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This joyful carol sets a text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The piece opens with an imitation of bells spread across the voices, and this festive, celebratory quality is maintained throughout. Simple...

Show them you care ('cos it's Christmas) is a setting of an original text by Mark De-Lisser and Clare Dove in a pop ballad style. The song includes solos from each vocal section and the voices are sup...

This gentle yet uplifting carol was commissioned for the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, and was first performed during the 2012 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. The text, written by the compo...

Setting a text by William Chatterton Dix, this rousing carol celebrates the birth of Jesus, with memorable modal inflections in the melody and a supportive piano accompaniment. Also available for solo...

A simple, delightful setting of a Yeats poem which embraces nature's beauty and the secret joy of solitude. Perfect for concert use. Also available in versions for solo high voice and SSA.

This setting was commissioned by the BBC Singers and premiered in April 2012. The text recounts the destruction of the ancient city of Jerusalem by King Nebuchadnezzar in 586 BC.

This substantial anthem was composed in 2015 to celebrate the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta and to mark Salisbury Cathedral's stewardship of the charter since 1215. Rutter succeeds in weaving toget...

A response to Schubert's String Quintet in C (D956), this work highlights the added bass sonority provided by the second cello. It is a single movement work and explores ideas of fragmentation, refrac...

An unusually joyous setting in which straightforward vocal lines portray Mary's humility, and the accompaniment expresses exuberance and freedom of spirit. This is a strikingly original setting of the...

This beautiful motet by sixteenth-century Portuguese composer Vicente Lusitano sets the responsory for Ash Wednesday/the First Sunday of Lent. The scoring of this edition has been given as SAATB, and...

This straightforward but effective a cappella arrangement of the well-known English carol speaks directly to the listener, and its occasional unexpected harmonic turns will delight. Offprinted from Ca...

Michael Finnissy's John the Baptist won the 2015 British Composer Award in the Liturgical Category. Commissioned by St John's College, Cambridge, for Advent 2014, the piece recalls the folk music of t...

Written in his customary style of great simplicity, the voices sing in unison over a pared-down, chordal organ accompaniment.

This arrangement of a classic spiritual begins in sonorous style, with voices moving against quiet piano chords. It then erupts into colour and life, with exuberant voices and full piano part, before...

This is a deeply compelling setting of the familiar text. The piece commences with a series of contemplative exchanges between the upper and lower voices; the ensuing, unexpected changes of key and te...

Grodek is thought to be the last work of the Austrian poet Georg Trakl; the title refers to the town where Trakl served as a medical officer in the First World War. Jackson's setting captures the dark...

A dancing jazz waltz, with a stylish and swinging piano part.

Written in 2000, this piece was joint winner of the New College Oxford Millennium Competition. It is a complex and technically brilliant composition and has been deservedly broadcast several times on...

I Saw Him Standing sets a text by Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, who was inspired by the poetry of Ann Griffiths. The poem is full of rich imagery, prompting a correspondingly imaginative m...

These two short songs are set to texts by A E Housman and Edward Thomas.

Orchestral scores and parts are also available. Offprinted from the collection O Holy Night. An unaccompanied setting of the same text to its original tune by W. J. Kirkpatrick is included in the comp...

Setting a text taken from the Books of Sirach and Ezra, Build this House uses tonal shifts and alternating homophonic and polyphonic sections to create a piece that is both contemplative and joyous.

Optional parts for bass and drum set enliven this joyous arrangement of a traditional spiritual. Propelled by a light swing tempo, the mood grows more and more euphoric with each succeeding stanza of...