Barbershop Sheet Music for Mixed Voices

This enchanting setting of the well-known medieval text combines expressive harmonies with gently interweaving lines for solo or soli voices. A beautifully written Advent miniature, Rose of such virtu...

For SATB accompanied and unaccompanied. Drawing together two composers long associated with contemporary vocal music, Sun, Moon, Sea, and Stars presents eight original and exciting pieces by Bob Chilc...

This is a stirring arrangement of the gospel classic I am on the battlefield for my Lord by Robert L. Jefferson for unaccompanied mixed voices, with two idiomatic solos. Jefferson's characterful arran...

This beautiful anthem was a winner of the London A Cappella Festival Composition Competition 2012. A sensitive setting of a text by Thomas Campion, it features word-painting, a rich use of harmony, fl...

Commissioned by the Church of the Immaculate Conception, Farm Street, London, this a cappella setting of the 4th Century Latin prayer is a hymn of praise to the Virgin Mary.

Bright, electric, and charged with energy, this setting of one of the seven Advent 'O' Antiphons features Jackson's characteristic flourishes of melodic ornamentation, tempered by moments of calm from...

Here is the ring I have made for My Lady Poverty This reflective setting of an evocative text by Charles Bennett uses pastoral and romantic imagery to depict the beauty of a life free from the desire...

This tender arrangement of the well-loved Irish folk melody Londonderry Air sets an uplifting poem by Howard Walter: a stirring combination of music and text that was also used at the funeral of Diana...

Setting a heart-breaking wartime text by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Pott has created a beautifully poignant piece befitting any Remembrance occasion. Written in memory of Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid, a bom...

I sing of a Maiden combines flowing lines with rhythmic irregularity, and ends with an airy weightlessness which, in the words of the composer, echoes the vernal flavour of the words. Although rhythmi...

This is a grand and exultant arrangement of the hymn tune 'Llanfair' and is presented with two text options: 'Hail the day that sees him rise' for use at Easter, and 'Praise the Lord! his glories show...

This stunning setting of Revelation 22:12-13, 17, describes Christ's generous offering of grace to 'whoever is willing'. The piece begins with a lively opening but quickly shifts into a gentler mood,...

Commissioned by the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music, this short work sets the Eucharistic hymn by Thomas Aquinas. It starts with an expressive, rhythmic soprano line, and finishes with a...

A short anthem setting the Lord's Prayer in the version of the text from the First Prayer Book, hence the unusual spelling. This was premiered at the Brighton Festival in 2012.

In this unaccompanied setting of Thomas A. Clark's poem, Jackson beautifully conjures up the atmosphere of the onset of nightfall. Featuring a wide range of rhythms, textures, and dynamics, this is a...

Alan Bullard's first Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, written for the choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge, can be performed a cappella or with organ. Both movements feature pleasing tonal contrasts and ha...

This touching piece sets Yeats' beautiful words describing the love of a parent for their child. Switching between major and minor tonalities, A Cradle Song is quiet and understated, with sensitive a...

The signature tune for the award-winning Swedish a cappella group Vocado, this poignant love song is characterized by mixed messages: the lover wants to leave, but can't quite bring himself to walk ou...

Setting a popular text paraphrased from the Song of Solomon, Rise up, my love is an uplifting anthem ideal for Easter services, although the text's beautiful springtime imagery would also make a lovel...

A short Mass setting for unaccompanied chorus, written for the Exon Singers recording, The Cloths of Heaven, on Delphian Records.

Skempton's Third Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis setting was written for Wells Cathedral and premiered in May 2012. The simplicity and purity of the setting is typical of Skempton's style, ideal for male...

This is a setting of the words used to conclude a communion service: 'The Mass is ended, thanks be to God.' The tenor's heraldic opening leads into the highly rhythmic 'Deo Gratias' section. Written f...

Ever-changing in mood and pace, La Musique is a setting of poems by Elizabeth Bishop and Charles Baudelaire on the transformative power of music. Jackson musically represents the complex psychological...

Here Jackson sets early Christian texts by St Augustine of Hippo, Baldwin of Forde, and St Mary Magdalene de Pazzi alongside words by Estonian poet Doris Kareva. Each movement offers a change of mood,...

Setting a fifteenth-century English text containing some short Latin passages, this is a joyful, dance-like carol with a medieval feel. The spirited, lilting melody begins in the sopranos and altos bu...