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This gentle carol, set to a beautiful text by Elizabeth Jennings, reflects upon the birth of Christ and the coming New Year. In a simple setting, Chilcott perfectly captures the warmth of the season,...

The music is dynamic, with some funky writing for the piano, and builds to a fabulous climax where several themes are deftly combined together. A great piece to end a concert.

Spells is a song cycle setting four magical poems by Kathleen Raine. Each song is an exquisitely crafted miniature which captures the mood and mystery of the words. This is profound and worthwhile mus...

With plenty of excitement and anticipation, this exuberant carol sets a medieval macronic text, featuring changing metres and a driving piano part. Also available in a version for solo high voice.

One of five songs to texts from Shakespeare's plays which may be performed as a sequence under the title 'The Glories of Shakespeare', or individually. Orchestral material is available on hire and inc...

One of five songs to texts from Shakespeare's plays which may be performed as a sequence under the title 'The Glories of Shakespeare', or individually. Orchestral material is available on hire and inc...

One of five songs to texts from Shakespeare's plays which may be performed as a sequence under the title 'The Glories of Shakespeare', or individually. Orchestral material is available on hire and inc...

One of five songs to texts from Shakespeare's plays which may be performed as a sequence under the title 'The Glories of Shakespeare', or individually. Orchestral material is available on hire and inc...

From the collection As you sing, 'Fly away, fly away over the sea' is a secular concert work by Russell Hepplewhite, scored for upper voices and piano. Setting a text by Christina Rossetti, this gentl...

From the collection As you sing, 'Hope is the thing with feathers' is a warmly uplifting secular concert work by Michael Higgins, setting the well-known poem by Emily Dickinson. Scored for upper voice...

From the collection Hark, hark, the lark, 'And will he not come again?' is a setting by Paul Jarman of words from Shakespeare's Hamlet. Scored for upper voices unaccompanied and with piano, and featur...

From the collection As you sing, 'Now is the time' is a secular concert work by Cecilia McDowall, scored for upper voices with piano. Setting inspirational words by Marie Curie, this optimistic piece...

From the collection For Him all Stars, 'Ring the bells' is a joyful carol by Alan Bullard, scored for SSA and piano. Setting a text by Frances Jane Crosby and written in 6/4 time, it features unison a...

From the collection For Him all Stars, 'Vulcan' is an energetic carol, scored for SSA and piano. The text, written by the composer, hails Christ as a new star emerging from the night. Featuring canoni...

Pastoral is a joyous, celebratory carol with a distinctive folk character. Set to a traditional Hungarian text interspersed with Latin, the first part fizzes with anticipation before giving way to a m...

In this setting for SSA voices and piano Terashima sets a text from William Blake's Songs of Innocence. His prominent use of open fourths in the voices and piano give an oriental flavour to the music...

Vieux Noël pour les Tout-petits is a traditional song from the Rouergue region of Southern France, where the language is Occitan. It was collected by Léon Froment, a collector of popular songs at the...

This affectionate love song sets words by American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar. Featuring a bright piano part, clever use of syncopation, and a powerful melody, this song is sure to become a favourite o...

This expressive and tender carol, with options for singing in Swedish and English, evokes the innocence of the newborn child. A version for SATB voices is published separately and an orchestral accomp...

Inspired by the medieval carol Angelus ad Virginem, Indigo I suggests a distant time, European roots, and the tranquil peace of that starry night when Wisdom descended. Originally published in World C...

The rhythm of this carol resembles that of a lively Polish folk dance, the oberek; usually in triple metre, here it is broken into 7/4. Scored for SSA and piano, it features an English text by Jeremy...

This is a small-scale work, which would make a useful repertoire piece, bearing in mind the need to provide compatible items for groups playing the Debussy flute/harp/viola sonata.

alongside new material by Delphine Chalmers and the composer. It has sections for adult voices alone and sections for children's voices alone alongside passages for the two forces to combine as a full...

The shades of Finzi and Vaughan Williams are strongly present in this delightful madrigal for unaccompanied choir. Offprinted from Rutter's Three Shakespeare Songs, O mistress mine is a jaunty jazz wa...

An attractive setting of the seventeenth-century poem by George Herbert, with a gently syncopated accompaniment. The simple melody is coloured by subtle harmonic gestures mirroring the sentiments of t...