Francis Pott

This setting, which not only nods towards the Gloria of Byrd's five-part Mass by appropriating some of its imitative 'points', but also tests how far the wider principles underpinning Byrd's mature po...

SATB and soprano solo, unaccompanied. This gentle and expressive carol provides a wonderful alternative to more familiar settings of this well-loved text. The music is harmonically rich, and the float...

As Joseph was a-walking is a beautifully serene and atmospheric setting of traditional words on the prophecy of Christ's birth as told to Joseph by an angel. With rich harmonies, striking chromatic mo...

Setting a heart-breaking wartime text by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Pott has created a beautifully poignant piece befitting any Remembrance occasion. Written in memory of Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid, a bom...

I sing of a Maiden combines flowing lines with rhythmic irregularity, and ends with an airy weightlessness which, in the words of the composer, echoes the vernal flavour of the words. Although rhythmi...

This Christmas miniature sets the popular Latin text rejoicing in the birth of the Saviour. A 'vivace' tempo marking and offset rhythms combine with Pott's uniquely striking harmonies and undulating p...

This gentle and expressive carol provides a wonderful alternative to more familiar settings of this well-loved text. The music is harmonically rich, and the floating soprano line adds another dimensio...

With intricate harmonies and a soprano solo, this is a beautiful setting of a text by Peter Dale detailing the gifts given to baby Jesus and in turn, the gifts that Jesus bestows upon humanity. Origin...

Aiming for weightless flexibility of expression, this setting employs an idiom detectably in keeping with aspects of medieval practise. Offprinted from the collection Cantica Nova.

Good Day, Sir Christemas! treads a middle path between completely seamless structure and a strophic form. The melodic and rhythmic material of its opening pages is never far away, but alternations of...

Lute-Book Lullaby was written in 2012 for the Oxford-based choir, Commotio, and their director Matthew Berry, 'in admiration and gratitude' for their work performing and recording many of the composer...

There is no rose of such virtue is an anonymous mediaeval text, already well known through beautiful settings by Britten (in his Ceremony of Carols), John Joubert and others. The poem is 'macaronic' (...

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 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...

Verses from Psalms XCVIII, XCVI for Satb / Satb chorus a cappella.

This motet has been performed by Schola Cantorum of Oxford, conducted by Mark Shepherd.

This setting was commissioned early in 2023 for the Choir of the Chapels Royal, H.M. Tower of London, as part of a service celebrating the Coronation of H.M. King Charles III. It was first performed b...

Nunc Natus Est Altissimus is scored for three upper voices and piano (or harp) set to words by James Ryman. The words set in the first three movements of this work are reproduced from Medieval English...

Toccata, composed by Francis Pott for solo organ in digital sheet music format [EP73749].

Francis Pott's setting of this sacred latin text from the Song of Solomon.

Cantus Maris (Song of the Sea) by Francis Pott. The 25-minute work for mezzo-soprano solo, chorus and orchestra was commissioned to mark the 70th anniversary of the Guildford-based Vivace Chorus.