Richard Allain

Allain's appealing take on the popular text from Twelfth Night explores Shakespeare's words with long expressive melodies and evocative textures sure to move the listeners. Originally published in the...

This work for divisi mixed voices was written in 2004 and is a setting of the hymn long used as one of the antiphons for the washing of feet on Maundy Thursday. This work featured on Classic FM's play...

Duration: ca. 4 minutes, SSATB unaccompanied. There are a thousand thingsI would like to be for you, But one of the most importantIs just being the someoneYou can talk to. There are so many thingsI...

Richard Allain's A Perfect Friend for unaccompanied SATB choir. This piece is a setting of text by Robert Louis Stevenson. Duration: 3 minutes.

AATTBarBB unaccompanied choral piece with text by Richard Crashaw.

This work was commissioned by Merton College, Oxford as part of the Merton Choirbook, a collection of music being assembled to celebrate Merton College's 750th anniversary in 2014. The Magi's Gifts wa...

William Blake's text scored for unaccompanied SSAATTB a cappella and commissioned by the BBC for Chantage, BBC Radio 3 Choir of the Year 2006.

A wedding anthem for mixed voices, SSATB, setting the text of Richard's brother Thomas.

Commissioned by St Mark's, Hamilton Terrace. A setting of Antiphon for the feast of Corpus Christi, attributed to St Thomas Aquinas.

Setting the text of Thomas Allain (after Song of Songs), this work is scored for unaccompanied SATB choir. A perfect anthem for a wedding ceremony.

Scored for unaccompanied SSATB and SATB choirs, this works was commissioned by Westminster School, London.

Setting the text of Richard's brother, Thomas, Music, scored for unaccompanied SSATBB choir, was commissioned by Judith Godsland for Commotio's 20th Anniversary Concert in September 2019.

Commissioned by The Revd Dr Jonathan Holmes and Queens' College, Cambridge for Suzi Digby OBE. First performed on 21 November 2021 in Queens' College Chapel, conducted by Ralph Allwood.

A macaronic carol in both Latin and English evoking the sleeping infant Jesus in the manger. Scored for unaccompanied SATB choir.

For the seventeenth Sunday after Trinity, ‘Lord, we pray thee that thy grace’ was composed in 2021 for the Grand Rapids Choir of Men & Boys, and its Associate Director, Matthew Owens.

A beautiful spiritual work arranged by Richard Allain for Soprano Solo and SSATB chorus (unaccompanied), with additional words by the arranger. Includes a Keyboard/Piano line for rehearsal purposes on...

For Soprano solo and SATB chorus unaccompanied. Includes a Keyboard/Piano line for rehearsal purposes only. 'The Spirituals represent an extraordinary religious, social and musical legacy. They are am...

For Soprano solo and SATB chorus unaccompanied. Includes a Keyboard/Piano line for rehearsal purposes only. 'The Spirituals represent an extraordinary religious, social and musical legacy. They are a...

The Spirituals represent an extraordinary religious, social and musical legacy. They are among the most enduring examples of all vernacular art, and their appeal remains undiminished. These poignant e...

For Soprano solo and SATB chorus unaccompanied. Includes a Keyboard/Piano line for rehearsal purposes only. 'The Spirituals represent an extraordinary religious, social and musical legacy. They are am...

For SSAA solo / semi chorus and SSAATTBB unaccompanied 'The Spirituals represent an extraordinary religious, social and musical legacy. They are among the most enduring examples of all vernacular art...

For SSATTB chorus unaccompanied. Includes a Keyboard/Piano line for rehearsal purposes only. 'The Spirituals represent an extraordinary religious, social and musical legacy. They are among the mo...

Includes a Keyboard/Piano line for rehearsal purposes only. 'The Spirituals represent an extraordinary religious, social and musical legacy. They are among the most enduring examples of all vernacul...

The Spirituals represent an extraordinary religious, social and musical legacy. They are among the most enduring examples of all vernacular art, and their appeal remains undiminished. These poignant e...