Choral Music of Our Time

Bryars' Two Love Songs are stunning works for vocal trio or three-part female choir. Setting two of Petrarca's lyric poems of profound and idealised love, the words and music complement each other in...

The works in these three volumes for eight-part male choir are settings of sonnets by late Scottish Poet Laureate, Edwin Morgan (1920-2010). An admirer of Morgan's virtuosic poetry, Bryars wrote Silva...

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Delicada y elegíaca, muy alejada de la indulgencia celebratoria, Duddell ambientó la Oda al inglés de Grace Nichol con ingeniosa sencillez (Tom Service, The Guardian)

Gavin Bryars has written prolifically for choirs of all abilities in a range of styles, from his sombre 'Cadman Requiem' to his uplifting song 'The Open Road', written for and performed by 300 people...

Magnificat is a tribute to the unaccompanied motets of favourite composers from several eras - in particular those of Dufay, the Eton Choirbook, Robert Carver, Lassus and Bach. The work is therefore f...

Commissioned by the King's College Choir to write the carol for their celebrated Christmas Eve service A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, Watkins, who studied at King's as an undergraduate, has se...

Barry joins a simple unison melody in high and then low voices with a sparse keyboard accompaniment to create a carol of intoxicating harmony reminiscent of early polyphony.Available for the first tim...

Although I had already set separate Latin versions of both the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis, this is the first time I've made a setting in English of both texts for use at Evensong. I have often atten...

Five Spirituals, the original world-famous Spirituals set by Tippett in his best loved work A Child Of Our Time, newly arranged for male voice choir by one of the leading British conductors in this fi...

An English playing song collected in Lancashire and published in Miss M. H. Mason's Nursery Rhymes and Country Songs, freely set for 4-part women's, or children's or both's, chorus or for four single...

My collection of laude has its origins in the world of early music, being based in spirit and feeling on the unaccompanied vocal 'laude' found in a collection from 13th century Cortona. The people who...

The works in these three volumes for eight-part male choir are settings of sonnets by late Scottish Poet Laureate, Edwin Morgan (1920-2010). An admirer of Morgan's virtuosic poetry, Bryars wrote Silva...

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Written to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of World War II, this short choral work is suitable for professional, amateur and church choruses. The use of biblical texts (Isaiah) gives this piece a...

'Broken Psalm' was commissioned by Cambridge University to celebrate their 800th anniversary and first performed by the Choir of Gonville & Caius College in 2009. Goehr, who was Professor of music at...

This pair of English psalm settings for mixed choir is the newest addition to Watkins' growing collection of vocal music. Each under 5 minutes, they are fitting both for liturgical use and concert per...