Classical Music

A chamber opera with a libretto by Alexander McCall Smith. Set in the Botswana Okavango Delta, it tells a story of the struggle for power among competing baboons in their matriarchal society - thus dr...

Words by Frances Button Music by Philip Lane A new Christmas song for unison voices (with an optional 2nd part) with piano or orchestra accompaniment. It tells the story of Gobbledegook, a turkey with...

An intriguing short work composed for the International Schools Choral Music Society to 'nonsense' words by Douglas Macari. It is scored for tenor or baritone soloist, mixed voice choir (SATB) and orc...

In 1886 Parry was commissioned by Charles Villiers Stanford to compose a piece for the Bach Choir of London, of which Parry was a member. Stanford, one of the first British musicians to recognise Parr...

Giuseppe Verdi was born into a period when Italian comic opera, after more than a century of world-wide triumph, was losing its appeal, and the musical tragedy had become the preferred form. Hence Ver...

Over a century since its first performance, Fauré's Requiem continues to be a favourite within the classical music repertoire. This edition provides a clearly printed, SATB vocal score, including solo...

Die Zeiten ändern sich: Das humorvolle Sprechstück von Martin Stampfl, ursprünglich für das steirische Jugendmusikfestival 'Voices' komponiert, beginnt mit dem Klickgeräusch einer Uhr, über das sich e...

Gentle rocking rhythms and expressive vocal lines enhance the richness of the music in this setting of the Reger art song by John Leavitt. German or English lyrics. Available for SATB, SA, Instrumenta...

Here is music that is bright and partnered. The clarinet and viola weave opening lines from the bottom of their ranges skyward, while the piano has a simple repetitive walking motive. The chorus walks...

A classical music standard from Mozart's Exsultate, Jubilate leaps from the concert stage to the choir loft in this tasteful adaptation. Rich with energetic gesture, this song of unbounded praise over...

The volume includes popular as well as yet to be discovered choral works or versions by Johannes Brahms. In addition to the 'Liebeslieder-Walzern' op. 52 in the original four-hand version with voice a...

Brahms' setting of seven poems by Florence Hoare specially for children's voices, with full Piano accompaniment.

Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 2 is subtitled "Resurrection Symphony", and is the first major work that established the composer's lifelong view of the beauty of afterlife and resurrection. Written over...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's (1756-1791) single setting of the Latin Christian hymn Te Deum was likely completed and first performed in 1769. All of the winds/brass, timpani, and the violas are not inclu...

Camille Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) wrote his Oratorio de Noël in a matter of weeks, completing the work ten days before it premiered on Christmas in 1858 in Paris. Written and structured in a style that...