Boosey & Hawkes

Take your bass playing to the next level with "The Bass Collection", published by the renowned Boosey & Hawkes. This songbook is an absolute must-have for all ambitious bassists looking to master auth...

Viva La Musica! ( Long Live Music!) is a wonderful theme for any concert. And David Brunner has crafted a wonderful concert opening with a strong, bold, unison exclamation to open the piece. Originall...

Vertonung von pastoralen Versen des russischen Dichters Jakow Petrowitsch Polonski, die die Komponisten in den letzten beiden Dekaden ihres Lebens nach ihrem Rückzug aus dem musikalischen Leben im Zug...

This short but beautifully crafted motet for upper voices was composed for the combined girls choirs of Godolphin & Latymer School whilst Kerensa Briggs was Composer in Residence there in 2019. The we...

In its original scoring for mixed voices MacMillan's The Gallant Weaver has become a favourite; this arrangement now extends the setting to upper voices. Paul Spicer comments, 'This ideal introduction...

Este villancico se compuso en 2009 para el coro de alumnos de último curso del instituto Dr. Challoner’s High School, en Buckinghamshire (Inglaterra). El texto, extraído del poema «Christmasse Day» («...

Based on a text by Tennessee Reed, the 11 year-old daughter of author Ishmael Reed. Though originally scored for four female voices, Three Heavens and Hells was envisioned as a work for children's cho...

This memorably arranged spiritual is a compassionate call for social justice, tinged with anger at those who would stand in the way of the common good.

In Katherine Tynan's Christmas poem, verses describing the bitterness and gloom of winter alternate with couplets describing the gentle miracle of Christ's birth. In Sheena Phillips' musical setting,...

The Boosey & Hawkes Concerts for Choirs series is an innovative approach to concert planning for choirs. Each volume contains a wealth of material to help the choral director assemble a concert progra...

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...

This Hungarian-text edition of these gripping folksong settings includes a piano accompaniment for rehearsal purposes.

A highly effective and poignant setting of the famous memorial text by the young composer Ed Rex. This joins Rex's 'A hymn to the night' as part of the Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series and i...

'Blessed be that Maid Marie' was premiered by the BBC Singers at St Giles' Cripplegate, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 broadcast in December 2012.'Blessed be that Maid Marie' is essentially a traditiona...

Composer's note: 'I was introduced to William Blake's poem The Lamb many years ago through John Tavener's famous setting and, when commissioned by York Minster to write a carol for their 2019 nine les...

Composer's note: 'The words of Edith Reed's translation of this traditional Polish poem wonderfully encapsulate the Christmas message. I love the way that the text captures the innocence and humblenes...

Eine reflektierende Vertonung eines Marien-Antiphons (‘Hail, Queen of Heaven' - ‘Ave, du Himmelskönigin') der aufstrebenden Komponistin Kerensa Briggs. Eine ununterbrochene, meist homophone chorale Te...

Eine kontemplative und ergreifende Vertonung der beiden ersten Verse aus Psalm 91 ('Wer im Schutz des Höchsten wohnt'), die von Gottes Schutz für diejenigen berichtet, die ihm folgen. Geschrieben wurd...

A tender shoot ist eine neue Vertonung eines deutschen Gedichtes aus dem 15. Jahrhundert, gedichtet von Otto Goldschmidt und von William Bartholomew im 19. Jahrhundert ins Englische übersetzt. Die Ver...

Rejoice! ist ein Weihnachtslied voller reiner und unbegrenzter Freude. Hier erschallen die Glocken mit Hilfe von scharf akzentuierten nachklingend Akkorden, und reichhaltig gearbeitete kontrapunktisch...

O nata lux begann seine Existenz als ein Stück geschrieben für Männerstimmen im Rahmen eines Komplet-Gottesdienstes am Pembroke College in Cambridge. Dort versuchte Lapwood in ihrer Funktion als Direc...

Each year the BBC Music Magazine commissions a brand-new Christmas Carol for their readers and, when Grace-Evangeline Mason was invited to compose the 2021 carol, she decided to write and set her own...