Coro y canto

Composed in 1903, Weary Wind Of The West celebrates the bracing and poignant power of the elements, and is the setting of a text by T. E Brown.

This short chorus is taken from the Romantic Opera Der Freischutz (The Marksman). The story concerns a young brave huntsman called Max, and the full [production features the well-known Huntsmen's Chor...

English Words By T Attwood Walmisley.

The Dream Of Gerontius was composed in 1900 for the Birmingham Music Festival. It was a large-scale work for chorus, soloists and orchestra, setting a poem by Cardinal John Henry Newman. The section o...

The Splendour Falls and the other songs from The Princess were written for a performance of tableaux from The Princess by the girls of James Allen Girls' School in London, where Holst taught. The song...

The intertwining of women's voices in Gustav Holst's Tears, Idle Tears will lend an elevated atmosphere to any performance, giving this secular piece an almost sacred character. It was written for aca...