Paul Spicer

This piece for unaccompanied mixed choir (with frequent voice divisions) was commissioned by Ralph Allwood for the 1987 broadcast of the Eton Choral Course on Radio 3. The inimitable poem by Phineas F...

This hymn of praise was composed on the occasion of a thanksgiving service for a betrothal in June 2011. In search of a suitable text, the composer once again turned to the poet Elizabeth Barrett Brow...

With text from the Book of Psalms, His heart's desire is a short motet for mixed voices, with homophonic outer sections with minimal divisi and a middle section dividing the chorus into two SATB group...

This setting of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poem Pied Beauty was commissioned by the Rev Jim Bates, Vicar of Kingston, for the service in Kingston Parish Church celebrating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Eli...

Written on the occasion of a wedding in 2006, Love is beautiful indeed is a setting of a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61), which is part of the tenth sonnet of her Sonnets from the Portugu...

Although the British composer Herbert Howells (1892-1983) is rather known for his church music compositions, he caused a stir, especially in his early years, with a number of chamber music works, such...

Diese Vertonung des Gedichtes Pied Beauty von Gerard Manley Hopkins wurde vom Vicar of Kensington, Rev Jim Bates, für den Festgottesdienst anlässlich des Goldenen Thronjubiläums von Königin Elizabeth...

Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano by Herbert Howells.

For SATB Choir and Organ.

Orgel solo Narcis Bonet : Choral Jean-Marc Delorme : Improvisation Didier Matry : Puzzle Michael Mautner : Intrada sur un thème d'une rencontre étrange Akira Tamba : Pax orbi terrarum

The set of 'Four Carols for Dark Times' was written between 2003-5 and commissioned at the rate of one piece per year for the Birmingham Bach Choir to perform at their Christmas concerts. The third ca...

These well-known words seem endlessly fruitful for the composer and conjure up such lovely images which strike each of us in our own way. For Paul Spicer it was the beauty of the language with its flo...

This lively carol was commissioned in 2005 by Lichfield Cathedral Special Choir (now called the Cathedral Chorus) to celebrate the birth of the daughters of the two cathedral organists at that time. T...