Chœur de femmes avec orchestre de chambre

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...

In this song, the singer longs to wander to the heather glen, but fears that there he may be lured away.

Each movement of this mass incorporates folk melodies from a different country. The moods and the tempi of the originals have been altered; melodies have been unraveled, spliced together and persuaded...

Jim Papoulis is donating his composer royalties to the Foundation For Small Voices, a non-profit organization dedicated to bringing awareness and funding to programs supporting the empowerment of chil...

The Green Shores of Fogo bears marks of Irish provenance, although its musical origins were lost before Kenneth Peacock collected the song from Mrs. John Fogarty in 1952. The tune, which Peacock consi...

Lindsay Kesselman's poetic words provide wonderful material for a choral art-song. The words speak of a Nature connected to people and their Souls.

Based upon the well-known poem by Canadian poet, Bliss Carman, Vestigia explores a variety of moods and tones colours made available by the solo voice, treble choir, violin, violoncello and piano.