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For SATB unaccompanied. These beautiful motets provide inspiring new repertoire for choirs. Locus iste is rhythmic and uplifting; Ave Virgo sanctissima is a gentle setting of a Spanish antiphon, full...

Commissioned by the King's Singers in celebration of their 40th birthday, this work has unusual forces and a comparatively complex nature. Using two texts by Henry Vaughan and John Gillespie Magee, th...

For SATB unaccompanied. New Horizons showcases the wealth of exciting, innovative, and occasionally challenging choral music being written today. It encompasses the whole gamut of small-scale choral g...

This anthology of 9 mixed-voice anthems combines new material written specially for the collection with established favourites from the Oxford catalogue, some of which appear here for the first time w...

Experience a choral moment of timeless depth and spiritual grandeur with this moving setting of the 'Miserere', published by Oxford University Press. Lasting approximately 12 minutes, this evocative w...

for SATB unaccompanied

Two of Stanford's finest partsongs for unaccompanied SATB voices

A Christmas motet for SSATB unaccompanied or with ensemble

A short, but eloquent setting of the eighth stanza of the hymn 'Pange lingua', and thus an effective Holy Week motet. For SATB unaccompanied Duration: 2 minutes Difficulty: Easy

For double SATB chorus unaccompanied This is Stanford's extended Latin setting of this text, written in 1918 and acknowledged as its composer's finest a cappella choral work. Duration: 12 minutes Diff...

An impressive setting of the Gradual for Maundy Thursday, dating from 1884, the period of the Seventh Symphony and the Te Deum.

A very popular Renaissance chanson which is partly onomatopoeic. Duration: 1.5 minutes Difficulty: Easy

Composed in 1840, this popular eight-part madrigal is also in the anthology Madrigals and Partsongs. Replete with fine polyphonic writing and rich and expressive sonorities, it provides a fine example...

Bring festive radiance and contemplative warmth to your Advent and Christmas concerts with the traditional carol "Quem pastores laudavere". Published by the renowned Oxford University Press, this time...

Arrangements of traditional American tunes. Sourwood Mountain is also available in Encores for Choirs and Folk-Songs for Choirs 1. Black sheep is also available in Folk-songs for Choirs 1.

For solo baritone and SATB unaccompanied. This setting perfectly captures the essential simplicity of this Christmas spiritual, with a wordless chorus backing a solo baritone. Also available in 100 Ca...

Two easy and contrasting settings for unaccompanied SATB. Spanish Lullaby is beautiful and tender with an evocative pastoral refrain. Spanish Carol celebrates the birth of Christ in a more exuberant f...

Chilcott sets the melody of this traditional American spiritual against a whispered accompaniment in the lower parts. Richly scored for voices, this classic arrangement creates an atmosphere of magica...

A choral song in praise of the power of music, for unaccompanied mixed choir and solo flute The flute introduces and comments on the phrases sung by the choir.

For SATB unaccompanied or with percussion. This energetic and highly rhythmic arrangement of a 15th century carol uses a folksy call-and-response style, which helps the piece maintain its momentum rig...

A simple setting of this popular medieval Advent carol which has great originality and impact. The style is controlled, almost austere, and the effect is hypnotic. This is an unsettling but poignant p...

Based on Feste's famous words from Twelfth Night, this energetic piece abounds in word painting and imitative exchanges, as the music sings, dances, questions, laughs, and teases along with its text,...

For SATB with divisions, unaccompanied. Chilcott's setting captures the mood of painful introspection that infuses this spiritual, in a way that few others have achieved. A truly moving response to a...

My prayer is a technical 'tour de force', meticulously sculpted from the distilled essence of Purcell's original and yet always recognizably Chilcott. The music is involved, passionate, and frequently...