Classical Music

John Donne was one of the most famous English poets around 1600. The first song is a bitter lament about the infidelity of women. The second, Sweetest Love, is more complex and somewhat more enigmatic...

John Donne was one of the most famous English poets around 1600. The first song is a bitter lament about the infidelity of women. The second, Sweetest Love, is more complex and somewhat more enigmatic...

Veyn nisht for SATB a cappella is a 6-minute setting based on the melancholic lullaby Kleyner yosem (Little Orphan) by the legendary Polish-Jewish songwriter Mordechaj Gebirtig (1877-1942). In his int...

Hugo Ball was one of the founders of the Zurich Dada movement and wrote this poem for a performance at Zurich’s Cabaret Voltaire in 1916. A nonsense poem, its words have no actual meaning, merely cons...

My new work for the CALMUS Ensemble was commissioned for their 25th anniversary and continues a very intensive and successful collaboration following my composition "And why?". Since its premiere, "An...

Vocal Score

A diptych by poet Mary Jo Salter, the text of Fred Hersch's Two Haiku compares the fleeting span of a life to the turning of the seasons. In addition to painting the words of these brief stanzas with...

Composed for unaccompanied mixed choir by Melissa Dunphy with text by Dora Sigerson Shorter, I am the World is an exciting, pulsating and affirming piece building to a thrilling vocal ending. Commissi...

Nocturne is composed by Jocelyn Hagen for SATB (divisi) and French horn. Using a text by regular collaborator Todd Boss, this piece gently unfurls as a clock ticks through the night. Premiered by VOCE...

She Walks in Beauty arranged for mixed voice choir a cappella by Toby Hession.

My Heart Danceth by Eleanor Alberga, written for SSAATTBB unaccompanied voices.

The Morning star - fades from the sky is an anthem by Judith Bingham for unaccompanied SSATB voices.

This is one of VOCES8's earliest arrangements by Jim Clements and was first performed at London's Royal Opera House. Many well-loved tunes from famous operas appear in this 4-minute piece and there is...