Choral Music of Our Time

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...

Sur des paroles de Sara Teasdale, ce doux chant de Noël suit les rois, les bergers, les rois mages et les anges qui apportent des cadeaux au nouveau-né. Les harmonies chaleureuses et l'écriture lyriqu...

Sur des paroles de Sara Teasdale, ce doux chant de Noël suit les rois, les bergers, les rois mages et les anges qui apportent des cadeaux au nouveau-né. Les harmonies chaleureuses et l'écriture lyriqu...

Settings of medieval texts that feature singable and accessible straight-lined vocal movements suitable for both smaller and larger SATB choirs.

Settings of medieval texts that feature singable and accessible straight-lined vocal movements suitable for both smaller and larger SATB choirs.

John Casken, who celebrates his 60th birthday in 2009, set Christina Rossetti's In the bleak mid-winter - a poem popularised by Gustav Holts' setting of the same name - for Alwinton and Holystone Chur...

John Casken, who celebrates his 60th birthday in 2009, set Christina Rossetti's In the bleak mid-winter - a poem popularised by Gustav Holts' setting of the same name - for Alwinton and Holystone Chur...

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...