Partitions à télécharger par Sarah Quartel

A rich texture is used in Gombert's setting of Quam pulchra es, with all voices singing almost all of the time. This texture is created through refined imitative contrapuntal writing, rather than homo...

Originally published in Epiphany to All Saints for Choirs, this seventeenth-century anthem for The Ascension of the Lord is full of melismatic polyphonic lines and features a fluid tonal centre.

This three-movement work is an upbeat and optimistic expression of curiosity and growth. With lyrics by the composer, the work features a supportive piano part and a characterful violin part, with uni...

This is a small-scale work, which would make a useful repertoire piece, bearing in mind the need to provide compatible items for groups playing the Debussy flute/harp/viola sonata.

alongside new material by Delphine Chalmers and the composer. It has sections for adult voices alone and sections for children's voices alone alongside passages for the two forces to combine as a full...

In this work, the only published completion of Grieg's Piano Quartet in B-flat, we hear how Finnissy takes Grieg's style and weaves it together with modern expression and references to Grieg's contemp...

This work puts a jazzy twist on three Shakespearean characters: Ophelia from Hamlet and Caliban and Miranda from The Tempest. The piano part may be played as written or used as a guide, and a part for...

Presented here in an arrangement for upper-voices, this is a beautiful setting of an evocative poem by Emily Dickinson that explores the symbolization of hope as a bird. Quartel offers soaring melodic...

She Sang the Stars uses the lens of Elias Lönnrot's Finnish epic, the Kalevala, to explore the stages of womanhood. With all texts in English translation, the work's outer movements act as an introduc...

En sueños sets Antonio Machado's poem 'Tal vez la mano, en sueños' on dreams as a space where memory, music, and truth meet. Evoking the vivid imagery in Machado's text, the expressive choral parts fl...

Gentle yet joyful, We Thank You is an ode to the beaty of nature. Setting a text by Ralph Waldo Emerson, the music is warm, comforting, and flowing, with Quartel's characteristically charming melodies...

Set to the text of a 12th-century Sequence in honour of the martyr St Olav and characterized by a mellifluous plainchant-style melody, this glorious motet pulses with understated intensity. The openin...

Wide Open Spaces reflects on the journeys to be found in the wide open spaces within ourselves and in the world around us. After an uplifting melody, expansive textures, and rich harmonies, there is a...

Rejoice in the Lord is a fast, festive, and joyful setting of Psalm 33. After an exuberant opening, a lively organ passage leads into a beautiful moment of stillness in the choir, unaccompanied, creat...

Sentinels was written for the Brodsky Quartet and John Metcalfe. The piece is really a long, unrelenting march whose pulse never slackens or quickens, and in which slightly quirky military-style gestu...

This heartworming setting of words from A Midsummer Night's Dream features all the hallmarks of Quartel's signature style, with uplifting melodies and a supportive, accessible piano accompaniment. Ori...

Ian Crawford breathes new life into this traditional American tune by employing a bluegrass-inspired style, jaunty syncopations, and an upbeat tempo. This flexible arrangement is accommodating and idi...

A haunting depiction of the 'magic made by melody . . . Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep', from a poem by Elizabeth Bishop. Instrumental parts for the original version (SATB and strings) are av...

This work was written around 1940, placing it near the beginning of a series of Clarke's late compositions. It both looks forward to her lean, linear, avowedly modern conceptions and backwards to work...

Presented here in an arrangement for SABar voices, this setting of words by Chief Dan George optimistically reminds us that there is still beauty to be found in times of trouble and that difficult day...

From the collection Anthems for SA and Men, 'Fill your hearts with joy and gladness' is an uplifting anthem by Sarah Quartel, scored for SA & men with organ/piano. With text by Timothy Dudley-Smith, t...

This poignant setting of a text by Angier Brock invites us to reflect on how we receive the imago dei in others. Gentle yet captivating throughout, this piece centres on themes of faithful living, hos...

An exquisite setting of a love song by Sir Philip Sydney. Also available in versions for solo high version, SSAA, and SATB (from Iirthday Madrigals).