Charles Villiers Stanford

This joyful setting of an old Irish air, arranged by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and edited by John Rutter, features a text by Thomas Moore on life's fleeting pleasures. A recording can be found on...

Two of Stanford's finest partsongs for unaccompanied SATB voices.

The second of Stanford's Three English Motets Op. 135, this extended anthem boasts both impressive emotional range and textural ingenuity. Originally published in A Stanford 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.

Una colección de tres motetes latinos: 'Justorum animae', 'Coelos ascendit hodie', y 'Beati quorum via'. Publicado originalmente en 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.

Melodie: trad. aus Irland ('Paddy O'Snap'), bearbeitet von Thomas Moore; Satz: aus: Six Irish Folksongs, op. 78

Two of Stanford's finest partsongs for unaccompanied SATB voices

For double SATB chorus unaccompanied This is Stanford's extended Latin setting of this text, written in 1918 and acknowledged as its composer's finest a cappella choral work. Duration: 12 minutes Diff...

Melodie: trad. aus Irland ('Paddy O'Snap'), bearbeitet von Thomas Moore; Satz: aus: Six Irish Folksongs, op. 78

Die drei lateinischen Motetten aus den späten 1880er Jahren sind seit langem Standardrepertoire britischer Chöre und vielfach auf CD eingespielt worden. Doch hierzulande sind sie noch ein Geheimtipp,...

Now available for TTB double choir, this edition will be an outstanding addition to your a cappella repertoire. Extremely effective for honor choirs and collegiate ensembles.

This exciting work for choir and solo violin draws its title from Edward Winslow's 1624 chronicles, Good Newes from New England, in which he describes the Mayflower Pilgrims' settlement in the New Wor...

For soprano solo, chorus, orchestra and organ. Set to music for the opening of the Manchester Exhibition in 1887. Piano/vocal score.

Windy Nights, from the song trio A Child's Garland of Songs, published in 1982, displays both Stanford's gift for melody and his sensitivity to text as well as his ability to compose music that create...

A Unison part (with some divisions into two parts) for Unison voices in the key of B Flat, arranged for use with the original edition for Choir and Organ by C. S. Lang.

No. 3 of Six Elizabethan Pastorals. Arranged as a 2-part song by H. A. Chambers.

Plainsong Version

Here is a wonderful festival setting of the great hymn text for treble voices and trumpet that celebrates the gift of music. A magnificent selection for children's and youth choirs!

Here is a wonderful festival setting of the great hymn text for treble voices and trumpet that celebrates the gift of music. A magnificent selection for children's and youth choirs!

An arrangement of Charles Villiers Stanford's Benedictus Qui Venit for men's choir (TTBB) and piano by Alexander Sellin. Though Stanford composed quite a lot of orchestral material during his life, in...

An arrangement of Charles Villiers Stanford's Agnus Dei for men's choir (TTBB) and piano by Alexander Sellin. Though Stanford composed quite a lot of orchestral material during his life, including sev...