Spartiti per coro misto (SATB)

Hungarian composer Gyorgy Orban arranged this Shakespeare text for a cappella mixed voices, works well with high school or adult choirs.

Originally scored for treble voices (HMC2065), this mixed chorus voicing is just as successful. Try the piece with other 'global' music on your spring concert or on any festive occasion in the church.

Combining two spirituals with original music and employing two soloists, this arrangement from first time contributor Carlos Simon is amazing. Series editor Eugene Rogers wrote and said get this piece...

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...

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...

This short sacred work for unaccompanied mixed choir is a highly atmospheric setting of the poet Henry Vaughan's mystical and enigmatic poem of the same name. Written for the choir of St Peter's Colle...

A mystical, atmospheric Epiphany carol, The Wise Men and the Star sets a text by Lucia Quinault depicting the journey of the wise men. Tarney's appealing musical language creates a sense of expectancy...

Setting a specially written text by Charles Bennett, this gentle lullaby compels us to follow the nativity's animals and angels, and like them create our own Christmas scene wherever we are. Chilcott'...

Pete Churchill's thrilling arrangement of this traditional Cornish carol has a gentle South African feel and features 'scat' singing and chromatic shifts in harmony. The traditional melody in 6/8 time...

Following a collaboration with Katie Melua on her 2016 album 'In Winter', Bob Chilcott has made a choral arrangement of this traditional Ukrainian carol, first introduced to the English-speaking world...

McDowall's setting of Isaac Watts' Cradle Hymn is beautifully tender, coloured by its rich harmonies, suspensions, and chromatic notes. The melodies are complimented by sustained 'oo's and 'ah's and r...

McGlade's setting of 'The Call' by George Herbert is simple but effective, reflecting the directness of the original poem. The three-bar phrases create a feeling of expectancy throughout the verses, a...

This is a beautiful setting of words from Act 3 Scene 2 of The Tempest. The opening soprano and tenor melody is based on a dreamlike, oscillating two-note cell which threads throughout the piece, broa...

From the collection Bob Chilcott Songbook, this is a beautiful unaccompanied arrangement of a popular Japanese children's song. With a text full of natural imagery and a folk-like pentatonic melody, '...

Also in Carols for Choirs 3, and 100 Carols for Choirs.

Written in an a cappella style with scat accompaniment, A Tree is a Song is a joyful celebration of the affinity between trees and how wisdom can be passed on 'as a melody from tree to tree'. McDowall...

Originally published in the New Horizons collection Cantica Nova, this expansive Advent motet creates a unique sound world through unusual harmonic inflections, striking spatial effects, unmeasured no...

A syncopated opening bass lick lays the groundwork for this quintessential a cappella spiritual. When the other voices join, we begin a journey of texture, harmonic development, and form, indicative o...

The traditional Latin "eternal light" text is beautifully brought to life in this artful a cappella work by contemporary choral composer Ruth Morris Gray. With plenty of room for rubato and dynamic ex...

Composer's note: 'I was introduced to William Blake's poem The Lamb many years ago through John Tavener's famous setting and, when commissioned by York Minster to write a carol for their 2019 nine les...

Questo canto mette in scena le tre strofe finali della scanzonata narrazione della natività di Sara Teasdale, in cui una schiera di angeli arriva alla stalla e annuncia la nascita con il loro canto gi...

La poetessa, Wendy Cope, evoca un'immagine commovente del Natale in casa. Questa composizione della sua confortante poesia traduce questo immaginario in un classico suono corale natalizio: una melodia...

Das Vaterunser als höchstes Gebet des Christentums wird hier in einem schlichten, aber nicht banalen Satz von Javier Busto vorgelegt. Das Werk beschreibt einen sehr ruhigen, demütigen und leisen Chara...

La famiglia Mendelssohn coltivava una forma molto particolare di musica domestica nel suo cottage con giardino nella tenuta di famiglia: le cosiddette Sonntagsmusiken (canzoni domenicali). Forse quest...