as that by Heinz Werner Zimmermann, Pärt's De profundis, Barber's , Sandström's , and Whitacre's . The Martinis have performed Bach cantatas, (), in (a Vespers service) on 20 November 2005, and , in a cantata service. Concerts and services have also been performed by guest ensembles such as the Ukrainian chamber choir OREYA. The choirs of St. Martin travelled to England in 2006 to attend services and evensong in Christ Church, Oxford, Salisbury Cathedral and St Paul's Cathedral, London. They travelled to Leipzig in 2008 to hear the Thomanerchor in and services. In 2009 they sang with other choirs of the diocese in the Limburg Cathedral from the of Stefano Bernardi for double chorus, conducted by Joachim Dreher and Franz Fink. In 2016, they performed at the Cathedral the premiere of the oratorio Laudato si' with the choirs of Liebfrauen, Frankfurt, conducted by the composer Peter Reulein. The performance was repeated at the Frankfurt Cathedral in 2017. On 26 December 2019, the Hessian broadcaster hr4 broadcast a Christmas service, in which a project choir of mostly choir members performed Rutter's Angels' Carol and Christmas Lullaby, among others. Abendlob In addition to singing in mass on Sundays and feast days, the choirs added irregular liturgies of Abendlob, in the tradition of the Anglican Evensong, singing psalms, Magnificat and Nunc dimittis. An Abendlob on the occasion of the Kreuzfest (Feast of the Cross) in 2018 had Psalm 100 set by Charles Villiers Stanford, Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D by Charles Wood, Mozart's Ave verum corpus and Rheinberger's Abendlied. An Abendlob in Advent 2019 contained, among others, Hammerschmidt's Machet die Tore weit, Hassler's Dixit Maria, Vivaldi's Magnificat, RV 610, and Biebl's Ave Maria. Choral concerts An annual choral concert with soloists and orchestra has been performed by the combined choirs. The specialized orchestras La Beata Olanda (Freiburg), Antichi Strumenti (Mulhouse), Main-Barockorchester Frankfurt and L'arpa festante /Munich) accompanied works by Bach, Buxtehude, Handel, Haydn and Schütz in historically informed performances, also the church's groups Capella lignea and Barock-Consort St. Martin. Several concerts were collaborations with other choirs: the choir of the Protestant church of Geisenheim and the Idsteiner Kantorei (the choir of the Unionskirche), conducted by Kantor Carsten Koch from 2003. In the following table, the regular conductor Franz Fink is not mentioned, only the guest conductor when conductors shared a performance. References External links St. Martin Idstein website St. Martin Idsteiner