CHORAL Underappreciated classical music composers / repertoireChoral Overlooked Repertoire: Sacred and Secular

Vittoria Aleotti:

T’amo mia vita (c1593)   2:22 min
 
 
 

Catarina Assandra:

Motteti, Op. 2: Duo Seraphim (c1609)   4:45 min
https://musescore.com/user/80345557/scores/19969576: score for large mixed choir (as sung above) : orig. 3 voices only

 

 

Amy Beach:

Grand Mass in E Flat Major, Op. 5 (1889/1892) 1:01:35 min
Commmonwealth Chorale & New England Philharmonic, Nov 2017; Vancouver B.C. Cantata Singers, April 2024
 
 
 
 

Maddalena Casulana:

Morir non può il mio cuore. 4 voice Madrigal (c1544) 1:58 min
 
 
 
 

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor:

Now Late on the Sabbath Day (1901) 7:10 min
 
Whispers of Summer. (1910) 5:27 min
 
 
 
 

Chiara Margarita Cozzolani:

 
Vespro della Beata Vergine /Vespers for the Blessed Virgin (1650)  1:39:03 min
 
 Magnificat Primo from the Salmi a Otto Voci Concertati (1650) 8:59 min
 
Magnificat Secondo from the Salmi  a Otto Voci Concertati (1650)  8:47 min
 
 
 

Isabella Leonarda:

 
 Alma Redemptoris Mater  5:47 min
 
Magnificat, Op.19, from Salmi Concertati  (1619 )  9:17 min
Vancouver, BC, Elektra Womens Choir, March 2020; Bellingham, WA, Vox Pacifica (Soprano-Alto) Choir, Dec 2024
 
Mesa Prima, Op.XVIII  (1696) 41:33 min

Surge Virgo, Op.10 (1684) 7:59 min

Paper score to purchase
 
 
 
 

Vicente Lusitano (Afro-Portuguese):

Inviolta integra et casta es /You are inviolate, untouched, and chaste, Mary (1551) 12:12 min
 
 
 

Marianna Martines:

Dixit Dominus (1774) 26:22 min
 
 
 

Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel:

Cholera Musik: Oratorium nach Bildung der Bibel  (Oratorium on words of the Bible; aka  Cantata nach Aufhoren der Cholera im Berlin, 1831 (Cantata after the Cessation of the Cholera in Berlin)  (1831) 33:43  min
 
Hiob Cantata for Choir and Orchestra  ( 1831 )
Paper score to purchase
 
 
 

Undine Smith Moore:

We Shall Walk through the Valley (arr. traditional spiritual) (1977) 3:26min
 
 
 

Jose Mauricio Nunes Garcia  (Afro-Brazilian):

Magnificatdas Vesperas de Sao Jose (1810)  9:25 min
 
Christmas Matins (1799) 28 min
 
 Miserere (1798) 15:20 min
 
Double Missa Pastoril para noite de nata/ Mass for Christmas Night (1811)   29:07 min
 
Requiem Mass in D (1816 ) 36:23 min
Helsinki Phil. Orchestra, 2019
 
 
 
 

Maria Von Paradis (1759-1824):

Es ist ein’ Ros’/A Rose Has Sprung Up   3:32 min
Available in : Multitude of Voyces: Sacred Music by Women Composers Volume 3, No. 17 https://www.multitudeofvoyces.co.uk/p... https://www.multitudeofvoyces.co.uk/d... for a digital offprint
 
 
 

Camilla de Rossi:

The Sacrifice of Abraham (Oratorio) (1708)   1:14:56 min T
 
 
 

Florence Price:

Resignation  (1850)   2:42 min:
 
 
 

Ethel Smyth:

 Mass in D  Major (1891) 1:54:00 min
BBC Symph & Proms, Aug 2022; Seattle Pro Musica (w/Mozart C Minor Mass) May, 2023; American  Symphony Orchestra, NYC, 2023
 
The Prison: Symphony for Soprano and Bass-Baritone, Chorus and Orchestra (1930) 1:03:58 min
 
 
 

Judith Weir:

Life as the Hart:  Psalm 42: 1–7 (2022) (for Qn Eliz funeral)   3:12 min
https://www.jwpepper.com/11422716E.item: Paper score to purchase  OR
 
 
 
 
 
 

Catherine Rae Sheldon     M.Ed     M.L.S.
Advocate for Overlooked Classical Music     
Bellingham, WA
catraes@gmail.com