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Originally scored in D major for counter-tenor, with trumpet and strings, the work is here arranged by John Rutter for performance by soprano and organ (or strings and organ continuo), with or without...

This inventive work, composed in 2019, owes its title to that year's two great anniversaries connected to manned flight: the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing and the 500th anniversary of the...

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this fugue is taken from Reger's Variations and Fugue on the 'English National Anthem', and takes the whole of the first thre...

The syncopated Toccatina is influenced by pop music as well as the music of South America, while the use of repeated notes is derived from Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck. The piece will be effective on any...

This exciting work packs a huge amount of musical variety into its compact frame, despite being written with the needs of developing organists in mind. A fanfare-like section in 3-time twice gives way...

Perfect as a showpiece voluntary, Herbert Murrill's vibrant 1949 Carillon for organ is a miniature toccata that sets agile passagework above purposeful chords, with flashes of brilliance from the peda...

Elegy for the Time of Change was written in response to the horrifying murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police in May 2020.

Inspired by the legendary cyclists of the Tour de France, Yellow Jersey is a short wind sprint for two saxophones, originally composed for two clarinets. The form of the piece follows how the sprint w...

A slow movement which explores the beautiful sonorities of saxophones played softly.

I saw three ships is a lively setting of the traditional English text. A simple melody, swapped between the outer voices and answered by altos and tenors, gradually builds to a forte last verse comple...

In A Song of Blue, Chilcott explores the power of music through the metaphor of nature. This piece opens with a glittering ostinato from the piano. The upper voices begin by singing in unison, before...

A movement from In Windsor Forest, setting Shakespeare's text from Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, Scene 3.

Composed during the year between Lance Armstrong's fifth and sixth victories in the Tour de France, Yellow Jersey is a short wind sprint for two clarinets. The form of the piece follows how the sprint...

Field Notes is a compact, one-movement chamber work for oboe, violin, viola, and cello. The work is full of harmonic interest with chromatic and melodic passages shared equally between the parts.

Written at the request of the Lawson Trio, this gracefully structured work contrasts atmospheric lyrical writing with bursts of turbulent fast music, including a rather rough and wild scherzo. The thr...

The piece is a fairly athletic work in three movements. The first and third are very rhythmic, fast, and hauntingly jazz-like in a Miles Davis kind of way. The second movement is quite placid, free fl...

Setting a newly written text by Charles Bennett, Five days that changed the world takes singers on a journey through five historical events: the invention of printing, the abolition of slavery, the fi...

This anthem sets the Oculi omnium gradual to still, reflective music. Including sections of plainchant alongside richer textures and close harmonics, it is a beautiful piece that will appeal to a rang...

Adapted from the Gospels of St Matthew and St Mark, Hosanna to the Son of David is a jubilant anthem with a lively, independent piano part. Adams employs dynamics as a word-painting tool, with a jubil...

La gora di mulino was commissioned for Chamber Music 2000. The Chamber Music 2000 works were designed to be technically easy, but still retain the composers own individuality and musical style. La gor...

In the 1940s and 50s 'four on the floor' referred to a high performance car with a four-speed gearbox and a gear-change mounted on the floor. And that is the characteristic of this piece - fast, loud,...

Nightsongs is a hauntingly atmospheric response to the famous and magically beautiful gardens at Ninfa, created a century or so ago around the remains of an ancient settlement southeast of Rome.