3 Sacred Choruses Op. 37

Description

These choruses for four-part upper voice choir were written in the 1850s while Brahms was Music Director of the Hamburg female voice choir. They were written following exchanges between Brahms and the violinst Joseph Joachim on the use of canon, and also express Brahms's interest in the music of the Rennaissance, particularly composers such as Palestrina. Apart from an Ave Maria, these are Brahms's only settings of Latin text. Pieces are: O bone Jesu, Adoramus te, Christe, and Regina coeli. Vocal Score.