Bob Chilcott

This expressive Wedding anthem sets an extract from William Blake's Auguries of Innocence. With chromatic inflections and gently arching vocal lines, the music perfectly reflects the text's emphasis o...

God be merciful is a predominantly homophonic setting of verses from Psalm 67 in the King James translation. This reverential prayer emphasizes 'God' with multiple sustained pitches, and the anthem's...

The title piece from a collection for mixed voices, 'Sun, Moon, Sea, and Stars' is a gentle, romantic piece setting a text by the composer. The narrator's adoration for their lover is explored through...

Sun Dance is a slightly modified version of the fifth movement from the composer's Organ Dances. The music is for the most part celebratory in character, its spiky rhythms driven along by the pervasiv...

This engaging musical drama follows the quest of Pip the Sparrow to be accepted into the Dawn Chorus. Along the way Pip meets characters like the Doc Rock Peacocks, who promise to transform the sparro...

Warm sounds of love her, love her, create a rich underlay for the solo and duet features in this stunning King's Singers arrangement of the Beatles' hit from 1964 in an exceptional arrangement by Bob...

Warm sounds of love her, love her, create a rich underlay for the solo and duet features in this stunning King's Singers arrangement of the Beatles' hit from 1964 in an exceptional arrangement by Bob...

Der Beatles-Klassiker in einem schönen Arrangement für gemischten Chor SATB divisi in der Fassung der King's Singers.

The 100th Psalm is in modified ternary form and captures the joy and excitement of the familiar psalm. The organ part features a fanfare-like motif that effectively complements the text, and the chora...

Setting a Native American text, The Song of the Stars is a bright and rhythmic piece scored for double upper-voice choir. Featuring rhythmic ostinatos, imitative effects, and rich harmonies, this is a...

This compelling a cappella setting of Henry Van Dyke's poem has a continual sense of motion, created by the 7/8 metre and scat singing style that is passed around the parts. A powerful and uplifting a...

Setting a Native American text, The Song of the Stars is a bright and rhythmic piece scored for double upper-voice choir. Featuring rhythmic ostinatos, imitative effects, and rich harmonies, this is a...

A bright and breezy piece with a charming text by Charles Bennett, A Tree of Song begins with a jaunty 7/8 figure which recurs throughout the piece, with the melody floating above. Alternation between...

This piece was composed in honour of the centenary of Marconi's first trans-oceanic wireless signal. The theme of the work, sound waves, is evoked through overlapping phrases sung ad lib., and the mus...

This is a truly beautiful addition to the Christmas repertory, setting a specially commissioned poem by Charles Bennett. The Rose in the Middle of Winter will appeal to all mixed-voice choirs looking...

Chilcott's setting captures the mood of painful introspection that infuses this spiritual, in a way that few others have achieved. A truly moving response to a subtle but provocative text.

Thou, my love, art fair sets the William Baldwin poem Christ to his spouse. This delightful song makes full and effective use of the voice parts and features charming harmonies and interweaving melism...

Setting a specially written text by Charles Bennett, this gentle lullaby compels us to follow the nativity's animals and angels, and like them create our own Christmas scene wherever we are. Chilcott'...

Following a collaboration with Katie Melua on her 2016 album 'In Winter', Bob Chilcott has made a choral arrangement of this traditional Ukrainian carol, first introduced to the English-speaking world...

This is a beautiful setting of words from Act 3 Scene 2 of The Tempest. The opening soprano and tenor melody is based on a dreamlike, oscillating two-note cell which threads throughout the piece, broa...

This is a vivid musical depiction of the colourful dreamscape created in Charles Bennett's text. The solo tenor floats over the soft, jazzy harmonies of the other voices as he narrates the journey thr...

This lively and joyous arrangement of the folksong 'Montagnarde' from the Haute-Auvergne region of France makes playful use of the call of the cuckoo in a catchy refrain. 'Montagnarde' is featured on...

From the collection Bob Chilcott Songbook, this is a beautiful unaccompanied arrangement of a popular Japanese children's song. With a text full of natural imagery and a folk-like pentatonic melody, '...

Bob Chilcott, described by the Observer newspaper as a contemporary hero of British choral music, has been working as a choral composer and conductor since leaving The King's Singers in 1997. While in...