Rejoice in the Lord is a fast, festive, and joyful setting of Psalm 33. After an exuberant opening, a lively organ passage leads into a beautiful moment of stillness in the choir, unaccompanied, creat...
Bednall's beautiful setting of this much-loved prayer is warm, simple, and immediate. The vocal line is expertly lyrical and the accompaniment suitably supporting, with a serene line for solo violin t...
Let all the world in every corner sing was commissioned by Colston's Girls' School in Bristol for the Chamber Choir and their Director of Music Matthew Redman, and was written in August 2008 for the s...
A collection of three choral songs setting the words of three First World War poets, commissioned in 2014 by the choir Sospiri to mark the centenary of the start of the war. The songs are charged with...
Everyone Sang was written for the wedding blessing at Wells Cathedral on 26th May 2007. The choir on that occasion featured many singers from the operatic world and this, combined with the emotional n...
Three Songs of Love was commissioned by the Exultate Singers and first performed at St George's Church, Bristol on 14 February 2015.The three texts (Clare, Yeats and McCrae) represent different moods...
Originally part of David Bednall's Three Songs of Love, the short section which sets W B Yeats' poem The Cloths of Heaven ('Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths') is here presented as a separate octa...
Bednall's creation, rooted in the tradition of French organ improvisation, tenderly evokes the mysterious beauty of Wells Cathedral's remarkable 'Jesse Window'. The radiant music ebbs and flows calmly...
Commissioned for the 40th birthday of the organist Paul Walton, Walton's Paean is a work of great verve, with compelling rhythms, exciting harmonies, and catchy melodies propelling the celebratory mus...
David Bednall's Fanfare-Processional for Organ. Composed 2010. 'A work that reflects a constant revivification of tradition - most notably, in the expected treatment of D major tonality(not full...
