James Bassi

For SATB unaccompanied. The music opens with 'oos', and, after a pause, the choir enters, singing in Latin, sempre legato. Bassi writes lush choral lines with suspension after suspension, which result...

This is an exciting and accessible setting to a really memorable tune of William Dalrymple Maclagan's text. It is easy and fun to sing and ideal for any church choir looking for a contemporary anthem...

This is a setting of a text by Guyanese-British poet John Agard, which describes how eighteenth-century slave-trader John Newton became an abolitionist. Featured on Orphei Drängar's CD, De Profundis:...

This rousing carol sets a text by the nineteenth-century Scottish poet Norval Clyne. Bassi's setting perfectly captures the contrast between light and darkness in Clyne's text, with simple vocal lines...

For SATB, mezzo-soprano solo, and chamber orchestra. The first movement is a fantasia on a popular Ukrainian carol melody; the style is impressionistic, by turns melancholy and vigorous. The second mo...

For SATB, mezzo soprano solo, and organ with optional handbells. This is the central, slow movement of Bassi's larger work, Carol Symphony. The composer recommends that the overall presentation should...

Settings of four Shakespeare sonnets that offer great contrasts in tone and mood. Each poem centres on the object of the poet's love in a different aspect: as the beloved one, the desired one, the one...