Partitions chœur

Composed for Northern Sinfonia Chorus and Gavin Osborn.

The opening lines of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time provide the text for Gerald Barry's Long Time. Beginning 'For a long time I used to go to bed early', the work unfolds over gently rising an...

For SATB choir Text by Mary MacDonald translated by Lachlan MacBean and from the bible Chorpartitur - with piano reduction for rehearsal only - gemischter Chor (SATB)

John Casken's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis was commissioned to mark the return of the Lindisfarne Gospels to the North East of England, where Casken lives. The book, dating from the 7th century, is on...

The Phoenix and the Turtle sets a poem by Shakespeare published 1601 that uses the metaphor of a bird's funeral to describe the death of an idealistic love. Watkins spins out a jazzy melody surrounded...

Commissioned by the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, this a cappella choral showpiece sets poems about the sea by Katrina Porteous.Voices gently rock and then tumble violently, mimicking the re...

Text by George Mackay Brown and from The St Magnus Prayer.

Setting texts by Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, this is Zoë Martlew's first vocal work published by Schott. Beauty, space and control feature strongly in this work for 6 female voices that would be...

Le texte de Karakia est une prière traditionnelle Maori, un hommage aux éléments et aux rythmes de la nature. Chaque note de la pièce est dérivée du nom de la mère du compositeur, née en Nouvelle-Zéla...

Gerald Barry's The coming of winter is a setting of an Irish poem dating from the 9th or 10th century, and was commissioned for the 34th Seminar on Contemporary Choral Music at University College, Cor...

Charm me Asleep est une charmante pièce d'inspiration gaélique pourvue d'une melodiquement superbe et de texture homophone. C'est, avec Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount, l'une des deux pièces écrites par Watki...

La pièce a fait l'objet d'une commande destinée à l'hommage rendu par le Chœur du New College d'Oxford, où Wigglesworth était étudiant, à l'occasion des quarante ans de service de son directeur Edward...

A beautiful work of contemporary polyphony in which shifting textures create momentary dissonance. An alluring melody passes between the voice parts.This work can be performed alone or as a pair with...

A setting of a text by William Blake from his collection of poems Songs of Innocence and Experience for SATB choir, harp and strings. The poem is a lullaby in which a mother hopes her sleeping baby's...

Bindung: Rückendrahtheftung

Chorpartitur

Penderecki's St. Luke's Passion is one of the most important chorals works of the 20th century. It is the first convincing piece that combines avant-garde techniques with liturgical content. At one mo...

Chorpartitur

We owe it to Paul Hindemith's interest in education, which, in turn, was owed not only to the professional musicians and composers, that he composed for children and amateur musicians as well. Dame Mu...

gemischter Chor (SATB) und Gemeinde (ad lib.)

The concert has been hugely successful. The audience is still applauding and calling for more. What you need now is a quick encore piece to end the concert on a high. This selection of closing and enc...

'Lay VII' is part of the extensive cycle of the Machaut Transcriptions (ED 21070) in which Holliger studies the great 14th-century poet-musician in different levels of arrangement. The original Lay VI...