Partitions pour chœurs

This tiny, delicate piece has something of the Debussyian prelude about it. It deftly deals with that familiar theme of snow, not rising above a piano dynamic throughout.

Offprinted from Pianoworks: Popular Styles.

Two stanzas of emotive verse by Christina Rossetti are set to music of touching directness in this a cappella offering, whose graceful melodies are often adorned by caressing rhythmic patterns. Offpri...

Four-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's lively harvest anthem. Pack includes full score and set of parts. Compatible with both the English-only and dual-language vocal score.

Ever-changing in mood and pace, La Musique is a setting of poems by Elizabeth Bishop and Charles Baudelaire on the transformative power of music. Jackson musically represents the complex psychological...

John Taverner's Respond 'Dum transisset Sabbatum' (I) is now established as one of the finest examples of English polyphony composed in the last days of the Sarum Rite.

This song skillfully blends a classic poem, Christina Rossetti's Uphill, with a relaxed, lightly jazzy style. Expanding from three- to six-part harmony, the chordal texture allows for strong annunciat...

From the first sporadic drops to showers, monsoons and drenching sheets, the instruments in this piece (the piano prepared with blu-tack) work closely together to effectively capture the mood.

In this classic Rutter anthem the flowing choral melodies perfectly complement the positive message of the well-known thanksgiving text by F. S. Pierpoint. Presented here in German translation.

In this edition, Simon Preston has made a few adjustments to the large-scale vocal writing of Walton's original version to make the work suitable for liturgical performance by a cathedral or ambitious...

A reflective work for church or concert choirs at Passiontide. It sets the traditional Seven Last Words of Christ, well-known hymns, and other sacred texts to create a moving and dramatic work that re...

This carol is a lilting and uplifting setting of a traditional text about the prophecy of Christ's birth, as received by Joseph from an angel. The accessible musical language, with interesting harmoni...

This carol may be sung by a mixed-voice choir, or by upper voices only. Bullard harmonically mirrors the move from darkness to light in a memorable setting of his own words. Offprinted from Carols for...

This energetic piece, originally from Three Children's Songs, has been arranged for mixed choir and suits a spring-time programme. Offprinted from Vaughan Williams for Choirs 2.

The Evening Service by Nicholas Strogers, comes from one of the earliest 'short' services to have survived. In addition to the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, it also contains the Deus misereatur (Psalm...

This work sets a poem by George Meredith. The poem, Winter heavens, begins as a winter landscape, before coming richer, stranger and more metaphysical. Winter heavens was premiered in December 2011 by...

Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round is an exuberant setting of the well-known hymn by John Chadwick. The second section explores the Lydian mode, while the adamantine final verse reflects the text's...

Conceived as a set, these eight songs are drawn from several Chinese regions. In this new arrangement the music has been refashioned for Western instruments, with stylistic bowing and fingering. Suita...

This dramatic setting of a 5th-century Ambrosian hymn perfectly epitomises the jubilation of the text. Rhythmically complex and involving some tricky melismatic passages, it is particularly suited to...

A traditional German carol using text dating back to around 1500 AD. Orchestral scores and parts are also available. Offprinted from the collection Joy to the World.