Lent and Passiontide - Buy choral sheet music online

Here, we have listed some Passiontide works from our catalog which are straightforward to perform. There will certainly be a surprise or two for you here: unaccompanied compositions and works with small instrumental forces, easy level of difficulty and works with challenges for experienced small ensembles, unknown works, short durations ... Allow yourself to be inspired!

J. S. Bach: The 12 choral movements of the St. Matthew Passion with church chants and scripture readings

For all choirs who have ever sung the St Matthew Passion or practised the chorales, and ideal for Passiontide church services.
Alessandro Scarlatti: St. John Passion

This Passion setting is of moderate difficulty and has accompaniment for just strings – a fascinating addition to the repertoire for smaller choirs too.
Thomas Mancinus: St. John Passion

Difficulty level: easy
Soli STTB, Coro SATB
Jacobus Regnart: St. John Passion

Difficulty level: medium
Coro SATB
St. John Passion from the Collection Pierre Attaignant

Difficulty level: easy
Coro SATB
Jacobus Regnart: Summa passionis

Difficulty level: medium
Coro SATB/SATB
Heinrich Schütz: Passions

The three purely unaccompanied Passion settings are works of Schütz’s old age, marking the conclusion of an entire musical epoch.
Antonio Scandello: St. John Passion

Difficulty level: high
Solo T, Soliloquenten SSATB, Coro SSATB
Johannes Weyrauch: St. John Passion

A 20th century composition, available in a version with organ and one with orchestra.
Waldram Hollfelder: St. John Passion

A Passion setting inspired by Schütz, but of easy to medium difficulty, so considerably easier to perform.
Johannes H. E Koch: Summa passionis

Admittedly not an easy Passion setting, but one which can be performed with a small group of singers.
Thomas Gabriel: Der Kreuzweg

Both the choir and the solo organ have a central role in the composition. The work was written in 2005 and takes the stations of the cross as its literary model.
Dietrich Buxtehude: Behold, he carried all our sorrows

Little Passion cantata
Teleman: Look there, that is God's own lamb (I)

A Passion cantata for two or three-part choir (SA or SAB). With its textual message about the sufferings of Jesus, it is suitable for the whole pre-Lenten period and Passiontide.
Telemann: Look there, that is God's own lamb (II)

A cantata of moderate difficulty for the choir, but with high demands for the four soloists.
Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber: Stabat Mater

The four-part composition displays great simplicity and beauty at the same time, particularly in the concise contrapuntal form of each individual verse.
Rheinberger: Stabat Mater in G minor

The Stabat Mater in G minor is available in a version with organ and one with strings, and can be easily performed by choirs.

Carl Loewe: Das Sühnopfer des neues Bundes (Passion Oratorio)

Carl Loewe, a great admirer of the Bach Passions, composed the Passion Oratorio in 1847 imbued with the style of the time. The solo parts can also be performed by capable amateur singers, and the choral writing is largely homophonic.

Heinrich Schütz: The seven last words from the cross

This work is Chief Editor Uwe Wolf’s favorite Passion setting! The Passion music requires only a small choir (but the choral writing is not entirely straightforward), plus small instrumental forces.

Erno Seifriz: Deutsche Singmesse

A very easy German-language setting of the Mass ordinary for Schola and organ.
Knut Nystedt: The seven last words

An unaccompanied composition for experienced choirs which are looking for a challenge.