Hymns from King's is a collection of 20 hymn arrangements for choir and organ by Stephen Cleobury - Director of Music at King's College Cambridge for more than 25 years. Covering the entire church year, including Christmas and Easter, Hymns from King's is not just a book of descants - it also contains varied arrangements and accompaniments for many of the most popular hymns sung not only at King's…

Par TOMPSETT BEN. Peter Sculthorpe's programme note reads as follows 'Lullaby is based upon one of the number of indigenous Australian melodies collected by Dr H. C. Lethbridge during the 1930s and is a lullaby for children victimised by war. It opens with several statements of indigenous melody, the words lovingly entreating children to embrace sleep, as night falls. This is followed by a short c…

The Beatles Let It Be has become a kind of secular hymn, a plea for tranquil acceptance written by Paul McCartney at the time of the band's turbulent breakup in 1970. Consistently voted a Beatles ' favourite Let It Be has here been arranged for SSA choir with Piano accompaniment by Christopher Hussey . / Choeur SSA Et Piano

Par BURTON KEN. British composer Ken Burton was drawn to the poetry of 18th-century slave and writer Phyllis Wheatley for his piece Descend to Earth. The dual troubles of pandemic and racial oppression in 2020 resonate with Wheatley?s concise poem, the start of which recalls the Christmas/Holiday season. Written for SSAATTBB unaccompanied choir plus baritone solo, Descend to Earth will have a plac…

Cantata for Trinity Sunday. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. Es ist ein trotzig und verzagt Ding BWV 176 Cantata for Trinity Sunday This cantata for Trinity Sunday is the first of two such extant cantatas composed by Johann Sebastian Bach after his Leipzig appointment in 1723. This cantata is also the last in a group of nine for successive post-paschal feasts composed by Bach, apparently within a few we…

Motet after Friedrich Rückert for Double Male Choir (Organ ad lib.). Par SCHUMANN ROBERT. At first described as 'religious song' by Schumann, the motet 'Verzweifle nicht' could be heard with organ accompaniment for the first time on 4 July 1850 on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the University's choral society St. Pauli in Leipzig. He wrote the organ version specifically for this performan…

Spaur-Messe. Par MOZART WOLFGANG AMADEUS. The relatively unspectacular nature of the 'Spaur Mass' may be one of the reasons for the fact that writers on music generally refer to it only as a peripheral work, a little sister of Mozart's 'important' church works. With regard to scoring, the 'Spaur Mass' belongs to the category of the 'missa solemnis', but its brevity and its stylistic character belo…

The five SAB anthems contained in this collection are ready when you need them most! Slim Sundays, 'blizzard' Sundays, summer choir, or any time an easily prepared anthem is needed quickly because of brief rehearsal time or limited resources. And although these anthems are easily prepared, they're still highly effective. Created by veteran composer/arranger Jay Althouse, Ready, Set, Sing! is an in…

Par BUCKLEY ROBERT. December was inspired by the holiday season in Canada. It reflects the sounds, the sights, and the moods of that magical time of year. December starts off joyfully with a playful theme of celebration. This leads into an icy, reverent, winter solstice theme. Then there is a further development of the original joyful theme and a jubilant build to the finish. December can be perfo…

Par WEIR JUDITH. This suite for chorus and string orchestra was commissioned by the Addison Singers, London, and dedicated to their conductor David Wordsworth. It is a setting of texts by three American poets - E E Cummings (O Sweet Spontaneous), William Carlos Williams (Peace on Earth) and Emily Dickinson (I reason, Earth is short ) - each reflecting on the Earth and mankind’s experience of livin…

Par BLACKWELL-CARTE. Une anthologie de 17 arrangements sophistiqués de chansons populaires classiques. La collection comprend des numéros accompagnés et non accompagnés, dans une variété de styles: blues enfumé, up-tempo SCAT, le swing sentimental, exubérante Dixieland, sophistiqué gros harmonie, plus une opulente show-bouchon ou deux. Andrew Carter est né en 1939 dans une famille de Leicestershir…

Meine Seel erhebt den Herren - Kantate BWV 10 (Klavierauszug) Kantate zum Fest Mariae HeimsuchungMit seiner Kantate ?Meine Seel erhebt den Herren' zum Fest Mariae Heimsuchung (2. Juli) legt Bach eine Magnificat-Vertonung der etwas anderen Art vor: die Textvorlage in deutscher Sprache kombiniert Bibeltext und freie Umdichtung, Grundlage ist hierbei der Lobgesang der Maria (Magnificat) aus dem Lukas…

Par FORBES L'ESTRANGE JOANNA (Arr.). Wade in the Water is a lively and infectious spiritual. Its features include a call-and-response texture, jazz ‘scat’ vocalization and finger clicks on beats 2 and 4 of the measure. This arrangement by Joanna Forbes L’Estrange remains true to the spirit of Eva Cassidy’s well-loved version, adapting the instrumental improvisation on the recording to create a fun…

Chorheft 3: Fastenzeit / Ostern. Par . The German Catholic hymnal Gotteslob offers a wealth of possibilities for the celebration of the Divine Office by the congregation. With this third choral collection the editors encourage lively worship services, which choir and congregation can create and celebrate together. The collection offers many specific suggestions for this type of worship, as well as…