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Setting the modernized words of an Anglo-Saxon metrical charm, this thrilling piece is unusual, dramatic, and beguiling. Featuring a whispered list of potion ingredients for the intro and outro, it al...

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...

Sarah Quartel brings a fresh take on a familiar fifteenth-century text in this carol for upper voices. The carol may be sung unaccompanied, though for added sparkle there is an optional part for handb...

Sing, my Child sets a joyful text celebrating the beauty found all around us in everyday life. Characterized by tight harmonies and a dynamic percussion line, the buoyant 7/8 metre of the opening driv...

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...

per SSAA non accompagnato. Garden of Dreams contiene frammenti di testo di Saffo, tradotti da Arthur Sanders Way e A. S. Kline. Sarah Quartel ha utilizzato ritmi incrociati, sincopi e linee melodiche...

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...

Questo canto per coro a cappella accosta il testo latino a uno spiritual giubilare che celebra i Magi che videro la stella condurli dal neonato. La naturale energia ritmica è amplificata dalle sincopi...

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...