Classical Music

Music from Westminster

Orchestration: 2 Flutes, Oboe, 2 Clarinets (2nd db. Alto Sax), Bassoon, 2 Horns, 2 Trumpets, Timpani, Percussion, Harp Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) Soprano and Baritone soloists, M...

Here is Beethoven's most famous piano piece, the first movement of his Moonlight Sonata, in an arrangement for choir with a soloist. The piece can be accompanied by piano or by an orchestra. For full...

A new 40 minute work in seven sections for mixed voice choir with baritone solo and orchestra accompaniment. Settings of the Seven Last Words from the Cross but also utilising other texts from, amongs...

Two beautiful and original settings of poems by Robert Louis Stevenson - Evensong (The embers of the day are red ... ) and Requiem (Under the wide and starry sky ... ). Listen to the sample recording...

A new setting by Paul Carr of the Ave Maria for mixed voice choir (SATB) and orchestra or piano. It was commissioned by Matthew Hopkins and the Nottingham Trent University Choir and first performed by...

Commissioned by the Reigate and Redhill Choral Society, this 8 minute work is for mixed voice choir with an accompaniment of organ, 2 trumpets in C, Horn in F, Tenor Trombone, Bass Trombone and Percus...

Orchestration: Mixed voice choir (SATB) String orchestra: Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Violoncello, Double Bass A very moving new setting of the Beatitudes. May also be performed accompanied only by org...

A new setting by Philip Henderson for mixed voice choir (SATB with divisi) and piano of words by Edward Thomas (1878-1917). Taken from 'The Edward Thomas Quartet', four settings comprising 'Adlestrop'...

Four settings, comprising 'Adlestrop', 'So we lay, all night', 'The Cherry Trees' and 'Lights out - Here love ends', by Philip Henderson for mixed voice choir (SATB with divisi) and piano of words by...

A setting of a poem by e.e.cummings for mixed voice choir (SATB), organ, harp and percussion (Tubular Bells and optional Vibraphone). This piece was commissioned and first performed by the choir of St...

The Fantasia on British Sea Songs was arranged by Sir Henry Wood in 1905 to mark the centenary of the Battle of Trafalgar. It is a medley of British sea songs and for many years has been seen as an in...

The Fantasia on British Sea Songs was arranged by Sir Henry Wood in 1905 to mark the centenary of the Battle of Trafalgar. It is a medley of British sea songs and for many years has been seen as an in...

A beautiful setting for unaccompanied SATB choir of William Blake's famous text. This is the second setting of these words by Paul Carr. The earlier version (from 1985) also for unaccompanied mixed vo...

The Song of the Ghost Orchid' is the forty-fifth to be written in a cycle of musical portraits of the forty-eight wild orchids of Great Britain and Ireland - for various instrumental, vocal and orches...

This is an arrangement for mixed voice choir (SATB) and piano of one of the movements from Paul Carr's 'Requiem for an Angel'. The words are by Jack Larson (1928-2015) 'Do I love you more than a day?...

Three songs of love with gorgeous music by Paul Carr for mixed voice choir (SATB) and piano. 'Devotion (Fain would I change that note To which fond Love hath charm'd me.....)' [Anonymous 1605] 'Now sl...

Composed for the Guildhall Alumni Choir in dedication to Diana Bickley with words and music by Paul Carr. A beautiful setting for SATB and piano. 'Soft music floats on waves of love, as flowers burn...

These pieces are evocations of 16th and 17th century dance forms by a composer long fascinated by the period. The melodies are new and no genuine anticke (old English for antique) tunes are used. MONS...

An original light-hearted song of celebration. Although suitable for any birthday with a zero on the end, it would perhaps be most appropriate for birthdays in the range 40-100 of a person, organisati...

An original light-hearted song of celebration. Although suitable for any birthday with a zero on the end, it would perhaps be most appropriate for birthdays in the range 40-100 of a person, organisati...