Benedict Sheehan

Inspired by Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, Vespers is a 12-movement English-language work in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Suited to concert and liturgical settings, it draws from several Orthodox...

Let all mortal flesh keep silence is a reflective, homophonic setting of text from the fourth-century Orthodox Liturgy of St James. Sheehan's setting, an original rather than the customary pairing wit...

This is a declamatory setting of a popular Easter text by Gerard Manley Hopkins in an upbeat 7/8 metre. Featuring compelling interplay between choral sections, a slower reflective passage, and a rousi...

Let all mortal flesh keep silence is a reflective, homophonic setting of text from the fourth-century Orthodox Liturgy of St James. Sheehan's setting, an original rather than the customary pairing wit...

Inspired by Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, Vespers is a 12-movement English-language work in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Suited to concert and liturgical settings, it draws from a variety of Orth...

The five short songs which make up this work are all settings of translations of Chinese poetry from the Tang dynasty (618-906AD) and several of them are about the separation of the lover from her bel...

Commissioned by Craig Hella Johnson and Conspirare, this new setting of the Credo is for all those who wait for justice. Set for piano and narrator, this powerful setting of the W.E.B. Du Bois text is...

Commissioned by Craig Hella Johnson and Conspirare, this new setting of the Credo is for all those who wait for justice. Set for piano and narrator, this powerful setting of the W.E.B. Du Bois text is...

This Easter carol is based on J. M. Neale's translation of the Latin Piae Cantiones and occupies a captivatingly exotic soundworld. Sheehan's setting is in strophic form, with a texture that builds fr...

This dynamic collection presents four jazzy settings of favourite madrigals by Thomas Morley, John Bennet, and Orlando Gibbons. The stylistic piano part may be played as written or serve as a guide, a...

Ever-changing in mood and pace, La Musique is a setting of poems by Elizabeth Bishop and Charles Baudelaire on the transformative power of music. Jackson musically represents the complex psychological...

John Taverner's Respond 'Dum transisset Sabbatum' (I) is now established as one of the finest examples of English polyphony composed in the last days of the Sarum Rite.

per narratore, solisti SATB e coro SATB non accompagnato, accompagnamento di trombone facoltativo. In questo lavoro avvincente, Sheehan presenta una coinvolgente drammatizzazione musicale di A Christm...

In this compelling work, Sheehan presents an engaging musical dramatization of Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Dickens's text has been artfully abridged to facilitate concert performance, and the narrati...