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A festal setting of this familiar tune, imposing and exciting but not difficult, with a few thrillingly unexpected harmonies and modulations. Score and parts for brass and percussion are available on...

This five-movement suite takes a light-hearted journey through different themes of love: Rejection, Parting, Falsehood, Contentment, Fulfilment. With contrasting vocal textures and a range of texts, t...

A Time for all Seasons is an evocative cantata that explores the complexities of the human condition. McDowall's impressive range of musical styles, effective antiphonal writing, and artful juxtaposit...

Burk weaves joyful and declamatory passages with moments of pensiveness, with an extended harmonic vocabulary throughout. Offprinted from Carols for Choirs 6.

Words from Psalm 100. Orchestral material is available on hire

This hymn arrangement is triumphant and rousing, with a strong melody and fanfare-like accompaniment. Wilberg expertly treats the music to a variety of textures and scorings, culminating in a rousing...

This arrangement of the well-loved hymn stays true to the jubilation and reverence of Easter. Wesley's words and the eighteenth-century melody shine through in a sensitive reharmonization, and a recur...

In this version of the popular English hymn, Rutter adorns the well-known melody with an opening fanfare and soaring descant line over the final verse. Full scores and sets of parts for the brass ense...

For SATB and optional organ.

Festival hymn with introductory fanfare for SATB, brass ensemble (4 trumpets, 3 trombones or 2 horns and one trombone, tuba), timpani, percussion, and organ, or for SATB and orchestra. Orchestral mate...

Im sehnsuchtsvollen 'Be thou my vision' zeigt John Rutter einmal mehr seine reichen, orchestralen Farben und wunderschönen Melodien.

This original hymn is touching and lyrical, with unison first and second verses blossoming into four-part writing in the third verse. It may be performed as either a congregational hymn (a congregatio...

This elegant setting of the Magnificat a homage to and in the style of composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, whose own Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis settings are staples of the English church reperto...

This meaningful text by David Warner is accompanied by beautiful leaps and subsequent suspensions in the memorable melody, which is supported by rich textures in the organ and orchestra. Appropriate t...

This congregational mass setting is short and accessible, with a congregational part that may be intuitively learnt. The congregational part, which may be photocopied, is available at the back of the...

John Rutter's setting of this well-known medieval Pentecost poem is characterized by metrical fluidity, imaginative harmonic language, contrasting homophonic and imitative passages, and a supportive o...

Palestrina's Agnus Dei II from Missa Brevis is presented here in a special arrangement by Becky McGlade. McGlade places the cello at the heart of the music, using it as a direct substitution for the s...

This bright, up-tempo arrangement combines a funky piano part with walking pizzicato bass, a strong tune, scat vocal lines, and swing-band style vocal harmonies to make an exhilarating show-stopper.

This mass setting, with texts in both Latin and English (Book of Common Prayer), is typical of the composer's style: musically sophisticated, with motivic solo lines and a great deal of chromaticism a...

Full score for the brass accompaniment to John Rutter's popular setting of the Te Deum: a hymn of praise that is appropriate for choral concerts, as well as for use in sacred settings. The music is ju...

A splendid curtain-raiser to Vivaldi's Gloria, Durante's artful Magnificat has long been misattributed to his pupil Pergolesi. Durante's vocally richer five-voice version has been chosen for Sacred Ch...

This is the third in a trilogy of organ works inspired by the metaphysical poet, George Herbert. This piece and the first of the three, Sounding heaven and earth, draw their titles from George Herbert...