Bob Chilcott

Slow and nostalgic in flavour while retaining Chilcott's characteristic warmth and ebullience, this piece befits the text to which it is set: a poem by John Greenleaf Whittier that speaks to how the k...

This carol celebrates the birth of the Saviour, whose reverberating promise, 'I am the light', gives hope that all discord and divides will finally end. Uplifting and powerful, the carol has lyrics in...

Experience the profound expressive power and spiritual depth of 'The Dove And The Olive Leaf', published by Oxford University Press. This moving choral work features an evocative setting of texts from...

This carol for a cappella choir juxtaposes Latin text with a jubilee spiritual celebrating the Magi who saw the star to lead them to the newborn child. Offprinted from Carols for Choirs 6. Versions fo...

This expressive Wedding anthem sets an extract from William Blake's Auguries of Innocence. With chromatic inflections and gently arching vocal lines, the music perfectly reflects the text's emphasis o...

God be merciful is a predominantly homophonic setting of verses from Psalm 67 in the King James translation. This reverential prayer emphasizes 'God' with multiple sustained pitches, and the anthem's...

This lively setting of the Venerable Bede's Christ is the morning star features all the hallmarks of McDowall's original and vibrant style. With rich harmonies, compelling modulations, and a flowing o...

A moving, traditional Irish blessing set to music of great simplicity and beauty. Chilcott perfectly captures the warmth and sincerity of the text, and weaves a memorable melody, which he clothes in r...

A delightful traditional English nonsense song from the King'singers Edition series. Available: SSAA, 2-Part, ShowTrax Cassette. Performance Time: Approx. 2:25.

This tender Advent carol sets an original text by Charles Bennett that creates a sense of anticipation for the arrival of Jesus. Underpinned by a gently rippling piano part throughout, the piece opens...

Arranged here for unison voices and piano, this heartfelt setting is built upon a haunting melody of folk-like simplicity, underpinned throughout by a lyrical and independent accompaniment. Also avail...

This major work by one of Britain's leading choral composers was commissioned by St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. The setting is terse and direct, in the manner of the Poulenc Mass, and the textures of...

Bring a moment of profound warmth, hope, and connection to your next concert or service with "Irish Blessing," published by the renowned Oxford University Press. This moving choral piece captivates wi...

With a characteristically memorable tune by Chilcott, Mid-winter is an easy and original setting of the well-known Rossetti text. Also available in versions for SATB, and upper voices.

Gabriel Jackson's is one of the most striking modern settings of this ancient text. The composer's trademark diversity of texture is much in evidence, with passages of rich sonority giving way to inti...

These charming settings of riddles by Bob Chilcott's long-term collaborator Charles Bennett were originally published as part of the environmental cantata The Angry Planet. Here rescored for two-part...

Salisbury Vespers combines settings of the traditional Vespers psalms and anonymous early texts. Marian motets punctuate the psalm settings, and the work is concluded with a substantial setting of the...

This is a magical setting of a profound and impressionistic text by the contemporary poet A. D. Hope, which describes the burgeoning of the soul as though the heart itself is 'singing' from within the...

These charming settings of riddles by Bob Chilcott's long-term collaborator Charles Bennett were originally published as part of the environmental cantata The Angry Planet. Here rescored for two-part...

Commissioned by the New Orlean's Children's Chorus for the 2005 Crescent City Festival, this work is to be performed 'cool but with a swing'.

Four songs exploring a variety of 'green' issues for SS and piano. The songs are fun, funky, and totally up-to-date, with jazzy rhythms and some rap-style verses to really get young choirs and their a...

For youth choir with parts for SSA, highs, middles, and lows (for boys' changing voices). This is a magical setting of a profound and impressionistic text by the contemporary poet A. D. Hope, which de...

This is a setting of a text by Guyanese-British poet John Agard, which describes how eighteenth-century slave-trader John Newton became an abolitionist. Featured on Orphei Drangar's CD, De Profundis:...

Burk weaves joyful and declamatory passages with moments of pensiveness, with an extended harmonic vocabulary throughout. Offprinted from Carols for Choirs 6.