Twelve superb arrangements of Christmas favourites for SATB mixed voices, guaranteed to add sparkle and glitz to every choral concert. Christmas Pops! is an essential addition to every choir library and should be on every choral singer's Christmas list! This festive collection covers a wide range of styles and festive moods from simple four part settings to extended divisi arrangements wittily and…

Felix Mendelssohn can claim the credit of having ushered in the Bach-Renaissance with his arrangement and performance of the ?St Matthew Passion?. It was revived for the first time in the Berlin Singakademie on 11 March 1829, one hundred years after its premiere in Leipzig?s Thomaskirche. A second arrangement was performed in Leipzig in 1841. Originally only available on hire as part of the editi…

Come and Thank Him! is an anthem for harvest or Thanksgiving that may be useful at other times throughout the year. Suggested corresponding lectionary readings include Exodus 23: 16, Psalms 104 and 128, Matthew 22: 34-46, 1 Thessalonians 2: 1-13, and 1 Corinthians 1:3-9. One basic homiletical theme is gathering together to praise God, the Creator and Provider. / Choeur Mixte (SATB)

Weihnachtskantate. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX / LUTHER MARTIN. During Mendelssohns years of study with Zelter, the arrangement of chorales already played an important role, and he continued to be occupied with the protestant chorale throughout his symphonic and oratorical work. The break Bach’s works in connection with the reperformance of the St. Matthew Passion led to a series of cantatas b…

Advent Promise is a beautiful setting of Advent prophecies found in the book of Isaiah. Suggested corresponding lectionary readings include Psalm 80: 1-7 and 17-19, Isaiah 7: 10-16 and 9: 6-7, Matthew 1: 18-25 and Romans 1: 1-7. Once basic homiletical theme is the promise of salvation through God's incarnation in Jesus Christ. / Choeur Mixte (SATB)

Choralkantate. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX / LUTHER MARTIN. During Mendelssohns years of study with Zelter, the arrangement of chorales already played an important role, and he continued to be occupied with the protestant chorale throughout his symphonic and oratorical work. The break Bach’s works in connection with the reperformance of the St. Matthew Passion led to a series of cantatas based…

Choralkantate. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. During Mendelssohns years of study with Zelter, the arrangement of chorales already played an important role, and he continued to be occupied with the protestant chorale throughout his symphonic and oratorical work. The break Bach’s works in connection with the reperformance of the St. Matthew Passion led to a series of cantatas based on well-known c…

Weihnachtskantate. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX / LUTHER MARTIN. During Mendelssohns years of study with Zelter, the arrangement of chorales already played an important role, and he continued to be occupied with the protestant chorale throughout his symphonic and oratorical work. The break Bach’s works in connection with the reperformance of the St. Matthew Passion led to a series of cantatas b…

Choralkantate. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. During Mendelssohns years of study with Zelter, the arrangement of chorales already played an important role, and he continued to be occupied with the protestant chorale throughout his symphonic and oratorical work. The break Bach’s works in connection with the reperformance of the St. Matthew Passion led to a series of cantatas based on well-known c…

Oratorium. Par MENDELSSOHN-BARTHOLDY FELIX. Mendelssohn composed his first oratorio Paulus under the impression of his own revival of J. S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion in 1829. He integrated chorale settings into St. Paul, for which he was accused by his contemporaries of making a stylistic break, using an element unsuitable to church music. In spite of these reservations, during Mendelssohn’s life…