Sarah Quartel Noten für gemischten Chor

This uplifting work by American composer Reginal Wright sets a text by the nineteenth-century poet Arthur O'Shaughnessy. The powerful words are sung to a memorable melody embellished with syncopation...

Skempton's setting of the text from the Book of Revelation is reflective rather than ferocious, and trusts in the power of understatement.

This superb Latin mass setting for choir and organ demonstrates the composer's strong melodic sense and innate feeling for the sound of choral worship. The atmospheric Kyrie leads to a Gloria that con...

This imaginative setting of the well-loved text O little town of Bethleham, by Phillips Brooks, displays McGlade's characteristic rich and expressive harmonies, with their jazz inflections. It would b...

This peaceful and meditative work sets William Butler Yeats' classic poem, The Lake Isle of Innisfree. Underpinned by a balladic piano accompaniment, the flowing vocal lines convey a message of longin...

A rich texture is used in Gombert's setting of Quam pulchra es, with all voices singing almost all of the time. This texture is created through refined imitative contrapuntal writing, rather than homo...

Originally published in Epiphany to All Saints for Choirs, this seventeenth-century anthem for The Ascension of the Lord is full of melismatic polyphonic lines and features a fluid tonal centre.

Wide Open Spaces reflects on the journeys to be found in the wide open spaces within ourselves and in the world around us. After an uplifting melody, expansive textures, and rich harmonies, there is a...

Rejoice in the Lord is a fast, festive, and joyful setting of Psalm 33. After an exuberant opening, a lively organ passage leads into a beautiful moment of stillness in the choir, unaccompanied, creat...

Sentinels was written for the Brodsky Quartet and John Metcalfe. The piece is really a long, unrelenting march whose pulse never slackens or quickens, and in which slightly quirky military-style gestu...

This heartworming setting of words from A Midsummer Night's Dream features all the hallmarks of Quartel's signature style, with uplifting melodies and a supportive, accessible piano accompaniment. Ori...

Ian Crawford breathes new life into this traditional American tune by employing a bluegrass-inspired style, jaunty syncopations, and an upbeat tempo. This flexible arrangement is accommodating and idi...

A haunting depiction of the 'magic made by melody . . . Held in the arms of rhythm and of sleep', from a poem by Elizabeth Bishop. Instrumental parts for the original version (SATB and strings) are av...

Presented here in an arrangement for SABar voices, this setting of words by Chief Dan George optimistically reminds us that there is still beauty to be found in times of trouble and that difficult day...

From the collection Anthems for SA and Men, 'Fill your hearts with joy and gladness' is an uplifting anthem by Sarah Quartel, scored for SA & men with organ/piano. With text by Timothy Dudley-Smith, t...

This poignant setting of a text by Angier Brock invites us to reflect on how we receive the imago dei in others. Gentle yet captivating throughout, this piece centres on themes of faithful living, hos...

für SATB (mit Teilungen), Cello und Klavier Cello-Stimme für Sarah Quartels fünfsätziges Werk, das den langen kanadischen Winter feiert, mit Texten der Komponistin, Sara Teasdale, Lucy Maud Montgomery...

Cello part for Sarah Quartel's five-movement work celebrating the long Canadian winter, setting texts by the composer, Sara Teasdale, Lucy Maud Montgomery (of 'Anne of Green Gables' fame), and Melvill...

This solo cello part accompanies the evocative five-movement choral work Snow Angel, which explores themes of love, rebirth, and beauty through the eyes of children and the heavenly army of angels tha...