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One of the simplest and best-loved of 16th-century anthems.

A setting of a poem by Ursula Wood, later to become Ursula Vaughan Williams.. The dedication reads, 'To the memory of Charles Villiers Stanford, and his Blue Bird'.

Another issue in the Church Music Society's series of great 16th-century Responds, John Sheppard's Reges Tharsis is for the season of Epiphany, celebrating the visit of the Magi to the infant Jesus. T...

This fine Respond by Thomas Tallis is scored for SATTBarB, with the chant placed in the 2nd Tenor part. Intended for the Feast of Corpus Christi, it can be sung at any Eucharistic service, either as a...

Très admiré en tant qu'érudit et chef de chœur, le regretté David Trendell a composé ces Preces & Responses pour SATB alors qu'il était organ scholar au Exeter College d'Oxford, vers 1985. Récemment r...

Les deux madrigaux les plus appréciés de Robert Lucas Pearsall, Great God of Love et Lay a garland pour SSAATTBB, ont été adaptés ici par Patrick Russill aux versets eucharistiques de saint Thomas d'A...

This subtle setting of the popular carol is soft and gentle, never louder than mezzo-piano. The ethereal background starts in a high register with a repeated figure that evokes tranquility. A differen...

For SSATB unaccompanied - While perhaps Tallis and Byrd's Lamentations are better known, Robert White's Lamentations reflects a uniquely bleak and austere vision and is surely one of the composer's fi...

For SSAATTBarB unaccompanied - Descendi in hortum meum is an original setting of the Song of Solomon, unique in that it is arranged for seven voices while still capturing the lush and beautiful essenc...

Helvey sets a combination of sacred texts to beautiful music. Similar to his Cor mundum crea in me Deus, Helvey writes mainly in homophonic textures, with thick, lush chords.

Eleanor Daley sets the text from Corinthians, 'Love is patient, Love is kind' as a descant above a repeated, polyphonic, and homophonic SATB chant of the Latin text Ubi caritas et amor Deus ibi est. T...

For SATB unaccompanied - DiOrio sets a biblical text appropriate for Holy Week and Easter in a fresh, flowing harmonic style. This piece works well in concert settings and in church services.

A very exciting and dramatic arrangement of a traditional early American folk hymn made up of contrasting sections of homophonic textures and a soprano melody against a rhythmic background.

Out of the depths is a reflective, homophonic, and beautifully written work. The choral parts are very accessible, yet the resulting sound is rather sophisticated and thoughtful. This setting of Psalm...

For SATB unaccompanied - Debra Scroggins' setting of a poem by William Blake is both stunning and gentle. The tight harmonies offer a lush and flowing soundscape that conveys warmth and tenderness per...

For SATB with optional solo, unaccompanied. This is a sonorous and dramatic arrangement. It opens with an optional solo that may be sung by the sopranos, and, towards the end, the rest of the choir si...

This is a moving arrangement of the familiar passage from the Book of John. Larsen takes an original melody and arranges beautiful harmonies underneath with delicate suspensions. This is a rewarding a...

All are bound to get caught up in the energy and fervour of this new setting of the spiritual Ride On, King Jesus. Wertsch uses the full range of dynamics and so adds intensity and variety to the vers...

SSAATTBB unaccompanied In 1854 Pearsall arranged his madrigal Lay a garland to the text Tu es Petrus. Richard Shephard has taken up this idea and skilfully adapted Pearsall's fine eight-part piece Gre...

This setting of the Nunc Dimittis was written for Westminster Cathedral and first performed at Compline on Easter Day 1916. In concerts it could be contrasted with the Latin settings by Howells and Ho...

Written in 1844 in thanksgiving for the preservation of the life of the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm after an unsuccessful assassination attempt, this is the original a cappella version of the well...

For SATB unaccompanied. This makes a very useful addition to the repertory for Ascension Day - either as an introit or as an anthem. The text is from the Collect for the Sunday after Ascension.

This new edition of the classic 'Tudor Responses' volume that first appeared in 1933 preserves the editions by Watkins Shaw that were published in 1966, though without Shaw's adaptations for the 1662...