Boosey & Hawkes

Un'ambientazione molto efficace e toccante del noto testo commemorativo del giovane compositore Ed Rex. Questa opera, che si aggiunge a A hymn to the night di Rex, fa parte della Boosey & Hawkes Conte...

Blessed be that Maid Marie" è stato eseguito per la prima volta dai BBC Singers a St Giles' Cripplegate e trasmesso su BBC Radio 3 nel dicembre 2012. Il brano è in gran parte un canto natalizio tradiz...

Composer's note: 'My approach to arranging this carol, as well as the other carols in Nordic Christmas, was to look at the text (originally in Danish by Nikolai Grundtvig, 1783-1872) and its backgroun...

Composer's note: 'There are already well-known settings of this text, most notably Bing Crosby's 1956 recording of Johnny Marks' interpretation; however, people (including Crosby) have tended to omit...

Composer's note: 'I was introduced to William Blake's poem The Lamb many years ago through John Tavener's famous setting and, when commissioned by York Minster to write a carol for their 2019 nine les...

Composer's note: 'The words of Edith Reed's translation of this traditional Polish poem wonderfully encapsulate the Christmas message. I love the way that the text captures the innocence and humblenes...

Composer's note: 'Walter De La Mare's poem Clouded with snow paints an atmospheric picture of late afternoon in winter and I was drawn to the image of a bleak yet beautiful landscape with the faint gl...

Eine reflektierende Vertonung eines Marien-Antiphons (‘Hail, Queen of Heaven' - ‘Ave, du Himmelskönigin') der aufstrebenden Komponistin Kerensa Briggs. Eine ununterbrochene, meist homophone chorale Te...

Eine kontemplative und ergreifende Vertonung der beiden ersten Verse aus Psalm 91 ('Wer im Schutz des Höchsten wohnt'), die von Gottes Schutz für diejenigen berichtet, die ihm folgen. Geschrieben wurd...

A tender shoot ist eine neue Vertonung eines deutschen Gedichtes aus dem 15. Jahrhundert, gedichtet von Otto Goldschmidt und von William Bartholomew im 19. Jahrhundert ins Englische übersetzt. Die Ver...

Rejoice! ist ein Weihnachtslied voller reiner und unbegrenzter Freude. Hier erschallen die Glocken mit Hilfe von scharf akzentuierten nachklingend Akkorden, und reichhaltig gearbeitete kontrapunktisch...

Each year the BBC Music Magazine commissions a brand-new Christmas Carol for their readers and, when Grace-Evangeline Mason was invited to compose the 2021 carol, she decided to write and set her own...

In this contemporary setting of the traditional text Hodie Christus natus est, the piece begins in a hushed, exultant manner marking the news that ‘today Christ was born’. The piece then slowly builds...

Ben Ponniah started singing at St Mary-le-Tower Church in 1990 when he was six years old. John Cooper was the Organist and Director of Music at the time, followed by Michael Nicholas. Seeing the star...

O magnum mysterium was written in 2013 and is dedicated to Dawn Herbert, the composer’s ex-wife and the mother of his son, Reginald. It was written while staying at her family’s farm in Cambridgeshire...

Let us build a house is the closing hymn of Kim André Arnesen’s large-scale work, The Stranger. Instead of a typical majestic ending to a large work, Arnesen went for a quiet one with only an unaccomp...

Do not neglect is a stand-alone movement from Kim André Arnesen’s large-scale work, The Stranger, which uses a thought-provoking text from chapter 13 of the Epistle to the Hebrews: ‘Do not neglect to...

Questa nuova composizione di un testo tradizionale vuole offrire un'interpretazione un po' più cupa di un canto natalizio. Le parole Away in a manger (tradotto "lontano in una mangiatoia"), molto cono...

Questo canto è uno dei brani prodotti durante un intero fine settimana di composizione di gruppo con Anna Lapwood e il Pembroke College Girls' Choir, un processo con cui avevano già sperimentato in pr...