Schott Musik

La ' Prière pour Thanksgiving ', écrite à l'occasion du 400e anniversaire de la ' Nuit des feux de joie ' (Guy-Fawkes-Day) en novembre 1605, a paru au moment où Londres a connu, en raison des attaques...

Cette belle œuvre chorale empreinte de solennité, dédiée à une victime de l'attentat aérien de Lockerbie en 1988, est divisée en cinq parties qui n'utilisent que deux des textes traditionnels du Requi...

Written in memory of Erich Fried (1921-1988), a writer who wrote the libretto for Goehr's opera Arden Must Die and whose poems were set in Warngedichte (op. 22), Carol for St Steven is short and playf...

Les 'Laude' sont de courts hymnes populaires à la louange de la Vierge Marie, datant du XIVe siècle et que Gavin Bryars a conservés dans leur exquise simplicité de style. Après la publication très bie...

Hesketh's work for 3-part children's choir and piano sets two texts about the start of spring by William Blake and an anonymous source. Written for conductor Simon Emery and the Liverpool Philharmonic...

Sea Songs, commissioned jointly by Ars Nova Copenhagen and Glasgow Concert Halls, is a kind of sequel to Martland's Street Songs (originally written for the Kings Singers and Evelyn Glennie). As with...

Joe Duddell's Magnificat and Nunc Dimtis was commissioned by Presteigne Festival of Music and the Arts with funding from Kevin Jones and Laura Woodside-Jones and received its first performance by the...

Composed for Northern Sinfonia Chorus and Gavin Osborn.

The opening lines of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time provide the text for Gerald Barry's Long Time. Beginning 'For a long time I used to go to bed early', the work unfolds over gently rising an...

For SATB choir Text by Mary MacDonald translated by Lachlan MacBean and from the bible Chorpartitur - with piano reduction for rehearsal only - gemischter Chor (SATB)

John Casken's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis was commissioned to mark the return of the Lindisfarne Gospels to the North East of England, where Casken lives. The book, dating from the 7th century, is on...

The Phoenix and the Turtle sets a poem by Shakespeare published 1601 that uses the metaphor of a bird's funeral to describe the death of an idealistic love. Watkins spins out a jazzy melody surrounded...

Commissioned by the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, this a cappella choral showpiece sets poems about the sea by Katrina Porteous.Voices gently rock and then tumble violently, mimicking the re...

Text by George Mackay Brown and from The St Magnus Prayer.

Setting texts by Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore, this is Zoë Martlew's first vocal work published by Schott. Beauty, space and control feature strongly in this work for 6 female voices that would be...

Le texte de Karakia est une prière traditionnelle Maori, un hommage aux éléments et aux rythmes de la nature. Chaque note de la pièce est dérivée du nom de la mère du compositeur, née en Nouvelle-Zéla...

Gerald Barry's The coming of winter is a setting of an Irish poem dating from the 9th or 10th century, and was commissioned for the 34th Seminar on Contemporary Choral Music at University College, Cor...

Charm me Asleep est une charmante pièce d'inspiration gaélique pourvue d'une melodiquement superbe et de texture homophone. C'est, avec Slow, Slow, Fresh Fount, l'une des deux pièces écrites par Watki...

La pièce a fait l'objet d'une commande destinée à l'hommage rendu par le Chœur du New College d'Oxford, où Wigglesworth était étudiant, à l'occasion des quarante ans de service de son directeur Edward...

A beautiful work of contemporary polyphony in which shifting textures create momentary dissonance. An alluring melody passes between the voice parts.This work can be performed alone or as a pair with...