Classical Music

The simple but stylistically typical setting by Wolfgang Kelber is an ideal introduction to polyphonic gospel singing. Proven thousands of times over and always up to date: Bosse Verlag's choral colle...

In Silvestrovs kurzem Chorsatz erklingt nur ein Teil der von Beethoven verwendeten Zeilen aus Schillers 'Ode an die Freude' - die Strophe 'Freude schöner Götterfunken' und 'Seid umschlungen, Millionen...

Alexander Glasunov's chorus 'Vniz po matushke po Volge' is unique, largely unknown and unpublished in the West so far. His elaboration of this elegiac Russian folk song evolves from the unanimously in...

A part song by the eminent English choral composer Herbert Howells.

Written for the Serenade in the Cloisters of Canterbury Cathedral, which takes place as night falls, this work embodies the tranquility and serenity of night as portrayed in the text by Henry Longfell...

Heart-felt setting for SATB a cappella of words of Our Lady of Guadalupe to St Juan Diego, December 1531 (English), with bass 'cantus firmus' from a 14th Century Marian antiphon (Latin): 'Listen, put...

This carol, written for the choir Canticum, is an upbeat setting of a rarely-used 15th-century English text, and would be an exciting new addition to any mixed-voice choir's Christmas repertoire. A 's...

Setting for double SATB chorus a cappella of an anonymous medieval text about Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians.

The Mass in Bb was first performed in November 1915 by the choir of All Saints, Margaret Street, London. The Director of Music at the time, Dr Walter Vale, adapted movements from Rachmaninoff's Liturg...

adapted from All Night Vigil (Vespers)

A setting for SSATBB a cappella of a Latin text, adapted from Rachmaninoff's Liturgy of St John Chrysostom.

This straightforward setting of the eighth chapter of the Song of Solomon, which features two people's professions of love for each other, was written for the wedding of friends of the composer in 200...

A collection of three choral songs setting the words of three First World War poets, commissioned in 2014 by the choir Sospiri to mark the centenary of the start of the war. The songs are charged with...

This piece for unaccompanied mixed choir (with frequent voice divisions) was commissioned by Ralph Allwood for the 1987 broadcast of the Eton Choral Course on Radio 3. The inimitable poem by Phineas F...

This beautiful short work was commissioned in 2014 to celebrate the 20th wedding anniversary of two of the composer's friends. It was first performed by the chamber choir Tenebrae on their album of mu...

Composed in 2014 for the Wellensian Consort (conductor: Christopher Finch), At Evening is composed in the style of an evening benediction. As a result, it is wonderfully suited as the praise song of a...

This setting of a war poem by Charles Hamilton Sorleys was composed for Genesis Sixteen and performed at the 2015 Cumnock Tryst, James MacMillan's own music festival in Ayrshire, Scotland, to commemor...

Three Songs of Love was commissioned by the Exultate Singers and first performed at St George's Church, Bristol on 14 February 2015.The three texts (Clare, Yeats and McCrae) represent different moods...

The unique ability of the act of singing to comfort, cheer and raise ones spirit is celebrated in this beautiful choral work by Kim André Arnesen, one of Norway's most frequently performed and increas...

Originally part of David Bednall's Three Songs of Love, the short section which sets W B Yeats' poem The Cloths of Heaven ('Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths') is here presented as a separate octa...

This setting of a well-known Christmas text by Robert Herrick was commissioned in 2017 to mark the 50th anniversary of the University of Dundee and performed for the first time in the city's St Paul's...

Vertonung für gemischten Chor a cappella eines ewigen Dauerbrenners unter den religiösen Texten (Joh 14,15-17; King-James-Bibel). Das Werk wurde von The Elders (einem Zusammenschluss ehemaliger Staats...

Composer's note: 'This work comes from amazement - that the encounter with divine love, our relationship with the sacred, is to be constantly astonished by the endlessness of the depths of love. Love'...

Composer's note:'Ring the bells was commissioned by the London Philharmonic Choir, which also sang the piece's premiere at London's Royal Albert Hall on December 20, 2017, conducted by Toby Purser. Th...