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This peaceful and meditative work sets William Butler Yeats' classic poem, The Lake Isle of Innisfree. Underpinned by a balladic piano accompaniment, the flowing vocal lines convey a message of longin...

Based on the well-known poem by William Blake, this Christmas piece transports listeners with sounds of heavenly angels beckoning the little Lamb in layered melodic fragments that cascade through the...

The Violet sets a text by British poet Jane Taylor that describes the apparent humility and beauty of a violet flower. Offprinted from Accessible and Beautiful.

The patron saint of music is honoured in McDowall's setting of lyrics based on 'The Life of Saint Cecilia' in Jacobus de Voragine's 1275 The Golden Legend or Lives Of The Saints. The work's outer sect...

La gioiosa interpretazione di Forman del poema di Robert Frost sul rinnovamento e la rinascita ha un ritmo cadenzato in 6/8 e un potente ritornello cadenzato. L'accompagnamento pianistico sostiene le...

Wanderlust riflette sulle amicizie e sul desiderio di esplorare, sia letteralmente che figurativamente. Con un testo di Edna St Vincent Millay, presenta una melodia memorabile e armonie nostalgiche su...

Questa energica e vivace composizione di una poesia di Samuel Ullman esplora i temi della connettività umana e della creatività. Il brano emana positività e ottimismo, con melodie svettanti, contrasti...

Dancing Tree is a captivating set of eight songs that draws upon the poetry of Charles Causley. Rutter employs a diversity of musical styles and uses his choral and instrumental forces to perfectly ca...

In this energetic setting of a text by Kate Wakeling, McDowall employs crisp rhythms and imitative part-writing to evoke a hive's busy co-operative community. Listeners are encouraged to take inspirat...

Based on Virginia Woolf's Moments of Being and her diaries, One day walking i was commissioned by the Delegates of Oxford University Press in memory of Laura Marcus, Goldsmiths' Professor of English L...

This setting of George Herbert's poem 'Prayer' was commissioned by the Leicester Cathedral Music Foundation to mark the 50th anniversary of the founding of Leicester Cathedral Girls' Choir in 1974.The...

Painting vivid imagery of falling leaves through cascading layers of sound in the work's opening and closing, McDowall employs contrasting rhythmic unisons to heighten the impact of this evocative tex...

This setting of a parable by P. S. Beales depicts an encounter between God and three birds with different approaches to praise. The first birds employ modesty and fervour, mirrored in McDowall's music...

The Year of the Horse sets Kate Wakeling's beautiful image of a being of light gracefully moving through time. McDowall's lilting vocal lines express the text's encouragement to take notice of simple...

The patron saint of music is honoured in Cecilia McDowall's exuberant setting of Kate Wakeling's lyrics based on 'The Life of Saint Cecilia' in Jacobus de Voragine's 1275 The Golden Legend or Lives Of...

This is a joyful and expressive setting of the composer's own text, inspired by geographical features of Newfoundland. Wong employs gentle phrases, nimble rhythmical patterns, and a soaring solo desca...

Above, Beyond, Sing On! è un'ambientazione gioiosa ed espressiva del testo del compositore stesso, ispirato alle caratteristiche geografiche di Terranova. Wong impiega frasi gentili, agili schemi ritm...

This uplifting and affirmatory piece sets a text by the composer inspired by the reflections of the Northwest Girlchoir on what their choir means to them. A gradual building of choral texture creates...

This enchanting setting of the well-known medieval text combines expressive harmonies with gently interweaving lines for solo or soli voices. A beautifully written Advent miniature, Rose of such virtu...

Written in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Tallis Scholars, this joyful and virtuosic antiphon captures a sense of both jubilation and devotion, in keeping with the spirit of the anniversar...

Our Voice sets the poem 'Murmuration' by contemporary poet Eleanor Stewart-Pointing, which explores the relationship between the human voice and the sounds and music of the natural world. The piano wr...

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This is a beautiful and modern setting of a traditional text, popularised by Orlando Gibbons' well-known madrigal 'The silver swan'. Also available in versions for solo high voice and SSA.

This powerful work is a sequence of meditations on loss, longing, fear, and hope. The text is in Latvian and English - a pronunciation guide for the Latvian text is included in the vocal score. Jackso...

The Spacious Firmament 2: Yet we who neither burn nor shine is a sequel to The Spacious Firmament. Both pieces may be performed separately, but The Spacious Firmament should always come first if they...