Par PART ARVO. The Berlin Mass is intended to be sung liturgically during Pentecost, and includes the Veni Sancte Spiritus specific to that service. The gently unfolding repetition deliberately avoids dramatic and pictorial elements, exuding quiet dignity and a profound sense of joy. The vocal scores have almost no interpretive markings. Dynamics and tempi are left to the performers; it is their t…

Lat. Festival Motet for nineteen solo voices in four groups (from Symphoniae Sacrae). Text: Psalm 80, Vulgata 798 Trombone III part / Parties Orchestrales

für Solostimme bzw. Frauenchor mit Begleitung. Par RHEINBERGER JOSEF GABRIEL. Of the works presented in volume 6, the Four elegiac Songs op. 128 for solo voice and organ, with their arialike characteristics, are musically among the most demanding compositions. The Marian Hymns op. 171 display a variety of scorings for small ensembles, a trait which characterizes all the songs in this volume: This …

Small Sacred Concertos II. Par SCHUTZ HEINRICH. The 'Kleine geistliche Konzerte' (Small Sacred Concertos), published in two parts in 1636 and1639, are among the best-known and well-loved compositions of Heinrich Schütz. Both parts constitute a collection of vocal pieces in a broad range of styles written for only a few voices with basso continuo. Most of the texts are in German, but some are also …

Par MARSH LIN. The Spotlight Series represents a variety of imaginative repertoire for stage or concert performance, from Key Stage 1-3. Some of the cantatas provide scope for creativity through movements, whilst others are fully contained 'Mini-musicals'. Ranging from the energetic The Drum Stirs and lyrical Lullaby to the catchy The Voice of the World , this collection of four themed songs is ba…

Par FOGGITT PETER. A tour de force of choral energy and expertise in rhythmic precision, this is aerial music, fleet and vibrant as voices proclaim Martin Luther's vision of universal peace above a torrent of cascading Organ scales. The brightness of the Lydian mode matches this joyful proclamation, intoned chant-like in bold, clear intervals recalling the sounds both of medieval music and its ref…

Par PART ARVO. 'I have developed a highly formalised compositional system, which I have been using to write my music for twenty years. Summa is the most strict and enigmatic work in this series', said Arvo Pärt in 1994. The neutral title itself embodies the essence of the content as the work is based on the text of the Latin Credo. The great simplicity of the piece masks its complexity. The underl…

Par PART ARVO. Estonian minimalist composer Arvo Pärt has adapted his celebrated work, Summa, for recorder quartet. Originally written for four solo a cappella voices, it is also available in arrangements for string quartet, string orchestra, and choir with organ. Summa bears the distinctive qualities of Pärt's music, masking its great collective complexity with simplicity in each part. This arra…

New for TBB voices! Jay's crystal clear arrangement begins tenderly, pensively, (with optional solos) then grows and grows to a powerful finish. The universal call for world peace is as relevant today as when this simple song spread around the world almost four decades ago. An impressive concert finale or festival piece, it's perfect any time of year, including Christmas. The easy, optional instru…

Lat. Festival Motet for nineteen solo voices in four groups (from Symphoniae Sacrae). Text: Psalm 80, Vulgata 798 Trombone II part / Parties Orchestrales

3- und 4-stimmige Kanons. Par SCHMITZ MANFRED. Canons are fun and at the same time also help develop the ability to listen and play along, thus making them an important enhancement to musical training. With 109 pop style melodies in two volumes Manfred Schmitz work provides comprehensive and diversified material which can be flexibly implemented in teaching single pupils, for group lessons and for…

Samson , an oratorio for soloists, mixed chorus and orchestra by George Frideric Handel, libretto by Newburgh Hamilton after Milton's Samson Agonistes . Edited by Donald Burrows. This latest addition to the Novello Handel Edition is the first complete, modern edition of the composer's longest oratorio, prepared after examination of all known contemporary sources, both music and word-books. The pub…

Chor zu dritt with its three-part settings is aimed at the large number of choirs which cannot do full justice to the mainly four-part choral literature with divoded male voices. In Vol. 5, O little Town of Bethlehem, the singers can look forward to many national and international Advent songs and Christmas carols - and to successful concerts in the Christmas season, even with only one male voice!…

Lat. Festival Motet for nineteen solo voices in four groups (from Symphoniae Sacrae). Text: Psalm 80, Vulgata 798 Trumpet I part / Parties Orchestrales

Missa Puerorum (Kleiner Und Leichter Messgesang). Par RHEINBERGER JOSEF GABRIEL. Of Josef Rheinberger's eighteen masses, five are for unaccompanied voices, four with accompaniment by a small instrumental ensemble and nine with organ. Among the last group the 'leicht ausführbare' [easy to perform] works take a special place: Considered by their composer as purely 'utility music', they achieved grea…