Coro a cappella misto

Commissioned by the King's Singers in celebration of their 40th birthday, this work has unusual forces and a comparatively complex nature. Using two texts by Henry Vaughan and John Gillespie Magee, th...

For unaccompanied SATB chorus

For SATB unaccompanied. A powerful, dissonant setting of texts by Michelangelo, dealing with love, life and death. Powers was inspired by the idea that a block of marble contains the finished sculptur...

For SATB unaccompanied. New Horizons showcases the wealth of exciting, innovative, and occasionally challenging choral music being written today. It encompasses the whole gamut of small-scale choral g...

For SATB chorus, unaccompanied. The text is a set of six poems by John Drinkwater (1882-1937). Drinkwater had close associations with Warwickshire and much of his poetry reveals his love of the countr...

This is a peaceful and positive setting of words by Elizabeth Jennings from the poem 'Assurance beyond midnight'. The magical images that Jennings conjures as she reflects on her life are perfectly ca...

SSATB unaccompanied & SSAB soli Duration: 12 minutes Difficulty: Easy to Moderately difficult

for SATB unaccompanied

Two of Stanford's finest partsongs for unaccompanied SATB voices

A short, but eloquent setting of the eighth stanza of the hymn 'Pange lingua', and thus an effective Holy Week motet. For SATB unaccompanied Duration: 2 minutes Difficulty: Easy

For double SATB chorus unaccompanied This is Stanford's extended Latin setting of this text, written in 1918 and acknowledged as its composer's finest a cappella choral work. Duration: 12 minutes Diff...

An impressive setting of the Gradual for Maundy Thursday, dating from 1884, the period of the Seventh Symphony and the Te Deum.

A very popular Renaissance chanson which is partly onomatopoeic. Duration: 1.5 minutes Difficulty: Easy

Composed in 1840, this popular eight-part madrigal is also in the anthology Madrigals and Partsongs. Replete with fine polyphonic writing and rich and expressive sonorities, it provides a fine example...

Arrangements of traditional American tunes. Sourwood Mountain is also available in Encores for Choirs and Folk-Songs for Choirs 1. Black sheep is also available in Folk-songs for Choirs 1.

Chilcott sets the melody of this traditional American spiritual against a whispered accompaniment in the lower parts. Richly scored for voices, this classic arrangement creates an atmosphere of magica...

A choral song in praise of the power of music, for unaccompanied mixed choir and solo flute The flute introduces and comments on the phrases sung by the choir.

For SATB unaccompanied or with percussion. This energetic and highly rhythmic arrangement of a 15th century carol uses a folksy call-and-response style, which helps the piece maintain its momentum rig...

A simple setting of this popular medieval Advent carol which has great originality and impact. The style is controlled, almost austere, and the effect is hypnotic. This is an unsettling but poignant p...

For SATB unaccompanied. The text is taken from Shelley's epic poem Prometheus Unbound. Skempton sets passages in which a Chorus of Hours and a Chorus of Spirits celebrate in ecstatic language the unsh...

Based on Feste's famous words from Twelfth Night, this energetic piece abounds in word painting and imitative exchanges, as the music sings, dances, questions, laughs, and teases along with its text,...

For SATB unaccompanied. This is a simple, attractive folk-song setting of Shakespeare's 'O mistress mine' from Twelfth Night. Each of the two verses begins with double counterpoint between tenor and b...

For SATB with divisions, unaccompanied. Chilcott's setting captures the mood of painful introspection that infuses this spiritual, in a way that few others have achieved. A truly moving response to a...

My prayer is a technical 'tour de force', meticulously sculpted from the distilled essence of Purcell's original and yet always recognizably Chilcott. The music is involved, passionate, and frequently...