Sacred Music

Commissioned by William Saunders for the Royal Hospital School, Ipswich, in 2013, Exalt us in Your love is loosely based on the words of that school's prayer. Choirs and listeners familiar with Will T...

Composed in 2015, Stabat Mater was commissioned by the Genesis Foundation for Harry Christophers and The Sixteen. Scored for mixed chorus and string orchestra it is a long-awaited sequel to the early...

These three jazz arrangements of well-known hymns were composed for Andrew Earis and the choirs of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, on the occasion of various services and a BBC broadcast from that ch...

This energetic and danceable setting of Psalm 33, verses 1 - 4 (in modern English), 5 minutes in length, was commissioned by Worth School and Abbey in the UK in 2018. A highly attractive musical inter...

Adapted from a movement of Arnesen's Stabat Mater for upper voices and orchestra, Eja Mater is arranged for mixed voices with frequent divisi, obligato cello and harp (or piano). This part of the Stab...

Komponiert im Jahr 2011 für Katherine Dienes-Williams und den Chor der Guildford Cathedral, umfasst Guildford Mass die üblichen Texte der lateinischen Messe (Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Benedictus and Agn...

Commissioned by the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for a commemorative event in 2022, this work presents the composer's celebrated Passcaglia for string orchestra of 1995 in a new scorin...

Especially commissioned by the Dean & Chapter of Westminster for performance at the Funeral Service of Her Late Majesty Queen Elizabeth II at Westminster Abbey on Monday 19 September 2022. The text, f...

Since publication in 1997, MacMillan's The Galloway Mass has established itself as one of the most popular congregational mass settings in churches of various denominations around the world. With the...

Die von den schottischen Hebriden stammende einfache wie schöne Melodie dieses Weihnachtsliedes zeichnet sich durch volkstümliche Atmosphäre und tänzerischen Rhythmus aus. Ein zugängliches und ungewöh...

This is an approachable and affecting setting of a devotional poem by the revered Carmelite nun St Thérèse of Lisieux (1873–97). The choral writing, marked ‘placid’, comprises simple four-part homopho...

Composed in 2019, James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio is a summatory work in his output, collecting together settings of poetry, liturgy and scripture which explore themes related to the birth of Jes...

This short but awe-inspiring ceremonial piece was commissioned by Westminster Cathedral for the visit of Pope Benedict XVI in 2010. Organ, brass and timpani thunder around the sung text, ‘You are Pete...

Written for the 2025 BBC Radio 3 Epiphany Carol Service, broadcast from Pembroke College, Cambridge, Arise, shine sets the first three verses of Isaiah 60: 'Arise, shine, for your light has come, and...

A setting of one of the seven O Antiphons, O Adonai, is built upon an ostinato figure on a single note which starts and ends the composition, initially using the words of the title. Acting as a drone...

This anthem was commissioned by Anna Lapwood for the Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, during her tenure as Director of Music, to mark the 40th anniversary of women being admitted to study at the...

Will Todd’s setting of the Christmas Latin text, O magnum mysterium (O great mystery), was commissioned in 2023 for Unionville High School Chorale and Brandywine Valley Chorale and their conductor Jas...

Rooted in the grand, solemn settings of the Mass Ordinary in 19th- and 20th-century France, Kerensa Briggs’s Messe Solennelle brings a contemporary perspective to the genre. Commissioned for The Cathe...

Finzi’s Magnificat was composed to commission in 1952 for the choir of Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. Intended for a service of Christmas Vespers it therefore excluded the Gloria, closing...

Prayerful setting of words from St Thomas Aquinas’s Adore Te. The insensate believer yearns for closer union with Christ: ‘The veil is on Thy face: I cannot see. I cry to Thee for grace, That that may...

This prayerful setting is suitable for funerals and memorial services. The mantra ‘Do not be afraid’ frames words from the Book of Wisdom: ‘But the souls of the righteous are in the hand of God, and t...

for two part children's voices and instruments Scoring: Treble instr 1, Treble instr II, bass instr, 2 perc (timps, sd or tamb, cymb, susp cym, trng, tamb or castanets), keyboard. Optional parts, tran...