Boosey & Hawkes

A tiny voice is rising carried on the wind. A simple song of reason. Will we let it in? Listen to the children. (Une petite voix s'élève, portée par le vent. Un simple chant de la raison. Le laisseron...

Composer David Brunner has a gift for setting texts in melodic phrases with gentle contours and with a lyrical style. He has done exactly that with this text by Victorian age poet and essayist Bessie...

Tuneful melodies of broad contours and long-breathed phrases characterize this setting of the Thomas H. Troeger text. A sense of rubato will expressively shape each phrase. Though scored for piano, th...

O Aula Nobilis is a festive work, composed for the opening of the Natalie L. Haslam music center at the University of Tennessee. After the opening unaccompanied chant in the women's voices, the music,...

Cette pièce est une célébration du voyage vers la féminité - avec ses joies, ses mystères et ses possibilités. Des mélodies montant énergiquement, des rythmes dansants et des sons vocaux percutants se...

Cette célèbre composition du Psaume 42, avec la forte impulsion de son élan vers l'avant, son accompagnement de piano en ostinato et son effet choral percussif est maintenant parue dans un arrangement...

Avec cette édition, qui propose à la fois un Magnificat et un Nunc dimittis dans le même volume, le compositeur fait montre de sa sensibilité aux versions anglaises de ces deux chants de louanges litu...

Written in memory of a loved one, this piece celebrates a love of life and a love of music. Sections of text are taken from the traditional hymn How Can I Keep from Singing and the use of Pachelbel's...

Dans cette pièce, dont le texte de Pauline Johnson rend honneur à l'héritage des indiens Mohicans et aux paysages canadiens, Mark Sirett saisit toute la passion et la splendeur du poème et la transpos...

Le texte simple mais fort, dû à la plume du compositeur nous rappelle que lorsque nous laissons rayonner nos émotions avec sincérité, nous pouvons mettre le monde en meilleure posture. La pièce fut éc...

I ask for one day where I don't have to hear about pain, or life that's lost, I ask for one day where whispers of hope are alive inside my heart (je prie pour un jour où nous n'ayons pas à entendre pa...

Le profond attachement du compositeur à la grande force procurée par la croyance en son semblable se reflète dans la force et la capacité de persuasion de cette musique. Commençant en fragile ballade,...

Drawing inspiration from this powerful and spirit filled text, David Brunner has crafted a melody that inspires. Long musical lines will require careful shaping and the independent yet integral piano...

Unglaubliche Legenden umranken das Leben der irischen Heiligen Brigida von Kildare, und es fällt schwer, tatsächliche Begebenheiten von erfundenen Geschichten zu unterscheiden. Wie auch immer - dieses...

Setting the poem Sunflowers by contemporary poet Susan Windle, this 6-1/2 minute work for women's choir and string quartet is strong and thoughtful and insightful and requires women who are just like...

The sub-title is 'Blessed are those who hunger.' The music contrasts a peaceful, chant-like introduction and coda with an energetically rhythmic middle section that illustrates how our longings and hu...

This is a traditional Christmas lullaby from Mexico. This arrangement is created to be performed in either Spanish or in English or a combination of both. An optional guitar accompaniment for finger s...

The Ecstatic Songs Cycle was a project with conductor Sandra Snow that spanned eight years. The first song was All I Was Doing Was Breathing (BHI 47905), while the second song Don't Go (BHI 48197) fol...

This is an evocative, folk-like setting of Yeats' poem 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree.' The modal vocal writing is both simple and sophisticated and always expressive of the yearning in Yeats' words.

Celebrating every day 'miracles” and the simplicity of the miraculous in our everyday lives, here is a simple yet profound musical setting of these every day occurrences. Lush piano writing and beaut...

Junge Menschen sind fast immer voller Hoffnung. Sie schätzen die Erwachsenen in ihrem Umfeld und hoffen auf ihren Respekt und ihre Freundlichkeit. Henry Leck hat sich schon immer für junge Menschen un...

Eine Klavierbegleitung, die an ein Banjo erinnert, und expressive Fiddle-Stylings verleihen dieser traurig klagenden und bewegen Vertonung von Stephen Fosters klassischem Lied Hard Times Come Again No...

To Shiver the Sky is an oratorio about the history of flight, and mankind's quest to conquer the heavens. Told through the words of 11 of our greatest astronomers, inventors, visionaries and pilots, i...

The Saddest Noise is a setting of Emily Dickinson's poem The Saddest Noise, the Sweetest Noise. It begins the story of The Lost Birds in spring: the season of birth and renewal, and a time of year whe...

Wild Swans, a setting of a poem by Edna St. Vincent Millay, ends the first half of The Lost Birds. Told from the point of view of the poet, it starts with the sound of bird cries: gradually approachin...