Partitions chœur

This attractive motet was written for performance alongside Brahms's Requiem. The gracefully sculpted music clothes the text with touching melodies, expressive harmonies and varied sonorities.

In this short introit Bednall sets the 'In manus tuas' responsary for the Compline service. A setting of a useful text for church or cathedral services, the anthem is appropriately serene and luminesc...

This vibrant setting of Isaiah 9:6 draws on the rhythms and textures of modern Nigerian art music. The predominantly homophonic texture is interspersed with solo lines, in a setting full of dynamic co...

Bird Raptures, un ensemble de trois pièces qui s'inspirent stylistiquement du partong du XXe siècle, a été composé pour St Martin's Voices au printemps 2025, spécialement pour le premier album de Lucy...

Pavane Publishing est fier de lancer une nouvelle série chorale avec Grant Gershon, directeur de la Los Angeles Master Chorale. L'un de ses objectifs est de présenter des compositeurs d'excellence ori...

Combining two spirituals with original music and employing two soloists, this arrangement from first time contributor Carlos Simon is amazing. Series editor Eugene Rogers wrote and said get this piece...

This heartfelt setting of words by the composer begins with a pianissimo drone over which the sopranos introduce the expressive melody. With lush harmonies, moments of dynamic intensity, and an overri...

A simple setting of this popular medieval Advent carol which has great originality and impact. The style is controlled, almost austere, and the effect is hypnotic. This is an unsettling but poignant p...

This short sacred work for unaccompanied mixed choir is a highly atmospheric setting of the poet Henry Vaughan's mystical and enigmatic poem of the same name. Written for the choir of St Peter's Colle...

In this innovative arrangement Stanley M. Hoffman takes Henry Purcell's most popular solo aria, the 'Lament' from his opera Dido and Aeneas, and reimagines it as a work for unaccompanied soprano solo...

Setting a specially written text by Charles Bennett, this gentle lullaby compels us to follow the nativity's animals and angels, and like them create our own Christmas scene wherever we are. Chilcott'...

This piece sets a joyful text celebrating the beauty found all around us. Characterized by tight harmonies and a dynamic hand drum line, the buoyant 7/8 metre drives the piece forward. Lush harmonies...

Setting two verses of the Irish traditional carol, Wilberg's version opens simply with unaccompanied unison men, before the piano creeps in gently. The carol melody's haunting, modal qualities are com...

This Christmas miniature captures the intimacy and atmosphere of the well-loved 16th-century text. Through homophonic textures, word-painting, the use of extended harmonies, and a lilting rhythm, the...

Pete Churchill's thrilling arrangement of this traditional Cornish carol has a gentle South African feel and features 'scat' singing and chromatic shifts in harmony. The traditional melody in 6/8 time...

Following a collaboration with Katie Melua on her 2016 album 'In Winter', Bob Chilcott has made a choral arrangement of this traditional Ukrainian carol, first introduced to the English-speaking world...

McDowall's setting of Isaac Watts' Cradle Hymn is beautifully tender, coloured by its rich harmonies, suspensions, and chromatic notes. The melodies are complimented by sustained 'oo's and 'ah's and r...

McGlade's setting of 'The Call' by George Herbert is simple but effective, reflecting the directness of the original poem. The three-bar phrases create a feeling of expectancy throughout the verses, a...

This is a beautiful setting of words from Act 3 Scene 2 of The Tempest. The opening soprano and tenor melody is based on a dreamlike, oscillating two-note cell which threads throughout the piece, broa...

This lively and joyous arrangement of the folksong 'Montagnarde' from the Haute-Auvergne region of France makes playful use of the call of the cuckoo in a catchy refrain. 'Montagnarde' is featured on...

Owain Park's arrangement of John Rutter's secular carol presents a new take on this Christmas classic, drawing on Rutter's evocative orchestral colours to create this characterful arrangement. This ar...

Also in Carols for Choirs 3, and 100 Carols for Choirs.

Written in an a cappella style with scat accompaniment, A Tree is a Song is a joyful celebration of the affinity between trees and how wisdom can be passed on 'as a melody from tree to tree'. McDowall...

Originally published in the New Horizons collection Cantica Nova, this expansive Advent motet creates a unique sound world through unusual harmonic inflections, striking spatial effects, unmeasured no...