Partitions de Musique classique moderne pour Chœur mixte

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...

Tarney's setting of this traditional Scottish text offers catchy melodies and folk-inspired harmonies, driven by a rhythmic piano accompaniment. The ballad is framed by a repeating, haunting, and ethe...

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...

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...

Immerse yourself in the delicate soundscape of this enchanting cradle song. This masterful a cappella arrangement for mixed choir (SATB with divisions) captivates with its intimate atmosphere and fine...

Gregorio Allegri's world-famous masterpiece "Miserere" is among the most moving and mystical choral compositions in music history. With its ethereal, soaring soprano lines and deeply touching harmonie...

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...

This is one of Clarke's many pieces on love, and one of the best. It combines the English modality of earlier times with foretastes of the adventurous chromaticism of her later work. It is a lovely pi...

This is an appropriately aching setting of Sir Philip Sidney's poem of unending desire and longing. There are gorgeous chromatics and enharmonics and a masterful use of a triplet pattern which becomes...

Weep you no more, sad fountains is a modern take on the Elizabethan lute-song, integrating the characteristic alternations of minor and major, fondness for cross-relations, and vivid word-painting. Th...

Music, when soft voices die combines aspects of nineteenth-century English pastoral style with some of the tonal adventurousness of Vaughan Williams's Shakespeare settings. This is an exceptionally be...

This beautiful arrangement of the 17th-century lullaby features subtle jazz inflections and artful imitation. The text seeks to create a calm and comforting atmosphere for sleep, which Parry emulates...