Choral Music of Our Time

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...

One of Gavin Bryars' early major choral works, On Photography uses texts by Pope Leo XIII combining a modern subject matter (photography) and archaic language (Latin) with music of timeless beauty. Th...

Bryars' Two Love Songs are stunning works for vocal trio or three-part female choir. Setting two of Petrarca's lyric poems of profound and idealised love, the words and music complement each other in...

Lust am Singen - Ce livre s'adresse à tous ceux qui veulent écouter, écouter et écouter leur stimulus. Pourquoi y a-t-il tant d'indicateurs pour les choristes, mais si peu pour les choristes authentiq...

Text from the well-known Christmas song is merged with a tune from Barry's own 4th String Quartet in this unconventional carol. With Barry's characteristic rich and unexpected harmonies, O Tannenbaum...

Text from the well-known Christmas song is merged with a tune from Barry's own 4th String Quartet in this unconventional carol. With Barry's characteristic rich and unexpected harmonies, O Tannenbaum...