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Thornett's setting of this Epiphany text, also known as 'Brightest and best', makes effective use of arching melodies and a variety of choral textures. The piece builds to a dramatic final verse with...

Setting a tender poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, this lullaby is full of sweet and recurring melodies that rock gently in 6/8 time. The vocal lines are well supported by a twinkling piano part and comb...

In this arrangement, Unterseher offers a modern twist on the popular American folk song. A blues flavour in the accompaniment and a canon in the middle section give the familiar tune fresh appeal. Ori...

I remember sets a text reflecting on the wonder of the natural world and the people who shape our lives. The stirring melody calls to mind the folksong tradition, and is underpinned by a gently flowin...

This is a funky arrangement of Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy' with an English text by Henry van Dyke. Milloy jazzes up the well-known melody by arranging it in 12/8 time and adding syncopation, while suppor...

George Herbert's popular poem, 'The Call', is set to music in this powerful and evocative anthem. Bednall uses subtle dynamic and rhythmic shifts to build towards a powerful climax in the third verse,...

This is the sparkling duet and chorus which opens Verdi's opera. This chorus also appears in the anthology Opera Choruses. Orchestral material is available on hire.

With words and music by the composer, this upbeat anthem features a compelling recurring melodic motif that is passed around the voice parts, underpinned by a spirited accompaniment for piano.

This imaginative through-composed setting of a poem by 13th-century Persian poet Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī is rich in dramatic potential. The composer creates a mysterious and evocative soundworld th...

Setting a tender poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, this lullaby is full of sweet and recurring melodies that rock gently in 6/8 time. The vocal lines are well supported by a twinkling piano part and comb...

Commissioned by the Treble Makers Women's Choir to celebrate both their 10th anniversary and the 150th anniversary of Canada, this secular work for upper voices sensitively sets Langston Hughes's poem...

Higgins's setting explores the vibrant, natural imagery in Rossetti's text with flowing melodic lines and warm harmonies. The elegant piano accompaniment is characterised throughout by quick demisemiq...

These four masterfully crafted songs by Brahms (edited by Rutter) feature the original German words as well as an optional English translation, provided by Rutter himself. Although the piano accompani...

Settings of texts from The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Includes a piano reduction for rehearsal only.

This atmospheric setting of familiar words from Shakespeare's As You Like It is sprightly and uplifting, with singers being asked by the composer to perform with 'a bit of frost and a knowing smile'....

Offprinted from the anthology Opera Choruses, this is a short, beguiling piece from Madama Butterfly. Orchestral material is available on hire.

Die Kürze und die Intonation machen diese Motette besonders geeignet für die Einführung in die Kunst des mehrstimmigen Gesangs.

Originally scored in D major for counter-tenor, with trumpet and strings, the work is here arranged by John Rutter for performance by soprano and organ (or strings and organ continuo), with or without...

This inventive work, composed in 2019, owes its title to that year's two great anniversaries connected to manned flight: the 50th anniversary of the first moon landing and the 500th anniversary of the...

From the collection The Oxford Book of Ceremonial Music for Organ, Book 2, this fugue is taken from Reger's Variations and Fugue on the 'English National Anthem', and takes the whole of the first thre...

Perfect as a showpiece voluntary, Herbert Murrill's vibrant 1949 Carillon for organ is a miniature toccata that sets agile passagework above purposeful chords, with flashes of brilliance from the peda...

Elegy for the Time of Change was written in response to the horrifying murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police in May 2020.

Die eindringliche Melodie der Strophen und der nachdenkliche Refrain des "Ave Maria" haben dieses Lied zu einem äußerst beliebten Lied gemacht. Es ist auch in einer Version für SATB erhältlich.

Dieses Lied wurde 1989 vom Bach-Chor in Auftrag gegeben, um den siebzigsten Geburtstag seines Dirigenten, Sir David Willcocks, zu feiern. Die eindringliche Melodie der Strophen und der nachdenkliche R...

Ein fröhliches Festlied mit dem Refrain 'Gloria in excelsis', für SS (oder SA) und Harfe oder Klavier oder Orchester. Eine Version für SATB ist ebenfalls erhältlich. Das Orchestermaterial (kann ausgel...