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Dona nobis pacem è una composizione espressiva che combina due linee sul tema della pace tratte dall'Ordinario della Messa latina. Un tempo lento conferisce grazia e compostezza alle linee vocali dolc...

Dona nobis pacem combines two lines about peace from the Ordinary of the Latin Mass. A slow tempo lends grace and poise to the gentle, sustained vocal lines, and the composer juxtaposes homophonic and...

The Gift to Sing è una part-song non accompagnata con un testo dello scrittore americano e attivista per i diritti civili James Weldon Johnson che parla del modo in cui il potere del canto può aiutare...

Two stanzas of emotive verse by Christina Rossetti are set to music of touching directness in this a cappella offering, whose graceful melodies are often adorned by caressing rhythmic patterns. Offpri...

A Birthday mette in scena l'omonima poesia di Christina Rossetti. Chydenius riflette le vivide immagini del testo dei versi attraverso bellissime linee vocali con vorticosi controcanti. I cori riporta...

A Birthday sets a poem of the same title by Christina Rossetti. Chydenius reflects the vivid imagery in the text of the verses through beautiful vocal lines with swirling countermelodies. The choruses...

Questo brano fonde abilmente una poesia classica, Uphill di Christina Rossetti, con uno stile rilassato e leggermente jazzistico. Espandendosi dall'armonia a tre a quella a sei parti, la tessitura acc...

This carol for a cappella choir juxtaposes Latin text with a jubilee spiritual celebrating the Magi who saw the star to lead them to the newborn child. The natural rhythmic energy is amplified by sync...

McDowall dà vita a un mistico e cupo testo della natività di Nicholas Dakin con drammatiche melodie ottatoniche e movimenti paralleli in quarte e quinte. Il metro propulsivo di 6/8 è decorato con ritm...

McDowall brings to life a mystical, brooding nativity text by Nicholas Dakin with dramatic octatonic melodies and parallel movement in fourths and fifths. The propulsive 6/8 metre is decorated with du...

Becky McGlade has set this well-known Christmas hymn with textures both rich and restrained. The original English language hymn was based on a 19th-century English translation of Prudentius's 4th-cent...

Scritto in stile a cappella con accompagnamento scat, "A Tree is a Song" è una gioiosa celebrazione delle connessioni e delle affinità che si trovano in natura e di come la saggezza e la conoscenza po...

A boy & a boy di Stuart Beatch è un testo romantico e alla fine tragico del poeta Matthew Stepanic. Scritto come risposta alla nota opera di Eric Whitacre A Boy and a Girl, Beatch descrive questo pezz...

Stuart Beatch's a boy & a boy sets a romantic and ultimately tragic text by poet Matthew Stepanic. Written as a response to Eric Whitacre's well-known work A Boy and a Girl, Beatch describes this piec...

L'incantevole Sanctus di Hazzard, su testo della Messa latina, cattura la sensazione di una corrente impetuosa per tutto il tempo. Sebbene l'energia pulisca spesso sotto la superficie, essa irrompe ne...

Hazzard's enchanting Sanctus, setting text from the Latin Mass, captures the feeling of a rushing current throughout. Suitable for concert use, this piece features imaginative text-setting and driving...

McGlade's tender piece is full or arching phrases that swell and fade with the emotion of Rosetti's text. The carefully crafted cello part interacts with and responds to the choir without ever losing...

Skempton's After Rain sets an evocative text by Edward Thomas with a contemplative choral part over a rich and slow-moving cello line. Skempton alternates between contrasting upper-voice duets and ful...

This setting of the traditional hymn to 'Mary, the star of the sea' contrasts two moods and styles: the flowing simplicity of the 'Ave maris stella' refrain and the slightly faster and more homophonic...

This motet is the fifth of a set of seven relating the life story of the Blessed Virgin Mary. Finnissy's aim was to hint at technical and expressive continuity with the music of the 11th and 12th cent...

This setting of this popular text was composed in 1997; choir directors should feel free to put a few sopranos on the alto line in the two polyphonic sections. Offprinted from the collection Cantica N...

This setting was commissioned by Choir and Organ magazine in 2003 and first performed by St Alban's Cathedral Choir under the direction of Andrew Lucas. Offprinted from the collection Cantica Nova.

With this extraordinary setting of "Cantate Domino", published by Oxford University Press, you will discover a captivating new interpretation of a timeless sacred text. Unlike many traditionally jubil...

This Introit is the first of four Latin motets commissioned for the 1976 Edington Festival and first performed in Edington Priory. The Introit firsty pays tribute to Augustine, and then, in a more liv...

Aiming for weightless flexibility of expression, this setting employs an idiom detectably in keeping with aspects of medieval practise. Offprinted from the collection Cantica Nova.