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This secular work by John Rutter sets the text of Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 18. Rutter skilfully weaves the figurative language of the sonnet within the melodic lines of the music. Shakespeare's text i...

This setting of A Spotless Rose reflects the wintry starkness of the fifteenth-century text through its minor key and bare upper-voice opening, while the warmth of the full voicing on the words 'light...

This setting of Phineas Fletcher's text is gentle and flowing, with a lilting, descending motif to characterise the 'slow tears'. Archer offers nuanced dynamics and imitative entries in this simple bu...

This expressive piece is based on The Seven Sacred Virtues of the Lakota: the title describes a commitment to live by these values, the metaphorical 'red road', being a spiritual way of life. The unhu...

This rich arrangement of the second movement of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto for wordless a cappella voices was written for Harry Christophers and The Sixteen. Chilcott artfully reimagines a p...

This setting of a traditional Gaelic prayer is poignant and heartfelt, with sustained lines and a full, rich choral sound. Gentle shifts in harmony between various combinations of voices and the use o...

This moving rendition of Pachelbel's Canon sets the 'Requiescat' from Oscar Wilde's 'Rosa Mystica' (1890). Chilcott displays his sensitivity as a vocal arranger, exploiting the richness of the SSSATB...

This setting of Orlando Gibbons and Catullus is a re-working of Gibbons's celebrated seventeenth-century madrigal (of the same title) for five voices. It retains the lilting depiction of the swan and...

This is a warm and tender piece setting the last three verses of Christina Rossetti's 'What good shall my life do me?', which encourages leading a life of love as an example for others. Daley's heartf...

Settings words from part of a letter by Edna St Vincent Millay to her lover Arthur Davison Ficke, this is a gentle, charming piece that celebrates our freedom to love.

This imaginative setting of Longfellow's poem encourages the use of evocative bird and wind noises to capture the text's natural imagery. In a fresh, a cappella style, Hawley's charismatic melodies so...

Composed for International Women's Day, this mesmerizing piece celebrates the centennary of Rosalind Franklin and sets her own words with additional text by the poet Seán Street. . . .

Immerse yourself in the delicate soundscape of this enchanting cradle song. This masterful a cappella arrangement for mixed choir (SATB with divisions) captivates with its intimate atmosphere and fine...

This compact anthem for unaccompanied choir is the result of another successful collaboration between Bob Chilcott and the poet Charles Bennett. Well-crafted and tender melodic lines are shared betwee...

Taken at a slow processional tempo this work has a predominantly canonic texture. The syncopated passages are at once sombre and sensual, and the balancing homphonic phrases achieve real power. A shor...

This is one of Clarke's many pieces on love, and one of the best. It combines the English modality of earlier times with foretastes of the adventurous chromaticism of her later work. It is a lovely pi...

This is an appropriately aching setting of Sir Philip Sidney's poem of unending desire and longing. There are gorgeous chromatics and enharmonics and a masterful use of a triplet pattern which becomes...

Weep you no more, sad fountains is a modern take on the Elizabethan lute-song, integrating the characteristic alternations of minor and major, fondness for cross-relations, and vivid word-painting. Th...

Music, when soft voices die combines aspects of nineteenth-century English pastoral style with some of the tonal adventurousness of Vaughan Williams's Shakespeare settings. This is an exceptionally be...

This full- sounding choral work with a driving, rhythmic intensity may be performed a cappella or with the piano doubling the voices. ABA form makes for quick learning. Secular text is perfect for sch...

This full- sounding choral work with a driving, rhythmic intensity may be performed a cappella or with the piano doubling the voices. ABA form makes for quick learning. Secular text is perfect for sch...

A thoughtful song of parting, benediction-like, in the style of an Irish blessing. Basic choral writing throughout with much opportunity for rubato phrasing. Moderate ranges in all voice parts in both...

A thoughtful song of parting, benediction-like, in the style of an Irish blessing. Basic choral writing throughout with much opportunity for rubato phrasing. Moderate ranges in all voice parts in both...

It's an original spiritual with a touch of the traditional I Want to Be Ready. It's fresh and singable, with solid part writing. And just when you think the exciting original melody is about to end, t...