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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...

This energetic and joyful carol features contrasting dynamics, buoyant rhythms, and changing metres. Offprinted from Carols for Choirs 6.

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...

This sacred a cappella work is a joyous anthem, written for the Papal visit to Westminster Abbey in September 2010.

Commissioned by King's College, Cambridge for the 2009 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, this beautiful carol sets a well-loved text by G. K. Chesterton. It would make an ideal introduction to Jack...

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...

Higgins' setting of this popular folk song is simple and wistful, particularly well-suited for children's and youth choirs. With delicate quaver flourishes, the piano accompaniment flows gently alongs...

This is a beautiful and modern setting of a traditional text, popularised by Orlando Gibbons' well-known madrigal 'The silver swan'. Also available in versions for solo low voice and SSA.

Gounod's classic Christmas anthem is published here in its original scoring for Soprano and Alto soloists, three-part chorus of Upper Voices, Piano and optional Organ/Harmonium.

From English Traditional Carols.

The Island Itself is a setting of the poem Homage to Omey by Irish poet, Joan McBreen. The imagery of the sea conveyed in the text is reflected through lilting, syncopated rhythms. The melody is suppo...

This is an evocative setting of the Rudyard Kipling jungle poem 'Now Chil the kite brings home the night'.

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...

This is an unusual setting of the text, in that after an ethereal opening, a contralto/mezzo-soprano soloist sings the Magnificat text while the female chorus interpolates with other texts in praise o...

This anthem is set to a text by the 10th-century Sufi mystic, Al-Junaid. For the most part, the mood is intimate and introspective; intertwining, whispered melodies, sometimes in free time, alternate...

This melody is most commonly heard in the United States, and includes Rutter's own arrangement of the sixth and final verse. Orchestral scores and parts are also available on hire. Offprinted from the...

The Nidaros Jazz Mass draws on a variety of jazz styles to present a fun and innovative setting of the Latin Missa brevis. With a stylistic piano part, and an optional bass and drum kit part, it will...