Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series

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...

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...

Inspired by workshops with the pupils of All Hallows School in Shepton Mallet, this work is about how the world around us can support us, change us, and lead us in our lives. The text is drawn from a...

The 14th-century Eucharistic text 'Ave verum' has been set to music by many composers over the centuries, no doubt drawn to its vivid and powerful imagery. Todd first set the words (for SATB choir) in...

Written for Philip Redfern and the choir of St George's School, Edinburgh, who first performed it in December 2014, this is a refreshing new setting of the well-known Christmas carol. Will Todd's expe...

Let all the world in every corner sing was commissioned by Colston's Girls' School in Bristol for the Chamber Choir and their Director of Music Matthew Redman, and was written in August 2008 for the s...

Composed for the Children's Chorus of Opera North, this piece is a setting for three high choral voices of Thomas Hardy's poem of the same name. The swaying style of a jazz waltz and the chromatic but...

The original version of Flight Song (for SATB) was written as a gift to Dr Anton Armstrong and the St Olaf Choir, Minnesota, with whom Arnesen has worked on a number of occasions. The SSAA version was...

Combining a text by Charles Anthony Silvestri with syllables inspired by the song tradition (joik) of the Sami people in Scandinavia, Sing the earth is a tribute to our common home, the earth, as well...

This new arrangement of Howells's 1919 solo song is part of the Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series. The original composer's stirring harmonies and masterful word-painting are transferred to a...

Commissioned by the Somerset, England based charity, Churchill Music!, The Same Flame was inspired by Pierre de Coubertin's ideals of Olympism which gave rise to the modern Olympic and Paralympic valu...

Commissioned by the Somerset, England based charity, Churchill Music!, The Same Flame was inspired by Pierre de Coubertin's ideals of Olympism which gave rise to the modern Olympic and Paralympic valu...

Commissioned by the Somerset, England based charity, Churchill Music!, The Same Flame was inspired by Pierre de Coubertin's ideals of Olympism which gave rise to the modern Olympic and Paralympic valu...

Commissioned by the Somerset, England based charity, Churchill Music!, The Same Flame was inspired by Pierre de Coubertin's ideals of Olympism which gave rise to the modern Olympic and Paralympic valu...

The last song in Riverdance - The Show. The composer draws from the comforting feeling of returning home after a long journey for this piece. Scored for soprano solo and mixed chorus, this effective p...

The iconic opening choral passage from Riverdance, composed by Bill Whelan. Starting with solo soprano and then joined by full chorus, this piece tells the story of the origins of the river and its jo...

The Heart's Cry was written in praise of feminine qualities. The text refers to the salmon and the eagle. The salmon was traditionally a symbol for wisdom in Irish folklore, and its daring journey bac...

'I sing because...' is the third and final movement of the choral suite Todd's 'Songs of Love', which was commissioned by Elena Sharkova for the Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale in 2012. The haunting a...

Everyone Sang was written for the wedding blessing at Wells Cathedral on 26th May 2007. The choir on that occasion featured many singers from the operatic world and this, combined with the emotional n...

Kim André Arnesen is one of he most frequently performed composers from Norway today. He writes 'singing together lights an extraordinary process in us: we connect from the depths of our beings with e...

Symphonic Adiemus presents twelve numbers from the Adiemus series in dynamic new scorings for SATB choir and full symphony orchestra. Since it was first heard in 1994, Adiemus has captured the imagina...

Symphonic Adiemus presents twelve numbers from the Adiemus series in dynamic new scorings for SATB choir and full symphony orchestra. Since it was first heard in 1994, Adiemus has captured the imagina...

Symphonic Adiemus presents twelve numbers from the Adiemus series in dynamic new scorings for SATB choir and full symphony orchestra. Since it was first heard in 1994, Adiemus has captured the imagina...

Symphonic Adiemus presents twelve numbers from the Adiemus series in dynamic new scorings for SATB choir and full symphony orchestra. Since it was first heard in 1994, Adiemus has captured the imagina...