Libby Larsen

Acclaimed composer Libby Larsen set words of a young girl in this choral work that explores the essence of music and singing. Beginning quietly, the tones grow into a rushing river of sound or a const...

From a three-part collection based on poetry by American pioneers, this third piece, 'A Hoopla, ' depicts a barn dance and vocalists circle round the instruments, stomp, clap, and generally perform wi...

For women's voices (SSA) and piano duet (four hands) or small orchestra (1. 1. 1. 1-1. 1. 0. 0-Strings). An unusually joyous setting; straightforward vocal lines portray Mary's humility, the accompani...

For SSAA chorus and percussion. A riveting setting for women's voices and percussion of a Mexican Indian chant evoking the Divine Spirit and praying for healing and spiritual strength. Full of Larsen'...

For SATB chorus and strings. A haunting depiction of the 'magic made by melody . . . Held in teh arms of rhythm and of sleep', from a poem by Elizabeth Bishop. Instrumental parts are available on hire...

For SATB, oboe, viola, and harp This is a setting of two twelfth-century poems where the choral parts flow in a chant-like way, interrupted by ecstatic bursts, sometimes of purely instrumental color....

For upper voices and contrabass

For SSA unaccompanied

For SATB and organ. This ravishing setting of a heartfelt and emotional poem by e. e. cummings captures a sense of the ineffable place of faith in existence that transcends mere worship, doctrine, eve...

Acclaimed composer Libby Larsen set words of a young girl in this choral work that explores the essence of music and singing. Beginning quietly, the tones grow into a rushing river of sound or a const...

Setting a well-loved medieval text, this effective piece paints the story of Jesus through lyrical melodies and beautiful harmonic surprises.

The optional opening section, for which there is a graphic score, is spoken to texts by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and other esteemed poets and authors. The four sung movements which follow are conven...

A new orchestration by Edward Harper has brought this colourful setting of Coleridge's epic poem back to life after the original orchestra score was destroyed in a bombing raid in 1940. A welcome addi...

Andrew Carter's setting matches in its powerful simplicity the text attributed to the French Quaker missionary, Stephen Grellet: 'I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore...

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,...