Choral music for Pentecost
Stephen Harrap has compiled pieces from 500 years that can be sung a cappella or with organ accompaniment.
Pentecost, the fiftieth day after Easter, has always fascinated and inspired many composers with its miracle of tongues and the sending of the Holy Spirit. With Music for the Spirit is the first choral book on this subject to be published by the German-English composer, conductor and church musician Stephen Harrap with Breitkopf und Härtel.
The collection for mixed choir a cappella or with organ accompaniment is a real treasure trove and contains over 500 years of choral music by important European composers. A certain focus of the repertoire is on English choral music. Attention has also been paid to the different lengths, levels of difficulty and instrumentation (from 3 to 8 voices) of the pieces. Highly recommended!
Music for the Spirit. Chorbuch zu Pfingsten & anderen Anlässen, edited by Stephen Harrap, ChB 5384, € 26.90, Breitkopf & Härtel, Wiesbaden
