Oxford Choral Classics Octavos

The Oxford Choral Classic Octavos Series makes the best new editions of standard repertoire available to every choir at an attractive price. Drawing on his extensive experience of the needs of choirs...

For SSAATB unaccompanied.

Adapted from Pearsall's own eight-part madrigal 'Lay a garland', 'Tu es Petrus' is replete with fine polyphonic writing and rich, expressive sonorities, reflecting his enduring interest in early music...

An impressive, deeply felt anthem by a master of English choral music for 8-part mixed choir with optional organ continuo.

For ST and piano or orchestra. Offprinted from the anthology Opera Choruses, this is a short, beguiling piece from Madama Butterfly. - Short but effective piece - Edited by John Rutter

For SSAA double choir unaccompanied.

For SATB unaccompanied. Described by Elgar as an elegy for unaccompanied chorus, this mournful, reverent setting was composed for a service commemorating Queen Victoria on the anniversary of her death...

For SSAATTB unaccompanied.

For SSAATB unaccompanied.

For SATB double choir unaccompanied.

For SATB double choir unaccompanied. Setting words from the Ordinary of the Lutheran Mass, this brief but resoundingly effective piece is perfect for opening a choral concert. The piece begins with ea...

For SATB unaccompanied. This joyful setting of an old Irish air, arranged by Sir Charles Villiers Stanford and edited by John Rutter, features a text by Thomas Moore on life's fleeting pleasures. A re...

SSATB unaccompanied & SSAB soli Duration: 12 minutes Difficulty: Easy to Moderately difficult

for SATB unaccompanied

Two of Stanford's finest partsongs for unaccompanied SATB voices

A short, but eloquent setting of the eighth stanza of the hymn 'Pange lingua', and thus an effective Holy Week motet. For SATB unaccompanied Duration: 2 minutes Difficulty: Easy

For double SATB chorus unaccompanied This is Stanford's extended Latin setting of this text, written in 1918 and acknowledged as its composer's finest a cappella choral work. Duration: 12 minutes Diff...

An impressive setting of the Gradual for Maundy Thursday, dating from 1884, the period of the Seventh Symphony and the Te Deum.

A very popular Renaissance chanson which is partly onomatopoeic. Duration: 1.5 minutes Difficulty: Easy

Composed in 1840, this popular eight-part madrigal is also in the anthology Madrigals and Partsongs. Replete with fine polyphonic writing and rich and expressive sonorities, it provides a fine example...

for unison voices This publication makes available some of the most renowned and beautiful chants of the Gregorian repertory. All eleven chants have modern notation, with editorial performance suggest...

John Rutter provides an English translation alongside the German text of this Schubert classic, offprinted from the anthology European Sacred Music.

Für gemischten Chor (SATB) und Orgel (oder Orgel, Harfe und Violoncello. Orgelauszug.

For SATB and optional organ.