Bob Chilcott

Scott employs his considerable arranging skills to stylish effect by contrasting unison verse sections with mellifluous wordless choruses. All is underpinned by an idiomatic and supportive accompanime...

Walk softly is an inspiring setting of an early Shaker text. It is woven from the simplest of musical elements and imbued with a quiet but incandescent fervour. With its combination of approachable ch...

Opening with a simplicity and innocence created by the unison theme, this anthem's textures gradually evolve as the other voices make their entries.

This energetic setting of a 14th-century Christmas gradual recalls the lively rhythms and open harmonies of medieval song. It can be sung in the original Latin or in English. A wonderful carol to be e...

Beach is taken from the song cycle 'Songs for Seven Storeys', which Bob Chilcott wrote to celebrate the opening of the New Evelina Children's Hospital. Combining a nostalgic melody with a haunting vio...

Sun Dance is a slightly modified version of the fifth movement from the composer's Organ Dances. The music is for the most part celebratory in character, its spiky rhythms driven along by the pervasiv...

This tiny, delicate piece has something of the Debussyian prelude about it. It deftly deals with that familiar theme of snow, not rising above a piano dynamic throughout.

O praise the Lord is a celebratory anthem with a dazzling organ part. Homophonic exclamations resound the communal praise of Psalm 117, and the anthem's short, quieter middle section has a gospel feel...

Four-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's classic anthem. Pack includes full score and set of parts. Compatible with the SA, SATB, and TTBB vocal scores.

This work is by turns joyous and reflective. Rich harmonies, shifting tonalities, and expressive melodies combine to evoke the changing moods explored within the text. The poignant Andante section giv...

This rustic and pretty carol features a winning melody of folk-like simplicity, which is developed over the course of four verses. The result is an up-beat carol that is easy, varied, and rewarding to...

In this beguiling setting of 'A Dream' from William Blake's Songs of Innocence, Skempton weaves a gentle and chromatic melody through harmonies that are pure yet richly expressive.

Discover an extraordinary and charming choral work with 'Fragments from his dish', published by the renowned Oxford University Press. This original cycle of six pieces revolves entirely around the del...

Composed in 1975 for the liturgical greeting of the Right Reverend Paul Moore, Bishop of New York, this energetic motet is based upon the mode 8 plainsong responsory for the reception of a bishop as f...

For SATB and percussion instruments (4 sand blocks (optional), 2 rainsticks, 2 claves, 1 shaker, and a low-pitched tomtom played with hard sticks) OR SATB and low-pitched tomtom played with hard stick...

A dark and beautiful, yet also extremely approachable, work in three movements. The first two are darker in character: evening hymns that ask for protection and comfort through the night. The music li...

A highly original and effective concert setting of the Latin Missa brevis in which the various movements embrace a variety of jazz styles. The characterful piano accompaniment can be played as written...

This fantastic backing CD, recorded by a professional jazz trio, is ideal for use in both rehearsals and concerts. Compatible with the mixed-voice and upper-voice versions of A Little Jazz Mass, it is...

Original text in the Franciscan tradition.

A moving, traditional Irish blessing set to music of great simplicity and beauty. Chilcott perfectly captures the warmth and sincerity of the text, and weaves a memorable melody, which he clothes in r...

This dynamic collection presents four jazzy settings of favourite madrigals by Thomas Morley, John Bennet, and Orlando Gibbons. The first, 'Sing we and Chant it', is a relaxed jazz waltz with a compel...

Spiritual, arranged for baritone and mixed chorus.

A work filled with ambition, Circlesong is a musical portrayal of the human life cycle as captured in the indigenous poetry of North America. Based on poetry from the Chinook, Comanche, Dakota, Eskimo...

A work filled with ambition, Circlesong is a musical portrayal of the human life cycle as captured in the indigenous poetry of North America. Based on poetry from the Chinook, Comanche, Dakota, Eskimo...