“Five from the Folder: Mixed Voices” by Craig Zamer

FIVE FROM THE FOLDER: MIXED VOICES by Craig Zamer

 

1.  “Komm, Jesu Komm.” J.S. Bach. BWV 229 cpdl #04012

Funeral Motet for double SATB choir. Can be performed a cappella, with colla parte instruments, or just continuo.  Concludes with a four part chorale.

 

2.  “Il Carnevale di Venezia.” Giacochino Rossini. cpdl #24368

Lively accompanied chamber quartet in Italian.  Singing beggars in the street asking for charity during the busy time of Carnival.

 

3.  “Magnificat.” J.S. Bach. BWV 243. C. F. Peters Corp.

Thirty-minute work for choir and orchestra.  SATB soli and SSATB choir. The work is a great center piece for a Christmas or holiday program.

 

4.  “Lay a Garland.” Robert Pearsall. Oxford University Press.  ed. Bartlett

A cappella, SSAATTBB.  Composed in 1840, this Romantic madrigal uses Renaissance style imitation.  This edition includes a piano reduction.

 

5.  “Twas the Night Before Christmas.” Ken Darby & Harry Simeone. Shawnee Press

SATB setting of the Clement C. Moore Christmas poem, as recorded by Fred Waring’s Pennsylvanians. SATB soloists and a great piano accompaniment.

 

(“Five from the Folder” provides brief, text-length reviews of vocal works currently in the folders of choral directors throughout the United States.  To share five from your folder, contact Scott Dorsey at )