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This mellifluous arrangement of the tenor aria from Cantata No. 85 ('Seht, was die Liebe tut') by Hubert Foss (1899-1953), the first music editor at the Oxford University Press, features a delicate am...

William H. Harris' (1883-1973) arrangement of 'Bist du bei mir', from the Clavierbüchlein for Anna Magdalena Bach, was published in 1949, and offers an enjoyable and remarkable realization of chords....

Johann Sebastian Bach's world-famous Siciliano from the Flute Sonata in E-flat major (BWV 1031) has enchanted audiences for centuries with its poignant melancholy and timeless elegance. In this delica...

This arrangement of 'Sleepers, Wake' by celebrated pianist Myra Hess is a simple treatment of the three-part version from the Schübler publication of the late 1740s, which was Bach's own reworking of...

The pianist Myra Hess (1890-1965) became indelibly associated with Bach after she began playing 'Jesu, joy' by ear in 1920. Her arrangement of the Adagio (offprinted here from OUP's Bach Transcription...

This is a beautiful arrangment for piano of Bach's Fugue in G minor (BWV 578), originally for organ, by Norah Drewett de Kresz (1882-1960). Offprinted from OUP's collection Bach Transcriptions for Pia...

Was Gott thut, das ist wohlgethan' is the finale to the first part of Cantata No. 75 and is transcribed here for piano by Herbert Murrill (1909-1952), who moved in the same musical circles as Britten...

Commonly known as the 'deathbed chorale', the last of Bach's Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes is carefully arranged for piano here by Dorothea Salmon and was first published in 1932. Originally from th...

This charming transcription of Bach's Pastorella VWV 590 for organ was made by the accomplished composer, conductor and publisher William Gillies Whittaker (1876-1944) in 1929. Offprinted from OUP's c...

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this rousing piece is arranged by Robert Gower from Whitlock's orchestral Wesssex Suite, which evokes aspects of summer by th...

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this arrangement of the overture to Handel's Saul is created by W. T. Best and Robert Gower. Suitable for players of intermed...

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this joyful piece is evocative of a fanfare, and is suitable for players of intermediate to advanced ability.

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this majestic piece contrasts a triumphal opening and ending section with a more reflective central section. Suitable for pla...

Originally written for solo piano, Amy Beach's folk-influenced piece is here arranged for organ by Robert Gower. Featuring a lilting melody and serene atmosphere, it is suitable for players of interme...

The text of Omnes nu laet ons gode loven is from an old Flemish carol, and is a mixture of Old Flemish and Latin (presented here alongside an English text by Jeremy Jackman).

The melody and text of this traditional carol were first collected in 1968 by the composer Peteris Plakidis, in Katlakalns (a district of Riga). It is here arranged for unaccompanied SSA voices by Sel...

The first section of this original carol by Rosephanye Powell is composed in the style of an African-American spiritual, following a call-and-response pattern, while the second section is in a jubilan...

Acalentándo Jesús is a gentle lullaby for the newborn baby Jesus by Brazilian composer Ernani Aguiar. Here the original text by Gerson Galle is presented alongside English words by Jeremy Jackman.

French's quasi-lullaby setting of Thomas Hardy's The Oxen opens by alternating between a tutti refrain and solo verses, with an atmospheric syllabic accompaniment, before building to a tutti final ver...

Perfect for celebrating Pentecost, this joyous anthem on the theme of the Holy Spirit centres around the Veni Creator Spiritus plainchant, fragments of which have been skilfully developed to create an...

Hyun Chul Lee's carol Ju Nashuhtdah welcomes the newborn king with the jubilant acclamation 'Jesus is born'. Using Korean traditional rhythms, and a pentatonic melody, he creates a bright feeling of e...

In this carol for unaccompanied SSA voices Séamas de Barra sets Séamus Ó Néill's translation of I sing of a maiden (both version of the text are presented in the score).

The work explores both conventional Sonata forms and the flexibility of performance practice for which Finnissy is renowned. The piece was designed to interact with some of the materials of the first...

Marked 'light and flowing', Quartel's setting of Sara Teasdale's poem 'Peace' features slow, sustained vocal writing over a piano part with continual moving quavers. The harmonic palette is rich and w...

This energetic setting of words by St Ambrose of Milan is a real showstopper. With pop-influences and a sparkling organ part, Young effortlessly fuses modern and traditional sound worlds, while change...