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This setting can be found both in Five Traditional Songs and Folk Songs for Choirs 1. The text is simple, while the arrangement is varied and charming.

Written in an a cappella style with scat accompaniment, A Tree is a Song is a joyful celebration of the affinity between trees and how wisdom can be passed on 'as a melody from tree to tree'. McDowall...

Originally published in the New Horizons collection Cantica Nova, this expansive Advent motet creates a unique sound world through unusual harmonic inflections, striking spatial effects, unmeasured no...

For SATB unaccompanied. This short, eloquent Benediction sets words from St Patrick's Breastplate (5th century). Also available in John Rutter Anthems.

The shades of Finzi and Vaughan Williams are strongly present in these three delightful unaccompanied choral settings, and yet the style and execution are wholly Rutter's own.

This is an energetic setting of a medieval text, with a modal feel and lively rhythms. After opening with an unaccompanied melody sung by the sopranos, the music gradually becomes more intricate, culm...

This dramatic setting of a 5th-century Ambrosian hymn perfectly epitomises the jubilation of the text. Rhythmically complex and involving some tricky melismatic passages, it is particularly suited to...

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

For SSATB unaccompanied - Commemorating the martyrdom of St Catharine, this reflective piece sets the Antiphon at First Vespers, Feast of All Saints alongside a thought-provoking contemporary poem by...

For SSATB unaccompanied - This setting of a poem by William Blake is evocative and appealing. Jackson ingeniously offsets simple, pure harmonies against moments of chromaticism to create beautiful, fr...

This important Requiem demonstrates Gabriel Jackson's gift for writing mesmerising choral music on a large scale. Combining sections of the traditional Requiem text with poems from other cultures and...

This unaccompanied carol is scored for four equal parts and comprises a sequence of three rounds. Rhythmic and engaging, this carol demonstrates the distinctive clarity of Skempton's musical language....

This anthem sets the Antiphon at All Saints to a lively melody and rich, sonorous harmonies. Opening and closing with a drawn-out melisma, the music moves between different rhythms and textures, from...

I saw three ships is a lively setting of the traditional English text for unaccompanied mixed voices. A simple melody, swapped between the outer voices and answered by altos and tenors, gradually buil...

This anthem sets the Oculi omnium gradual to still, reflective music with the hallmark close harmonies of Jackson's choral writing. Including sections of plainchant alongside richer textures, it is a...

To Music is a jubilant anthem set to a poem by Robert Herrick ('To Music - A Song'). Commissioned by the BBC to mark Stephen Cleobury's 60th birthday celebrations in 2009, the work perfectly captures...

First performed by the choirs of St Paul's, Westminster Cathedral, and Westminster Abbey, this anthem sets a medieval English poem to contemplative music with all the hallmarks of McDowall's style: ex...

Oxford Choral Classics: English Church Music assembles in two volumes around 100 of the finest examples of English sacred choral music. The second volume presents a wealth of service material suitable...

Meaning 'Souls of the Righteous', this reflective anthem is especially suitable for the Feast of All Saints but may be sung at any time of year. This piece is suitable for church and secular mixed-voi...

This haunting folk melody is brought to life in Stephen Cleobury's arrangement for unaccompanied mixed voices. Setting 'The Leaves of Life' by G. Bradley, the carol was first performed at the Service...

Displaying Chydenius's unique style, I am the great sun is a driven and focused setting of Charles Causley's poem. This is textured choral writing: you'll find imitative passages, melodic and rhythmic...

Setting a text by Walter de la Mare, this tuneful, rhythmic choral work is infused with Scandinavian style. The poem is accompanied by extensive use of scat, giving a modern twist to the forlorn senti...

Setting an original Latin text by the Venerable Bede intertwined with an English translation, this piece is homophonic and by turns ecstatic and calmly contemplative. It is particularly suitable for A...

This atmospheric piece sets a haunting secular text by Doris Kareva. In style it is contemplative with a clear, expansive melody, and Jackson skilfully conjures up a sense of the undulations of a ship...

Commissioned by King's College, Cambridge for the 2009 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, this beautiful carol sets a well-loved text by G. K. Chesterton. It would make an ideal introduction to Jack...