Dormi Jesu  from The Faber Choral Signature Series  is by Vladimir Godar one of Slovakia's leading composers. Rob Cowan  on BBC's Radio 3 has commented about Godar's  music that  'It's as if Janacek Gorecki and Monteverdi have settled on a universal language......' . This gentle piece is for Soprano Solo Mixed Voices with a piano or harpsichord accompaniment and would be suitable for a Chris…

Sing, Choirs! is a library in miniature. It contains many of the Christian church's popular traditional anthems, including at least one example that will be suitable for each of the major services of the year. A number of Anglican chants (Psalms, Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis) are included, set out in a way that should enable those who are unfamiliar with the style to perform them easily. The selec…

A sustained and stately choral chant in a quasi-Renaissance style for SATB chorus that combines today's evocative harmonic possibilities with the devout textures of early church music.

The Story Of The Advent Of Jesus

Der Sterbende Jesus

Jesu Priceless Treasure is one of very few Bach motets which are in five parts. Of all of Bach's motets it is the longest the most varied and has the greatest emotional range. It is founded on the hymn Jesu Meine Freude by Johannes Franck and the melody which Bach has used as the main feature of this motet is the one set to Franck's hymn by Johann Cruger and appeared first in his Praxis Piet…

Anthem for Passiontide with English translation by Lucy E. Broadwood. This is the last movement from the St. Matthew Passion. For SATB Choir A Cappella. Edited by William H. Harris

All of Bach’s six authenticated motets were written between 1723 and 1727 for St Thomas’ Church Leipzig where Bach was appointed as director of music in 1723. During this period Bach composed most of his cantatas and it seems likely that for ordinary Sunday services he used existing motets from the seventeenth century tradition reserving his own motet compositions for special occa…