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This short evening prayer by James Whitbourn sets an excerpt from the Book of Common Prayer. Written for the Choir of Harris Manchester College, Oxford, it is a meditative request for God's protection...

McDowalls ergreifender "Angel of the Battlefield", der ursprünglich vom Glasgow School of Art Choir im Rahmen des Composeher-Projekts in Auftrag gegeben wurde, ist sowohl eine Auseinandersetzung mit d...

McDowall's moving and poignant setting of this three-movement work is both an exposition on the horrors of war and a celebration of healers. Inspired by renowned nurse Clara Barton, the text is drawn...

In Quiet Peace vertont der Komponist Tristino Ali zärtliche Worte über die Ruhe, die man findet, wenn man Zeit allein mit Gott verbringt. Mit leicht zugänglichen und vor allem schrittweisen Teilen sch...

In Quiet Peace sets tender words by the composer, Tristino Ali, reflecting on the calm found when spending time alone with God. With accessibly written and primarily stepwise parts, Ali achieves a rem...

My soul is awakened vertont Worte von Anne Brontë über die erbauliche Wirkung der Natur auf den menschlichen Geist. Alis Vertonung ist ebenfalls angemessen erhebend, mit einer einprägsamen und synkopi...

My soul is awakened sets words by Anne Brontë about the uplifting effect of nature on the human spirit. Ali's setting is also suitably uplifting and ebbs and flows like the waters it represents. There...

English translations are included alongside the German text. Offprinted from the collection German Romantic Partsongs, edited and translated by Judith Blezzard.

This small collection of partsongs by Bruckner shows occasional glimpses of the transcendental quality, grandeur, and poise that typify his church music. English translations are included alongside th...

English translations are included alongside the German text. Offprinted from the collection German Romantic Partsongs, edited and translated by Judith Blezzard.

These partsongs of Robert Franz display similar qualities of Schubert's style and are less overtly passionate than many of Schumann's. English translations are included alongside the German text. Offp...

These two partsongs brilliantly display Gade's colourful use of vocal textures. English translations are included alongside the German text. Offprinted from the collection German Romantic Partsongs, e...

English translations are included alongside the German text. Offprinted from the collection German Romantic Partsongs, edited and translated by Judith Blezzard.

English translations are included alongside the German text. Offprinted from the collection German Romantic Partsongs, edited and translated by Judith Blezzard.

Schubert's contribution to the unaccompanied partsong repertory is small, however he is influentcial as among the first of the Romantics. English translations are included alongside the German text. O...

English translations are included alongside the German text. Offprinted from the collection German Romantic Partsongs, edited and translated by Judith Blezzard.

This partsong encorporates florid and chromatic vocal lines with regularly flowing dynamics. English translations are included alongside the German text. Offprinted from the collection German Romantic...

English translations are included alongside the German text. Offprinted from the collection German Romantic Partsongs, edited and translated by Judith Blezzard.

In Skempton's effective minimalistic style, this short work sets a well-known sacred text from Ecclesiastes 3, 1DS8. Emphasis is given to the text through the homorhythmic texture and flexible metre.

Bewahre mich wie einen Augapfel ist ein ruhiges und meditatives geistliches Werk, das sich für die Aufführung während des gesamten Kirchenjahres eignet. Der Text stammt aus Psalm 17 und ist eine Bitte...

Mit einem Text von Thomas H. Troeger erkundet dieses ausdrucksstarke Stück den Gedanken der Kameradschaft und der Widerstandsfähigkeit in schwierigen Zeiten. Die tröstliche, lyrische Melodie liegt übe...

Basierend auf dem bekannten Gedicht von William Blake entführt dieses Weihnachtsstück die Zuhörer mit Klängen von himmlischen Engeln, die das kleine Lamm in überlagerten melodischen Fragmenten herbeir...

Faith's Foundation celebrates church architecture as a means of teaching and representing Christian values. Setting George Herbert's poem The Church Floor, this piece marvels in melodic clarity and fl...

This is an edition by Marques L. A. Garrett of a short work by Brazilian composer José Maurício Nunes Garcia, who was active in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Solemn and largely chordal in t...

Diese überzeugende doppelchörige Vertonung der Missa brevis wurde anlässlich des 950-jährigen Jubiläums der St. Mary Magdalen Church in Oxford geschrieben und eignet sich sowohl für liturgische als au...