Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series

Motets is a set of intimate and spiritually uplifting a cappella choral works by Karl Jenkins, featuring new pieces and arrangements of a selection of movements from his most popular works, including...

O nata lux started life as a piece written for a men's voices Compline service at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where Lapwood (as Director of Music) was consciously trying to include music by women in...

Basada en el conocido texto tradicional irlandés "May the road rise up to meet you", An Irish Blessing fue escrita en 2024 como regalo de despedida para una estudiante de órgano del Pembroke College d...

This setting was written as the 4th movement of Will Todd's 2009 Te Deum which was commissioned by the Vivace Chorus, conducted by Jeremy Backhouse. It was originally performed by a choir of 120 schoo...

This new publication makes the Benedictus available for performance as a separate work, with piano accompaniment. The score includes the iconic introductory cello solo part on its own page, although p...

Adiemus Sinfónico presenta doce números de la serie Adiemus en nuevas y dinámicas partituras para coro SATB y orquesta sinfónica completa. Desde que se escuchó por primera vez en 1994, Adiemus ha capt...

I denna ljuva sommartid (En este dulce tiempo de verano) es un salmo tradicional de verano muy conocido en Suecia. El texto es de origen alemán, escrito en 1653 por Paul Gerhardt (1607-76) ('Geh aus,...

Christmas setting for upper voices (three parts) of a traditional 15th-century English text with Latin refrain: 'Gabriel of high degree ...' / 'Ut nova: Ave fit ex Eva'. An explanation of the Latin pu...

Composed in 2009, this short, celebratory introit was the first of several unaccompanied works I composed for Matthew Owens and the Wells Cathedral Girl Choristers. The text (Let us all rejoice) exist...

This setting of the Ordinary of the Latin Mass (without Credo) was premiered in May 2016 by the choristers of Wells Cathedral Choir. Filling a gap in the repertoire, the work is written for unaccompan...

This work by Kim André Arnesen (one of Norway’s most performed contemporary composers) was commissioned by the Athens Master Chorale, Georgia, USA for the 50th anniversary of their founder and conduct...

Composer's note:'The original version of Ring the bells for mixed choir, now available in a version for high choral voices, was commissioned by the London Philharmonic Choir, who also sang the premier...

In its original scoring for mixed voices MacMillan's The Gallant Weaver has become a favourite; this arrangement now extends the setting to upper voices. Paul Spicer comments, 'This ideal introduction...

Media vita was commissioned in 2015 by the English vocal ensemble, Siglo de Oro, and their director Patrick Allies to celebrate 500 years since the birth of the English Renaissance composer, John Shep...

Composed in 1980 and revised in 2010 this is a setting of verses from Aquinas's Pange lingua in modern English translation. The choral writing is appropriately hymn-like, with one a cappella passage....

English setting of Psalm 127 for SSATB a cappella. Commissioned by the Marquess and Marchioness of Salisbury to mark the 400th anniversary of Hatfield House. First performed there on 11 September 2011...

Setting of the traditional vesper hymn ('Hail, O Star of the ocean'), commissioned by Christopher Gray and the Choir of Truro Cathedral. The texture is homophonic and sustained, with much use of pedal...

Part of the new Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series, this is a peaceful setting of the plainchant gradual taken from the Book of Psalms, Psalm 145 vv 14-15. This text is one of the College Grac...

Written for the Serenade in the Cloisters of Canterbury Cathedral, which takes place as night falls, this work embodies the tranquility and serenity of night as portrayed in the text by Henry Longfell...

Heart-felt setting for SATB a cappella of words of Our Lady of Guadalupe to St Juan Diego, December 1531 (English), with bass 'cantus firmus' from a 14th Century Marian antiphon (Latin): 'Listen, put...

A highly effective and poignant setting of the famous memorial text by the young composer Ed Rex. This joins Rex's 'A hymn to the night' as part of the Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series and i...

This carol, written for the choir Canticum, is an upbeat setting of a rarely-used 15th-century English text, and would be an exciting new addition to any mixed-voice choir's Christmas repertoire. A 's...

Setting for double SATB chorus a cappella of an anonymous medieval text about Saint Cecilia, patron saint of musicians.

This short, celebratory setting, originally composed as an introit for the Wells Cathedral Girl Choristers, was arranged for SSATB in 2010 (the upper parts unaltered) for the Exon Singes Festival. The...

In 2010 I was invited to be composer-in-residence at the Exon Singers Festival. As part of my residency I was commissioned by the festival's director Matthew Owens to compose a new setting of the 'Sal...