The 29-year-old Franz Schubert composed his German Mass (D 872) in 1826 at the request of Johann Philipp Neumann, who also wrote the text with the original title “Songs for the …
This collection of works from the European Renaissance brings together five songs and madrigals to be sung in Italian, German, French and Dutch. Claudio Monteverdi's Lasciatemi …
Johan August Söderman (1832–1876) was a leading figure among the Romantic generation of Swedish composers and a significant influence on his successors, Hugo Alfvén and Wilhelm …
This volume contains a selection of Danish hymns in various musical and poetic styles for Passiontide and Easter. The name SAM-Klang takes the three voice parts from the …
Gabriel Fauré's Requiem is arguably the best-known and most frequently performed choral work from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. As both choirmaster and organist, Fauré …
“[...] Send me a song or two to sing in autumn, or even better in summer or in spring, on the water or the meadow or the bridge, or in the forest or in the garden. [...]”, wrote …
In addition to his masses and the Requiem, Mozart wrote an abundance of smaller sacred choral works for the church. Misericordias Domini KV 222 (205a) was created at the beginning …
During her lifetime, Fanny Hensel was overshadowed by her brother Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, who was three years her junior, and for a long time she was regarded merely as an …
The seven songs of Brahms's Marienlieder Op. 22 sit somewhere between the composer's corpora of secular part-songs and sacred motets. These are Brahms's first published a cappella …
This collection, created in 1888, is Johannes Brahms' last collection of secular choral songs. Originally for four-to-six parts, these sonorous choral works are striking for their …
