp Telemann. Musikalische Werke 42
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Werkausgabe, Partitur, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 586922
Operette in 3 Akten - Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe - Serie I/2/05
Partitur in den Fassungen A/B/C
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 684850
Urtext
Die erste kritische Edition von Verdis Requiem mit komplett käuflichem Aufführungsmaterial
Komplettes Orchestermaterial (kostengünstiger Setpreis) Sie sparen ca. 23% gegenüber dem Einzelbezug
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 670144
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Scores
Item no.: 696914
Operette in 3 Akten - Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe - Serie I/2/02
Partitur in den Fassungen A/B/C
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 684855
2 slip cases with 17 volumes
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Study score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 671621
Oper in 3 Akten
Neue Dirigierpartituren-Reihe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Conductor score
Item no.: 696423
(with critical report in english
UMPC Critical Editions
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 259902
UMPC Critical Editions
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 260434
Ed. Critica R. Parker
WGV
Ricordi Critical Editions (mit kritischem Bericht) (with critical report)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 625890
Ed. Critica F. Della Seta - Partitura e Commento Critico Inglese
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 1548650
UMPC Critical Editions
critical commentary in english
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 260148
Serenata in 3 parts
Halle Handel Edition (HHA) II/30
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 868841
HWV 54
for: 6 soloists (SSATBB), 2 mixed choirs (SATB, SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 1317320
Oratorio
Leipzig Edition of the Works of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (LMA Serie VI/11)
for: Soloists, mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 487164
Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 1043275
Melodramma in quattro
Partitura e Commento Critico in Inglese
UMPC Critical Editions
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 696408
Full Score
William Walton Edition Vol. 1
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover)
Item no.: 482842
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 328753
Operette in 3 Akten - Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe - Serie I/2/09
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 684816
Operette in 3 Akten RV 503
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 685109
JSW – Complete Works – Series I (Orchestral works) 1/1–3
edited by the National Library of Finland and the Sibelius Society of Finland
for: 2 soloists (MezBar), male choir, orchestra
3 Scores
Item no.: 444764
For the 8th to 19th Sunday after Trinity
Telemann Musical Works 59
for: 4 solo voices (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), baroque orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 772797
Oper in 3 Akten aus dem mährischen Bauernleben
Kritische Ausgabe der Brünner Fassung 1908
Neue Dirigierpartituren-Reihe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 696358
Oper in drei Akten
Neue Dirigierpartituren-Reihe
for: Soloists, male choir, orchestra
Conductor score
Item no.: 745236
UMPC Critical Editions
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (hardcover, with musicological analysis)
Item no.: 645854
Ballet héroïque in einem Prolog und vier Akten RCT 44
Fassung 1736
Jean-Philippe Rameau. Opera Omnia (OOR) IV/2+7
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 696664
Fünf ausgewählte Oratorien
Georg Philipp Telemann. Musikalische Werke 58
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Werkausgabe, Partitur, Sammelband, Urtextausgabe
Item no.: 868885
Faksimile der autographen Partitur in der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek
Bärenreiter Facsimile
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (facsimile hardcover)
Item no.: 638785
Oratorium für Soli, gemischten Chor, Orchester und Basso continuo
Stimmensatz (komplettes Orchestermaterial)
for: 4 soloists (SMezTB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, basso continuo
Set of parts
Item no.: 681245
An Oratorio Based on the old Testament Text
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Set of parts
Item no.: 769482
Sacred Music from the 21st to 26th Sunday after Trinity and from the first Advent to the 3rd Christmas Day
Georg Philipp Telemann. Musical Works 53
for: Mixed choir (SATB), orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 868782
Opéra bouffon in two acts
L'Opéra français
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 484023
Opéra en 3 actes et 8 tableaux
Acte 2 – Tableau 6 (La prêche aux oiseaux)
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score
Item no.: 687078
Operette in 3 Akten RV 510 A/B - Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe - Serie I/2/10
Partitur in den Fassungen A/B
Strauss Edition Wien / Neue Johann Strauss Gesamtausgabe
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 685112
Oratorio
MWV A 14
for: 4 soloists (SATB), mixed choir (SATB), orchestra, organ
Set of parts
Item no.: 676036
Oper in 3 Akten op. 7
for: Soloists, mixed choir, children's choir, orchestra
Conductor score
Item no.: 242044
for: 2 soloists (MezBar), narrator, concert band
Score, Parts
Item no.: 686583
Tragédie in einem Prolog und fünf Akten RCT 35 A
Fassung 1739
Jean-Philippe Rameau. Opera Omnia (OOR) IV/5
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Urtext edition)
Item no.: 659203
Opéra en 5 Acte
UMPC Critical Editions
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
2 Piano reductions
Item no.: 584562
Drama héroique in five Acts
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (Hardcover, Urtext edition)
Item no.: 882266
Opera Seria In Tre Atti
3 Bände
for: Soloists, mixed choir, orchestra
Score (with critical report)
Item no.: 661649
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