Chœur et Chant

A powerful and moving setting which was premiered in Westminster Abbey in November 1998.

This beautiful and much-loved Somerset folk-song is No. 2 of Five Traditional Songs arranged for mixed choir by John Rutter (ISBN 9780193437173). The enduring appeal of the song lies in the beauty of...

These two numbers, 'Monday's Child' and 'Sing a Song of Sixpence', are taken from Five Childhood Lyrics, based on traditional children's rhymes and games.

This setting is taken from Five Traditional Songs.

This atmospheric setting of the celebrated poem 'April Rain Song' by (the Harlem Renaissance writer) Langston Hughes captures the sense of comfort and security while listening to rainfall. The ebb and...

The second of Stanford's Three English Motets Op. 135, this extended anthem boasts both impressive emotional range and textural ingenuity. Originally published in A Stanford Anthology.

A powerful commemoration motet for double choir with bold tonal and textural shifts, framed by outer sections in a deliberate archaic style. Originally published in AStanford Anthology.

Recueil de trois motets latins : "Justorum animae", "Coelos ascendit hodie" et "Beati quorum via". Publié à l'origine dans A Stanford Anthology.

A beautiful anthem that combines natural imagery with sensitive text-setting, creating a powerful sense of narrative. Originally published in AStanford Anthology.

Setting a hymn by E. H. Plumptre, this rousing anthem is rich in textural and harmonic contrasts and innovative chord sequences. Harris employs effective repetition of the focal word 'rejoice!', which...

Taken at a slow processional tempo this work has a predominantly canonic texture. The syncopated passages are at once sombre and sensual, and the balancing homphonic phrases achieve real power. A shor...

This is one of Clarke's many pieces on love, and one of the best. It combines the English modality of earlier times with foretastes of the adventurous chromaticism of her later work. It is a lovely pi...

This is a lilting take on the Elizabethan lute-song full of smooth Stanford-like nineteenth-century harmonies, exquisitely tempered with modal effects.

A medieval English carol for solo baritone and unaccompanied ATBarB. The setting is full of gentle hemiola and canonic effects, and makes much use of parallel sixths and thirds.

This is an appropriately aching setting of Sir Philip Sidney's poem of unending desire and longing. There are gorgeous chromatics and enharmonics and a masterful use of a triplet pattern which becomes...

Weep you no more, sad fountains is a modern take on the Elizabethan lute-song, integrating the characteristic alternations of minor and major, fondness for cross-relations, and vivid word-painting. Th...

Music, when soft voices die combines aspects of nineteenth-century English pastoral style with some of the tonal adventurousness of Vaughan Williams's Shakespeare settings. This is an exceptionally be...

This beautiful arrangement of the 17th-century lullaby features subtle jazz inflections and artful imitation. The text seeks to create a calm and comforting atmosphere for sleep, which Parry emulates...

Chilcott sets this beautiful new text by Charles Bennett in a lush style. The vivid imagery is brought to life through the composer's warm harmonic palette. The Pear Tree Carol is a contemplative cele...

Inspired by Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, Vespers is a 12-movement English-language work in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Suited to concert and liturgical settings, it draws from a variety of Orth...

This setting of verses from John 7 imaginatively depicts the 'rivers of living water' and the contrasting 'parched land' in episodic form, providing musical structure, variety, colour, and atmosphere....

In this sensitive choral arrangement of 'Nimrod' from Elgar's Enigma Variations, Michael Higgins sets the Eucharistic hymn 'O salutaris Hostia', written by St Thomas Aquinas for the Feast of Corpus Ch...

This is an innovative, striking setting of the Magnificat text that is well suited to both liturgical and concert performance. The work celebrates the strength, character, and intelligence of teenage...