Chor & Gesang

Song of Solomon 2:3,4

A setting of the Archbishop Rowan Williams' text 'Advent Calendar' for choir and organ.

This joyful and vibrant carol will delight youth and adult choirs alike. The strong unison opening, with a pealing bell-like accompaniment, builds to a climactic two-part canon, brilliantly capturing...

Setting text recorded in an early fourteenth-century Cambridge manuscript, this work presents evocative solo passages above sustained notes, and rich multi-layered canon-like passages in the upper voi...

O Be Joyful is a jubilant setting of Psalm 100 from the Book of Common Prayer. Suitable for performances throughout the church year, it features fluctuating time signatures, a lively tempo, and bright...

Beach is taken from the song cycle 'Songs for Seven Storeys', which Bob Chilcott wrote to celebrate the opening of the New Evelina Children's Hospital. Combining a nostalgic melody with a haunting vio...

A rousing setting of the classic American song. Two pianos, piano and organ, piano and synthesiser or two synthesisers may be used for the two keyboard accompaniment. The orchestral/concert band accom...

Setting a stanza of Tennyson's monumental and profound poem In Memoriam A.H.H., Jackson's work deals with reflections on loss and grief.

Originally published in John Gardner Carols, this is an evocative piece setting text from the Book of Matthew. Embelished by a mesmerizing oboe solo, the solemn melodies grow in intensity to a triumph...

From the collection Epiphany to All Saints for Choirs, this pair of responses are adapted from works by Palestrina, by Francis Jackson and Philip Moore. Scored for SATB unaccompanied, with soprano sol...

This carol is an original composition on a text in Old French which summarizes the story of the Nativity in rhyming verse. The composer's use throughout of a hypnotic, rhythmic melody alternating with...

Selga Mence's arrangement of this Latvian folksong presents the two phrases of the original song in a variety of textures, beginning and ending with imitations of the sound of bells. An English text b...

An original carol by Ernani Aguiar, Acalanto para o Menino Jesus was written for the feast of the Conception of the Virgin Mary and illustrates the Italian influence on Brazilian culture. An English t...

The main melody of Jajang, jajang, Ahgi Yesu is a popular Korean lullaby that has been handed down through many generations. In the carol Mary, mother of Jesus, is depicted singing her child to sleep....

A lilting 3/4 metre carries the listener through this familiar Christmas story, beautifully depicted in a text by the composer. Rutter employs artful word-painting throughout, and the verse-refrain st...

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...

Archer's setting of this popular Easter hymn by G. R. Woodward is sparkling with energy, combining the exuberant seventeenth-century Dutch melody with short organ interjections. An exciting addition t...

This is one of the best-loved and most widely performed choral works of the twentieth century. The texts (in Latin and English) are from the Missa pro Defunctis, the Book of Common Prayer, and the Psa...

This upbeat work sets a text by the Malaysian singer Bihzhu celebrating the collective excitement in exploring the unknown. The supportive piano accompaniment brings a hint of the Malaysian soundworld...

This is an energetic song in which drying clothes whirl and madly dance in the tugging winter wind. It is No. 1 of a suite of three songs, 'At the Turn of the Year', depicting scenes of winter.

Everyday Wonders: The Girl from Aleppo tells the extraordinary story of Nujeen Mustafa, a Kurdish teenager with cerebral palsy forced by war to flee her home and embark on an arduous journey to Europe...

This tiny, delicate piece has something of the Debussyian prelude about it. It deftly deals with that familiar theme of snow, not rising above a piano dynamic throughout.

Offprinted from Pianoworks: Popular Styles.