Partitions de Musique classique moderne pour Chœur mixte

This famous text is set to richly textured music filled with graceful melodic shapes.

A rousing celebration of Christ's ascension to Heaven featuring fantastic runs of notes shared between the voices.

Fresh, crisp and full of life, this work is the perfect setting for the jubilant words recounting the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles.

Grounded and powerful, this work rises and falls with tuneful motifs shared between upper and lower voices.

This work by Palestrina is both deeply reflective and notable for its warm mellifluous texture that ponders on series of long, held notes.

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...

This is an imaginative setting of a sequence of nine poems from 'Viking Poetry of Love and War' by Judith Jesch. The war poems are formal and celebratory, making vivid use of figures of speech known a...

This setting of A spotless Rose reflects the wintry starkness of the fifteenth-century text through its minor key and bare upper-voice opening, while the warmth of the full voicing on the words 'light...

The text for this piece is a response to Allen Ginsberg's A Supermarket in California by Latvian poet Kārlis Vērdiņš, translated by Ieva Lešinska. Jackson exploits its dramatic intent, giving space fo...

McGrath's setting of this well-known fourteenth-century macaronic text is expressive and rich. The melodies have a chant-like quality and the metrical changes create a compelling ebb and flow. This ca...

A group of three miniatures for unaccompanied mixed voices, Some corner of a foreign field sets poems by three First World War soldiers: John William Streets, Goldfeld, and Rupert Brooke. Bednall's se...

This gentle, lilting anthem sets verses from the psalms that speak of devotion to and delight in the Lord. Bednall's sophisticated and appealing musical language gives colour and expression to the tex...

Images of Peace is a work that encourages peace and understanding while not focussing on any particular creed or belief. Alan Bullard chooses texts from a range of sources, including the English metap...

An atmospheric setting of Caliban's dream from The Tempest, this piece transports the listener to a dream-like place. McDowall's immersive harmonies and ornamentation perfectly characterise the reveri...

I will be with you sets a reflective text by the composer with a message of enduring solace. Lush harmonies, with predominantly homophonic passagework, coupled with flowing and cascading lines in ever...

'Peace in the world' is the expressive middle movement from Images of Peace , which is a cycle of five songs that encourage peace and understanding. Although composed for secular use, this beautifully...

In this ethereal, atmospheric setting of Canadian poet Marjorie Pickthall's 'Stars', Oliver Tarney displays great sensitivity to the poem's vivid imagery and employs an evocative harmonic language tha...

When spring comes walking is a warm and optimistic setting of an evocative poem by Charles Bennett that explores themes of rebirth, nature, and celebration. Chilcott embraces the return of spring with...

This setting of A Spotless Rose reflects the wintry starkness of the fifteenth-century text through its minor key and bare upper-voice opening, while the warmth of the full voicing on the words 'light...

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 moving rendition of Pachelbel's Canon sets the 'Requiescat' from Oscar Wilde's 'Rosa Mystica' (1890). Chilcott displays his sensitivity as a vocal arranger, exploiting the richness of the SSSATB...

This setting of Orlando Gibbons and Catullus is a re-working of Gibbons's celebrated seventeenth-century madrigal (of the same title) for five voices. It retains the lilting depiction of the swan and...

A beautiful arrangement with German and English text, this cradle song would make an ideal closing piece for a concert programme. Originally published in Encores for Choirs 2.

This atmospheric setting of the celebrated poem 'April Rain Song' by (the Harlem Renaissance writer) Langston Hughes captures the sense of comfort and security while listening to rainfall. The ebb and...

Taken at a slow processional tempo this work has a predominantly canonic texture. The syncopated passages are at once sombre and sensual, and the balancing homphonic phrases achieve real power. A shor...