New Horizons

Jackson employs his signature harmonies and descriptive working of the text within an expansive polyphony to create a large-scale expressive anthem to the Blessed Virgin Mary.

This Marian piece opens with an extended soprano passage, underpinned by soft yet characterful organ writing. Several hallmarks of Jackson's style are evident, including soaring, melismatic soprano li...

This moving cantata draws on biblical texts associated with Sir Ernest Shackleton, his 1916 Antarctic Expedition, and Rupert Brooke. With lustrous harmonies and a poignant tenor solo, it offers choirs...

Setting the original Latin text of the hymn better known as Hark! a thrilling voice is sounding, Jackson contrasts homophonic choral parts with light interjections from the saxophone. The result is a...

Michael Finnissy's John the Baptist won the 2015 British Composer Award in the Liturgical Category. Commissioned by St John's College, Cambridge, for Advent 2014, the piece recalls the folk music of t...

Night Flight was written to mark the centenary of Harriet Quimby's pioneering flight across the English channel. Setting texts by Sheila Bryer on the mysterious powers of the sea, earth, and air, McDo...

More sweet than my refrain is a tender miniature for three-part choir set to the text of a poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson. The motet features on the new Ars Nova Copenhagen recording, 'First Drop' (Cante...

The patron saint of music is honoured in Cecilia McDowall's exuberant setting of Kate Wakeling's lyrics based on 'The Life of Saint Cecilia' in Jacobus de Voragine's 1275 The Golden Legend or Lives Of...

For SSATB (with divisions) and optional organ. New Horizons showcases the wealth of exciting, innovative, and occasionally challenging choral music being written today. It encompasses the whole gamut...

Many people will be familiar with the beautiful music of Hildegard von Bingen. Here O'Regan has woven a mesmerising and inventive homage to Bingen's twelfth-century sequence. A fantastic showcase for...

New Horizons showcases the wealth of exciting, innovative, and occasionally challenging choral music being written today. It encompasses the whole gamut of small-scale choral genres, both secular and...

For SATB and organ

For treble voices and organ. Written in his customary style of great simplicity, the voices sing in unison over a pared-down, chordal organ accompaniment.

Not no faceless Angel is a beautifully reflective work. Originally commissioned by Joy Hill and the RCM Junior Department, the work is a sensitive setting of words by Tanya Lake. The themes of loss an...

Commissioned by the choir of Merton College, Oxford, In the beginning was the Word provides a welcome musical setting of this iconic biblical text. Suitable for use throughout the church year. 32 page...

This impressive anthem is the second of two in which Michael Berkeley sets texts by Rowan Williams. First the sun, then the shadow uses words from his poem Emmaus, written in 2008. It was commissioned...

McDowall's Candlemas is a celebratory and powerful piece. Making use of choral divisions and suspensions and a dynamic organ part, this setting of Denise Levertov's text (on the Presentation of Jesus...

The hymn Come, Holy Ghost lies at the heart of Celestial Fire. Here, McDowall has woven the exquisite poetry of Denise Levertov into this expressive and uplifting piece. At times quietly meditative, C...

For SATB choir, soprano solo, mezzo-soprano solo, and organ. New Horizons showcases the wealth of exciting, innovative, and occasionally challenging choral music being written today. It encompasses th...

The Spacious Firmament 2: Yet we who neither burn nor shine is a sequel to The Spacious Firmament. Both pieces may be performed separately, but The Spacious Firmament should always come first if they...

This work sets late texts by Friederich Holderlin. The fragmentary poems have been edited together to create the text. Gedachtnis-Hymne was premiered in November 2010 by the New London Chamber Choir w...

Outstanding collection of quality new choral piece Great variety of material Features established Oxford composers, fast-establishing composers, and interesting new names Suitable for concert and chur...

Joseph Addison's poem The Spacious Firmament, much-loved in its familiar guise as a hymn, is an extraordinary vision, both ecstatic and scientific, reasoned and sublime. I am particularly drawn to tex...

Novo profusi gaudio is a vibrant Christmas motet, setting a medieval text that combines English, Latin, and French words. This joyful account of the nativity is combined with colourful, exuberant musi...

'Am Abend' is a setting of 'Grodek', which is thought to be the last work of the Austrian poet Georg Trakl. Written in 1913, the year before Trakl committed suicide at the age of 27, the poem is set i...