Choir, Vocals

This is a joyful and expressive setting of the composer's own text, inspired by geographical features of Newfoundland. Wong employs gentle phrases, nimble rhythmical patterns, and a soaring solo desca...

This expressive anthem is set to an unusual Zachariah text revealing the celebratory vision of the new Jerusalem. Centred around a strong, flowing melody and punctuated with many glorious moments, cho...

This jubilant arrangement of Deck the halls is an offprint from Benedict Sheehan's musical dramatization of A Christmas Carol.

This gentle anthem is built around a warm, hymn-like refrain, which gives way first to a free-flowing and expressive section and then to a more sombre section. With a Latin text from Ruth 1, this affe...

This setting of Edward Caswall's well-known text shows all the hallmarks of McGlade's characteristic style, with changing time signatures, beguiling chromaticisms, and a beautiful, fluid melody. Chang...

Composed in 1941, this is the first publication of this work.

This substantial anthem was composed in 2015 to celebrate the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and to mark Salisbury Cathedral's stewardship of the charter since 1215. Rutter succeeds in weaving toget...

A response to Schubert's String Quintet in C (D956), this work highlights the added bass sonority provided by the second cello. It is a single movement work and explores ideas of fragmentation, refrac...

An unusually joyous setting in which straightforward vocal lines portray Mary's humility, and the accompaniment expresses exuberance and freedom of spirit. This is a strikingly original setting of the...

Out of your sleep is a fresh-sounding Advent carol rich in rhythmic variation and subtle detail. Written for the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, the carol provides opportunities for the choir to s...

Flowing and expressive, this is one of Vaughan Williams's most popular and beautiful motets.

Spring Rounds is a significant work that is rich in variety and orchestral colours. Jackson has selected texts by a multiplicity of authors, from the seventeenth-century poet Thomas Carew to contempor...

This is a beautiful setting of Psalm 128. Tranquil vocal lines, accompanied by lilting, atmospheric flute and guitar, capture perfectly the optimistic nature of the text. Although the words of this an...

A new orchestration by Edward Harper has brought this colourful setting of Coleridge's epic poem back to life after the original orchestra score was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1940. A welcome addi...

Eurydice is based on a work by the great Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay - a series of six large stones installed in a garden in Provence, set in a sea of lavender (representing water) and inscrib...

From English Traditional Carols.

This is an evocative setting of the Rudyard Kipling jungle poem 'Now Chil the kite brings home the night'.