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This book contains nine pieces from ABRSM's Grade 5 Piano Syllabus for 2019 & 2020, three pieces chosen from each of Lists A, B and C. The book also contains helpful footnotes and, for those preparing...

Edited and completed by Julian Bream.

This wonderful anthology presents a fascinating survey of music by African composers, both those living in Africa and those now resident elsewhere in the world. The music, much of which is published h...

The composer writes: 'The piano repertoire abounds with pieces that dazzle the listener with displays of virtuosity. I decided to compose music which allowed the sound of just one note at a time to be...

The 100th Psalm is in modified ternary form and captures the joy and excitement of the familiar psalm. The organ part features a fanfare-like motif that effectively complements the text, and the chora...

This lively reimagining of the traditional hymn is a thrilling a cappella arrangement which pairs the soaring legato melody with a rhythmic vocal accompaniment. Also available in a version for SSA una...

TaReKiTa is a refreshing concert piece that effortlessly blends the Indian and Western classical styles.

Chilcott's setting captures the mood of painful introspection that infuses this spiritual, in a way that few others have achieved. A truly moving response to a subtle but provocative text.

This vibrant setting of Isaiah 9:6 draws on the rhythms and textures of modern Nigerian art music. The predominantly homophonic texture is interspersed with solo lines, in a setting full of dynamic co...

This piece sets a joyful text celebrating the beauty found all around us. Characterized by tight harmonies and a dynamic hand drum line, the buoyant 7/8 metre drives the piece forward. Lush harmonies...

Inspired by Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil, Vespers is a 12-movement English-language work in the Eastern Orthodox tradition. Suited to concert and liturgical settings, it draws from several Orthodox...

These Amens were written to fill a liturgical and musical gap in services where the prevailing style of the music is romantic. This is the first publication of the Amens in F and A, and the musical st...

John Rutter's tender and expressive arrangement of Silent Night is presented here in both English and German. In a fascinating note, Rutter outlines the history of this celebrated carol, and this edit...

A peaceful and uplifting meditation on death and the afterlife, with softly overlapping upper voices that weave a hypnotic texture over a gentle melody in the tenors and basses, to magical effect.

The text for this part-song is a deftly chosen selection of lines from Keats' Ode to a Nightingale. Jackson's setting features many of his stylistic hallmarks: glissandi, melismas, aleatoric patterns,...

For unaccompanied SATB.

A contemplative setting of the Latin hymn at Lauds for The Feast of Transfiguration, Ben Parry's O nata lux features effective melodic and harmonic phrasing that creates a serene environment for refle...

A rollicking arrangement of this ever-popular song for unaccompanied SATB voices. It will delight singers and audiences alike with salty evocations of sun, sea, and brass bands! Also in Encores for Ch...

Well suited to beginners, this is a piece of elegant simplicity that remains in rhythmic unison throughout, with focus placed on the dynamic range. Its text, written by the composer, emphasizes the co...

Deconstructing Johann, the witty work of Daryl Runswick, is less of an arrangement and more of a composition, in the sense that Runswick has not only formed the most amazing collage of J. S. Bach's 'g...

Originally published in Epiphany to All Saints for Choirs, this anthem for All Saints' Day features all the hallmarks of the sixteenth-century polyphonic style. Includes both Latin and English singing...

This reflective setting of an evocative text by Charles Bennett uses pastoral and romantic imagery to depict the beauty of a life free from the desire for worldly possessions. The music draws on the w...

This beautiful and much-loved Somerset folk-song is No. 2 of Five Traditional Songs arranged for mixed choir by John Rutter (ISBN 9780193437173). The enduring appeal of the song lies in the beauty of...