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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...

This is a setting of a powerful text by Kevin Crossley-Holland about the cruelty of child abuse being overcome by love and kindness.

James Whitbourn has a worldwide reputation for writing very personal yet accessible and highly communicative choral music, and these qualities are amply on display in this striking work for Soprano so...

In this setting, which includes salient fragments for St Luke's gospel (in Greek), alongside the customary text from the Book of Common Prayer, Finnissy renders this excitement, joy, awe, and trepidat...

John Sheppard's Verbum caro factum est is perhaps the most magnificent of his Responds, as befits its Christmas context. The music alternates between polyphony and plainchant, and the text is one that...

Larsen's song cycle is based on the novel by the American writer, Willa Cather, and the songs recount Jim Burden's memories of Antonia Shimerda during their shared experiences of the pioneering period...

Soprano and piano. The soprano protagonist looks back, either in her imagination or in real terms, on a life richly lived. The texts, five by Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Lisel Mueller and one by Judit...

For countertenor & guitar. These two motets were written at the request of the Park Lane Group. They are both settings of contemplative, religious (but non-liturgical) texts and both are cast in a rep...

For high voice and piano. These two short songs are set to texts by A E Housman and Edward Thomas.

These three songs for soprano or tenor were sketched when the composer was a student at the Royal Academy of Music in the late 1960s, and subsequently revised. The texts are by W. B. Yeats, Wilfred Ow...

For solo soprano and piano. 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 har...

Words by Shakespeare set for soprano and piano Range e flat'-g'

This is the first publication of three of Walton's early songs (1918) for high voice and piano. Lyrical and charming, the songs are firmly in the English pastoral vein. The set is completed with 'The...

This is the first publication of three of Walton's early songs (1918) for high voice and piano. Lyrical and charming, the songs are firmly in the English pastoral vein. The set is completed with 'The...

Eleven songs for tenor and piano

The texts are selected from the letters of Calamity Jane to her daughter by Wild Bill Hickok. The five songs present a stirring picture of an independent woman's struggle.