Classical Music

Morten Lauridsen's lyrical settings of Rilke's 'Les roses' have already become part of the mainstream choral repertory. Deftly crafted and elegant in their imagery, 'Les Chansons de Roses' enhance the...

TERRA NOSTRA is an oratorio focusing on the relationship between our planet and mankind, how this relationship has shifted over time, and how we can re-establish a harmonious balance. Scored for TTBB...

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De Profundis was the first new composition written after Pärt's emigration, and belongs more with the Estonian tintinnabuli works, with their unwavering adherence to a simple unfolding of material in...

Night, Veiled Night is a work for TTBB double choir that reflects the composer's affinity for Indian classical music traditions. Bringing together an evocative text by Rabindranath Tagore and the comp...

This sensitive treatment of the theme from Friends makes you hear the song in a whole new way. When you slow down the tempo and take out those iconic handclaps, it becomes a timeless ballad worthy of...

The author of the text for this choral, S. Frances Harrison, was a Canadian poet and composer writing at the turn of the 20th century. Two gemstone poems contrast each other beautifully: In Amethyst,...

A bright and breezy piece with a charming text by Charles Bennett, 'A Tree of Song' begins with a jaunty 7/8 figure which recurs throughout the piece, with a spirited melody floating above. Alternatio...

I will be with you sets a reflective text by the composer with a message of enduring solace. Lush harmonies, with predominantly homophonic passagework, coupled with flowing and cascading lines in ever...

A bright and breezy piece with a charming text by Charles Bennett, A Tree of Song begins with a jaunty 7/8 figure which recurs throughout the piece, with the melody floating above. Alternation between...

'TaReKiTa' is a refreshing concert piece that effortlessly blends the Indian and Western classical styles. The composer's scats are combined with a fast triple metre, vocal slides, and captivating mel...

Thema aus Beethovens Appassionata.

Le tremblement permanent du moi- fantôme ... commissioned by the French vocal ensemble Musicatreize for the Beethoven Year 2020 program 12 Letters to Elise, raises the question of who we are today and...

Christmas setting for upper voices (three parts) of a traditional 15th-century English text with Latin refrain: 'Gabriel of high degree ...' / 'Ut nova: Ave fit ex Eva'. An explanation of the Latin pu...

A setting of pastoral verses of Polonsky dating from the last two decades of the composer's life, after her withdrawal from musical life following the Russian Revolution. Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-19...

Vertonung von pastoralen Versen des russischen Dichters Jakow Petrowitsch Polonski, die die Komponisten in den letzten beiden Dekaden ihres Lebens nach ihrem Rückzug aus dem musikalischen Leben im Zug...

Composer's note:'The original version of Ring the bells for mixed choir, now available in a version for high choral voices, was commissioned by the London Philharmonic Choir, who also sang the premier...

In its original scoring for mixed voices MacMillan's The Gallant Weaver has become a favourite; this arrangement now extends the setting to upper voices. Paul Spicer comments, 'This ideal introduction...

Adapted from a traditional African-American chant, this is – in the composer's words – a “soulful piledriver with a monster backbeat. ” Plentiful but manageable divisi writing...

Written in a Foundation for Small Voices song-writing workshop hosted by the Cincinnati Children's Choir, the student's message is loud and clear - 'Whatever your journey, whatever your beliefs, whate...