Schott Kammerchor

A reflexion on the central Christian values of faith, love and hope, described as 'Sinfonia sacra'. The musical setting of Martin Luther's text is published in a new arrangement for the upcoming Luthe...

Chorpartitur - für 2 gemischte Chöre (SSAATBB/SAATTB) a cappella.

The extensive work for 12-part mixed chamber choir plays with words and vocalises as well as with polyphony and homophony. Large general rests create a very special tension. This work requires well tr...

Magnificat by Magdalena Zimmermann for mixed choir (SSAATTBB) plays with harmony, rhythm and dynamics. The unexpected continuation of melodies by the voices, combined with shifted rhythms, engages the...

Litene is the name of a village in Latvia, which has acquired a significance similar to that of 'Katyn' in Poland. It was in this village that in June 1941 the officer élite of the Latvian army was am...

Varonis - der Held (1989, rev. 2013) für gemischten Chor (SSAATTBB) - ein kurzes Chorstück in lettischer Sprache auf einen Text von Zinaida Lazda. Moderne Techniken des Chorgesangs ein mischen sich mi...

The beauty of the Latvian landscape inspired many of my works, for it has given me moments of exceptional happiness. The plains are a dominant feature of the Latvian countryside, a place where one can...

Gemischter Chor (STBBBB/SATTBB).

This six-minute madrigal setting was commissioned by the renowned Hanover Girls' Choir and composed on the basis of one of Rainer Maria Rilke's profound poems. It begins as a thanksgiving prayer: for...

This choral fantasy by Roger Pelger is a setting of Thomas Moore's 19th century text focusing on the creation. A great addition to the chamber choir repertoire.

Peter Cornelius: 'Liebe' op. 18. Ein Zyklus von 3 Chorliedern für sechs-bis achtstimmigen gemischten Chor a cappella. Der gebürtige Mainzer Peter Cornelius wusste nie so genau, was er sein wollte. Den...

From his opera 'Venus and Adonis', which draws on classical mythology, Hans Werner Henze has taken four movements already described there as 'madrigals' and arranged them for a cappella performance. T...

Lately, the 'choir pope' Clytus Gottwald has increasingly arranged late Romantic repertoire pieces for a cappella choir. He said: 'The idea to make music from around the turn of the 19th to the 20th c...

He was regarded as the German hope among the composers of his generation and as 'next man of New Music', but his early death quashed all such hopes of the music scene: Rudi Stephan died at the early a...

In nicht Ichts - nicht Nichts, Heinz Holliger has set the words of ten selected mystic epigrammes by the seventeenth century Baroque poet Angelus Silesius. The two-line sayings in rhyming Alexandrines...

The writings of the Swiss pastor and poet Kurt Marti are characterised by a wide-ranging discussion on belief which frequently takes on a political dimension. This also applies to the poems which Hein...

Hans-Martin Linde hat nicht nur das Spiel von Blockflöte bzw. Traverso auf neue Weise geprägt und zahlreiche Werke für 'sein' Instrument geschaffen, sondern sich auch als Komponist u.a. von Chormusik...

Diese ausladende, achtstimmige Vertonung von Goethes Elegie beginnt mit einem Klagegesang, der einen kleinen Tonvorrat intensiv ausschöpft, um sich dann in einen romantischen Klangrausch von vollkling...

Dieses Stück, das auf einem Gedicht der Dichterin Léna Monnerot basiert, ist das Geschenk eines 22-jährigen verliebten Komponisten an seine Freundin. Offrande wurde 1988 in der Kathedrale von Bayeux v...

Jean Guillou gehört zu den führenden Orgelkomponisten der Gegenwart. Seine bisher einzige Komposition für Chor a cappella entstand im Februar 2010 und wurde anlässlich seines 80. Geburtstags am 18. Ap...