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Commissioned by the English Montreal School Board Chorale for its 40th anniversary, Be like the bird sets an English translation of a text by Victor Hugo. Quartel uses lyrical melodies and rising sequ...

In this poignant ballad Toby Young has set an adaptation of Emily Dickinson's poem My Letter to the World to heartfelt melodies with a pop-style piano accompaniment. The song reflects on the pain of b...

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow is a three-movement work by Bob Chilcott, exploring the concepts of reflecting on the past, living in the present, and not worrying about the future. The words, by Georg...

This engaging, upbeat work sets a text by the Malaysian singer Bihzhu celebrating the collective excitement in exploring the unknown. Fly! features a contemporary, pop-inspired melody and a fun, synco...

This optimistic piece is characterized by catchy, singable melodies and a syncopated rhythmic drive in the vocal and piano writing. Wong employs a variety of textures to bring the setting to life, inc...

Le titre de cette œuvre en six mouvements est tiré de Troïlus et Cressida de Shakespeare : "Une touche de nature rend le monde entier plus beau". À travers une compilation de textes d'écrivains tels q...

Prologue is the first movement from Sarah Quartel's Snow Angel, an evocative five-movement choral work which is a firm favourite with choirs across the world. The musical language is emotive and picto...

Présenté ici dans un arrangement pour voix supérieures, il s'agit d'une belle mise en musique d'un poème évocateur d'Emily Dickinson qui explore la symbolisation de l'espoir sous la forme d'un oiseau....

She Sang the Stars s'inspire de l'épopée finlandaise d'Elias Lönnrot, le Kalevala, pour explorer les étapes de la féminité. Les mouvements extérieurs de l'œuvre, dont tous les textes sont traduits en...

Écrite pour le California Junior High All-State Honor Choir, cette pièce présente un texte motivant du compositeur sur le thème de l'acceptation de nouvelles opportunités et, en utilisant la métaphore...

Sur un texte de l'écrivaine et librettiste contemporaine Jennifer Thorp, cette œuvre enjouée est immédiatement accrocheuse. Dans un langage vibrant, Cacao raconte une histoire du point de vue de la gr...

Wanderlust est une réflexion sur les amitiés et le désir d'explorer, au sens propre comme au sens figuré. Idéale pour un chœur d'enfants, elle comporte une mélodie mémorable et des harmonies nostalgiq...

TaReKiTa est une pièce de concert rafraîchissante qui fusionne sans effort les styles de musique classique hindoustani (nord de l'Inde) et occidentale. Les scats du compositeur sont combinés à un mètr...

Cette série de trois pièces captivantes est conçue pour initier les chœurs à la langue hindi. 'Sŭnāō' se traduit par faites-moi écouter, mais son sens est plus proche de dites-moi ou chantez pour moi....

Inspiré du poème de Christina Rossetti A Song of Flight, ce morceau entraînant est une célébration de la liberté, de l'action et du courage. Ses lignes lyriques fluides sont associées à un accompagnem...

A simple, delightful setting of a Yeats poem which embraces nature's beauty and the secret joy of solitude. Suitable for concert use.

This exquisite setting for SSA unaccompanied voices of a well-known Marian motet (in Latin) is the first of Rebecca Clarke's choral works ever to be published.

For unaccompanied five-part women's chorus (SSSAA). Although quite short, this is one of Clarke's boldest and, in some respects, most ambitious compositions. It sets Shelley's magnificent ode to the E...

Voice on the Wind sets an inspiring text, written by the composer, about the empowerment of singing. With a catchy melody, imitative scat singing, and a driving hand drum accompaniment, this piece has...

This is a profound setting of a selection of poems by Wilfred Owen. The sense of human connection and imagery of the natural world imbued in Owen's poetry is perfectly conveyed in Chilcott's music, wh...

With a text by the composer, this work was originally inspired by members of the Radcliffe Ladies' Choir and their motto 'friendship through singing'. The lilting vocal lines are subtly underpinned by...

This is a colourful and dramatic celebration of nature and its powerful and hypnotizing sounds. The listener is taken on a captivating journey through the natural world, via 'tongues of thunders', the...

The Shipping Forecast is in 3 movements: 'Donegal', 'They that go down to the sea in ships', and 'Naming'. The first and last movement are settings of poems by the poet, broadcaster, and academic, Sea...

Another winning collaboration between Bob Chilcott and author Charles Bennett, this work was commissioned by Age UK Oxfordshire as part of a project to highlight and combat loneliness. The singers ass...

This is a funky arrangement of Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy' with an English text by Henry van Dyke. Milloy jazzes up the well-known melody by arranging it in 12/8 time and adding syncopation, while suppor...