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On the Air (Dear Vaccine) discusses the optimism for a post-COVID world and, particularly, the desire to sing together again. For the text, poet Seán Street drew inspiration from 'Dear Vaccine', which...

A Gaelic Blessing was commissioned by the University of Edinburgh, McDowall's alma mater, for performance by the Edinburgh University Singers conducted by Calum Robertson. This meditative, folk-style...

A powerfully emotive setting that contrasts moments of reflection with declamatory exultation, Psalm 57 uses passages from the eponymous psalm in the King James translation. Written in 1972, it is ded...

Two stanzas of emotive verse by Christina Rossetti are set to music of touching directness in this a cappella offering, whose graceful melodies are often adorned by caressing rhythmic patterns. Offpri...

McDowall brings to life a mystical, brooding nativity text by Nicholas Dakin with dramatic octatonic melodies and parallel movement in fourths and fifths. The propulsive 6/8 metre is decorated with du...

McDowall brings to life a mystical, brooding nativity text by Nicholas Dakin with dramatic octatonic melodies and parallel movement in fourths and fifths. The propulsive 6/8 metre is decorated with du...

Becky McGlade has set this well-known Christmas hymn with textures both rich and restrained. The original English language hymn was based on a 19th-century English translation of Prudentius's 4th-cent...

Written in an a cappella style with scat accompaniment, "A Tree is a Song" is a joyful celebration of the connections and affinity found in nature and how wisdom and knowledge can be passed on 'as a m...

McGlade's tender piece is full or arching phrases that swell and fade with the emotion of Rosetti's text. The carefully crafted cello part interacts with and responds to the choir without ever losing...

Written in an a cappella style with scat accompaniment, A Tree is a Song is a joyful celebration of the affinity between trees and how wisdom can be passed on 'as a melody from tree to tree'. McDowall...

Esta obra gloriosa, sentida y, en ocasiones, angustiosa, presenta un texto premonitorio de Nicholas Andreas Vrenios, víctima del atentado de Lockerbie en 1988. McDowall emplea adornos vocales, disonan...

This glorious, heartfelt, and at times agonizing work sets a prescient text by Nicholas Andreas Vrenios, a victim of the Lockerbie bombing in 1988. McDowall creates a haunting sound-world through voca...

Este introito, que recoge una colecta del Libro de Oración Común, juega con el uso característico de McDowall de la disonancia y las inflexiones modales para crear un mundo sonoro hipnótico y ligerame...

Setting a collect from the Book of Common Prayer, this introit plays on McDowall's characteristic use of dissonance and modal inflections to create a hypnotic and slightly unsettled soundworld that re...

La meditada composición de Lucy Walker de There is no rose fluye entre oleadas de emoción y cálidas inflexiones cromáticas en los estribillos latinos. Esta pieza captura los énfasis naturales del text...

echo es una celebración musical de la conectividad humana. Es cantable, potente, rítmica y contemplativa. Wong refleja en su música y su texto la idea de que "la reunión de muchos cantantes en un mism...

La conmovedora Angel of the Battlefield de McDowall, encargada originalmente por el Coro de la Escuela de Arte de Glasgow como parte del proyecto Composeher, es a la vez una exposición de los horrores...

McDowall's moving and poignant setting of this three-movement work is both an exposition on the horrors of war and a celebration of healers. Inspired by renowned nurse Clara Barton, the text is drawn...

Guárdame como a la niña de los ojos es una obra sacra tranquila y meditativa, apta para ser interpretada durante todo el año litúrgico. Extraído del Salmo 17, el texto es una súplica de refugio y prot...

Con un texto de Thomas H. Troeger, esta pieza profundamente expresiva explora la noción de compañerismo y resistencia en tiempos difíciles. La melodía lírica y reconfortante se sitúa sobre un lecho de...

Basada en el conocido poema de William Blake, esta pieza navideña transporta a los oyentes con sonidos de ángeles celestiales que hacen señas al pequeño Cordero en fragmentos melódicos estratificados...

Esta pieza, una animada adaptación del conocido texto macarrónico de Navidad, utiliza cambios frecuentes de compás, síncopas y movimientos independientes en cada parte, lo que da como resultado una te...

Escrita para celebrar el 950 aniversario de la iglesia de Santa María Magdalena de Oxford, esta convincente composición para doble coro de la Missa brevis es adecuada tanto para la liturgia como para...

Written to celebrate the 950th anniversary of St Mary Magdalen Church, Oxford, this compelling double-choir Missa brevis setting is suitable for liturgical and concert settings. The music is beautiful...

Written in response to Gibbons' famous setting of the same text from Psalm 47, this piece uses syncopated rhythms, imitative polyphonic textures, and declarative homophonic moments to create a piece f...