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A rich texture is used in Gombert's setting of Quam pulchra es, with all voices singing almost all of the time. This texture is created through refined imitative contrapuntal writing, rather than homo...

Setting a well-known poem by Percy Shelley, Love's Philosophy is a sweet and tender choral song reflecting on the idea of love with reference to nature and the interdependent relationships evident in...

This is the hour is a beautiful and accessible motet for Holy Communion with a simple, meditative organ accompaniment.

A short Mass setting for unaccompanied chorus, written for the Exon Singers recording, The Cloths of Heaven, on Delphian Records.

Originally published in Epiphany to All Saints for Choirs, this seventeenth-century anthem for The Ascension of the Lord is full of melismatic polyphonic lines and features a fluid tonal centre.

This dazzling work presents an exploration of light in its many forms and uses, from starlight and sunlight to electricity, photosynthesis, or guiding ships to safety. Both piano and voices are used p...

This is a beautiful setting of an anonymous medieval text that follows a broken-hearted lover into the woods. Also available in versions for solo low voice and SSA.

'Ya basta!' is a Spanish saying that roughly translates to 'Enough is enough!'. The song has an exuberant, carefree energy, expressing the freedom to walk wherever you choose and to make your own path...

Full score and set of parts for John Rutter's Blake's Lullaby, which was written in aid of MacMillan Cancer Support. This set includes the following string parts: 4 x vln I, 4 x vln II, 3 x vla, 2 x v...

This anthem juxtaposes the words of the Antiphon for the Washing of Feet on Maundy Thursday with John Boyle O'Reilly's poem 'A White Rose'. Jackson combines lyrical polyphonic phrases for upper and lo...

A homely text by Joyce Kilmer is the starting-point for this gorgeously expressive ballad for choir and piano. Offprinted from Carols for Choirs 6.

Gallant's take on this Acadian folksong is lively and engaging, featuring the quintessential elements of the tradition: podorythmie (seated foot-tapping), diddlage (mouth music), and the spoons.

A beautiful 6-part unaccompanied Marian motet written for the Marian Consort. The work combines reminiscences of Renaissance settings of this text with McDowall's distinctive contemporary voice.

This is an adaptation of music from Act 4, Scene 1 of The Pilgrim's Progress so that it may be performed in concert. Recorder, flute, or clarinet may be incorporated in the piano accompaniment as indi...

This is a reworking of material from Berkeley's 1979 Violin Sonata, and is an evocative and atmospheric single movement. Veilleuse means 'Night Watch' or 'Night Lantern', and the music has a slightly...

This lively reimagining of the traditional hymn is a thrilling a cappella arrangement which pairs the soaring legato melody with a rhythmic vocal accompaniment. Also available in a version for SSA una...

Out of your sleep is a fresh-sounding Advent carol rich in rhythmic variation and subtle detail. Written for the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, the carol provides opportunities for the choir to s...

Flowing and expressive, this is one of Vaughan Williams's most popular and beautiful motets.

As is typical of Finnissy, this piece is demanding for the performers. The tempo is slow and much of the music of the upper two parts consists of sustained notes, with more movement occurring in the p...

This is a profound setting of a selection of poems by Wilfred Owen. The sense of human connection and imagery of the natural world imbued in Owen's poetry is perfectly conveyed in Chilcott's music, wh...

Palestrina's setting of the Marian motet Alma Redemptoris Mater seamlessly interweaves each of the four independent voices based on the solemn tone of the corresponding chant.

This original composition combines several traditional proverbs (Good things come to those who wait, What goes up..., Where there's a will...), a quirky melody, a laid-back swing feel, a whispering se...

Down the Silver Road is a comforting and uplifting setting of the poem To F.W. by Edith Franklin Wyatt, which describes the joy of growing old with a companion.

This powerful motet sets a reflective text by Augustine of Hippo. Connoisseurs of Jackson's music will recognise the hallmarks of his highly accessible style: inventive harmony that is largely diatoni...