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William Walton's vibrant cantata Belshazzar's Feast is arranged here by organist David Briggs and percussionist David Bending for voices, organ, and percussion. This version is compatible with the voc...

In this macaronic carol, Arakelyan combines Latin and English texts and employs effective textural contrasts through unison, imitative, and polyphonic passages. Offprinted from Carols for Choirs 6.

The patron saint of music is honoured in McDowall's setting of lyrics based on 'The Life of Saint Cecilia' in Jacobus de Voragine's 1275 The Golden Legend or Lives Of The Saints. The work's outer sect...

This suite from 1925 is one of Vaughan Williams' most enigmatic pieces. The chorus never articulates a single word, and instead serves as a section of the orchestra, creating an elegant vocal texture...

Harp part for the six titles in the Cambridge Singers Hymn Series which feature a harp accompaniment. All six hymns have been recorded by the Cambridge Singers directed by John Rutter, on the Collegiu...

Suite Lyrique is a work in six movements with music taken from the composer's Suite Antique of 1979 for flute, harpsichord, and strings. The harp part and full score are available on sale and string p...

Suite Lyrique is a work in six movements with music taken from the composer's Suite Antique of 1979 for flute, harpsichord, and strings. The harp part and full score are available on sale and string p...

The text is taken from Shelley's epic poem Prometheus Unbound. Skempton sets passages in which a Chorus of Hours and a Chorus of Spirits celebrate in ecstatic language the unshackling of the human spi...

Night Flight was written to mark the centenary of Harriet Quimby's pioneering flight across the English channel and won the 2014 British Composer Award in the Choral category. McDowall uses vocal clus...

The Gift to Sing is an unaccompanied part-song with a text by writer and activist James Weldon Johnson. Geter paints the text 'I pierce the darkness with a note' with sustained pitches, and the piece'...

Three-piece chamber ensemble accompaniment to Rutter's arrangement of Psalm 23. Pack includes full score and set of parts.

The piece sets extracts from the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and is made up of six choral movements, including a substantial solo role for countertenor. Between t...

A rousing setting of the classic American song. Two pianos, piano and organ, piano and synthesiser or two synthesisers may be used for the two keyboard accompaniment.

Visions is a four-movement showpiece for solo violin in unique combination with upper-voice choir, harp, and strings (or organ). The harp part is identical for both full and reduced instrumentations.

Organ part for John Rutter's Visions, a four-movement showpiece for solo violin in unique combination with upper-voice choir, harp, and strings (or organ). The organ part is for use with the reduced i...

This lyrical setting of Colin Coppen's text has a flowing piano accompaniment and a melody of elegant simplicity. It makes a charming addition to any concert or service, and is also available in a ver...

This is the second song in Vaughan Williams's Folk Songs of the Four Seasons. It describes the courtship of a young couple in the spring as the cuckoo and nightingale sing sweetly.

Described as 'an outstanding work of great solemnity and poignancy' (Tempo, 2013), McDowall's meditation on the sorrows of the Virgin Mary is a sophisticated alternative to more well-known settings.

This is the harp part to accompany John Rutter's gentle and lyrical setting of the well-known 15th-century text: 'A babe is born all of a may, to bring salvation unto us'. Conductors should conduct fr...

This is the original accompaniment option for John Rutter's setting of the well-known 15th-century text from the Sloane MS: 'A babe is born all of a may, to bring salvation unto us'.. Conductors shoul...

Alan Smith's setting of the Latin hymn at Lauds for The Feast of Transfiguration is stately and solemn. Featuring imitative entries that open out into rich, expansive textures at climactic moments, th...

Using as its basis two traditional nursery rhymes and an achingly nostalgic poem by Eugene Field, Larsen deftly captures the essence of childhood in her clever setting of the three texts whilst offeri...

First performed by the choirs of St Paul's, Westminster Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey, this anthem sets a medieval English poem to contemplative music with all the hallmarks of McDowall's style: ex...

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 line is subtly underpinned by a...