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This innovative setting of the Magnificat celebrates the strength of teenage girls and is suitable for both liturgical and concert performance. The upper-voices sing in the style of Bulgarian choral f...

One of the simplest and best-loved of 16th-century anthems.

Another issue in the Church Music Society's series of great 16th-century Responds, John Sheppard's Reges Tharsis is for the season of Epiphany, celebrating the visit of the Magi to the infant Jesus. T...

This short anthem or introit by Jack Redman uses verses from Kate B. Wilkinson's touching hymn 'May the mind of Christ my Saviour', first published in 1925. Scored for SATB, it may be sung unaccompani...

This fine Respond by Thomas Tallis is scored for SATTBarB, with the chant placed in the 2nd Tenor part. Intended for the Feast of Corpus Christi, it can be sung at any Eucharistic service, either as a...

Der verstorbene David Trendell, der als Gelehrter und Chordirigent sehr bewundert wurde, komponierte diese Preces & Responses für SATB, als er um 1985 Orgelschüler am Exeter College in Oxford war. Kür...

Helvey sets a combination of sacred texts to beautiful music. Similar to his Cor mundum crea in me Deus, Helvey writes mainly in homophonic textures, with thick, lush chords.

Out of the depths is a reflective, homophonic, and beautifully written work. The choral parts are very accessible, yet the resulting sound is rather sophisticated and thoughtful. This setting of Psalm...

SATTBB unaccompanied None of the sources of this piece has a text; however, the title clearly suggests a link with Psalm 42 - 'Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks'. The editor, Tim Symons, has s...

SSAATTBB unaccompanied In 1854 Pearsall arranged his madrigal Lay a garland to the text Tu es Petrus. Richard Shephard has taken up this idea and skilfully adapted Pearsall's fine eight-part piece Gre...

Mark's Sirett's setting of these anonymous words has a magical quality that is most attractive to singers and listeners alike. The soprano(s) announce the main tune before it is taken up by the full c...

This setting of the Nunc Dimittis was written for Westminster Cathedral and first performed at Compline on Easter Day 1916. In concerts it could be contrasted with the Latin settings by Howells and Ho...

For SATB unaccompanied. This makes a very useful addition to the repertory for Ascension Day - either as an introit or as an anthem. The text is from the Collect for the Sunday after Ascension.

John Taverner's Respond 'Dum transisset Sabbatum' (I) is now established as one of the finest examples of English polyphony composed in the last days of the Sarum Rite. Scored for SATBarB, alternating...

This is the first published edition of an anthem by Henry Walford Davies that dates from the mid 1890s. Scored for lower voices, AATTBB, it is a setting of an anonymous text from 1836 that is suitable...

This is the first published edition of an anthem by Henry Walford Davies that he composed on the death of William Gladstone in 1898. With rich scoring for SSAATTBB and sumptuous harmonies, it can serv...

This glorious musical depiction of the honour, strength, power and authority of the Holy Trinity by Thomas Tallis is the third issue in the CMS's series of great English Responds from the 16th century...

The Evening Service by Nicholas Strogers comes from one of the earliest 'short' services to have survived. It was one of six services regularly sung at the Chapel Royal in the early 17th century, and...

This new edition of the classic 'Tudor Responses' volume that first appeared in 1933 preserves the editions by Watkins Shaw that were published in 1966, though without Shaw's adaptations for the 1662...

SATTBB unaccompanied Gombert's In illo tempore: loquente Jesu is a six-part unaccompanied study in intricate part-writing, with sinuous stepwise motion and persistent imitative entries. The optimism o...

Dieser vollständige Zyklus basiert vollständig auf der Matutin des Gründonnerstags nach römischem Ritus. Er ist für die Aufführung im Konzert gedacht, eignet sich aber auch für den liturgischen (oder...

Für einen katholischen Bretonen wie Jean Cras war es nur allzu natürlich, eine Messe zu schreiben. Die Wahl dieser "ganz besonderen Gattung", einer A-cappella-Messe, war das Ergebnis seines besonderen...