Classical Music

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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...

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...

'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...

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...

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...

What most makes me a human being?' This is the existential question that Vincent Van Gogh asked his brother in a letter and that he answered himself at once: 'A person who doesn't feel small - who doe...

At the end of December 1930, Nino Rota travelled to the United States of America where he was accepted at the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia upon the recommendation of Arturo Toscanini. One...

Tuned wine glasses are made to vibrate and sing, creating a floating-ethereal bed of sound for this setting of Edgar Allan Poe's poem on transience. Dreamy, a little melancholy and harmonically simple...

Pēteris Vasks skilfully wove this song cycle from the lyrics and melodies of five Latvian folk songs.

Mark Burrows wonderfully captures the essence of peace in this piece, well-suited to treble ensembles of all sizes and abilities. In the words of the composer: "Peace is much more than a feeling. It's...