Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series

O sing to the Lord fue encargada por Peter Asprey y estrenada por el Coro del Santo Sepulcro, Londres, como introito para un servicio especial con motivo del Día de Santa Cecilia en 2024. El edificant...

Bird Raptures, un conjunto de tres piezas que se inspiran estilísticamente en el canto a voces del siglo XX, fue compuesto para St Martin's Voices en la primavera de 2025, especialmente para el álbum...

Echo es el tercer movimiento de Seascapes, que fue encargado por los BBC Singers, como música de acompañamiento de los Cuatro Interludios Marinos de Benjamin Britten, arreglado para órgano por Anna La...

Benedictus, el eterno favorito de Karl Jenkins, en la versión masculina que aparece en la exitosa grabación de EMI Classics This Land of Ours, interpretada por Cantorion y Cory Band.

Setting of a prayer by Mother Cornelia Connelly, foundress of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus in 1846 and latterly Mayfield School. In 1863 she was inspired to transform the ruins of the Old Palac...

Setting of Latin text combining a versicle at Matins on the Feast of St Andrew with a fragment of a prayer attributed to him.

New settings of the two evening canticles which incorporate jazz elements, including harmony in voice parts and organ and many 'blue' notes. Despite these jazz elements, the music is very approachable...

Written for the Pembroke College Chapel Choir in November 2022, Drop down, ye heavens is a setting of the refrain and final stanza of the Advent Prose, itself based on various portions of the Book of...

Short motet commissioned by St Dominic’s Sixth Form College, Harrow-on-the-Hill, UK, to celebrate its 40th anniversary. MacMillan chose a text which is entirely appropriate to young people about to be...

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...

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...

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...

A welcome addition to this composer’s output of secular choral works, Oh Sleep! is a beautiful and lyrical setting which will be appreciated by choirs both amateur and professional. It was composed to...

Compuesto para ser interpretado en el 2022 Cumnock Tryst, el festival anual de música comunitario creado por James MacMillan en la ciudad de Ayrshire donde creció. MacMillan comenta que "mis primeras...

Esta obra para soprano solista, violonchelo solista y coro mixto (SATB con divisi) se estrenó en la celebración del Día de la Fundación del University College de Dublín en noviembre de 2013, y posteri...

I am a pool pertenece a A Memory of the Ocean (2023), una colección de piezas para coro, piano y violonchelo. El texto es una adaptación de The Sea-Wind de la poetisa estadounidense Sara Teasdale (188...

El Quinteto de Hans Winterberg fue compuesto en 1981/82 en su última residencia de Steppberg, Baviera, con motivo de un concurso de composición organizado por el Consejo Cultural de Alemania Oriental....

O the depth is a devotional work, suitable as an introit or short anthem, which couples together a passage from the New Testament (Romans 11) and a single verse from the Old Testament (Isaiah 55) whic...

This short, rhythmical work is inspired by an area of McGlade's native Cornwall and uses the text of Percy Bysshe Shelley's poem of the same name. The area, where a common meets the sea, is home to ma...

Composer’s note Tantum Ergo should have a chant-like feel especially on the repeated pitches. Keep the tempo flexible to enable effective contrast in dynamics and a sustained sound throughout. The acc...

Composer’s note O sacrum convivium was written in 2007 - it is one of my earliest choral compositions. Olivier Messiaen’s setting had a profound impact on me as a young chorister. As John Cooper, the...

Composer’s note O sacrum convivium was written in 2007 - it is one of my earliest choral compositions. Olivier Messiaen’s setting had a profound impact on me as a young chorister. As John Cooper, the...

Composer’s note In Jubilate Deo I have gone back to the music to which I was introduced from a very early age as a chorister at Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim, Norway. Singing regularly in concerts an...

Weddings are joyful occasions - for the happy couple as well as for their community. When a couple stands before their friends and families, and sometimes in sacred settings before God, they make vows...

Composer's note: 'On yesternight I saw a sight was set as a means of thanking Jo Tomlinson for promoting and recording my music with the excellent choristers of Farnham Youth Choir. Knowing that the g...