Classical Music

Your singers will love jumping into Courtney's fun, jaunty rendering of this beloved bit of Americana, which contains interplay between voice parts and engaging hand clapping. Also available for SSA (...

The Blizzard is an electrifying choral piece for SAB voices with a piano accompaniment that drives the energy forward like a relentless winter storm. The choral lines weave tension and drama, evoking...

Featuring tight harmonies and a spirited energy, this arrangement brings warmth and charm to any winter or holiday performance. The vibrant choral writing captures the joy and sparkle of the season, o...

Wake Me a Song, composed by Farnell and inspired by Abram Joseph Ryan's evocative poem, is a stirring tribute to Kay Owens' remarkable 41 years in music education. This heartfelt piece celebrates the...

L'Orfeo is an opera from 1607, based around the legend of Orpheus and Eurydice. It is often cited as the earliest opera still regularly performed today. The libretto was written by the Italian lawyer...

New edition of Handel's great comic opera edited by Charles Mackerras and Noel Davies in Italian and English. Includes suggestions for ornamentation and performance practice.

Two Human Hymns comprises of settings for six-part choir and organ of two poems by 17th century English poets who are almost exact contemporaries; George Herbert and Henry King. The music for the choi...

All The Ends Of The Earth is a choral motet written for a Europe-wide radio broadcast on Millennium Day 1st January, 2000. It is based on Perotin's organum Viderunt Omnes. Scored for S. A. T. B. choru...

Three short choral settings of peoms by George Herbert, commissioned by The Spitalfields Festival in memory of Peter Lerwill, a generous supporter of the festival. The first performance of the set too...

This work was commissioned by the BBC. It was first performaed in 11 August 1995, as part of a Henry Wood Promenade Concert at teh Royal Albert Hall, London, by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC...

Nyman's 2011 The Prologue to Dido and Aeneas is a prologue to Henry Purcell's opera on a libretto by Nahum Tate. The libretto is based on Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid. It recounts the love of Dido, Quee...

Stars, Night, Music And Light was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and first performed at the BBC Proms on 15th July 2011. Vocal score. The performance was given to open the First Night of the Proms at th...

Stars, Night, Music and Light for chorus and orchestra was commissioned by BBC Radio 3 and first performed at the BBC Proms on 15th July 2011. The performance was given to open the First Night of the...

Britten's The World of the Spirit was written for BBC Radio in 1938, his second collaboration with R. Ellis Roberts. The wide-ranging texts from religious books, poetry, and newspaper articles about t...

A one-act work for Dallas Opera based on the tragic climbing disaster on Mount Everest in 1996.

James Whitbourn's Set Me As A Seal Upon Thine Heart for SATB and Organ.

Commissioned by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, to mark the centenary of 'A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols'. First performance on 24th December 2018 at King's College Chapel, given by the...

An extract from 'The Veil of the Temple' from the beginning of Cycle 8.

A setting of the Marian hymn for mixed voices and organ, commissioned for Malcolm Munro and the Choir of St Mary the Virgin, Dover. The first performance was in 1 December 2019.

The Big Picture was written to celebrate the completion of a major redevelopment and refurbishment to Aberdeen Art Gallery. Wishing to examine a subject important, in different ways, to both the visua...

The Big Picture was written to celebrate the completion of a major redevelopment and refurbishment to Aberdeen Art Gallery. Wishing to examine a subject important, in different ways, to both the visua...