Musique classique

This edition offers a significant earlier version of a section of the fourth motet, rescored passages from the fifth, helpful notes on performance, and supporting online materials. Comprehensive and p...

Do not neglect is a stand-alone movement from Kim André Arnesen’s large-scale work, The Stranger, which uses a thought-provoking text from chapter 13 of the Epistle to the Hebrews: ‘Do not neglect to...

This setting of Christina Rossetti's poem Then Shall Ye Shout for unaccompanied double choir was commissioned by Help Musicians UK for its annual St Cecilia's Festival service and first performed by t...

Exemple audio : "Harbour" (performed by Regenbogenchor München, dir. Mary Ellen Kitchens)

Repertoire of romantic choral music worth discovering: In his unaccompanied choral songs the expressive melodies of the song composer Schumann combine with a harmonically rich, sometimes even experime...

La famille Mendelssohn pratiquait une forme très spéciale de musique de chambre dans le jardin de la propriété familiale: les musiques du dimanche. Peut-être que cela a inspiré Fanny Hensel pour publi...

'Broish McRoish' is a rhythmic piece based on traditional Gaelic sprechgesang - the so-called 'Puirt a beul' (mouth music). The text is meaningless, comparable to scat, and primarily serves to drive t...

Mendelssohn décrit l'œuvre de 1840 à son ami Klingemann : "une symphonie pour chœur et orchestre ... D'abord 3 mouvements symphoniques, suivis de 12 mouvements de chœur et de solistes ; les paroles de...

Note du compositeur:'Noël est toujours un nouveau cadeau, toujours un cadeau frais et rafraîchissant : le cœur humain est renouvelé par le don, non pas de richesses, mais d'un petit enfant fragile. Hi...

Imagine the opening solo in darkness. Light increases as the choir begins, growing to full brilliance when three luminous lines intertwine. A 'lux aeterna' refrain is sung in resonant harmony, with to...

Le texte est de Ralph Waldo Emerson et rend grâce pour la création, pour la vie et pour le début d'une nouvelle journée. La mélodie capture la gratitude comme une douce brise sur une prairie. C'est un...

Set to a popular text by Walter de la Mare, this secular work is an expressive homage to J. S. Bach, combining lyrical vocal lines with a contrapuntal accompaniment.

This expressive celebration of friendship sets a text by Delphine Chalmers inspired by words from French Renaissance essayist Michel de Montaigne. Eminently accessible, this piece is perfect for conce...

With a text by the composer, this work was originally inspired by members of the Radcliffe Ladies' Choir and their motto 'friendship through singing'. The lilting vocal lines are subtly underpinned by...

A simple and beautiful setting describing the wonder of a world seen through the eyes of a deaf child. In the refrain, singers are encouraged to sign the words they are singing, resulting in profoundl...

Move to a higher level of performance with this outstanding new concert work. It opens with a fanfare, then moves into a rhythmic statement of the main theme: 'Let the earth resound with sounds of mus...

May your life be filled with song. And may your friends all sing along. These two simple sentences begin the heartfelt text of this lovely choral ballad. The melodies are equally beautiful in their si...

Based on Sibelius' Finlandia, this impressive selection is like two phenomenal arrangements in one: the first half, a stunning homophonic treatment of 'This Is My Song;' the second half, a Zulu transl...

A jubilant antiphonal exposition extends an invitation to music-making, before erupting into a truly fresh concert and contest opener! Exploring a wide variety of choral sounds and textures including...

A jubilant antiphonal exposition extends an invitation to music-making, before erupting into a truly fresh concert and contest opener! Exploring a wide variety of choral sounds and textures including...

Your song is my very heart. The beautiful metaphor describes a loved one as a song with qualities such as hope, healing, laughter, and love. Mark Burrows honors his daughter on the occasion of her hig...

Imagine the opening solo in darkness. Light increases as the choir begins, growing to full brilliance when three luminous lines intertwine. A 'lux aeterna' refrain is sung in resonant harmony, with to...