Choir, Vocals

Vytautas Miškinis (b.1954) is a composer, choir conductor and educator. His output encompasses over 400 secular and around 150 sacred, works; in addition to over 100 folk song arrangements. His music...

Diese wunderschöne, 6 Minütige doppelchörige Vertonung des Gedichts 'Vertue' von George Herbert wurde 2019 gemeinsam von Wiltshire Creative und dem Lichfield Festival für Voces8 in Auftrag gegeben.

Jonathan Dove's We Are One Fire, was commissioned as a birthday present for the 90th anniversary of the BBC Symphony Chorus. Dove turned to playwright Alasdair Middleton for a text that could serve as...

An unaccompanied work for SATB choir (with no divisi) set to Psalm 122 - I was glad when they said unto me. Commissioned at the request of the Very Revd Mark Bonney, Dean of Ely Cathedral, for his fat...

Der britische Komponist Ken Burton ließ sich für sein Stück Descend to Earth von der Dichtung der im 18. Jahrhundert als Sklavin lebenden Autorin Phyllis Wheatley inspirieren, dessen prägnantes Gedich...

Now winter nights des britischen Komponisten und Bariton Roderick Williams basiert auf einem bewegenden Gedicht von Thomas Campion, welches die kindliche Vorfreude auf das Weihnachtsfest beschreibt, d...

Der Liedtext von Daniel Simpson zu Let's Walk Together ist eine treffende Umschreibung der wesentlichen Eigenschaften des Komponisten Paul Smith und des von ihm gegründeten Vokalensembles VOCES8: Verb...

Composed for unaccompanied SSATB with an English text from the Book of Common Prayer. This five-minute anthem was written for the UK's Thomas Tallis Society, having in mind Tallis's famous work for 5...

Queen Elizabeth's Winchester Carol, also known as ‘The Royal Carol' uses a poem by King Henry VIII and equates the ever-green holly and ivy with the constancy of love. Composed for unaccompanied SATB...

This beautiful 5-minute piece takes William Byrd's famous motet and re-imagines it for 3 unaccompanied SATB choirs, with opportunity to space the choirs at a distance from each other.

Roderick Williams's 'Exultate' is an exuberant piece taking its text from the first 4 verses of Psalm 81 for SATB choir, soprano saxophone and percussion (4 tom-tom drums, or similar).

A setting for unaccompanied SATB choir with divisi of George Herbert's poem. The richly textured homophonic piece ends with a beautiful ostinato. Duration 4'30'

British composer Ken Burton uses the writing of Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), the black American son of emancipated slaves, in his 3-minute work A Prayer. The text of the three verses is bitter-sw...

Can you hear me? is written for eight-part a cappella choir and sets a new text by Peter Thomson that asks simple but fundamental questions about the need for human contact. First performed by the Nat...

A fantastic arrangement by Alexander L'Estrange of Luis Demetrio and Pablo Beltran Ruiz's classic piece that makes for an entertaining stage performance piece. Arranged for unaccompanied SSAATTBB, thi...

Du var vinden (You were the wind) by Roderick Williams is a four-minute setting for unaccompanied SATB choir (with divisi) of a short, thought-provoking poem by Norwegian poet Olav H. Hauge, using the...

Spring Memories by Roderick Williams is a four-minute adaptation for unaccompanied SATB voices with divisi of Edvard Grieg's well-known and beautiful piano work Til Våren (from the Lyric Pieces, Book...

Seven Short Prayers sets texts by Jane Austen and Samuel Johnson and can either be performed as one 14-5-minute work or as individual movements. The seven prayers are: A Prayer for a New Year (Samuel...

The poems in this cycle were chosen to celebrate the life and character of Hannah Shaw, who sang with the Bath Camerata until her very early death in 2019. Hannah was a talented musician and singing w...