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Taken from Sanctum, a setting of the Requiem text for upper voices, 'Lux aeterna' features a simple and gentle melody, supported by a new piano part in this arrangement for solo voice. Also available...

This popular traditional French carol tells of the milkmaids Jeanette and Isabella, who run to tell the shepherds to come and see the baby Jesus in the stable.

This charming traditional Catalan carol is full of natural imagery exploring the return of spring. With both English and Catalan text, Wilberg's arrangement is scored for high voice and piano, capture...

Scored for high voice and piano, Wilberg's arrangement of this traditional Basque carol is gentle yet charming, with expressive suspsensions in the supportive piano accompaniment. Also available in a...

Scored for solo high voice and piano, I remember sets a text reflecting on the wonder of the natural world and the people who shape our lives. The stirring melody calls to mind the folksong tradition,...

This characterful collection features settings of six 16th- and 17th-century lyrics by anonymous authors with lively guitar accompaniments, ranging from expressive and atmospheric to bawdy in characte...

This is an attractive carol to a traditional Scottish text and with a gentle 'folk-y' feel. The flowing melody features flattened sevenths and delicate Scotch snaps, with each verse ending with a lull...

Four songs for SS and piano on the theme of cities, written with younger voices in mind. Styles range from the streetwise and upbeat to a more reflective lyricism.

In the manner of a French chanson, this is a charming lullaby on a text by Victor Hugo. A sweet, simple melody is underpinned by a delicate fluid accompaniment and rich harmonic shading, to create a p...

A highly expressive setting of the biblical text, this simple work is at once tender and profound. It was composed for a memorial service for Edward T. Chapman, the Director of Music at Highgate Schoo...

This is a setting of the words used to conclude a communion service: 'The Mass is ended, thanks be to God.' The tenor's heraldic opening leads into the highly rhythmic 'Deo Gratias' section. Ideal for...

A work filled with ambition, Circlesong is a musical portrayal of the human life cycle as captured in the indigenous poetry of North America. The thirteen movements mark the different stages of life,...

Reginal Wright's emotional and uplifting Crossroad sets Robert Frost's well-known poem 'The road not taken'. A twinkling piano accompaniment supports the voices, and the optional violin duet floats ab...

This optimistic piece is characterized by catchy, singable melodies and a syncopated rhythmic drive in the vocal and piano writing. The text was co-written by the composer and the vocal percussionist...

One of McGlade's longer settings, As the hart begins simply, before expanding into a more complex section with fluctuating time signatures and shifting tonalities. Ideal for advanced choirs in a sacre...

Make We Merry is an eight-movement piece which sets texts from the 15th to 19th centuries to a variety of choral textures with a highly characterful accompaniment. A vast array of sentiments is depict...

An expressive carol with text altered from the poem Three Kings came a-riding by the famous 19th century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Offprinted from the Christmas cantata A Light in the Stable.

Lucy Walker's thoughtful setting of There is no rose flows between swells of emotion and warm chromatic inflections in the Latin refrains. Offprinted from Carols for Choirs 6.

Reginal Wright's emotional and uplifting Crossroad sets Robert Frost's well-known poem 'The road not taken'. A twinkling piano accompaniment supports the voices, and the optional violin duet floats ab...

This gentle arrangement for a cappella choir of the well-known fifteenth-century carol conjures a restful but evocatively melancholy atmosphere. The texture is varied by the use of a soprano soloist,...

Funérailles is probably best thought of as an extended study in piano sonorities, at times deep, dark, and resonant, at others vivid and bright.

This vibrant collection presents five jazzy settings of poems from William Blake's Songs of Innocence. The bass and drum parts may be played as written or used as a guide from which the player may imp...

This celebratory anthem for double choir is set to the words of the Roman lyric poet Horace. Jackson combines declamatory unison passages for full choir with more lyrical polyphonic phrases shared bet...

This sequence of six carols explores the role of Mary in the Christmas story, focussing on her human experience within a story of the divine. The work has two accompaniment options: piano (using the v...

The piece sets extracts from the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and is made up of six choral movements, including a substantial solo role for countertenor. Between t...