Mixed Choir a capella

Skywalk - an astronaut describes his feelings as he walks in space and looks at his planet, Earth, in all its beauty. Steve Martland sets the text to music that is weightless, luminous, incantatory.

One of Martland's most popular works, often broadcast on BBC Radio 3, this brilliant and joyful piece culminates in a full-throttled version of the famous 'Sumer is i-cumen in'.

Diese Bearbeitung des schottischen 'Skye Boat Song' wurde ursprünglich 1956 für den Zyklus 'Four Songs from the British Isles' komponiert, jedoch noch vor dessen Drucklegung durch die Bearbeitung eine...

Chorpartitur

Angelus is an important addition to the choral ensemble repertoire - highly charged, dramatic and challenging for any good choir.

A fresh, lyrical choral work which will haunt your memory. The text was derived from various sources such as the Bible, poetry and lyrics from pop songs which are paraphrased or alluded to not only in...

This beautiful work, originally written for the Hilliard Ensemble, has been arranged by the composer for full choral forces.

Prayer of Thanksgiving was written to mark the 400th anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot in November 1605, which occurred during the months when London was experiencing a further time of terror after th...

This gravely beautiful choral work, dedicated to a victim of the Lockerbie air crash of 1988, consists of five sections and provides only two of the traditional requiem texts - 'Kyrie' and 'Agnus Dei'...

Written in memory of Erich Fried (1921-1988), a writer who wrote the libretto for Goehr's opera Arden Must Die and whose poems were set in Warngedichte (op. 22), Carol for St Steven is short and playf...

Sea Songs, commissioned jointly by Ars Nova Copenhagen and Glasgow Concert Halls, is a kind of sequel to Martland's Street Songs (originally written for the Kings Singers and Evelyn Glennie). As with...

Joe Duddell's Magnificat and Nunc Dimtis was commissioned by Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts with funding from Kevin Jones and Laura Woodside-Jones and received its first performance by the...

Composed for Northern Sinfonia Chorus and Gavin Osborn.

The opening lines of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time provide the text for Gerald Barry's Long Time. Beginning 'For a long time I used to go to bed early', the work unfolds over gently rising an...

For SATB choir Text by Mary MacDonald translated by Lachlan MacBean and from the bible Chorpartitur - with piano reduction for rehearsal only - gemischter Chor (SATB)

John Casken's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis was commissioned to mark the return of the Lindisfarne Gospels to the North East of England, where Casken lives. The book, dating from the 7th century, is on...