Mixed Choir a capella

In this gentle lullaby, poet Charles Bennett reflects upon the promise held in the dreams of a sleeping child. The choir opens and closes the carol, providing a rich cushion of harmony on which the so...

Experience Edvard Grieg's timelessly moving setting of the traditional Marian hymn "Ave maris stella". This masterpiece for unaccompanied mixed choir (SATB) captivates through its noble simplicity, wa...

A short, but eloquent setting of the eighth stanza of the hymn 'Pange lingua', and thus an effective Holy Week motet.

Also in Carols for Choirs 2, and 100 Carols for Choirs. There is a different arrangement of this carol for SSA unaccompanied in Carols for Choirs 4.

Arrangements of traditional American tunes. 'Sourwood Mountain' is also available in Encores for Choirs 1 and Folk-Songs for Choirs 1. 'Black Sheep' is also available in Folk-songs for Choirs 1.

A powerful and moving setting which was premiered in Westminster Abbey in November 1998.

This beautiful and much-loved Somerset folk-song is No. 2 of Five Traditional Songs arranged for mixed choir by John Rutter (ISBN 9780193437173). The enduring appeal of the song lies in the beauty of...

These two numbers, 'Monday's Child' and 'Sing a Song of Sixpence', are taken from Five Childhood Lyrics, based on traditional children's rhymes and games.

This setting is taken from Five Traditional Songs.

This atmospheric setting of the celebrated poem 'April Rain Song' by (the Harlem Renaissance writer) Langston Hughes captures the sense of comfort and security while listening to rainfall. The ebb and...

Experience Charles Villiers Stanford's 'Eternal Father', an exceptional masterpiece of the English choral tradition. As the second of Stanford's celebrated Three English Motets Op. 135, this extended...

Originally conceived as a funeral piece, this moving motet is full of elegant, unhurried lines, and pays final respect to the deceased. Originally published in AStanford Anthology.

A powerful commemoration motet for double choir with bold tonal and textural shifts, framed by outer sections in a deliberate archaic style. Originally published in AStanford Anthology.

A collection of three Latin motets: 'Justorum animae', 'Coelos ascendit hodie', and 'Beati quorum via'. Originally published in A Stanford Anthology.

A beautiful anthem that combines natural imagery with sensitive text-setting, creating a powerful sense of narrative. Originally published in AStanford Anthology.

Setting a hymn by E. H. Plumptre, this rousing anthem is rich in textural and harmonic contrasts and innovative chord sequences. Harris employs effective repetition of the focal word 'rejoice!', which...

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 a lilting take on the Elizabethan lute-song full of smooth Stanford-like nineteenth-century harmonies, exquisitely tempered with modal effects.

Immerse yourself in the devotional soundscape of traditional English Christmas music with 'There Is No Rose', published by Oxford University Press. This evocative arrangement breathes new life into th...

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...