Bob Chilcott

Walk softly is an inspiring setting of an early Shaker text. It is woven from the simplest of musical elements and imbued with a quiet but incandescent fervour. With its combination of approachable ch...

Opening with a simplicity and innocence created by the unison theme, this anthem's textures gradually evolve as the other voices make their entries.

This energetic setting of a 14th-century Christmas gradual recalls the lively rhythms and open harmonies of medieval song. It can be sung in the original Latin or in English. A wonderful carol to be e...

From the collection Bob Chilcott Songbook, 'The Runner' is a fast rhythmic piece setting a text by Walt Whitman. With chromatic inflections, close harmonies, and vocalizations to imitate the athlete's...

Beach is taken from the song cycle 'Songs for Seven Storeys', which Bob Chilcott wrote to celebrate the opening of the New Evelina Children's Hospital. Combining a nostalgic melody with a haunting vio...

Sun Dance is a slightly modified version of the fifth movement from the composer's Organ Dances. The music is for the most part celebratory in character, its spiky rhythms driven along by the pervasiv...

This tiny, delicate piece has something of the Debussyian prelude about it. It deftly deals with that familiar theme of snow, not rising above a piano dynamic throughout.

O praise the Lord is a celebratory anthem with a dazzling organ part. Homophonic exclamations resound the communal praise of Psalm 117, and the anthem's short, quieter middle section has a gospel feel...

Four-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's classic anthem. Pack includes full score and set of parts. Compatible with the SA, SATB, and TTBB vocal scores.

This work is by turns joyous and reflective. Rich harmonies, shifting tonalities, and expressive melodies combine to evoke the changing moods explored within the text. The poignant Andante section giv...

This rustic and pretty carol features a winning melody of folk-like simplicity, which is developed over the course of four verses. The result is an up-beat carol that is easy, varied, and rewarding to...

In this beguiling setting of 'A Dream' from William Blake's Songs of Innocence, Skempton weaves a gentle and chromatic melody through harmonies that are pure yet richly expressive.

Discover an extraordinary and charming choral work with 'Fragments from his dish', published by the renowned Oxford University Press. This original cycle of six pieces revolves entirely around the del...

Composed in 1975 for the liturgical greeting of the Right Reverend Paul Moore, Bishop of New York, this energetic motet is based upon the mode 8 plainsong responsory for the reception of a bishop as f...

For SATB and percussion instruments (4 sand blocks (optional), 2 rainsticks, 2 claves, 1 shaker, and a low-pitched tomtom played with hard sticks) OR SATB and low-pitched tomtom played with hard stick...

Un'opera cupa e bellissima, ma anche estremamente accessibile, in tre movimenti. I primi due sono di carattere più cupo: inni serali che chiedono protezione e conforto per la notte. La musica si schia...

Questo fantastico CD di accompagnamento, registrato da un trio jazz professionista, è ideale per le prove e i concerti. Compatibile con le versioni a voci miste e a voci alte di A Little Jazz Mass, is...

Un'originale ed efficace composizione da concerto della Missa brevis latina, in cui i vari movimenti abbracciano una varietà di stili jazz. Il caratteristico accompagnamento pianistico può essere suon...

Testo originale della tradizione francescana.

A moving, traditional Irish blessing set to music of great simplicity and beauty. Chilcott perfectly captures the warmth and sincerity of the text, and weaves a memorable melody, which he clothes in r...

This dynamic collection presents four jazzy settings of favourite madrigals by Thomas Morley, John Bennet, and Orlando Gibbons. The first, 'Sing we and Chant it', is a relaxed jazz waltz with a compel...

Spiritual, arrangiato per baritono e coro misto.

A work filled with ambition, Circlesong is a musical portrayal of the human life cycle as captured in the indigenous poetry of North America. Based on poetry from the Chinook, Comanche, Dakota, Eskimo...

A work filled with ambition, Circlesong is a musical portrayal of the human life cycle as captured in the indigenous poetry of North America. Based on poetry from the Chinook, Comanche, Dakota, Eskimo...