Música espiritual y eclesiástica

O magnum mysterium was written in 2013 and is dedicated to Dawn Herbert, the composer's ex-wife and the mother of his son, Reginald. It was written while staying at her family's farm in Cambridgeshire...

Composed in 2021 to commission for the Choir of Westminster Abbey and dedicated to Westminster Abbey Choir School. This is MacMillan's fourth mass setting for exclusively choral forces, following the...

This work was composed in 2020 and was commissioned by the Lord Burghley 500 Foundation for a Service of Thanksgiving in Westminster Abbey to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the birth of William Ce...

Composer’s note In Sancta Mater, the fifth movement of my Stabat Mater, we comfort not only Mother Mary but all parents who have lost their own child, and we cry and we pray with them. Musically, the...

Composer’s note This piece is an adaptation of the instrumental movement ‘Reflection’ in my large-scale work The Stranger. I was inspired by research showing the emotional effect of having eye contact...

Composer’s note Eja Mater is a prayer for comfort to all parents who have lost their own child but also expresses love from parents to their children. Originally written for choir and orchestra as par...

Of all the souls was written for and performed at the wedding of its composer and lyricist (Ed and Alice Newton-Rex) in 2016. The profound and vow-like text encapsulates the essence of a fulfilled sea...

A setting of verses 7 and 8 of Psalm 57 ('My heart, O God, is steadfast. I will sing and make music. Awake, my soul! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awake the dawn.') this work celebrates music's impor...

Commissioned by the Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, for the first ever BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong broadcast from the college, this introit or short motet was written to commemorate the occasion...

Short motet commissioned by St Dominic’s Sixth Form College, Harrow-on-the-Hill, UK, to celebrate its 40th anniversary. MacMillan chose a text which is entirely appropriate to young people about to be...

Inspirada e incorporando la melodía del canto llano, esta exquisita nueva obra coral de Kerensa Briggs insufla nueva vida al apreciado texto latino 'Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est' ('Donde hay cari...

Una hermosa y trascendente composición del texto latino 'O mysterium ineffabile' ('Oh misterio inefable'), un texto que exclama la grandeza y divinidad de la fiesta eucarística. Encargada en 2023 por...

Ave virgo sanctissima fue encargada por Robert Sharpe y el Coro de York Minster, para el servicio de "Nueve Lecciones y Villancicos" en 2023. El texto es una oración lírica que alaba la virtud de Marí...

O sing to the Lord fue encargada por Peter Asprey y estrenada por el Coro del Santo Sepulcro, Londres, como introito para un servicio especial con motivo del Día de Santa Cecilia en 2024. El edificant...

Love Flows fue un encargo del coro de la catedral de Wells y Alexander Hamilton con motivo de la toma de posesión del reverendo canónigo Toby Wright como deán de Wells en junio de 2024. El etéreo text...

Dos arreglos de villancicos publicados en 1582 como parte de la colección medieval de canciones latinas -Piae Cantiones-. Las melodías proceden de dicha colección, que también contiene muchos villanci...

Una poderosa adaptación para coro a ocho voces de tres de las respuestas del Viernes Santo en las matinas: «Tenebrae factae sunt», «Tradiderunt me» e «Iesum tradidit impius». Obra encargada por Cappel...

Organist and Master of Music at York Minster, Philip Moore is also a prolific choral composer. These Prayers, the most frequently requested of his works, make a poignantly attractive setting for unacc...

This short meditative motet was commissioned for the dedication service of the Millennium window by Sir Eduardo Paolozzi in the Resurrection Chapel of St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh. It is i...

The beloved 9th century Latin hymn speaks of love, with the first line ('ubi caritas') acting as a refrain at the beginning of each verse, is set here with verse one direct and joyful, verse two more...

Ned Rorem has been described as 'the world's best composer of art songs,' and compelling works for chorus affirm this descritpion. 'Psalm 110' was written for director Joseph Ohrt and the Central Buck...

This amazing work, premiered by the Los Angeles Master Chorale, Grant Gershon, director, is a contrast of homophonic refrains against polyphonic verses. Beginning with the austere Sacred Harp tune 'He...