Spartiti per coro femminile

This heartfelt setting of words by the composer begins with a pianissimo drone over which the sopranos introduce the expressive melody. With lush harmonies, moments of dynamic intensity, and an overri...

Morning Light sets an optimistic text by the composer about home and finding your way. Inspired by American folksongs, the captivating melody and warm harmonies perfectly complement the uplifting them...

Oliver Tarney has re-worked his popular unaccompanied minature The Waiting Sky for upper voices. While it would make a beautiful addition to a concert programme at other times of the year, the setting...

Setting a Native American text, The Song of the Stars is a bright and rhythmic piece scored for double upper-voice choir. Featuring rhythmic ostinatos, imitative effects, and rich harmonies, this is a...

A bright and breezy piece with a charming text by Charles Bennett, A Tree of Song begins with a jaunty 7/8 figure which recurs throughout the piece, with the melody floating above. Alternation between...

This piece was composed in honour of the centenary of Marconi's first trans-oceanic wireless signal. The theme of the work, sound waves, is evoked through overlapping phrases sung ad lib., and the mus...

Gallant's take on this Acadian folksong is lively and engaging, featuring the quintessential elements of the tradition: podorythmie (seated foot-tapping), diddlage (mouth music), and the spoons. With...

Gallant's take on this Acadian folksong is lively and engaging, featuring the quintessential elements of the tradition: podorythmie (seated foot-tapping), diddlage (mouth music), and the spoons.

This imaginative setting of Longfellow's poem encourages the use of evocative bird and wind noises to capture the text's natural imagery. In a fresh, a cappella style, Hawley's charismatic melodies so...

'TaReKiTa' is a refreshing concert piece that effortlessly blends the Indian and Western classical styles. The composer's scats are combined with a fast triple metre, vocal slides, and captivating mel...

Palestrina's setting of the Marian motet Alma Redemptoris Mater seamlessly interweaves each of the four independent voices based on the solemn tone of the corresponding chant. Offprinted from The Oxfo...

In this compelling motet for the Feast of the Holy Trinity, Handl artfully embodies symbolism of the Trinity within the motet's structure. The three verses surrounded by a refrain of 'O beata Trinitas...

This motet in two parts is devotional in character, with each section opening with homophonic writing before elaborating on close imitative polyphonic lines. The motet demonstrates a mature writing st...

Consisting of two sections, this large-scale Christmas motet opens with a rich homophonic texture that is synonymous with Victoria's compositions. This is followed by imitation in the vocal lines befo...

This Marian text for Eastertide, Regina caeli, was set four times by Morales. This setting for four voices was first published in the Spanish composer's 1543 collection and notated in high clefs. The...

Recent scholarship postulates that this anonymous motet for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary was in fact written by Leonora d'Este, daughter of Duke Alfonso I and Lucrezia Borgia...

The opening of this motet displays Massaino's skill in the art of word-painting with soaring lines that play on the word 'arise' (Surge). Punctuated with occasional homophonic writing, the beautiful m...

Setting inspiring words by James Weldon Johnson, this work is both poignant and stirring, encouraging singers and listeners to reflect on the challenges of present times and to move forward with coura...

Heart of Earth raccoglie brani di poesia di Laura Purdie Salas, ricchi di vivide descrizioni del mondo naturale. Rajasekar è stata attratta da questi testi per il modo in cui si riferiscono al suo sta...

Keeping Time for Joy di Marie-Claire Saindon abbonda con la gioia del testo della scrittrice contemporanea Sarah Windle in questo brano edificante. Le melodie scalari di stampo folk, infuse di slancio...

Dedicato alle "sorelle di tutto il mondo", questo lavoro in tre movimenti combina una serie di temi attraverso la poesia di Sara Teasdale. Il primo movimento, "Sister of the Sky", si concentra sul mat...

For SSAA unaccompanied - The texts are translations of ancient Chinese poems.

Un'enigmatica presenza femminile si agita in una volubilità cupa e preoccupata, con frasi brevi e taglienti: questa prima metà della poesia "Ghost" di Florence Delay è come un grido d'angoscia repress...

Olli Kortekangas suite in four movements (text in Finnish) is suitablbe for juvenile choir.

Tre naturscener for descant choir (1976-77, rev. 2016) by Lars Karlsson is set to Gustaf Fröding's vivid poems in Swedish.