This new collection of folk songs - 'Laula kultani' (Finnish for 'Sing, my sweetheart') - offers choirs attractive literature to expand their repertoires and to perform concerts for many different occasions. The creative choral director has many possibilities for performing this music: thus instruments can be added, or - if there are difficulties due to pronouncing a foreign language - a small ens…

Par BULLEN RICHARD. As well as traditional genres, Richard Bullen 's music embraces several contemporary ones including video and electronics, and shows a keen interest in location both in its formal possibilities and in its genius loci - its spirit of place. A five-minute stand-alone piece for SATB chorus, The Seven Arches was written for a site-specific project at the Dartington International Su…

Arrangeur: Alexander L'Estrange. Par L'ESTRANGE ALEXANDER. More Songs of a Rainbow Nation brings you four more songs from South Africa for mixed voices, in beautifully crafted arrangements by Alexander L'Estrange. The selection opens with Freedom is Coming, a joyful, infectious celebration of hope and freedom from oppression, and the hugely popular Siyahamba is also featured. Both songs form part …

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This little piece was commissioned by King's College, Cambridge in 2002 as the then-latest in their celebrated annual Christmastide service of Nine Lessons and Carols for their unique Chapel - it is dedicated to the choir and its director Stephen Cleobury. 'Little', but already a mini-cantata telling the start of the familiar story - Gabriel's Annunciation - praise to the Virgin before she too sin…

Par WEIR JUDITH. Celebrate HM The Queen's 90th Birthday with your choir Sing Judith Weir's special new choral piece I Love All Beauteous Things Master of the Queen's Music, Judith Weir, has been commissioned by St Paul's Cathedral in London to write a piece for SATB choir and organ in celebration of HM The Queen's 90th birthday in 2016. The piece is now available from Chester Music, so that choir…

Par SMITH PAUL. A beautiful and flowing work for SATB choir, SATB solo quartet and piano, with textures that celebrate love, cherishing our place among the stars. A New World is a musical story across five movements with texts by authors from Cicero and Ovid to George William Russel; from nursery rhymes to war poets. The music and texts link to form a narrative that questions what sort of ‘New Wo…

Description Music for Royal Occasions is an exciting volume of pieces written for coronations and other royal celebrations over the past five centuries. It includes long-standing favourites, such as Handel's Zadok the priest and Parry's I was glad ; and works from earlier years, such an Henry Purcell's I was glad and the delightful Rejoice in the Lord alway . Many well-loved composers …

Par MARSH LIN. Show us a Song! offers a truly immersive approach to singing that embraces music, drama, movement, staging and performing - the Lin Marsh way! Structured around ten original songs on a variety of school topics, this book off ers teachers a treasure chest of ideas and activities to develop musicianship, creativity, literacy, and general knowledge and understanding. Each song comes wi…

Commissioned by the Dean and Chapter of Guildford to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the Cathedral, The Holy Spirit sets a text by the poet and novelist Evelyn Underhill with masterful word-painting. Although there is some organ accompaniment, most of the work is a cappella with varying moods and textures to reflect the highly descriptive text. Contrasting with the gentle ope…

Par BEETHOVEN LUDWIG VAN / JEFFRIES-HARRIS KATIE / MOO. VOCES8 present a dreamlike choral fantasia based on the first movement of Beethoven's famous Moonlight piano sonata. Particularly suitable for mixed ability choirs, this piece has been used by VOCES8 in many of their school workshops. The internationally-renowned British vocal ensemble VOCES8 is proud to inspire people through music and shar…

In the last decade, Krzysztof Penderecki composed a Sanctus and Benedictus for treble choir, and he has now used these movements as the basis of his Missa brevis. The new mass setting adds male voices in fitting with the structure of the boys\' choir, which will be celebrating its 800th anniversary with the first performance of this work.Penderecki\'s oeuvre contains many sacred works, with numero…

Arrangeur: Alexander L'Estrange. Par L'ESTRANGE ALEXANDER. More Songs of a Rainbow Nation brings you four more songs from South Africa for upper voices, in beautifully crafted arrangements by Alexander L'Estrange. The selection opens with Freedom is Coming, a joyful, infectious celebration of hope and freedom from oppression, and the hugely popular Siyahamba is also featured. Both songs form part …