Mixed choir (SSAATTBB), soloists (SAT), 2 boy's voices (SA) and flute - difficult - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q3077 Der versiegelte Engel (Zapechatlyonnyi Angel). Composed by Rodion Shchedrin. This edition: score. Downloadable, Score. Duration 60 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q3077. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q3077). Old Slavonic.The Sealed Angel, Shchedrin’s monumental choral work - over an hour long - is rooted in the tradition of the large scale liturgical compositions by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov, and, like them, is closely related to the Znamennyj raspev, the traditional chant of the Russian Orthodox church. But more than this, Shchedrin's richly varied score unites sacred and secular elements in almost exemplary fashion; the liturgical texts and the flow of the music inspired by Orthodox church music are fused together with interludes played on the flute, which above and beyond its colouristic role, plays the practical part of a pitch pipe for the members of the choir.

SSAATTBB chorus - Digital Download SKU: BJ.1335 Composed by Cecilia Franke. Secular. Octavo. 16 pages. Bo Ejeby Forlag - Digital #1335. Published by Bo Ejeby Forlag - Digital (BJ.1335). 8.27 x 11.7 inches.In my interpretation, the poem Voice Fragments is about the communication between a you and a me - dialogues that are intimately tied to the relationship between voices and words or speaking and listening. With regard to myself, listening also involves paying attention to the tone of voice and body language of the speaker, and not only the words. If I choose not to listen, I would be compromising my ability to empathize, which would cause me to forfeit my voice and also make the world a poorer place. The piece begins with sounds - a-ah, n-ng, s -, fragments that are also building blocks for words, units used and reused in various combinations to convey meaning. The same principle applies to music, where simple elements are used to build compositions, and they can also alter the meaning of the piece. - Cecilia Franke.

Mixed choir (SSAATTBB) - advanced - Digital Download SKU: S9.Q46153 Composed by Naji Hakim. This edition: choral score. Schott Choral Music. Downloadable, Choral score. Duration 4' 15. Schott Music - Digital #Q46153. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q46153). Latin.The fact that Naji Hakim's compositional oeuvre is, by his own account, deeply rooted in his personal faith and dedicated to the glory of God and the joy of mankind is evident not only in the text of the sacred choral piece Exultate Deo for eight-part mixed a cappella choir (SSAATTBB). Hakim also manages to capture the textual content of the Latin verses from Psalm 81 by means of musical imagery with various madrigalisms, e.g. with extended melismatic melody lines and distinctive rhythms. This technically demanding sacred choral work was inspired by the Basque folk song Adieu fillette de Bayonne which the Lebanon-born composer already used in the first movement of his concerto for txistu (= Basque wooden flute) and orchestra.Naji Hakim's compositional oeuvre is deeply rooted in his personal faith. This is evident not only in the text of the sacred choral piece Exultate Deo for eight-part mixed a cappella choir (SSAATTBB). Hakim also manages to capture the textual content of the Latin verses from Psalm 81 by means of musical imagery with various madrigalisms, e.g. with extended melismatic melody lines and distinctive rhythms. A technically demanding sacred choral work.