Partituras para coros

This liturgical setting dates from 1977, but has recently been released by the composer. Latin text: Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, At the conclusion. Taut scoring (with some divisi) contains both...

Gaudete ('rejoice') is an anonymous composition whose chorus was first published in 1582 in the Piae Cantiones collection. The verses are taken from a medieval Czech song, Ezechielis Porta, and tell o...

Birthday tribute piece first performed in 2006 at a Glasgow restaurant by a quartet of students from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama. The text is the well-known eulogy To laugh often and...

A powerful setting for 8-part choir of three of the Good Friday responses at matins: 'Tenebrae factae sunt', 'Tradiderunt me' and 'Iesum tradidit impius'. Commissioned by Cappella Nova (director: Alan...

Ward Swingle was a founder member of the fabled vocal group Double Six in Paris in the 1960s. He then took the scat singing idea and applied it to the works of Bach, with another vocal group which bec...

Immerse your ensemble in the evocative world of Polish folklore with the "Five Kurpian Songs op. 75" (Pięć pieśni kurpiowskich). Published by the renowned Boosey & Hawkes, this expressive choral editi...

The Strathclyde Motets are communion motets setting propers of the mass for various Sundays and feasts. Latin text from the Graduale Romanum. Suitable for intermediate standard choirs.Pascha nostrum i...

The Strathclyde Motets are communion motets setting propers of the mass for various Sundays and feasts. Suitable for intermediate standard choirs. The Canticle of Zachariah takes Luke chapter I as its...

Sammlung von fünf Liedern aus Jan Siedleckis Kirchengesangbuch (1878; Ausgabe 1928). In vier von ihnen vertont Górecki die Melodien originalgetreu. Geeignet für fortgeschrittene Anfängerchöre.

The Angelus Bells are Tolling was composed in 1986 to mark the removal of the ashes of the Polish writer Kazimierz Przerwa-Tetmajer from Warsaw to the old Peksowy Brzyzek cemetery in Zakopane, althoug...

An exquisite and accessible setting for mixed choir of words by John Donne. The piece was commissioned by 'Choir & Organ' magazine and has been recorded by Westminster Cathedral Choir and James O'Donn...

From a 15th-century Canterbury pontifical.

Immerse yourself in the deeply moving soundscape of the renowned penitential psalm: With "Miserere" (Psalm 51:3-21), the prestigious publisher Boosey & Hawkes presents an extraordinary choral work des...

Five-movement work for mixed chorus a cappella with mutiple divisi and semi-chorus.A setting of a poem by Michael Symmons Roberts (English) with Latin text from the mass and an English traditional rhy...

Communion antiphon for Ash Wednesday, from the Strathclyde Motets, set II. Latin text from Psalm 1: 'Qui meditabitur in lege Domini die ac nocte dabit fructum suum in tempore suo'. Suitable for interm...

A setting of the final paragraph from Alasdair MacIntyre's book After Virtue, A study in moral theory.

Communion motet for Trinity Sunday.

A touching setting of an anonymous love poem in broad Scots, this part-song was composed for the wedding of some friends of the composer. A welcome addition to the canon of MacMillan's secular choral...

Nigel Short, founder and director of the choir Tenebrae, adds a jazz flavour to this well-known carol. The result is a serene arrangement with luscious, close harmonies which would be add a reflective...

Another close harmony arrangement of a traditional Christmas melody, with Latin text. The melody, shared by different voice parts, is accompanied by sustained, stirring harmonies in the remaining part...

Ein fröhliches, jazziges Arrangement des berühmten Weihnachtslieds mit einer frechen Wendung - ein ideales Finale oder eine perfekte Zugabe, das bzw. die jedem Hörer ein Lächeln ins Gesicht zaubern wi...

Close harmony arrangement of a traditional Christmas text by the former member, and later musical director, of the Swingle Singers, Carol Canning.

Close harmony arrangement of a traditional Christmas text by the former member, and later musical director, of the Swingle Singers, Carol Canning.

Composed in 1980 and revised in 2010 this is a setting of verses from Aquinas's Pange lingua in modern English translation. The choral writing is appropriately hymn-like, with one a cappella passage....