Hywel Davies

A setting of Walt Whitman's The Mystic Trumpeter (1872), in which the trumpeter (positioned off stage, or otherwise out of sight) imitates and echoes the soprano's melismatic treatment of the words.

First cast in 1908 for strings and organ, Sir Henry Walford Davies Solemn Melody has enjoyed a number of scorings and even the addition of words. This Douglas Wagner setting expands on the emotion fur...

A sustained and stately choral chant in a quasi-Renaissance style, for SATB chorus, that combines today's evocative harmonic possibilities with the devout textures of early church music.

This is an innovative and moving setting of Robert Herrick's popular Christmas text. The carol opens with an uplifting unison melody, and each verse introduces new vocal textures and increasingly expr...

A new setting of the well-known Christmas text, this work was written for London Consort Choir. It is a mostly homophonic and approachable but effective alternative to other settings of the text, whic...

A new carol for unaccompanied choir by Hywel Davies, featuring the composer's own text.

Two traditional French carols, Berceuse de Noël ('Entre le boeuf et l'âne gris') and Nouvelle agréable ('Nouvelle agréable un Sauveur Enfant nous est né') arranged for unaccompanied mixed voice choir,...

Here are four classic Christmas carols skillfully arranged for the concert stage, worship anthems or caroling in your neighborhood. These are not set in a traditional hymn style but rather graced with...

This Christmas carol, originally in French and entitled 'La Chanson de la Naissance', first appeared in a comedy theatre show called Famille d'Artistes in 1989. Piazzolla is best known for his develop...

Ten magnificent tangos and other pieces by the Argentinian master of tango nuevo, Astor Piazzolla, skilfully arranged for trumpet and piano by Hywel Davies. Featuring Vuelvo al sur and Los sueños from...