Boosey & Hawkes

Scritto per i BBC Singers nel 2019, Stars above, earth below è un'ambientazione speranzosa e riflessiva della poesia Leaves di Sara Teasdale (1884-1933). Il brano inizia con linee celestiali e discend...

Due arrangiamenti dei canti natalizi pubblicati nel 1582 nell’ambito della raccolta medievale di canti latini -Piae Cantiones-. Le melodie sono tratte da tale raccolta, che contiene anche molti canti...

Una potente trasposizione per coro a otto voci di tre delle risposte del Venerdì Santo durante il mattutino: «Tenebrae factae sunt», «Tradiderunt me» e «Iesum tradidit impius». Opera commissionata dal...

Chorpartitur - Klavierbegleitung nur zu Probenzwecken

Chorpartitur - Klavierbegleitung nur zu Probenzwecken

Diese breitgefächerten und durch und durch 'englischen' Kompositionen sind zweifelsohne kleine Juwelen im Chorschaffen Finzis. Er vertonte hier sieben Gedichte des Dichters und Arztes Robert Bridges,...

This ideal introduction to MacMillan's secular choral music is rich in Scottish flavour, appropriate to its Robert Burns text. Characteristic vocal elements are the ornamental inflections drawn from S...

Organist and Master of Music at York Minster, Philip Moore is also a prolific choral composer. These Prayers, the most frequently requested of his works, make a poignantly attractive setting for unacc...

This short meditative motet was commissioned for the dedication service of the Millennium window by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi in the Resurrection Chapel of St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh. It is i...

This beautiful unaccompanied work adapts the translated text of a Gaelic elegy by the 19th century poet Evan Maccoll. The words ‘She has gone' dominate the piece and underline its sense of desol...

The four movements of the work are linked through the use of two contrasting ideas announced at the outset of the first movement: a sombre motif associated with death (Requiem aeternamdonaeisDomine) a...

Set to an early 20th-century poem, this simple a cappella work offers the joyous message of hope just when all seems dark.

Nights in armor is a suite for a cappella chorus which reflects on the themes of Arthurian legend as brought to verse by Alfred, Lord Tennyson in Idylls of the King. Each of the four songs takes the v...

Drawing texts from the traditional “Te Deum” text in Latin and English and from verses excerpted from A Song of David by Christopher Smart, this virtuosic and exuberant showpiece may be pe...

This group of three African-American spirituals contains one rather well-known tune, Little David, Play on Your Harp, and two less familiar numbers, Where Shall I Go? and Death Ain't Nothin' but a Rob...