Herbert Howells

From Three Motets (which also include King of Glory and House of Mind) in the Organ and Choir version.

King Of Glory', for mixed voice choir SATB with organ accompaniment, with 'The House of Mind' and 'God is gone up' make up the Three Motets.

Madrigal for SSATB, poem by Robert Wever. Composed for Sir Frederick Bridge and members of the Madrigal Society. Piano part included for practice use.

For SATB. Inscribed 'To the memory of Arnold Bax' composed for the 1965 Cork International Festival.

For SATB Choir. Composed for the 75th anniversary of St. Matthews Church, Northampton.

For SATB Choir (with divisions). Written for Canterbury Cathedral.

For SSAATTBB Choir. Edited Patrick Russill.

Composed for SSAATTBB edited by Patrick Russill.

Walking In The Snow arranged for mixed voice choir SATB. Includes piano part for rehearsal purpose only. Set to a combination of two poems by John Buxton. Composed for the Lady Margaret Singers in Cam...

The poetry set by Howells was written by Scottish poet Andrew Young, a prolific writer of hymns who is perhaps best known for 'There Is A Happy Land'. This major/modal hymn is particularly appropriate...

Scored for SSAATTBB

These two sets of pieces display all the characteristics of the music of this fine English composer - modal inflections, the influence of 16th-century English composers, quirky fast movements, and, in...

Extensive work for piano with works dedicated to well known composers, performers and clavichord maker Thomas Goff.

The music Herbert Howells has tended to be unjustly neglected but his post-war output of orchestral and chamber works is currently enjoying a period of re-eveluation. This Herbert Howells society edit...

The pieces contained in this volume were composed in the decade between 1918 and 1928, the perios in which Howells established himself as a composer of instrumental music. Although he wrote no major w...

Master Tallis's Testament No. 3 from Six Pieces for Organ. Composed in 1940, Master Tallis's Testament unfolds Quasi lento, teneramente in a gentle six-eight rhythm and in G minor. It consists of thre...

Instruments: ManualsThese 30 pieces were written by Herbert Howells as piano sight-reading tests. They are, however, much more than visual traps for the unwary. By turns graceful, surprising, and touc...

The Partita, composed in 1971, is inscribed 'For the Rt Hon. Edward Heath, M. P. , Prime Minister'. Its five movements enjoy the almost improvisatory freedom that is characteristic for Howells' writin...

The Prelude de Profundis is excerpted from two sets of Preludes Howells composed for Organ, of which this is the first of the second set. Entirely different in mood from the nervous energy of the Rhap...

Arranged by Robin Wells for Organ from two original works for Violin and Piano.