[imardmd1]

Actually kind of boring arrangemebts -- too nuchoctave-only (and loud)singing.

After years of well-composed SATB melodies and four-part "barbershop" male arranging/directing/performing singing, what hear leaves me cold, although the words are stirring to the soul.

To understand the best of arrangement of ages-old Christian voice music, one should take a few weeks to go through Johann Sebastian Bach's Riemanschneider arrangements of middle-age accumulated Christian melodies put to use for choral, hymnal, and organ arrangements that greatly move one closer to the heart of the God of Music, speech, language, poetry, and Life! (click here and here).

[AnAmericanMother]

It's a little more complicated than that. Check the links above.

I'll see your barbershop and raise you Palestrina and Tallis.

[AnAmericanMother]

But I don’t mean to shortchange Mr. Bach. He is beyond reproach. We’ve sung the Johannes-Passion.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

We shall agree on Bach, I am sure.

I have the Riemanschneider edition from college days, in pre-history. The whole is available as PDFs for free from Petrucci / IMSLP. Supporting them rather than Amazon is always my preference.

371 Vierstimmige Choralgesänge

Source: https://imslp.org/wiki/371_Vierstimmige_Choralges%C3%A4nge_(Bach,_Johann_Sebastian)

Best wishes.