Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series

Following Three jazz carols and Three more jazz carols is a pair of further innovative jazz arrangements of carols originally created in 2012 for a service of Jazz Carols at St Martin in the Fields, L...

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...

Composed for the New London Children's Choir to celebrate its 25th anniversary. An attractive and accessible setting of this much-loved sacred text. Suitable for intermediate standard school and churc...

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...

Perennial Karl Jenkins favourite Benedictus in the male-voice version featured on the best-selling EMI Classics recording This Land of Ours, performed by Cantorion and Cory Band.

The original version of this carol (SATB and piano) was commissioned by Celia Ellingson through LutheranArts in honor of Gary Aamodt’s 80th Birthday, December 25, 2017, and is dedicated to the annual...

Commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association and first performed at the 2015 ACDA Convention in Salt Lake City, this setting of the Gloria text from the Christian Mass (in Latin) is a hig...

A rapt meditation on this sacramental medieval poem, composed to mark the 400th anniversary of the of St John Ogilvie at Glasgow Cross in 1615 in a performance by pupils from six local junior schools....

Als eigenständiges Stück, welches ursprünglich der sechste Satz seines Stabat Mater ist, hat sich Arnesen für einen anderen, aber ähnlichen Text entschieden. Hier steht nicht die schmerzensreiche Gott...

Setting of a prayer by Mother Cornelia Connelly, foundress of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus in 1846 and latterly Mayfield School. In 1863 she was inspired to transform the ruins of the Old Palac...

The familiar Latin text, ‘Tantum ergo Sacramentum’ (‘Therefore only the sacrament’), attributed to the 13th-century St Thomas Aquinus is here set by Anna Lapwood in simple strophic form for upper voic...

A serene setting of Luke 4: 18-19 (English text), suitable for Pentecost and general use.

A new carol from composer Will Todd, written for a service of Jazz Carols at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London. Full of jazz inflections, this restrained and reflective piece will be a valuable addition...

Innovative jazz arrangements of Silent night, Once in royal David's city and Away in a manger originally created for a service of Jazz Carols at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London by Will Todd. Rich harm...

O Lux Beata' ('O Blessed Light') was commissioned by The Fotheringhay Singers (Marius Carney, conductor). The work, a setting of a 4th-century hymn text ascribed to St Ambrose of Milan, contrasts a pl...

A second set of innovative jazz arrangements of three carols originally created for a service of Jazz Carols at St Martin in the Fields, London by Will Todd. Rich harmonies serve to bring new expressi...

A setting of the Latin text from the Roman Missal, Requiem is the opening movement of a larger work entitled Songs of Peace, which was written in 2012 in memory of the composer's mother. Todd's gently...

A setting of Psalm 45 (46) in Latin commissioned by the Leeds Festival Chorus and first performed by them in Leeds Town Hall in March 2014, conducted by Simon Wright. The work features a variety of ch...

New settings of the two evening canticles which incorporate jazz elements, including harmony in voice parts and organ and many 'blue' notes. Despite these jazz elements, the music is very approachable...

Stay with me, Lord was originally commissioned by the Genesis Foundation as one of three commissioned settings of Padre Pio's Prayer after Communion, and first performed in June 2008 at Westminster Ca...

This setting of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poem Pied Beauty was commissioned by the Rev Jim Bates, Vicar of Kingston, for the service in Kingston Parish Church celebrating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Eli...

This carol was commissioned in 2002 by King's College, Cambridge for their famous service of Nine Lessons and Carols. It tells the start of the familiar Christmas story: Gabriel's Annunciation; praise...

This work was commissioned by the Friends of Cathedral Music to mark their Diamond Jubilee in 2016, with the intention of performance by as many of the affiliated choirs as possible.Naturally a celebr...

This anthem was commissioned in 2012 by Simon Winters to celebrate 25 years of the chamber choir Felicitas. Thinking about the unaccompanied vocal texture brought Will Todd back to his 1995 setting of...

Written on the occasion of a wedding in 2006, Love is beautiful indeed is a setting of a poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61), which is part of the tenth sonnet of her Sonnets from the Portugu...