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This atmospheric setting of familiar words from Shakespeare's As You Like It is sprightly and uplifting, with singers being asked by the composer to perform with 'a bit of frost and a knowing smile'....

Setting words by the Godfrey Thring, this short piece for solo high voice and piano or organ is heartwarming and gentle, supported by a flowing piano accompaniment. Also available in a version for sol...

Scored for high voice and piano or organ, this setting of a Jewish text is simple but uplifting, and well-supported by a flowing keyboard accompaniment. Also available in a version for solo low voice.

The text Lauda Sion, written by St Thomas Aquinas, is the sequence for the Feast of Corpus Christi. Monteverdi set stanzas one, two, and twenty-three of the sequence, which contains twenty-four verses...

This English traditional carol has been fully arranged for a mixed voice choir, congregation and organ accompaniment. Orchestral score and parts are also available. Offprinted from the collection O Ho...

Howard Helvey's arrangement of this traditional American melody is tender and expressive, with the lilting melody set in a variety of choral textures.

A moving, traditional Irish blessing set to music of great simplicity and beauty. Chilcott perfectly captures the warmth and sincerity of the text, and weaves a memorable melody, which he clothes in r...

The texts are selected from the letters of Calamity Jane to her daughter Janey, from 1880-1902. The five songs present a stirring picture of an independent woman's struggle to earn a living to support...

Based on poetry by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portugese explores the finding of a mature love by a woman who wonders what part of her must she sacrifice to the lover and to the world...

A song cycle for soprano and piano drawn from Brenda Ueland's 1938 autobiography. Although Ueland's life was nothing out of the ordinary, the philosophy of her writing is to find the joy in everyday e...

Margaret Songs are a collection of three songs of Margaret Elliot, a character in Libby Larsen's chamber opera, Eric Hermannson's Soul, based on a short story of Willa Cather. It charts one woman's em...

Larsen's song cycle is based on the novel by the American writer, Willa Cather, and the songs recount Jim Burden's memories of Ántonia Shimerda during their shared experiences of the pioneering period...

The Oxford Book of Descants is a definitive collection of 102 descants to well-known hymns, carols, and worship songs. It features descants by a wide range of composers, including contemporary names s...

With specially written poems by Karlis Verdins based on the Adonis chapters from Frazer's The Golden Bough, each song in this little cycle explores a single Affekt.

Four Shakespeare Songs sets texts exploring different aspects of love. Using passages from various Shakespeare plays, McDowall's writing is beautiful and clever in how it reflects the moods and emotio...

Try me, good King is a group of five songs drawn from the final letters and gallows speeches of the six wives of King Henry VIII. The cycle is a psychologically intense monodrama that presents technic...

With a text by the composer, this work was inspired by members of the Radcliffe Ladies' Choir and their motto 'friendship through singing'.

Scored for high voice and piano or organ, this folk-inspired melody is gentle and free-flowing, perfectly suited to the natural imagery found in the Lowry's popular poem. Also available in a version f...

Scored here for high voice and piano or organ, this meaningful text by David Warner is accompanied by beautiful leaps and subsequent suspensions in the memorable melody, which is supported by rich tex...

An easy anthem for high voice and piano or organ, this piece has a haunting simplicity with a flowing tune over a gently rocking accompaniment.

Taken from Sanctum, a setting of the Requiem text for upper voices, 'Lux aeterna' features a simple and gentle melody, supported by a new piano part in this arrangement for solo voice. Also available...

This popular traditional French carol tells of the milkmaids Jeanette and Isabella, who run to tell the shepherds to come and see the baby Jesus in the stable.

This charming traditional Catalan carol is full of natural imagery exploring the return of spring. With both English and Catalan text, Wilberg's arrangement is scored for high voice and piano, capture...

Scored for high voice and piano, Wilberg's arrangement of this traditional Basque carol is gentle yet charming, with expressive suspsensions in the supportive piano accompaniment. Also available in a...