Richard Causton

Commissioned by King's College, Cambridge for the 2015 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, this setting of a poem by George Szirtes on the subject of the flight to Bethlehem has rich and ethereal har...

A movement from In Windsor Forest, setting Shakespeare's text from Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, Scene 3.

With this majestic work Chilcott takes on a landmark of the choral repertory, the Christmas Oratorio. Words from St Luke and St Matthew are intertwined with 16th-19th-century poetry to create a compel...

On Christmas Night is a sequence of eight carols with a variety of performance options. Chilcott uses several familiar carol melodies within his own settings, which employ a wide range of styles and m...

Victoria opens this motet with a dramatic homophonic account of Judas's betrayal of Jesus, similar to the opening of another of his responsory settings, Jesum tradidit impius, before a contrasting sec...

'The Bridge of Fire', written in 1906, is the title poem of James Elroy Flecker's first published volume. It is largely a vivid description of the many Gods of Heaven, the great and the good, the bad...

This attractive carol has a tuneful melody with a slight modal feel. Opening with melody alone, sung solo or in unison, the carol builds up harmonically, moving from octave thirds to the rich, occasio...

Fernando Taberner pairs percussion and mixed voices in his innovative and zealous new carol that depicts a shepherd's joy at the birth of Christ. The two percussion parts may be played on tambourines...

This Marian piece opens with an extended soprano passage, underpinned by soft yet characterful organ writing. Several hallmarks of Jackson's style are evident, including soaring, melismatic soprano li...

Setting a well-loved medieval text, this effective piece paints the story of Jesus through lyrical melodies and beautiful harmonic surprises. The vocal lines offer both powerful intensity and skilful...

Setting an invigorating Easter text from the Song of Songs, this episodic anthem is full of expressive passages and lyrical melodies. The canonical soprano parts are echoed in the lower voices, contri...

This setting of texts from Cymbeline and The Merchant of Venice, and Sonnet 98, is characterised by inventive textures and vibrant word-setting. The harmonic language is mostly diatonic but never plai...

Bob Chilcott has composed O Lord, make thy servant Elizabeth our Queen for the occasion of Her Majesty The Queen's Platinum Jubilee in 2022. This is a reflection on a piece of the same title by Willia...

Wilberg arranged this familiar hymn for the funeral of US President Gerald Ford. The first two verses are set for unison voices (men on verse one, women on verse two). The final verse is a setting for...

This jubilant carol alternates between a homophonic refrain and verses where the melody is sung over an open-fifth drone. Offprinted from Carols for Choirs 6.

This is an evocative setting of the Rudyard Kipling jungle poem 'Now Chil the kite brings home the night'.

Flute (Doubling Picc), Clarinet (Doubling Bass), Horn (Doubling Anvil), Percussion (2 Players), Harp, Piano (With Some Preparation), 2 Violins, Cello, Double Bass. This piece has its origins in two di...

For soprano, two clarinets and piano. A setting of a poem by Marina Tsvetayeva, translated into English. The piece has a haunting effect and relies on the musicians being sensitive to their roles. Als...

Originally published in the New Horizons collection The Ivy and the Holly, this carol has a mysterious, other-worldly character that complements the sixteenth-century text attributed to the Wedderburn...

For voice and piano. These four songs are settings of texts by the Sicilian poet Quasimodo (1901-68). They are the start of a much bigger cycle of ten songs that is a long-standing project for the com...