David Bednall

Rejoice in the Lord est une mise en musique rapide, festive et joyeuse du Psaume 33. Après un début exubérant, un passage animé à l'orgue mène à un beau moment de calme dans le chœur, sans accompagnem...

Ce recueil de trois chansons chorales met en musique des textes de poètes à l'époque de la Première Guerre mondiale et a été commandé en 2014 par le chœur Sospiri en souvenir du début de la guerre. To...

Ces Three Songs of Love furent commandées par les Exultate Singers et la première eut lieu le 14 Février 2015 au St George's Bristol.Les trois textes de Clare, Yeats et McCrae représentent différentes...

Publiée à l'origine dans le cadre des Three Songs of Love de David Bednall, cette courte pièce, avec une mise en musique du poème The Cloths of Heaven de W. B. Yeats, est désormais disponible en éditi...

Bednall's beautiful setting of this much-loved prayer is warm, simple, and immediate. The vocal line is expertly lyrical and the accompaniment suitably supporting, with a serene line for solo violin t...

Let all the world in every corner sing a été commandé par la Colston's Girls School de Bristol pour son chœur de chambre et le directeur de la musique, Matthew Redman. Elle a été composée en 2008 pour...

Everyone Sang a été composé à l'occasion d'une bénédiction de mariage à la cathédrale de Wells le 26 mai 2007. Le chœur qui s'est réuni pour l'occasion comptait un grand nombre de chanteurs d'opéra, c...

Cette pièce puissante, datant de 2010, met en valeur toutes les ressources de l'orgue sur lequel elle est jouée. Ses rythmes entraînants et ses harmonies exaltantes, souvent bitonales, rappellent des...

David Bednall's Fanfare-Processional for Organ. Composed 2010. 'A work that reflects a constant revivific­ation of tradition - most notably, in the expected treatment of D major tonality(not full...

Bednall's creation, rooted in the tradition of French organ improvisation, tenderly evokes the mysterious beauty of Wells Cathedral's remarkable 'Jesse Window'. The radiant music ebbs and flows calmly...

Commissioned for the 40th birthday of the organist Paul Walton, Walton's Paean is a work of great verve, with compelling rhythms, exciting harmonies, and catchy melodies propelling the celebratory mus...

In this short introit Bednall sets the 'In manus tuas' responsary for the Compline service. A setting of a useful text for church or cathedral services, the anthem is appropriately serene and luminesc...

A setting of Shakespeare's much-loved Sonnet 18, Bednall's expressive work highlights this timeless text with sumptuous harmony, including pleasing tonal shifts and topical false relations. Various ch...

In this short introit Bednall sets the 'In manus tuas' responsary for the Compline service. A setting of a useful text for church or cathedral services, the anthem is appropriately serene and luminisc...

David Bednall's unaccompanied setting of this Compline hymn contrasts sections of chant, for tenor soloist, with rich responses for full SATB choir. The introit has a gentle sense of ebb and flow, com...

Like as the hart sets reflective yet fervent words from Psalm 42. The vocal writing is emotive and expressive, and the fluctuating metres perfectly complement the rhythm adopted by the psalmist when p...

A group of three miniatures for unaccompanied mixed voices, Some corner of a foreign field sets poems by three First World War soldiers: John William Streets, Goldfeld, and Rupert Brooke. Bednall's se...

This exquisite miniature combines old and new, with plainchant-like melodies and tonality set against expressively dissonant contemporary harmonies. It was recorded by The Epiphoni Consort on David Be...

This gentle, lilting anthem sets verses from the psalms that speak of devotion to and delight in the Lord. Bednall's sophisticated and appealing musical language gives colour and expression to the tex...

Aspire to God, my soul sets a macaronic text by Canon John Dilnot. This anthem is optimistic and uplifting, with frequently changing time-signatures that convey a rhythmic fluidity and the flexibility...

This partner antiphon to Bednall's Alma Redemptoris Mater is fast and joyful. This pair of antiphons compliments Howells's setting of the other Marian antiphons (Salve Regina and Regina Caeli). The ce...

This tender setting is a partner antiphon to Bednall's Ave Regina caelorum. In turn, this pair compliments Howells's setting of the other Marian antiphons (Salve Regina and Regina Caeli). Triplet move...

This high-energy, majestic setting of well-known words from the psalms is a welcome addition to the service repertory. The changing metre brings the text to the fore, and the semiquaver movement that...

The Scholar is a sensitive setting of Robert Southey's poem that explores a man's kinship with the dead. With Bednall's characteristic metrical fluidity and effective word setting, this piece will pro...