John Casken, qui célèbre son 60e anniversaire en 2009, la valeur de Christina Rossetti de la mi-hiver sombre - un poème popularisé par le paramétrage de Gustav Holt du même nom - Alwinton et Holystone Church Choir près d'où le compositeur vit à Northumberland. Un carol traditionnel basé sur la Nativité, il peint une image vivante de la froideur de l'hiver et est idéal pour les chorales désireux de…

for SSAATTBB and Organ. Par DOVE JONATHAN. Praise Him with the Sound of the Trumpet was commissioned by Alan and Victoria Young to celebrate the eighteenth birthday of their daughter, Kate, to whom the anthem is dedicated. The first performance was given by the Choir of Guildford Cathedral, in which Kate had been a chorister for some time. Kate's great love of music guided the composer's choice of…

These intimate and comforting lines of Elizabeth Bishop's Sonnet are set to music that is reflective, lush and lyrical, with the text always foremost. Originally written for SATB chorus and later arranged for TTBB chorus, this new voicing for Treble choir maintains the lush harmonies of the original while taking into account the potential of the women's voices. / Choeur SSA Et Piano

The grandeur of Ralph Waldo Emerson's skyborn music text creates a canvas for Dan Forrest's magnificent sonorities in this superb selection for choir and soloist with piano or optional strings. Breathtaking in its beauty and imagery! / Choeur Mixte (SATB)

Cherubini owes his fame as a church composer primarily to the 'Requiem in C minor? of 1817. It was held in extraordinarily high esteem by such composers as Beethoven and Schumann and served as a model for early 19th-century Requiem settings. Dispensing entirely with solo voices, it captivates with its rigorous formal concentration and its restrained use of musical resources in both choir and orche…

Composed in 1748, Handel's oratorio on the wise and righteous King Solomon is one of the most lavish works he created in this genre.He attached special importance to the choir: rarely does Handel's music have such extended choral numbers, ranging from homophonic settings to choruses of jubilation in eight contrapuntal parts.This vocal score is based on the 'Halle Handel Edition? volume BA 10709.- …

Cherubini owes his fame as a church composer primarily to the 'Requiem in C minor? of 1817. It was held in extraordinarily high esteem by such composers as Beethoven and Schumann and served as a model for early 19th-century Requiem settings. Dispensing entirely with solo voices, it captivates with its rigorous formal concentration and its restrained use of musical resources in both choir and orche…

Chandons Te Deum HWV 281. Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. Handel composed the 'Te Deum” in B-flat major HWV 281 in 1718 for the future Duke of Chandos, hence its nickname 'Chandos Te Deum”. Here it is called 'Te Deum for Cannons” after the Duke's stately home named Cannons where the first performance took place. The unusual scoring for flute, oboe, bassoon, trumpet, two violins and basso continuo plu…

This was the winning entry in the DaCapo Chamber Choir (Canada) 2014 New Works competition. As each phrase moves to and from chords in inversion, the music ebbs and flows depicting life's flow, until the final phrase sweeps into a starry night toward the road's final ending. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) A Cappella

Par FAURE GABRIEL / MESSAGER. Andre Messager (1853-1929) was a composition and Piano pupil of Gabriel Faure (1845-1924). They collaborated during the summer of 1881 to compose Messe Des Pêcheurs De Villerville and the first performance was in aid of the fisherman's charitable association. The Mass comprises five movements; 1) Kyrie, 2) Gloria Benedictus, 3) Sanctus, 4) O Salutaris, and 5) Agnus De…

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…

Mozart's 'Rondo alla Turca' is the basis for this innovative twist on 'Jingle Bells!' Your audience will love catching the rapid text as the familiar and sequential melody is volleyed through the choir. Pierpont's rarely-heard third verse is a hoot. 'Oh, what fun it is!' / Choeur SSA

Partitur und Stimmen - P/ST - for recorder quartet s(t)a(b)a(b)t(b) Arrangers: Beutler, Irmhild / Rosin, Sylvia C. Estonian minimalist composer Arvo Pärt has adapted his celebrated work, Summa, for recorder quartet. Originally written for four solo a cappella voices, it is also available in arrangements for string quartet, string orchestra, and choir with organ. Summa bears the distinctive quali…

When Beethoven visited the director of music at the cathedral in Linz, Franz Xaver Glöggl, in autumn 1812, the latter asked his guest to 'compose socalled Equali for 4 trombones for All Souls' Day [2 November]?. Beethoven readily complied - and it was to be his own funeral music. For in 1827 the Equali were sung in an arrangement for male choir as a 'dirge for Beethoven's funeral procession?. The …

Par CURRY JESSICA. The Light We Cast presents three works for unaccompanied SATB choir by BAFTA-winning composer Jessica Curry. Including The Light We Cast from the soundtrack of the acclaimed video game Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture; So Let Us Melt, from the mysterious virtual reality game; and Kiss the Bairns, from The Durham Hymns, a beautiful setting of a specially commissioned poem by Carol…