Herbert Howells

This arrangement features Robert Bridges' translation of J. Neander's 17th-century German text set to Herbert Howells' hymn tune 'Michael'. John Rutter adds a descant and reharmonizes the 4th and 5th...

Hymnus Paradisi is composed for SATB chorus and orchestra with soprano and tenor soloists, and is characterised by an extraordinary depth and power. The text includes lines from the traditional Latin...

Herbert Howells' Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Collegium Regale), for SATB and Organ accompaniment, is a vibrant sacred work with beautiful voicings and a wonderful effervescence. This is rich and co...

Howells' elegiac setting of words by John Buxton muses on Christ's nativity and his prophesied mission in the world. Ideal for mixed choirs in schools and parish churches.

Herbert Howells' Magnificat And Nunc Dimittis written for the choir of Worcester Cathedral in August 1951. Scored for SATB Choir and Organ Accompaniment.

Herbert Howells composed his Magnificat And Nunc Dimittis evening canticles for St Paul's Cathedral in 1951, going on to become among his most famous and enduring works. These beautiful canticles were...

Herbert Howells was an English composer, organist, and teacher, well-known for his Anglican church music. Stabat Mater was written in 1963 for the Bach Choir and is scored for Tenor Solo, SATB Choir,...

Three Psalm Preludes for Organ set one.

Herbert Howells ceased using opus numbers at about Op. 40, but each of the three Psalm-Preludes making up his second set is dated. Published in 1940, they were first performed as a set by William O. M...

Organ ad lib during Gloria and Credo. Written for Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford.

This collection of 15 pieces, transcribed and edited by the Howells scholar Jonathan Clinch and published for the first time to coincide with Matthew Schellhorn's recording of the complete piano music...

Herbert Howells wrote his First Piano Concerto in 1913 while studying composition at the Royal College Of Music. This was his first orchestral work and was later renumbered as Op. 4. Edited and comple...

Herbert Howells wrote this Serenade in 1917 as the third and final movement of his Suite for Strings, Op. 16 (Op, 27 on the manuscript), the first two movements of which were re-used by the composer f...

In 1959 Howells wrote the Fancy and Toccata for a Chamber Organ in St Mary's Episcopal Church in Aberdeen after the main organ was bombed during the Second World War.

Howells' early Organ Sonata dating from 1911. Edited by Graham Matthews and Robin Wells.

Howells' orchestral work King's Herald was first performed at the Coronation of King George VI in 1937 when it became immediately popular. This arrangement for organ by Howells scholar Jonathan Clinch...

Herbert Howells was an English composer, organist, and teacher, most famous for his large output of Anglican Church music. However, for this reason his secular compositions tend to be unreasonably neg...