Cecilia McDowall

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...

Setting a fifteenth-century English text containing some short Latin passages, this is a joyful, dance-like carol with a medieval feel. Now may we singen was originally published in the New Horizons c...

This is the second and most intimate of the composer's 'Three Latin Motets'. Scored for upper voices, this gentle supplication to the Virgin is built on a plainchant opening, and contains expressive d...

Very moving and dramatic, Wilberg creates a beautiful harmonic language that complements this classic carol. Orchestral material is available on hire.

This appealing motet for SATB choir and organ accompaniment was written in aid of Macmillan Cancer Support.

Offprinted from The Oxford Book of Easy Flexible Anthems, A Prayer of St Columba is an expressive and emotive anthem with appealing, arching melodies underpinned by a sparkling organ part.

These beautiful motets provide inspiring new repertoire for choirs. Locus iste is rhythmic and uplifting; Ave Virgo sanctissima is a gentle setting of a Spanish antiphon, full of sumptuous harmonies;...

The organ part is supportive, but full of interest and not merely accompanimental. Particularly memorable are the jaunty Gloria, with its constantly shifting time-signatures, and the haunting Agnus De...

Alltägliche Wunder": The Girl from Aleppo erzählt die außergewöhnliche Geschichte von Nujeen Mustafa, einem kurdischen Teenager mit zerebraler Lähmung, der durch den Krieg gezwungen wurde, aus seiner...

The harmonic beauty and expressive lines found in this motet emulate the devout text of the ever-popular Eucharistic hymn O sacrum convivium.

Cecilia McDowall's fresh and appealing style is amply displayed in this cycle, subtitled 'Three Shakespeare Songs'. In total, six Shakespeare texts are used, and McDowall's response encompasses a flee...

für SSATBB unbegleitet Eine schöne 6-stimmige unbegleitete Marienmotette, die für das Marian Consort geschrieben wurde. Das Werk verbindet Reminiszenzen an Renaissance-Vertonungen dieses Textes mit Mc...

SATB unbegleitet Diese Reihe von Preces and Responses wurde vom London Festival of Contemporary Church Music für das Festival 2010 in Auftrag gegeben. Das Werk ist erbaulich, wunderschön gestaltet und...

für SATB (divisi) mit 2 Sopransoli Dieses fesselnd geschriebene Stück vertont die Klagelieder des Jeremia. Die sich überschneidenden Musikpassagen zwischen den Solisten und dem Chor erzeugen einen dra...

Setting a text spoken by Nurse Edith Cavell on the eve of her execution in 1915 and re-fashioned by the poet Sean Street, McDowall has created a work of haunting beauty. It is equally suitable for fun...

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...

für SATB-Doppelchor ohne Begleitung Inspiriert von A. E. Borthwicks gleichnamigem Gemälde, vertont The Presence Zeilen aus den Psalmen 18, 27, 36, 112 und 119, die sich hauptsächlich mit dem Licht bes...

Make we joy now in this fest ist eine lebendige und pulsierende Vertonung eines makaronischen Textes aus dem 15. Jahrhundert. Ein äußerst einprägsamer und energiegeladener Chor umrahmt ausdrucksstarke...

For SSATB unaccompanied. New Horizons showcases the wealth of exciting, innovative, and occasionally challenging choral music being written today. It encompasses the whole gamut of small-scale choral...

Cecilia McDowall's fresh and appealing style is amply displayed in this cycle, subtitled 'Three Shakespeare Songs' and first performed by the BBC Singers. In total, six Shakespeare texts are used, and...

This delightful work brings together arrangements of four well-loved folksongs: 'Green Bushes', 'The Rambling Sailor', 'The Crystal Spring', and 'O, No John!'. A Fancy of Folksongs can be accompanied...

Dieses Werk, das von Jeremy Huw Williams in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Vaughan Williams Trust in Auftrag gegeben wurde, vertont drei Gedichte von Dylan Thomas. Das erste ist melancholisch, das zweite kont...