Choral Music of Our Time

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This arrangement of Dido's Lament was written for the funeral of the composer's friend Frank Campbell. As Frank was such an accomplished pianist, no keyboard music was included in the service in defer...

This large-scale choral work for 24 voices sets passages from Thomas de Quincey’s essay, an extraordinary text whose authorship is ambiguous, but which has, for me, something of the austerity and absu...

This pair of English psalm settings for mixed choir is the newest addition to Watkins' growing collection of vocal music. Each under 5 minutes, they are fitting both for liturgical use and concert per...

Chorpartitur

Chorpartitur

Unaccompanied Chorus SATBarB

Chorpartitur inkl. Klavierstimme für Probezwecke

Delicate and elegiac, furthest removed from celebratory indulgence, Duddell set Grace Nichol's Ode to English with artful simplicity (Tom Service, The Guardian)

Gavin Bryars has written prolifically for choirs of all abilities in a range of styles, from his sombre 'Cadman Requiem' to his uplifting song 'The Open Road', written for and performed by 300 people...

Commissioned by the King's College Choir to write the carol for their celebrated Christmas Eve service A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, Watkins, who studied at King's as an undergraduate, has se...

This collection gathers some of Percy Grainger’s most characteristic choral works – from the haunting beauty of Mo nighean dubh and the lyrical simplicity of Irish Tune from County Derry to the exuber...

This motet takes Palestrina’s Offertory for Palm Sunday as a musical starting point. The same words of foresakenness from the Psalms are set here, and certain harmonies and melodic contours from Pales...

This motet takes Palestrina’s Offertory for Palm Sunday as a musical starting point. The same words of foresakenness from the Psalms are set here, and certain harmonies and melodic contours from Pales...

an exquisite plangent prayer in close dense harmony with a rising soprano solo. - Bachtrack

Barry joins a simple unison melody in high and then low voices with a sparse keyboard accompaniment to create a carol of intoxicating harmony reminiscent of early polyphony.Available for the first tim...

Although I had already set separate Latin versions of both the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, this is the first time I've made a setting in English of both texts for use at Evensong. I have often atten...

Five Spirituals, the original world-famous Spirituals set by Tippett in his best loved work A Child Of Our Time, newly arranged for male voice choir by one of the leading British conductors in this fi...

An English playing song collected in Lancashire and published in Miss M. H. Mason's Nursery Rhymes and Country Songs, freely set for 4-part women's, or children's or both's, chorus or for four single...

This piece was written in 1997 for unaccompanied voices after the choral piece 'On Photography' for the Hilliard Ensemble and is dedicated to them.Expressa Solis may also be performed by male choir.