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Through a compilation of texts, this life-affirming work explores our fractured relationship with the natural world and nature's capacity for renewal. Dudley has crafted a compelling dialogue between...

Wanderlust reflects on friendships and the desire to explore, both literally and figuratively. Ideal for children's choir, it features a memorable melody and nostalgic harmonies against the backdrop o...

This simple, well-crafted motet is bright, optimistic, and compelling. Skempton employs artful homophony and sensitive word-setting, and the repetitions of the opening refrain build towards an effecti...

This gentle carol, set to a beautiful text by Elizabeth Jennings, reflects upon the birth of Christ and the coming New Year. In a simple setting, Chilcott perfectly captures the warmth of the season,...

Orchestration: fl, 3hn, hp, str This gentle arrangement of Will L. Thompson's words and melody (1880) is ideal for upper-voice choirs of all levels of experience. The melody is sympathetically treated...

This gentle arrangement of Will L. Thompson's words and melody (1880) is ideal for upper-voice choirs of all levels of experience. The melody is sympathetically treated, with simple vocal harmonizatio...

With plenty of excitement and anticipation, this exuberant carol sets a medieval macronic text, featuring changing metres and a driving piano part. Also available in a version for solo high voice.

Vieux Noël pour les Tout-petits is a traditional song from the Rouergue region of Southern France, where the language is Occitan. It was collected by Léon Froment, a collector of popular songs at the...

An attractive setting of the seventeenth-century poem by George Herbert, with a gently syncopated accompaniment. The simple melody is coloured by subtle harmonic gestures mirroring the sentiments of t...

Set to the text of a 12th-century Sequence in honour of the martyr St Olav and characterized by a mellifluous plainchant-style melody, this glorious motet pulses with understated intensity. The openin...

Setting a text by Sister Polly M. Rupe, Gentle Words is a comforting reflection on the power of kindly spoken words, both for the giver and receiver. Built on a supportive keyboard part, the choral pa...

This Day unites five very different texts, both sacred and secular, in an exploration of man's relationship with the world and with God. A wonderfully evocative concert piece for upper-voice choirs of...

An attractive setting of the seventeenth-century poem by George Herbert, with a gently syncopated accompaniment. The simple melody is coloured by subtle harmonic gestures mirroring the sentiments of t...

This is a lyrical and compelling upper-voice setting of Joseph Mary Plunkett's 'White waves on the water'. Chilcott expertly employs the double SSA forces, resulting in a colourful array of textures a...

Written for the California Junior High All-State Honor Choir, this piece sets a motivational text by the composer on the theme of embracing new opportunities and, using the metaphor of a river, encour...

piano. TaReKiTa is a refreshing concert piece that effortlessly fuses the Hindustani (North Indian) and Western classical music styles. The composer's scats are combined with a fast triple metre, voca...

A gentle lilting lullaby with a rippling accompaniment of South American flavour. This setting has strong rich harmonies, and a real sense of joy.

Many people will be familiar with the beautiful music of Hildegard von Bingen. Here O'Regan has woven a mesmerising and inventive homage to Bingen's twelfth-century sequence. A fantastic showcase for...

For SSA double choir, piano, and flute obbligato. This is a lyrical and compelling upper-voice setting of Joseph Mary Plunkett's 'White waves on the water'. Chilcott expertly employs the double SSA fo...

Chavarría keeps the spirit of wassailing at the forefront of this dynamic and energetic arrangement of Gloucestershire Wassail, which features imitation and call-and-reponse figures. Offprinted from C...

From the collection For Him all Stars, 'Carol of Our Lady' is a 3/4-time carol by Christopher Wiggins, scored for SSA and organ. Setting a medieval text, it features a rippling accompaniment to suppor...

This traditional carol from the canton of Wallis is used in nativity plays as the song of the angels waking up the shepherds in the field. The crisp rhythms in the organ part give Carl Rütti's arrange...

A refreshing setting of a favourite carol. The tender and pure melody, beautifully harmonized, is underpinned by a seamless rocking figure in the organ. An accessible option for any upper-voice choir...

One of Berkeley's earliest published compositions, Three Songs to Children sets texts by W B Yeats, Wilfred Owen, and Walter de la Mare. The direct simplicity of Yeats and Owen settings contrast with...