Choir, Vocals

Michael Higgins' arrangement of How can I keep from singing? is a calm and flowing reimagination of Robert Lowry's well-known melody. The harmonically rich piano accompaniment supports the choir as it...

This set of three captivating pieces is designed to introduce choirs to the Hindi language. 'Sŭnāō' translates as 'have me listen', but is closer in meaning to 'tell me' or 'sing for me'. The first so...

This set of three captivating pieces is designed to introduce choirs to the Hindi language. 'Sŭnāō' translates as 'have me listen', but is closer in meaning to 'tell me' or 'sing for me'. The first so...

William Walton's vibrant cantata Belshazzar's Feast is adapted here by acclaimed organist David Briggs and percussionist David Bending for voices, organ, and percussion. Three performers, the organist...

Afternoon on a Hill sets a poem by American poet Edna St Vincent Millay, which conveys a sense of wonder, appreciation, and respect for the natural world, and the contentment of the subject to return...

This is a catchy, joyful song about singing, togetherness, and social and musical harmony. With words and music by Robert T. Gibson, this feel-good piece incorporates Gospel-style harmonies, syncopate...

Khattar pattar uses a distinctive style of onomatopoeia to describe how we sometimes let our thoughts run out of control. Opening with a whispered section, it has a high rhythmic energy and continual...

Reconciliation is a dramatic setting of a profound text by Irish poet William Butler Yeats. Underpinning the voices is a dazzling piano accompaniment featuring glittering spread chords, cross-rhythms,...

This inspiring piece opens with repeated powerful statements of the opening line of the text 'Lift every voice and sing' by writer and civil rights activist James Weldon Johnson. The rising opening vo...

Bird Songs is a playful and uplifting work centred around bird-themed texts. 'Two Owls' presents a whimsical children's rhyme in a lightly swung style, with characterful interplay between the voices r...

This Dixit, which would have opened the vespers to the Virgin, could have also been written for the Sunday vespers; however the existence of an Introduzione al Dixit autograph score in Turin which all...

The Bible poem called "The Song of Songs" is an effusion of human love between a man and his wife. God is never mentio- ned but is everywhere as if he wanted to imitate the love between a man and a wo...

The performance of the Coronation Mass and the Requiem for the inauguration of the Mozart monument in Salzburg in September 1842, was conducted by Sigismund Neukomm (Salzburg, 1778-Paris, 1858), a tod...

The Libera me for mixed chorus was commissioned in 2006 by chorus master Lionel Sow and dedicated to him. A few years before, I had been deeply moved by the marvellous Sonnets de la Gélodacrye by the...

The genesis of Lamentation is a matter of friendship. Composed in memory of my friend and composer Laurent Galmiche who died prematurely, this piece was created in Montpellier in April 2008 by Anna Re...

Far from being an isolated work in Max d'Ollone's production, Hymne belongs with L'Été, Sous-Bois and Pendant la tempête to a set of four chorus written in the particular context of the competition fo...

This motet was composed at the request of Roman Champion for his vocal ensemble L'offrande lyrique de Versailles which first performed it in April 2011. It mainly uses the text of the Maundy Thursday...

This motet was composed at the request of Roman Champion for his vocal ensemble L'offrande lyrique de Versailles which first performed it in April 2011. It mainly uses the text of the Maundy Thursday...

This Magnificat primi toni attributed to Cristóbal de Morales comes from the manuscript 5 of the Valladolid Cathedral and has not been listed in any printed edition until this day. Morales Magnificats...

The importance Morales gave to the writing of masses is well known, even if it is paradoxically his less performed repertoire. Though most of his masses were printed, a few examples of manuscript mass...

The source of this publication is the manuscript 5 from the Cathedral of Valladolid, which contains the only (anonymous) vocal copy of the motet In diebus illis, unlisted in the composer's catalogues....

Every singer knows Gabriel Fauré's art songs. They are to French language and impressionism what Schubert lieder are to German language and romanticism. Where the piano of Schubert is madrigalesque, d...