Bob Chilcott

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. Offprinted from Carols for Choirs 6. Versions fo...

Una commovente benedizione tradizionale irlandese musicata con grande semplicità e bellezza. Chilcott cattura perfettamente il calore e la sincerità del testo e intreccia una melodia memorabile, che r...

Dalla raccolta Bob Chilcott Songbook, questo è un elegante arrangiamento di una canzone tradizionale che non ha bisogno di presentazioni. Il testo di Fred Weatherly è qui impostato su ricche armonie v...

From the collection Bob Chilcott Carols 2, 'Jingle, Bells' is Chilcott's lively and exhilarating arrangement of the seasonal classic, scored for SATB and piano. Featuring rhythmic harmonies and a spar...

From the collection Bob Chilcott Songbook, this simple but elegant arrangement of the traditional Welsh song is supported by flowing piano accompaniment. This dual-language piece also has an orchestra...

This expressive Wedding anthem sets an extract from William Blake's Auguries of Innocence. With chromatic inflections and gently arching vocal lines, the music perfectly reflects the text's emphasis o...

This powerful setting has a strong, memorable tune and rich harmonies. Robert Louis Stevenson's text presents a highly relevant message, sure to strike a chord with choirs and audiences alike: no matt...

God be merciful is a predominantly homophonic setting of verses from Psalm 67 in the King James translation. This reverential prayer emphasizes 'God' with multiple sustained pitches, and the anthem's...

The title piece from a collection for mixed voices, 'Sun, Moon, Sea, and Stars' is a gentle, romantic piece setting a text by the composer. The narrator's adoration for their lover is explored through...

A moving, traditional Irish blessing set to music of great simplicity and beauty. Chilcott perfectly captures the warmth and sincerity of the text, and weaves a memorable melody, which he clothes in r...

A delightful traditional English nonsense song from the King'singers Edition series. Available: SSAA, 2-Part, ShowTrax Cassette. Performance Time: Approx. 2:25.

Arranged here for unison voices and piano, this heartfelt setting is built upon a haunting melody of folk-like simplicity, underpinned throughout by a lyrical and independent accompaniment. Also avail...

This major work by one of Britain's leading choral composers was commissioned by St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. The setting is terse and direct, in the manner of the Poulenc Mass, and the textures of...

Gabriel Jackson's is one of the most striking modern settings of this ancient text. The composer's trademark diversity of texture is much in evidence, with passages of rich sonority giving way to inti...

These charming settings of riddles by Bob Chilcott's long-term collaborator Charles Bennett were originally published as part of the environmental cantata The Angry Planet. Here rescored for two-part...

Salisbury Vespers combines settings of the traditional Vespers psalms and anonymous early texts. Marian motets punctuate the psalm settings, and the work is concluded with a substantial setting of the...

This is a magical setting of a profound and impressionistic text by the contemporary poet A. D. Hope, which describes the burgeoning of the soul as though the heart itself is 'singing' from within the...

These charming settings of riddles by Bob Chilcott's long-term collaborator Charles Bennett were originally published as part of the environmental cantata The Angry Planet. Here rescored for two-part...

Commissioned by the New Orlean's Children's Chorus for the 2005 Crescent City Festival, this work is to be performed 'cool but with a swing'.

Four songs exploring a variety of 'green' issues for SS and piano. The songs are fun, funky, and totally up-to-date, with jazzy rhythms and some rap-style verses to really get young choirs and their a...

For children's chorus, piano, bass guitar, xylophone, congas

For youth choir with parts for SSA, highs, middles, and lows (for boys' changing voices). This is a magical setting of a profound and impressionistic text by the contemporary poet A. D. Hope, which de...