Chœur de femmes avec combo

Hot-blooded and haughty, a mixture of delight and disdain. The central paradox of performing this piece it that the rhythms must be very incisive and exact, yet the precision must be combined with the...

This is a free adaptation of nursery rhyme texts in blues style.

Mbiri kuna Mwari is composed in the spirit of choral music heard at the Episcopal Cathedral in Harare, Zimbabwe, in the summer of 1993. Shona is the majority tribe in Zimbabwe and its language. The te...

This is a folk melody from Ecuador traditionally played on the siku - the double row of panpipes that have been used in the high Andes for over a thousand years.

Chorpartitur engl.

The words of this old carol tell of the scene around the manger in Bethlehem, an assembly of gentle creatures and many children of all backgrounds. A gentle arrangement, with sincerity and warmth.

Joulupuu On Rakennettu is a lovely Finnish Christmas carol. Each of the three verses is given individual treatment.

The poem which inspired this piece was written by a thirteen-year-old girl. In it, she expresses the power of fire, of its life-giving and life-consuming potential, in simple and clear form.

The kookaburra is an Australian bird like the kingfisher, with a large-crested head and a short tail. Its call sounds like loud laughter, as the text of the song indicates. The bush in the song is the...

The piece begins with a Mozartian setting followed by a two against three pattern in the piano that is based on the mbira (thumb piano) music of Zimbabwe. The ending quotes the 'Rock-a-bye Baby' theme...

London Bridge is a theme and variations (with major, minor and lydian modalities) that plays with the contrasts in this simple song: contrasts of happiness and sadness. The happy innocence of a deligh...

These original settings create the feeling of tenderness and sorrow so typical of the Spanish lullaby. A litling Brazilian style lullaby, a 3-part a cappella chorus, a flight of imagination for guitar...

Ae Fond Kiss is a traditional Scottish melody which tempers the sadness of parting with the joy of friendship and love.

Kinder- oder Frauenchor und Klavier (Bläserquintett)

This haunting melody comes from County Donegal, Ireland. Like so much of the literature and music of the country, it is imbued with images of natural beauty and figures from the magical world of the f...