Verleih uns Frieden

Like almost all of his predecessors, the long-time choir director at St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, Georg Christoph Biller, has composed a plethora of major sacred choral works. The fact that the passionate choir director is perfectly familiar with the human voice also shows in his arrangement of Martin Luther's chorale 'Verleih uns Frieden' for four-part men's a-cappella choir (TTBB). This church music gem, which is ideal for church services and can well be mastered even by amateur choirs, reveals once again Biller's credo of conveying a message with his music that can be understood by everyone. He uses a clear tonal language which combines tradition and modern music in an artistic, yet at the same time intuitive way.