Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series

Composer's note: 'In the bleak midwinter is the setting of the famous poem by Christina Rossetti for four-part mixed choir. This poem came to mind as I walked the streets of Cornwall on a cold, bleak...

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...

Este villancico se compuso en 2009 para el coro de alumnos de último curso del instituto Dr. Challoner’s High School, en Buckinghamshire (Inglaterra). El texto, extraído del poema «Christmasse Day» («...

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...

Encargada por St Martin's Voices para conmemorar el Día del Recuerdo en 2024, There will come soft rains muestra la gama de la paleta de colores musicales del coro a través de la repetición del motivo...

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....

A new addition to the Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series, this carol by the leading Finnish composer of his generation was commissioned by King's College, Cambridge and first performed at A Fe...

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...

A new setting of the well-known Christmas text, this work was written for London Consort Choir. It is a mostly homophonic and approachable but effective alternative to other settings of the text, whic...

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

A song was heard at Christmas was written for Gorseinon Youth Choir and premiered at Swansea's Brangwyn Hall in December 2009. It was featured on BBC Radio 3's Carols for Breakfast in 2011.Featuring t...

'Blessed be that Maid Marie' was premiered by the BBC Singers at St Giles' Cripplegate, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 broadcast in December 2012.'Blessed be that Maid Marie' is essentially a traditiona...

A new carol for unaccompanied choir by Hywel Davies, featuring the composer's own text.

Commissioned by the Fairhaven Singers (Ralph Woodward, conductor) and premiered in December 2013, this Christmas carol is not explicitly religious and so can be used at any occasion during the festive...

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...

This short carol, a setting of an anonymous 15th-century text, was commissioned for a service given in Cambridge in 2012 by the Fairhaven Singers, conducted by Ralph Woodward. A witness account of The...

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...