Paul Carr

Summer Music' was composed during the month of August, 2017; a particularly bad summer here in the UK with much rain and rather less than normal amounts of warm sunshine for this time of year. However...

Orchestration: 2 Flutes, 2 Oboes, 2 Clarinets in A, 2 Bassoons 2 Horns in F, 2 Trumpets in C, 2 Trombones Percussion (Tubular Bells, Glockenspiel) Harp Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass)...

Orchestration: Solo Viola Strings (Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Bass) The Viola Air is a heartfelt love song in the form of a long arching lament, built around a simple and passionate theme woven...

Issued in conjunction with the quartet from which it was derived, this solo-with-piano edition will be as popular with players as it is with audiences. Seductively playful is an apt description, and t...

Paul's popular Air for Strings, which is regularly played on Classic FM in it's original string orchestra version, is here available for string sextet of 2 violins, 2 violas and 2 cellos. Score and pa...

RAIN, an elegy for Wind Nonet, is an arrangement of my unaccompanied choral piece (to words by Euan Tait) that I made for London Serenata; the expressive quality of wind instruments is perfectly suite...

A new, very moving, beautiful setting for unaccompanied mixed voice choir of W. B. Yeats' poem 'He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven'. Although much of the piece is in four parts, all of the voice parts...

A setting of a poem by e e cummings, scored for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet in Bb, Horn in F, Trumpet in Bb, Percussion [2] (Triangle, Tubular Bells, Vibraphone, Glockenspiel, Suspended Cymbal, Crash Cymbal...

Now comes beauty' was originally composed in the Summer of 2009 as a song for solo voice and piano. At the suggestion of my brother Gavin, I then made this arrangement for unaccompanied mixed voice ch...

In November 2009 I attended a concert in the church of St. Mary Redcliffe in Bristol, given by the Bristol Bach Choir, conducted by my brother Gavin. It was an inspired programme of contemporary Ameri...

Three beautiful, very moving pieces for unaccompanied mixed voice choir: 'Holding the Stars', 'Now Comes Beauty' and 'The Cloths of Heaven'. These are also available separately - see GM053, GM052 and...

A lovely new setting of the text by Phineas Fletcher (1580-1650) for SATB choir unaccompanied. Drop, drop, slow tears, And bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from Heaven The news and Prince of...

An excellent new setting of Christina Rosetti's well-known text. For unaccompanied mixed voice choir (SATB).Duration 5 minutes

Beautiful new setting by Paul Carr of 'Music, when soft voices die' by Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822) for unaccompanied SATB choir. Duration 5 minutes

A setting for unaccompanied mixed voice choir (SATB) of a poem by Euan Tait dedicated to the University of North Texas A Cappella choir and their conductor Allen Hightower. Never a sound so beautiful:...

Now comes beauty' was originally composed in the Summer of 2009 as this song for solo voice and piano. Written at a time of great change in my life, it is essentially a song about reluctantly saying f...

Three songs of love with gorgeous music by Paul Carr for solo voice and piano. 'Devotion (Fain would I change that note To which fond Love hath charm'd me.....)' [Anonymous 1605] Range: C to G (opt E)...

This song originally written for Paul's brother, Gavin Carr, became one of the movements in Paul's 'Requiem for an Angel'. Here it is in the original form (Range: Bb - Eb). It is suitable for male or...

This Sonatina for Alto Saxophone and Piano joins a series of Sonatinas I have written over the years for various instruments. I first met George Hewett at the Dorset Opera Festival where I have direct...

A lovely new setting of The Lord is my shepherd for SATB choir with solo cello and organ accompaniment. Duration 6 1/2 minutes

Commissioned by Reigate & Redhill Choral Society to mark their 75th anniversary and inspired by Julia Nelson and the people of Shere village. First performance: 13th November 2016 in Dorking Halls, Su...

A beautiful setting of the 'Agnus Dei' to a choral arrangement by Gavin Carr (Paul's brother) of Paul's well-loved 'Air for Strings'. The SATB choir can be accompanied by organ (or piano) or strings....

Scored for SATB choir and orchestra, this lovely new setting of the Stabat Mater was commissioned by the English Arts Chorale. It is in six sections. The 'Stabat Mater' is my third large-scale religio...

A setting of 'Ubi Caritas' for mixed voice choir (SATB) with Cor Anglais and String Orchestra, commissioned by and dedicated to Janet Haney and the Jubilate Choir. Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est. C...