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This celebratory anthem for double choir is set to the words of the Roman lyric poet Horace. Jackson combines declamatory unison passages for full choir with more lyrical polyphonic phrases shared bet...

This sequence of six carols explores the role of Mary in the Christmas story, focussing on her human experience within a story of the divine. The work has two accompaniment options: piano (using the v...

The piece sets extracts from the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, and is made up of six choral movements, including a substantial solo role for countertenor. Between t...

This is a setting of a powerful text by Kevin Crossley-Holland about the cruelty of child abuse being overcome by love and kindness.

James Whitbourn has a worldwide reputation for writing very personal yet accessible and highly communicative choral music, and these qualities are amply on display in this striking work for Soprano so...

In this setting, which includes salient fragments for St Luke's gospel (in Greek), alongside the customary text from the Book of Common Prayer, Finnissy renders this excitement, joy, awe, and trepidat...

John Sheppard's Verbum caro factum est is perhaps the most magnificent of his Responds, as befits its Christmas context. The music alternates between polyphony and plainchant, and the text is one that...

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

Soprano and piano. The soprano protagonist looks back, either in her imagination or in real terms, on a life richly lived. The texts, five by Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Lisel Mueller and one by Judit...

For countertenor & guitar. These two motets were written at the request of the Park Lane Group. They are both settings of contemplative, religious (but non-liturgical) texts and both are cast in a rep...

For high voice and piano. These two short songs are set to texts by A E Housman and Edward Thomas.

These three songs for soprano or tenor were sketched when the composer was a student at the Royal Academy of Music in the late 1960s, and subsequently revised. The texts are by W. B. Yeats, Wilfred Ow...

For solo soprano and piano. In the manner of a French chanson, this is a charming lullaby on a text by Victor Hugo. A sweet, simple melody is underpinned by a delicate fluid accompaniment and rich har...

Words by Shakespeare set for soprano and piano Range e flat'-g'

This is the first publication of three of Walton's early songs (1918) for high voice and piano. Lyrical and charming, the songs are firmly in the English pastoral vein. The set is completed with 'The...

This is the first publication of three of Walton's early songs (1918) for high voice and piano. Lyrical and charming, the songs are firmly in the English pastoral vein. The set is completed with 'The...

Eleven songs for tenor and piano

The texts are selected from the letters of Calamity Jane to her daughter by Wild Bill Hickok. The five songs present a stirring picture of an independent woman's struggle.

For soprano and piano. 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...

Six sacred songs on texts by women poets, suitable for use separately in services, or as a complete cycle in recitals.

A song cycle for soprano and piano drawn from Brenda Ueland's 1938 autobiography.

for soprano and piano 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...

Parry relishes in warm harmonies, with occasional chromatic inflections, in his calm but captivating setting of the anonymous fifteenth-century text There is no rose. Offprinted from Carols for Choirs...

For soprano and baritone. The first two of these four songs are for solo baritone. The third song, 'Pan', is written for both soloists, with the melody passing back and forth between the singers. Xeno...

A powerful, evocative, and very beautiful cantata based on texts by Emily Dickinson.