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At that hour when all things have repose is set for choir and harp by American composer Timothy Stephens. It is a work filled with musical images: 'Play on, invisible harps, unto love'.

The Scottish folk-song Wild Mountain Thyme (Will ye go, Lassie go?) was popularised by singer Francis McPeake, who recorded it in 1957 for BBC Radio. Irish vocalist and composer Eoin Conway has arrang...

Bó na Leathadhairce (the one-horned cow) is a playful song learned by many Irish children in school. With origins in county Kerry, located on the south-west coast of Ireland, the one-horned cow is a m...

Dúlamán is a traditional working song from the north of Ireland, made famous in the 1970s by the legendary Irish group Clannad. The word Dúlamán means seaweed and the song references two types, one fo...

Quoting a fragment of text from Chapter 14 of James Joyce's Ulysses, composer Eoghan Desmond portrays childbirth as a divine mystery. The greeting fanfare of a solo horn in tandem with the choir depic...

James Joyce considered the poems from his Chamber Music collection 'pretty enough to be put to music' and expressed the hope to his brother that 'someone will do so, someone that knows old English mus...

Found in Volume I under the Scottish title, Solus-iuil na siorruidheachd (The Guiding Light of Eternity), the six lines of text give reference to three types of light: the "joyous light of this day",...

William Butler Yeats ends his short story The Adoration of the Magi with the narrator describing a centuries old Gaelic prayer…" when I pray against the demons I repeat a prayer which was made I know...

In this graceful arrangement, we hear the standard English version of the well-knowntext set to a traditional Scottish melody. Sopranos and altos predominate in the four verses, sometimes in unison an...

In this graceful arrangement, we hear the standard English version of the well-knowntext set to a traditional Scottish melody. Sopranos and altos predominate in the four verses, sometimes in unison an...

Arranged for for Alto Solo, S.A.T.B. Voices, Guitar and Bodhrán, the song Courting is a Pleasure is a song of false love, betrayal, and emigration, typically sung from the male perspective about a fal...

In the song the girl sings a tale of an unhappy courtship after being slighted by her sweetheart Johnny and warns people to be wary of men with a roving eye! The protagonist of the song curses the man...

Commissioned by All Classical Portland radio network to mark the occasion of the total solar eclipse in 2017, Body of the Moon was first recorded by Erick Vallé (vocal solo), Nancy Ives (violoncello),...

Mit den Petrarca-Vertonungen setze ich meine Beschäftigung mit klassischer italienischer Literatur fort, nachdem ich 2011 bereits Michelangelo und 2013 Ariost vertont habe. Der Gestus und die Harmonik...

This newly commissioned work joins beloved hymn tunes with Joseph Martin's creative musical settings to present the inspired words of Charles Wesley in this masterful collection. The chorals are accom...

arr. Godfrey Ridout

by Paul Halley

by Healey Willan

There Will Come Soft Rains (2022) composed by Joel Järventausta

Discover the pure pop magic of one of the quintessential British rock guitar players, Johnny Marr, with this collection of Smiths classics for you to learn. Six of the band's biggest and best songs ar...