Bob Chilcott

This expressive celebration of friendship sets a text by Delphine Chalmers inspired by words from French Renaissance essayist Michel de Montaigne. Eminently accessible, this piece is perfect for conce...

This expressive celebration of friendship sets a text by Delphine Chalmers inspired by words from French Renaissance essayist Michel de Montaigne. Eminently accessible, this piece is perfect for conce...

This dazzling work presents an exploration of light in its many forms and uses, from starlight and sunlight to electricity, photosynthesis, or guiding ships to safety. Both piano and voices are used p...

In 'A Song of Blue' erforscht Bob Chilcott die Kraft der Musik durch die Metapher der Natur. Das glitzernde und doch melancholische Chorstück beginnt mit einem einfachen Ostinato in der Klavierbegleit...

An upbeat setting of words by Charles Bennett celebrating the arrival of spring, Opening features changing metres, a compelling verse-refrain structure, and catchy melodies. A darker middle section mi...

Red Boots On is a funky setting of a poem by Kit Wright, brought to life by Chilcott's jazzy chords and groovy syncopated rhythms. The melody begins in unison and grows in texture throughout the piece...

This celebratory work sees Bob Chilcott collaborate with poet Charles Bennett to explore all that we can learn from the natural world. The first movement, 'Follow the music', leads us on a journey thr...

A moderately simple Christmas concert piece, gentle and serene

This stirring Christmas song, setting a text by Kevin Crossley-Holland, combines bouncing rhythms, expressive Chilcott harmonies, and vibrant word-painting to depict the gifts brought to Christ's stab...

For SATB (with soprano solo), trumpet in B flat (or soprano saxophone or clarinet in B flat), and piano or harp The shepherds sing is a sweet and tranquil setting of a Christmas text by George Herbert...

With a lively tempo, dance-like rhythms, and bright harmonies, Chilcott's music perfectly expresses the festive joy of this original Christmas text by Charles Bennett. The uplifting melody is interspe...

Adolphe Charles Adams Weihnachtslied basiert auf dem Gedicht des französisschen Lyrikers Cappeau de Roquemaure. Die vorliegende Bearbeitung von Katie Melua und Bob Chilcott zeichnet sowohl die Einfach...

This appealing setting of a poem by Christina Rossetti has a memorable tune and a gentle, flowing piano accompaniment. Joyful, vibrant, and accessible, this carol is a great option for church and conc...

This is a hauntingly beautiful, spiritual-style setting of a sixteenth-century text attributed to Thomas Ravenscroft. Also in the anthology Christmas Spirituals for Choirs.

A combination of tender, flowing melody, understated harmonies, and a simple piano accompaniment, this moving cradle-song describes Mary's love for her child from the perspective of another young moth...

This is a gentle and lyrical setting of a text by Helen Dunmore. Uniting a simple, tuneful melody with luscious harmonies, this evocative carol retells the Christmas story beautifully. A wonderful add...

From the collection Bob Chilcott Carols 2, 'Jesus, Jesus, rest your head' is Chilcott's arrangement of the traditional American carol, scored for SATB and piano. Varied textures enrich this gentle Chr...

With a lively tempo, dance-like rhythms, and bright harmonies, Chilcott's music perfectly expresses the festive joy of this original Christmas text by Charles Bennett. The uplifting melody is interspe...

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 writer Georgia Way places the sycamore tree as a centr...

Chilcotts gesellige Vertonung von Crashaws Welcome, all wonders in one sight! beginnt mit einem hellen und deklamatorischen Refrain, der über einer großen, schwingenden Orgelstimme, die durch einen in...

This tunefully lilting carol for choir and organ will prove popular with audiences and choirs alike, its six verses deftly marrying variety with diversity to create an attractive shape. Offprinted fro...

Diese einfache und stimmungsvolle Bearbeitung des traditionellen deutschen Liedes wurde ursprünglich für den in Washington ansässigen Chor Choralis geschrieben. Dieses Faltblatt eignet sich für die Ad...

This simple and atmospheric arrangement of the traditional German song was originally written for the Washington-based choir Choralis. Suitable for Advent or Christmas, this leaflet presents both the...

Chilcott's convivial setting of Crashaw's text invites us to lift up 'our loftier song, and wake the sun that lies too long'. Choral triplets gesture towards a swung rhythm, and jazz-like inflections...

Full score and set of parts for Bob Chilcott's The first Nowell. The six verses of this tuneful and lilting carol deftly marry variety and diversity to create an attractive shape. This set contains th...