Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series

Commissioned by William Saunders for the Royal Hospital School, Ipswich, in 2013, Exalt us in Your love is loosely based on the words of that school's prayer. Choirs and listeners familiar with Will T...

These three jazz arrangements of well-known hymns were composed for Andrew Earis and the choirs of St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, on the occasion of various services and a BBC broadcast from that ch...

This energetic and danceable setting of Psalm 33, verses 1 - 4 (in modern English), 5 minutes in length, was commissioned by Worth School and Abbey in the UK in 2018. A highly attractive musical inter...

Adapted from a movement of Arnesen's Stabat Mater for upper voices and orchestra, Eja Mater is arranged for mixed voices with frequent divisi, obligato cello and harp (or piano). This part of the Stab...

Commissioned by the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra and Chorus for a commemorative event in 2022, this work presents the composer's celebrated Passcaglia for string orchestra of 1995 in a new scorin...

This is an approachable and affecting setting of a devotional poem by the revered Carmelite nun St Thérèse of Lisieux (1873–97). The choral writing, marked ‘placid’, comprises simple four-part homopho...

Escrita para el Servicio de Villancicos de Epifanía de 2025 de Radio 3 de la BBC, emitido desde el Pembroke College de Cambridge, Arise, shine presenta los tres primeros versos de Isaías 60: "Levántat...

La adaptación de una de las siete antífonas «O», «O Adonai», se basa en una figura ostinato de una sola nota que da inicio y pone fin a la composición, utilizando inicialmente las palabras del título....

Este himno fue un encargo de Anna Lapwood para el coro del Pembroke College de Cambridge, durante su mandato como directora musical, con motivo del 40.º aniversario de la admisión de mujeres en dicho...

La adaptación musical de Will Todd del texto latino navideño «O magnum mysterium» (Oh, gran misterio) fue un encargo realizado en 2023 para el Coro del Instituto Unionville y el Coro del Valle de Bran...

Inspired by workshops with the pupils of All Hallows School in Shepton Mallet, this work is about how the world around us can support us, change us, and lead us in our lives. The text is drawn from a...

The 14th-century Eucharistic text 'Ave verum' has been set to music by many composers over the centuries, no doubt drawn to its vivid and powerful imagery. Todd first set the words (for SATB choir) in...

Written for Philip Redfern and the choir of St George's School, Edinburgh, who first performed it in December 2014, this is a refreshing new setting of the well-known Christmas carol. Will Todd's expe...

Let all the world in every corner sing was commissioned by Colston's Girls' School in Bristol for the Chamber Choir and their Director of Music Matthew Redman, and was written in August 2008 for the s...

Composed for the Children's Chorus of Opera North, this piece is a setting for three high choral voices of Thomas Hardy's poem of the same name. The swaying style of a jazz waltz and the chromatic but...

The original version of Flight Song (for SATB) was written as a gift to Dr Anton Armstrong and the St Olaf Choir, Minnesota, with whom Arnesen has worked on a number of occasions. The SSAA version was...

Combining a text by Charles Anthony Silvestri with syllables inspired by the song tradition (joik) of the Sami people in Scandinavia, Sing the earth is a tribute to our common home, the earth, as well...

Una composición del poema de Robert Louis Stevenson ('Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, A frosty, fiery sleepy-head'), Winter-Time fue escrita por las coristas del Pembroke College Girls' Choir, bajo la...

La cruda calidad emocional de Dreamland refleja las bellas imágenes y los temas de fantasía y muerte del poema de Christina Rossetti. Escrita en el otoño de 2020, en plena pandemia, las dificultades d...

This new arrangement of Howells's 1919 solo song is part of the Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series. The original composer's stirring harmonies and masterful word-painting are transferred to a...

Commissioned by the Somerset, England based charity, Churchill Music!, The Same Flame was inspired by Pierre de Coubertin's ideals of Olympism which gave rise to the modern Olympic and Paralympic valu...

Commissioned by the Somerset, England based charity, Churchill Music!, The Same Flame was inspired by Pierre de Coubertin's ideals of Olympism which gave rise to the modern Olympic and Paralympic valu...

Commissioned by the Somerset, England based charity, Churchill Music!, The Same Flame was inspired by Pierre de Coubertin's ideals of Olympism which gave rise to the modern Olympic and Paralympic valu...

Commissioned by the Somerset, England based charity, Churchill Music!, The Same Flame was inspired by Pierre de Coubertin's ideals of Olympism which gave rise to the modern Olympic and Paralympic valu...

The last song in Riverdance - The Show. The composer draws from the comforting feeling of returning home after a long journey for this piece. Scored for soprano solo and mixed chorus, this effective p...