Sacred Music

This volume presents a selection of Danish sacred evening songs by leading composers of the Danish church and hymn tradition. The collection reflects a contemplative and atmospheric repertoire centred...

Created with rhythmic phrases, mixed meter, and a simple text, this choral is an outstanding a cappella teaching and performance piece. Repetition and the use of hand claps help in learning and retent...

Paul McCartney's 'Ecce Cor Meum' is an oratorio for soprano, boy trebles, chorus and orchestra. The world premiere performance was given on 3rd November, 2006 at the Royal Albert Hall, London. The US...

The Lord is My Shepherd is best known as the theme tune to the award-winning BBC TV series The Vicar of Dibley. Warm and melodious, Goodall's setting of Psalm 23 is deservedly well loved by choirs and...

This is a beautiful piece in melody and form, but what stands out even more is how composer Kevin Memley has used the voice to orchestrate the piece. Programmatic effects are tastefully incorporated i...

The first movement of a mass in progress from this Swedish composer. In addition, the Kyrie is now available. Available: SATB a cappella, SSA a cappella.

The new work of young composer Eric Whitacre uses the text of David, lamenting the slaying of his son Absalom (II Samuel 18:33). It is a major work, with great dramatic moments describing the feeling...

The anthem is selected from the Six Latin Hymns, Op. 40, written in 1912 by the Swedish organist and composer well known for his Te Deum for chorus and orchestra. In Latin, it is well suited for high...

This elegant five-part a cappella work may also be performed doubling with organ or keyboard. A great selection for a mature choir.

This work is pure magic! Short rhythmic phrases, repeating and building on top of one another, contrasting sections, a dynamic and rewarding conclusion. The traditional Latin text makes it appropriate...

With both an English and a Swedish text, this simple tune and comforting text are perfect for general church services or the concert stage. The melody is passed around from one voice part to another b...

A fun, syncopated, spiritual-type piece for a cappella choir. There's also a part for a soprano solo. Requires a full group, as all parts divide at times. A rousing hand-clapper!

This second book of anthems by Bob Chilcott assembles pieces in a wonderful range of styles and moods. The anthems have been carefully selected to be both approachable to a wide range of choirs and ap...

Displaying Chydenius's unique style, I am the great sun is a driven and focused setting of Charles Causley's poem. This is textured choral writing: you'll find imitative passages, melodic and rhythmic...

for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied This sacred a cappella work is a joyous anthem, written for the Papal visit to Westminster Abbey in September 2010.

for SATB (divisi) with 2 soprano solos This engagingly written piece sets the Lamentations of Jeremiah. The overlapping passages of music passed between the soloists and the choir create a dramatic ef...

for SATB unaccompanied A setting of the Mass in Latin, written for the Truro Cathedral Choir.

Setting a text spoken by Nurse Edith Cavell on the eve of her execution in 1915 and re-fashioned by the poet Sean Street, McDowall has created a work of haunting beauty. It is equally suitable for fun...

For SSAATB unaccompanied.

For SATB unaccompanied This collection of 27 Russian sacred choral works was compiled and edited by Russian music scholar and choral director Noelle Mann, who was curator of the Prokofiev Archive at t...

This simple, well-crafted motet is bright, optimistic, and compelling. Skempton employs artful homophony and sensitive word-setting, and the repetitions of the opening refrain build towards an effecti...

Skempton's setting of the Preces and Responses is simple, well-crafted, and harmonically rewarding, and is perfect for choirs seeking new material for the liturgy.

for SSSSAATTBB unaccompanied Gabriel Jackson's is one of the most striking modern settings of this ancient text. The composer's trademark diversity of texture is much in evidence, with passages of ric...

A surging choral work with distinct punctuated vocal lines, often with a leading tenor part.

This famous text is set to richly textured music filled with graceful melodic shapes.