Michael Hurd

Adam-In-Eden is a popular style cantata telling the story of Adam and Eve. The scoring is for unison voices (with divisions) with a small part for narrator. The accompaniment for Piano, with Guitar Ch...

Michael Hurd’s 1966 tune Jonah-Man Jazz tells the story of Jonah’s flight from Nineveh, his defiance of God’s wishes and his brush with the Whale. This arrangement by Robin Stopford is for SATB and pi...

A free-and-easy style of performance is appropriate for this extremely popular cantata-musical about Jonah and the whale. The score is for unison voices, narrator and piano (with chord symbols). There...

Three rondels for SATB unaccompanied, set to Chaucer's original text. Includes a modern paraphrase for those unable to pronouce Chaucer's English by the composer.

Arranged for SATB unaccompanied. Commissioned by the Beccles Music Festival for performance in 1987. Words anon. (17th century).

Arranged for SATB unaccompanied. Words from poems of Edward Thomas. Commissioned by Norman Morris and The Reading Phoenix Choir.

A setting of four poems by Geoffrey Hill. For SATB Choir A Cappella.

Five short settings for SATB Choir A Cappella of the texts of George Herbert.

Written for narrator, unison voices and piano, this enjoyable 18th-century pop cantata can be performed as a concert piece or staged production. Celebrating the good deeds of Captain Coram, the work i...

Michael Hurd. The ill-fated friendship between Henry Plantagenet and Thomas Beckett forms the basis of this ballad cantata on one of the momentous clashes between church and state in English history....

For Upper voices (SA chorus) and Piano, using words by Christina Rossetti.

Three Saints In One was commissioned to celebrate the centenary of St Swithun's School, Winchester, and first performed on 4 May 1984, conducted by Michael Strand. Scored for upper voices and Piano. T...

Michael Hurd. Mock oratorio about the story of Viscount Nelson, hero of the Nile and Victor of Trafalgar. Scored for narrator (preferably tenor though can be spoken), chorus (high and low voices) and...

The 15th century text, Adam Lay Ybounden, has here been set for SSA choir with Piano accompaniment by Michael Hurd. Originally published in Merrily on High (NOV032121).

Setting for Unison Voices and Piano of text by Walter de la Mare.

A swinging pop cantata for narrator, unison voices with optional divisions, piano and guitar chord symbols. When performed as a cantata the chorus can sing throughout, with or without division into so...