Contemporary Church Music

Song For Athene, for unaccompanied SATB choir, was commissioned by the BBC and written in memory of Athene Hariades, who died in March 1993. The text is taken from Shakespeare's Hamlet and the Orthodo...

Composed by John Tavener through commission by the Royal British Legion for the Festival of Remembrance. First performed on the 8th November 2003 at the Albert Hall, London. The piece is written for d...

A sacred work for unaccompanied SSATBB choir, using text from The Order For The Burial Of Dead Priests, translated from Greek by Isabel Hapgood. Vocal score with piano accompaniment for rehearsal purp...

Written for upper voices (SSS OR SSA) chorus and organ with optional chorus of trebles. Text from Psalm 66.

In 1994, for the 500th anniversary of the University of Aberdeen, Judith Weir wrote two settings of 17th century English verse and choir, entitles Two Human Hymns. In 1997, Weir arranged the first of...

Commissioned for Tenebrae and their director, Nigel Short. John Tavener writes: Mother and Child celebrates the miracle of childbirth. It also celebrates Mary in her universal aspect as mother of all...

A work for SATB chorus and organ, using words by Keith Walker. The improvisatory style of the organ part should convey something of the Byzantine doctrine of Angels: 'Dazzling youths, arrayed in white...

For SSATB Choir A Cappella. Dedicated to Colin Mawby and the Choir of Westminster Cathedral. Piano rehearsal reduction provided.

Work for six solo Voices or unaccompanied Choir. First performed by The Purcell Consort of Voices in 1974. Text: St John of the Cross.

John Tavener's 1986 setting of the Lord's Prayer for SATB choir unaccompanied. The piece is presented twice, with texts in English and Church Slavonic, and the structure is one of a bar-less rhythmic...

A work for unaccompanied SATTBB choir, constructed in the form of a Byzantine Canon. The work was commissioned by James Lancelot and the Choir of Durham Cathedral who gave the first performance on the...

These two pieces for unaccompanied SATB choir were commissioned by Stephen Cleobury and the Choir of King's College, Cambridge. They were first performed in King's College Chapel on the 4th April 1987...

A piece for unaccompanied SATB choir, the text of which is based on a line from St. Matthew 9:9. The music was written to represent the work of St. Matthew. In three mounting steps, the music represen...

This work for unaccompanied SATB soli and choir was commissioned in the name of Sir Thomas Armstrong by the Musicians Benevolent Fund, for performance at the St. Cecilia's Day service in Westminster A...

This prayer is the foundation of Orthodox faith in the Holy Trinity. Says Tavener: 'In setting it to music, I have tried to capture something of the deep conjunction and repentance which lie at the he...

The mood of As One Who Has Slept, taken from the great liturgy of St. Basil on Easter Saturday morning, is full of awe, silence and expectation. The atmosphere is deeply solemn as we stand before the...

In this piece for unaccompanied SATB choir, fervent, dance-like music appears side by side with fear and awe, producing a dramatic contrast. The work was commissioned jointly by the Dean and Chapter o...

The texts of these three antiphons, commissioned by the World War II Commemorations Team and St. Paul's Cathedral, are taken from the Psalms and Isaiah, which have been set to music by this masterful...

Whitbourn's setting of the Magnificat And Nunc Dimittis for mixed chorus with Tenor solo also includes parts for Organ and optional Tam Tam percussion. The setting was first performed at King's Colleg...

Carol for SATB choir and organ. A simple orchestration of this work by the composer is available on hire.

Set for unaccompanied upper voices, this piece by Carol Barratt features an updated English language version of the sacred text. It was commissioned by Gordon Pullin and the Madrigal Choir of Notting...

This work was commissioned by the Icelandic choir Kammerkor Suourlands (Collegium Canticorum). It was first performed in July 2004 at Skalholt music festival.

This setting for Ave Verum Corpus is the well-known theme from Brideshead Revisited, and whose words are a Eucharistic hymn dating from the 14th century. Twentieth century British composerGeoffreyBur...

Commissioned for Tenebrae and their director, Nigel Short. John Tavener writes: Mother and Child celebrates the miracle of childbirth. It also celebrates Mary in her universal aspect as mother of all...

Little Requiem For Father Malachy, a work for SATB choir and orchestra, was commissioned by the Southern Cathedrals Festival with funds provided by the Arts Council of Great Britain. It was first perf...