Alan Smith

This beautiful anthem was a winner of the London A Cappella Festival Composition Competition 2012. A sensitive setting of a text by Thomas Campion, it features word-painting, a rich use of harmony, fl...

Alan Smith's setting of the Latin hymn at Lauds for The Feast of Transfiguration is stately and solemn. Featuring imitative entries that open out into rich, expansive textures at climactic moments, th...

for SATB unaccompanied

Ruchill Linn sets a text by the Perthshire poet Robin Bell. 'Linn' means waterfall and the poem meditates on a still spring evening at dusk. The piece is illustrative, with aqueous, tumbling vocal fig...

British composer Alan Smith has given J. M. Plunkett's Lenten poem an elegant setting. Written for organ and choir, the musical phrases bloom with the text. Excellent for Communion, Lent or Holy Week.

This setting of the well-known hymn text 'Christ the Lord is risen again!' features bright vocal lines and an energetic accompaniment. The scoring is flexible, allowing performance with either one or...

This setting of the well-known hymn text 'Christ the Lord is risen again!' features bright vocal lines and an energetic accompaniment. The scoring is flexible, allowing performance with either one or...

English composer Alan Smith provides a setting of Psalm 96. There is a stately English character to the piece, which is lofty and lilting. There is also a captivating and informal flair here and there...

Setting a joyful text by William Chatterton Dix, Alleluia, sing to Jesus! is suitable for performance throughout the church year. With a bright melody set against a rhythmic organ accompaniment, this...

Setting the George Herbert poem 'Whitsunday', this lilting, gentle anthem is particularly useful for Whit Sunday services. Syncopations and duplets provide rhythmic interest, with memorable melodies,...

This piece, written in 2008, is a setting of the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Mass, although it is intended for concert rather than liturgical use. The celebratory nature of the text is underlined b...

This piece, written in 2008, is a setting of the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Mass, although it is intended for concert rather than liturgical use. The celebratory nature of the text is underlined b...

Score and parts for flute, oboe, clarinet in B flat and Bassoon. Three Short Pieces for Woodwind was composed in 2004 as an entry for the 60x60 competition organised by Vox Novus, who were looking to...

This is the hour is a beautiful and accessible motet for Holy Communion with a simple, meditative organ accompaniment.

A setting of the Mass in Latin, written for the Truro Cathedral Choir.

This poignant anthem was originally composed to be sung at a funeral. It is a beautifully composed work, sufficiently sombre for such an occasion, but with a celebratory element which is uplifting and...

Show them you care ('cos it's Christmas) is a setting of an original text by Mark De-Lisser and Clare Dove in a pop ballad style. The song includes solos from each vocal section and the voices are sup...

Setting a well-known poem by Percy Shelley, Love's Philosophy is a sweet and tender choral song reflecting on the idea of love with reference to nature and the interdependent relationships evident in...

This is the hour is a beautiful and accessible motet for Holy Communion with a simple, meditative organ accompaniment.

Palestrina's setting of the Marian motet Alma Redemptoris Mater seamlessly interweaves each of the four independent voices based on the solemn tone of the corresponding chant.

Refuge sets a powerful Sara Teasdale poem that perfectly captures the healing power of singing: 'For with my singing I can make a refuge for my spirit’s sake'. Quartel's musical structure complements...

An exploration of friendship's many facets. The work is in two linked sections; the first exuberant and rhythmically dynamic, the second more lyrical and reflective.

Phoenix is a series of interlinked, contrasting sections - by turns elegiac, radiant, and menacing - culminating in a luminous cantilena for the four melody instruments against densely clustered chord...