Krzysztof Penderecki

Using as its basis William Blake's eponymous poem from Songs of Innocence and Experience, this work is largely celebratory in tone and employs a range of techniques and textures as a means of expressi...

Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing is an upbeat setting of a hymn text by seventeenth-century English poet George Herbert. Chilcott uses irregular metres, syncopation, and dancing melodic shapes t...

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...

The Parting Glass is a traditional Scottish song, often sung as a farewell at the end of a get-together. With its valedictory message, it would make a fitting end to a performance, perhaps as an encor...

In Be like the bird, Quartel sets an English translation of a text by Victor Hugo to lyrical melodies and rising sequences that reflect the uplifting message of the words. A passage from the original...

The text is a set of six poems by John Drinkwater (1882-1937). Drinkwater had close associations with Warwickshire and much of his poetry reveals his love of the countryside. The first and last of six...

Setting a text taken from the Books of Sirach and Ezra, Build this house uses tonal shifts and alternating homophonic and polyphonic sections to create a piece that is both contemplative and joyous.

I sing of a Maiden combines flowing lines with rhythmic irregularity, and ends with an airy weightlessness which, in the words of the composer, echoes the vernal flavour of the words. Although rhythmi...

This substantial anthem was composed in 2015 to celebrate the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and to mark Salisbury Cathedral's stewardship of the charter since 1215. Rutter succeeds in weaving toget...

This beautiful motet by sixteenth-century Portuguese composer Vicente Lusitano sets the responsory for Ash Wednesday/the First Sunday of Lent. The scoring of this edition has been given as SAATB, and...

Michael Finnissy's John the Baptist won the 2015 British Composer Award in the Liturgical Category. Commissioned by St John's College, Cambridge, for Advent 2014, the piece recalls the folk music of t...

Written in his customary style of great simplicity, the voices sing in unison over a pared-down, chordal organ accompaniment.

A lively arrangement of a French traditional carol with optional lyrics in English included. Orchestral scores and parts are also available. Offprinted from the collection Twelve Christmas Carols Set...

With plenty of character and charm, this set of theme and variations is based on the folk music of the Dai people, a national minority in the Yunnan province of southwestern China. A perfect addition...

Chorpartitur. Ein Astronaut beschreibt seine Gefühle, als er einen Weltraumspaziergang unternimmt und auf den Planeten Erde in all seiner Schönheit blickt. Steve Martland vertont den Text auf geradezu...

Dieses großartige fröhliche Stück, das zu Martlands populärsten Werken gehört und ot im Radio gespielt wird, gipfelt in einer Volldampf-Version des berühmten Songs 'Summer is i-cumen in '.

John Caskens Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis wurde anlässlich der Rückkehr des Buchs von Lindisfarne in den Nordosten Englands, wo Casken lebt, in Auftrag gegeben. Das Buch aus dem 7. Jahrhundert ist ein...

Chorpartitur - Klavierstimme nur für Probezwecke gemischter Chor (SATB) - englisch

This is an attractive, not difficult carol to a traditional Scottish text and with a gentle 'folk-y' feel. A flowing melody, complete with flattened 7ths and delicate Scotch snaps, appears in various...