What every choir would like to sing some day ...

It was the Passions (St. Matthew Passion BWV 244.2, St. John Passion BWV 245)  in particular which earned Bach the honorary title of a fifth Evangelist at the beginning of the 20th century.

A wide range of our practice aids carus music, the Choir Coach offer support when practising these demanding masterpieces, works which are a highlight for every choral singer. A version of the St. Matthew Passion with an orchestra and the Christmas Oratorio in an arrangement for organ accompaniment are available for smaller audiences.

The first of Beethoven’s two Mass settings opens up entirely new expressive worlds in its setting of the liturgical text which are expressly modern and point towards the future. Available with practice aid and vocal score XL.

The chorus stands at the heart of Brahms’s universal commemoration of the dead. Smaller choirs and choirs with limited resources of space or finance can also perform this popular work in the chamber version.

Among Bruckner's mass settings, the one in D minor is the easiest for choir singers to rehearse. The Mass is one of the first works by Bruckner in which his characteristic symphonic style is evident. 

The lyrical-meditative Mass can also be performed in an arrangement for wind quintet. The organ version by Dvorák himself is also available.

Gabriel Fauré's Requiem is the key work among the French master's sacred compositions. The work is available from Carus in three versions: the “symphonic version” completed in 1900 and a reconstructed version with small orchestra from 1889, as well as an arrangement for soloists, choir and organ.

Scored for small forces, and easy for the chorus to rehearse. A melodious work suitable for many occasions. A practice aid helps with sample preparation.

Messiah is one of the most frequently-performed works in the world. Carus offers two single-language vocal scores (in English, and in German) for ease of legibility. Our practice aids (carus music, the Choir Coach) offer optimal support for choral singers in rehearsing.

The “Little Organ Mass” is still one of the most popular works of its type, and in its modest demands can easily be tackled by many choirs. Also available in an attractive organ version.

This oratorio, popular worldwide, marks the birth of the great German oratorio. It can also be performed in a version with reduced wind and brass forces. The material is also available to create a children’s concert.

Known as the “Schrattenbach Requiem”, sections were performed at the composer’s own Requiem Mass and that of his brother Joseph Haydn. The work had a great influence on Mozart’s own Requiem setting.

Soon after its completion, Schumann described this work as the "highest level that he \[Mendelssohn] has achieved as a composer of church music, indeed the highest level that modern church music has ever reached". If the symphonic scoring of 15 wind instruments is too large or too expensive, the reduced chamber version with just five winds offers an alternative. Fully equipped with vocal score in large print and practice aid.

Characterized by gripping drama and lyrical intimacy in equal measure, a work which every choir wants to sing once. Discover also the chamber version of the oratorio (arr. J. Linckelmann)!

Mendelssohn orchestrated his famous hymn, in fact an English anthem, in masterly fashion shortly before his death. So choirs have the option of choosing between the orchestral or organ accompaniment.

Robert Schumann wrote: "This short piece deserves to be famous the world over and it will achieve this in the future." As well as the orchestral version an organ arrangement is available.

This three-minute long unaccompanied piece for six voices is our bestselling contemporary choral work.

Known as the "Coronation Mass" for no reason, it can be effectively practised with the help of our practice aid carus music, the Choir Coach.

Le fascinant fragment : depuis la mort de Mozart en 1791, nombreux sont ceux qui ont tenté de compléter cette grande œuvre de l'histoire de la musique. Récemment, le compositeur et chef de chœur britannique Howard Arman a présenté sa version chez Carus, ouvrant ainsi une nouvelle perspective sur le chef-d'œuvre de Mozart. Outre le complément d'Arman et la version historique de Süßmayr, Carus propose également la version très demandée de Robert D. Levin. Chacune offre une perspective différente sur le génie du siècle qu'est Mozart et son dernier opus.

The version completed by Frieder Bernius and Uwe Wolf aims to make a performance possible whilst maintaining the greatest respect for the extant material, and without obscuring Mozart’s musical manuscript with their own contributions. Within just a few years, also thanks to Frieder Bernius’s recording, it has been taken up by musicians worldwide.

This composition, known as the "Messa di Gloria", is published as the first volume in the "Edizione Nazionale" of Puccini’s works. An arrangement for chamber orchestra offers more choirs the opportunity of performing this work, which is popular throughout the world.

This impressive 14-minute work captivates through its cantabile qualities. Two "compatible" versions enable performances in small and larger venues.

The small occupied instrumental accompaniment of this full-length work with two pianos and harmonium produces the unmistakable timbre of this Rossinian masterpiece.

A high point of the genre – and thanks to the arrangement for chamber orchestra, something which many choirs can tackle. With practice aid and vocal score XL in large print.

This attractive, lyrical Christmas oratorio by Saint-Saëns can also be performed with just organ.

Although the Mass was described by some contemporaries as "unsuitable for liturgical use" because it omits some essential passages of text, it has lost none of its popularity with choirs.

One of the most popular settings of the Mass ordinary: we recommend the "Klosterneuburg version", scored for string accompaniment, and ad lib trumpets and timpani (as an Urtext version reflecting Schubert’s own intended scoring). Also available in the "Choir & Organ" series.

The Carus edition of this dramatic masterpiece, full of extremes, is the first critical edition with the complete performance material available to purchase. Also available in a two very exciting, brilliant sounding arrangements (1. with horn, double bass, marimba, timpani, and piano, 2. with chamber orchestra).

The Carus edition, the publisher’s very first music edition, helped considerably to make this musically impressive and varied work into one of today’s most popular Vivaldi choral works. The version in the SPLENDID SONORITY series for choir with one male voice is well worth discovering.