James Bassi

For SATB unaccompanied. The music opens with 'oos', and, after a pause, the choir enters, singing in Latin, sempre legato. Bassi writes lush choral lines with suspension after suspension, which result...

This is an exciting and accessible setting to a really memorable tune of William Dalrymple Maclagan's text. It is easy and fun to sing and ideal for any church choir looking for a contemporary anthem...

This is a setting of a text by Guyanese-British poet John Agard, which describes how eighteenth-century slave-trader John Newton became an abolitionist. Featured on Orphei Drängar's CD, De Profundis:...

For SATB and harp. Settings of four Shakespeare sonnets that offer great contrasts in tone and mood. Each poem centres on the object of the poet's love in a different aspect: as the beloved one, the d...

This rousing carol sets a text by the nineteenth-century Scottish poet Norval Clyne. Bassi's setting perfectly captures the contrast between light and darkness in Clyne's text, with simple vocal lines...

For SATB, mezzo-soprano solo, and chamber orchestra. The first movement is a fantasia on a popular Ukrainian carol melody; the style is impressionistic, by turns melancholy and vigorous. The second mo...