Libby Larsen

From a three-part collection based on poetry by American pioneers, this third piece, 'A Hoopla, ' depicts a barn dance and vocalists circle round the instruments, stomp, clap, and generally perform wi...

For women's voices (SSA) and piano duet (four hands) or small orchestra (1. 1. 1. 1-1. 1. 0. 0-Strings). An unusually joyous setting; straightforward vocal lines portray Mary's humility, the accompani...

For SSAA chorus and percussion. A riveting setting for women's voices and percussion of a Mexican Indian chant evoking the Divine Spirit and praying for healing and spiritual strength. Full of Larsen'...

For SATB chorus and strings. A haunting depiction of the 'magic made by melody . . . Held in teh arms of rhythm and of sleep', from a poem by Elizabeth Bishop. Instrumental parts are available on hire...

For SATB, oboe, viola, and harp This is a setting of two twelfth-century poems where the choral parts flow in a chant-like way, interrupted by ecstatic bursts, sometimes of purely instrumental color....

For upper voices and contrabass

For SSA unaccompanied

For SATB and organ. This ravishing setting of a heartfelt and emotional poem by e. e. cummings captures a sense of the ineffable place of faith in existence that transcends mere worship, doctrine, eve...

Acclaimed composer Libby Larsen set words of a young girl in this choral work that explores the essence of music and singing. Beginning quietly, the tones grow into a rushing river of sound or a const...

Setting a well-loved medieval text, this effective piece paints the story of Jesus through lyrical melodies and beautiful harmonic surprises.

The optional opening section, for which there is a graphic score, is spoken to texts by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and other esteemed poets and authors. The four sung movements which follow are conven...

A new orchestration by Edward Harper has brought this colourful setting of Coleridge's epic poem back to life after the original orchestra score was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1940. A welcome addi...

Andrew Carter's setting matches in its powerful simplicity the text attributed to the French Quaker missionary, Stephen Grellet: 'I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore...

Setting the George Herbert poem 'Whitsunday', this lilting, gentle anthem is particularly useful for Whit Sunday services. Syncopations and duplets provide rhythmic interest, with memorable melodies,...

This tender movement from the Advent cantata O Come, Emmanuel is in memory of Bullard's teacher, Herbert Howells, with text translated from a traditional German carol Es ist ein Ros entsprugen. Suitab...

Eurydice is based on a work by the great Scottish artist Ian Hamilton Finlay - a series of six large stones installed in a garden in Provence, set in a sea of lavender (representing water) and inscrib...

This suite from 1925 is one of Vaughan Williams' most enigmatic pieces. The chorus never articulates a single word, and instead serves as a section of the orchestra, creating an elegant vocal texture...