Women's Choir with Orchestra

A triumphant Mozart masterwork for today's choirs! This joyful opera finale opens and closes with a boisterous choral fanfare, sandwiches a brief expressive vocal duet in the middle, features robust I...

Quiet, crisp lines are echoed from voice to voice and punctuated with chilling whispers in this rhythmic setting told from winter's point of view. A mixed meter refrain creates a sense of surprise whe...

Here's a setting of William Wordsworth's lyrical poem "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud." Composed specifically for SSA, colorful triadic harmonies and expressive musical moments are as plentiful as the g...

This creative concert work uses sewing analogies to build a powerful metaphor of self-acceptance. Tailor-made for SSA singers, conversational rhythms and expressive vocal lines form a stunning tapestr...

Perfect for developing or smaller SSA groups, this melodic metaphor offers many opportunities to build tone, encourage legato singing, and plant the seeds of musicality. Unison and two-part sonorities...

Perfect for developing or smaller SSA groups, this melodic metaphor offers many opportunities to build tone, encourage legato singing, and plant the seeds of musicality. Unison and two-part sonorities...

Victor Johnson lends his artistic voice to this beloved Alfred, Lord Tennyson text. A mellifluous melody, warm harmonies, and sensitive syllabic stress bring the alluring poetry to life. An elegant pi...

Victor Johnson lends his artistic voice to this beloved Alfred, Lord Tennyson text. A mellifluous melody, warm harmonies, and sensitive syllabic stress bring the alluring poetry to life. An elegant pi...

This joyful poem by Langston Hughes uses spring rain as a metaphor for hope and celebrates renewal. Listen for gentle syncopations, a sculpted melodic contour, and a variety of choral textures that fl...

This joyful poem by Langston Hughes uses spring rain as a metaphor for hope and celebrates renewal. Listen for gentle syncopations, a sculpted melodic contour, and a variety of choral textures that fl...

Dvorák composed the cycle 'Moravian Duets' for two female voices with piano accompaniment at the request of the Prague wholesale merchant Jan Neff in 1876. This was a turning point in the career of th...

52 Liedsätze und kleine Motetten überwiegend für gleiche Stimmen, einige für gemischte Stimmen (SAMSt), einige mit Ritornellen für 3 Melodieinstrumente ad lib. zum Gebrauch in Kirchen-, Schul- und Lai...

Inspired by workshops with the pupils of All Hallows School in Shepton Mallet, this work is about how the world around us can support us, change us, and lead us in our lives. The text is drawn from a...

The 14th-century Eucharistic text 'Ave verum' has been set to music by many composers over the centuries, no doubt drawn to its vivid and powerful imagery. Todd first set the words (for SATB choir) in...

Written for Philip Redfern and the choir of St George's School, Edinburgh, who first performed it in December 2014, this is a refreshing new setting of the well-known Christmas carol. Will Todd's expe...

Let all the world in every corner sing was commissioned by Colston's Girls' School in Bristol for the Chamber Choir and their Director of Music Matthew Redman, and was written in August 2008 for the s...

Composed for the Children's Chorus of Opera North, this piece is a setting for three high choral voices of Thomas Hardy's poem of the same name. The swaying style of a jazz waltz and the chromatic but...

The original version of Flight Song (for SATB) was written as a gift to Dr Anton Armstrong and the St Olaf Choir, Minnesota, with whom Arnesen has worked on a number of occasions. The SSAA version was...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

Combining a text by Charles Anthony Silvestri with syllables inspired by the song tradition (joik) of the Sami people in Scandinavia, Sing the earth is a tribute to our common home, the earth, as well...

A setting of the poem by Robert Louis Stevenson (‘Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, A frosty, fiery sleepy-head’), Winter-Time was written by the choristers of Pembroke College Girls’ Choir, under the d...

A setting of Christina Rossetti’s poem Dream Land, the raw emotional quality of Dreamland reflects on the beautiful imagery and themes of fantasy and death of the poem. Written in the Autumn of 2020,...