Chor & Gesang

These words of this carol, full of colours and rich in symbolism, are from the Cherry Tree Carol, a popular folk carol telling a legend which goes back at least as far as the Coventry Mystery Plays. T...

Lully, Lullay was written at the request of Philip Reed, music director of the Bury St Edmunds Bach Choir, which gave the first performance on 17 December 2011 at Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Su...

An inspiring selection of new works from a range of contemporary composers, the Novello New Choral Series offers pieces for all types of choirs, including sacred and secular works from simple, four-pa...

The Twenty-third Psalm by Patrick Hawes for SATB divisi chorus unaccompanied. Written for the inaugural concert of the Winchester Consort.

Ave Verum Corpus by Paul Mealor for SATB divisi chorus unaccompanied.

All Creation Slept was written for Alastair Tighe and Eltham College and was first performed on 19 December 2012 at Southwark Cathedral, London. The text is constructed of excerpts from A Cradle Song....

Matin Responsory by Paul Mealor was premiered by Oakham School Chapel Choir, conducted by Peter Davis at the Oakham School Carol Service in Peterborough Cathedral on 12 December 2012.

Inspired by his life-long interest in chant and choral music, Paul Mealor's De profundis pushes the boundaries of the human voice in a style synonymous with Russian orthodox music. In spring 2012 this...

There is no rose of such virtue is an anonymous mediaeval text, already well known through beautiful settings by Britten (in his Ceremony of Carols), John Joubert and others. The poem is 'macaronic' (...

Lullay My Liking by Gustav Holst for SATB chorus unaccompanied.

Peace, Perfect Peace by Edward Gregson for SATB choir a cappella.

Balulalow by James Burton, originally published in Noël! 3. A review in the September 2015 issue of Sunday by Sunday from the Royal School of Church Music calls this version 'gentle and beautiful. '

All Wisdom Cometh From The Lord is a setting of text from Ecclesiasticus for unaccompanied SATB Choir. The work was commissioned by the University of St Andrews to celebrate its 600th anniversary and...

Patrick Hawes' three minute piece Angelus Domini, scored for unaccompanied SATB chorus. This piece was written in 2013 and is dedicated to Edward Higginbottom and the Choir of New College, Oxford.

Peace Carol (2006), with text adapted from the Scottish Psalter by Monica and John McCabe, is for SATB choir. Peace Carol (2006) received its first performance on 15th May 2014, at St John's College,...

Ralph Allwood is Precentor and Director of Music at Eton College, Choral Advisor for Novello and Co. , the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and for the Voices Foundation and a judge for the Llang...

Drop, Drop, Slow Tears is a choral piece for unaccompanied SATB (Soprano/Alto/Tenor/Bass) chorus composed by Graham Ross in 2003. First performed by the Royal College of Music Junior Chamber Choir, Dr...

Laboravi In Gemitu Meo by the Renaissance English composer and one of the principle members of the Madrigal School. This work, expertly edited by Lionel Pike, is arranged for unaccompanied SSAATB Chor...

Ave Maris Stella, composed by Owain Park for unaccompanied SATB divisi. The approximately 3 and a half minute piece is an original setting of an anonymous plainsong, and is dedicated to the Richard II...

A Hymne To God My God is a composition by renowned composer Michael Ball, arranged for quadruple SATB choir as an a cappella performance. The piece is a setting of texts by English poet John Donne, an...

Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day is a work for unaccompanied double SATB choir by composer Owain Park. It was commissioned by the Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge who performed the premiere in Trin...

George Arthur 's Prayer Of Thomas Ken, composed for unaccompanied SATB double choir, was the winner of the Hereford Three Choirs Festival Choral Compositions Competition 2015. It was first performed a...

Owain Park 's Judas Mercator Pessimus is a work for SSAATTBB Choir with Semichorus Unaccompanied. The work was composed for Stephen Layton and The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge, and is a setting...

Shepherds' Cradle Song is a work for unaccompanied SATBarB divisi choir by young composer Owain Park. The piece is dedicated to the composer's friends on the birth of their first child. The song lasts...

Lulla, Lulla is a work for unaccompanied ATB divisi Choir by composer Owain Park. The work is dedicated to Matthew Owens and the Vicars Choral of Wells Cathedral. It is a setting of words from the mys...