Chœur et Chant

For unaccompanied choir SAATTBB. This work was commissioned by Jonathan Manners and DeChorum, who gave the first performance at the Cancer Research UK Carol Service at All Saints Church, Weston-super...

Ecce Puer is a composition by John Tavener for Unaccompanied SATBB Choir. A setting of one of James Joyce's poems, a full performance lasts around 2 and a half minutes.

This work was commissioned by the Revd. Dr. Simon Jones for the Choir of Merton College, Oxford. It was performed on 27th November 2010 at Merton College, Oxford, by the Choir of Merton College conduc...

Motet for Good Friday for Solo Tenor and SATB Choir. Dedicated to Peter Pears and Imogen Holst.

This motet for unaccompanied voices with tenor solo was written for a BBC programme of words and music called A Poet's Christmas broadcast on the Home Service on Christmas Eve, 1944.

Composer's Note 'The words of this piece are taken from the poem They are all gone into the world of light by Henry Vaughan. The music came to me after attending the beautiful and moving funeral of Ma...

Tavener's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis was commissioned by the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. First performance on 9th April 2012 at the Royal Albert Hall, London, conducted by Mike Brewer....

For unaccompanied SATB choir, from Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis. This work was commissioned by the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain. First performed on 9th April 2012, at the Royal Albert Hall,...

This work was commissioned by the Master and Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge, to mark the 500th anniversary of the founding of the College. The Magnificat was first performed by Andrew Nethsin...

Commissioned for Cappella Nova's 30th Anniversary by Jyotipakshini. First performed on 30th May 2012, at St. Andrew's-in-the-square, Glasgow, by Cappella Nova directed by Alan Tavener. Cease to do ev...

Eric Whitacre has become a musical sensation across the globe. His new, chart-topping CD release Water Night comes hot on the heels of his Grammy award-winning album Light & Gold. This inspiring colle...

For AATBarBarB unaccompanied, arranged by Philip Lawson. This arrangement of Leon was commissioned by The King's Singers and Seán Curran Company as part of a collaborative project. It was made possi...

O that we were there! is a text taken from the Christmas hymn In Dulci Jubilo. It expresses a longing to be present at the Incarnation of Christ, but it also conveys alonging to be out of the world of...

To Know, composed by Zbigniew Preisner for solo voice and SATB choir, unaccompanied.

The Song Sung True was expertly composed by Judith Weir. The piece was commissioned by Lawyers' Music, in memory of Helen M. Sibthorp, singer and promenader. The first performance of The Song Sung Tru...

The world première of A New Commandment, a piece by the late Sir John Tavener specially commissioned for Summer Fields, was in February 2014 at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford. This work was possibly o...

The Prayer Of Cardinal Newman has written for SATB Choir with Piano reduction for rehearsal use only. This Score was expertly composed by British composer and conductor James Whitbourn. The Prayer Of...

This work was commissioned by the Singers of the Los Angeles Master Chorale to honour its 50th Anniversary Season, and by the Swedish Radio Choir.

Video Caelos Apertos (For SATB Chorus Unaccompanied), by James Whitbourn, was commissioned for the singers of Medina High School, Ohio, Tyler L. Skidmore, conductor, to mark their tour to England and...

John Tavener's Coplas, composed in 1970, for unaccompanied SATB Choir. ' Coplas is a short anthem for voices and tape. It belongs to a much larger work called 'Last Rites' which I have been thinking a...

The Wishing Tree was composed by prominent composer Joby Talbot in 2002 and was first performed in that year by the BBC and King's Singers. With text by Kathleen Jamie, this particular arrangement for...

A Cry For Freedom is a work by renowned Venezuelan conductor and violinist Gustavo Dudamel. The work was composed as part of the Libertador Suite, forming part of the film 'TheLiberator', about the li...

John Tavener 's Apolytikion Of Saint Nicholas, scored for Unaccompanied SATB Chorus. This work was first performed on 11th November 1997 by the choir of St-Martin-in-the-Fields, London. A full perform...

Gratias Agimus Tibi is a work by James Whitbourn for Unaccompanied Voices (in any combination), with an optional 'Amen' for SATB Choir and Organ ad lib. A setting of Latin text by Nigel Palmer, the wo...