In the past two decades years American composer Philip Glass has become a prominent and unique figure in the international music world. Writing operas orchestral and choral works and music for film theatre dance and The PhilipGlass Ensemble (which has toured over fifty cities worldwide) Glass has brought his creative vision to a diverse and ever growing audience.

A continuous setting of six poems from George Mackay Brown's Fishermen with Plough which concern the traditional ways of life and death in Radwick the village on hoy Orkney where the composer lived for 28 years. The choir issupported throughout the piece by pointing entries and doubling the choral lines within the piano part. The piano part is not just an accompaniment it has it's own discourse and is correspondingly challenging. For SATB Choirwith Piano accompaniment.

John Joubert's I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes for SSAA choir with Piano accompaniment. Commissioned by Rustenburg High School for Girls Cape Town on the occasion of their 75th Anniversary 1969.

Commissioned by the Genesis Foundation for The Sixteen and Harry Christophers. For SATB chorus unaccompanied.

First performed on 17 October 2000 at the Pieve dell'Assunta Cavalese Trentino Italy by the Mayfield Singers this is an Italian translation of the text A Hoy Calendar from the poem sequence Fishermen withPloughs. Written for SATBB chorus with optional Piano or Organ accompaniment.

Hymns Of Paradise for bass solo SA chorus and six violins. This work was commissioned by Ross Pople for performance by the London Festival Orchestsra. It was first performed on 27th May 1993 at St Paul's Cathedral.

I sleep but my heart waketh was commissioned by the National Youth Choir of Great Britain and premiered by them in a concert at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall directed by Michael Brewer on 15th April 2006. Scored for eight-part choir this is Tarik O'Regan's setting of seven sentences from the King James Version translation of the Song of Songs (or Song of Solomon).

A Juilliard grad and multi-Tony Award winner actress and soprano Audra McDonald has been compared to both Barbra Streisand and Judy Garland. Our matching folio to her second solo release features a bio and 14 tunes by Harold Arlen and contemporary composers such as Adam Guettel. Includes: Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home · Bill · Come Down from the Tree · How Glory Goes · I Won't Mind · Lay Down Your Head · The Man That Got Away · A Sleepin' Bee · Somewhere · When Did I Fall in Love · and more.

For SSA Chorus with Organ. Text- Roman Catholic Vernacular. First performed in St Leonard's Church Mayfield.

For Contralto solo Chorus and Orchestra. Looking outside the purely Western Europe tradition for inspiration and freshness Karl Jenkins sets the 13th-century Stabat Mater text in Latin and English and has extended it to a universal depiction of grief with six other texts some of them from ancient sources in a variety of languages. The scoring is for voices and modern symphony orchestra augmented by indigenous instruments such as the Darabuca (Hand Drum) and Riq (Small Tambourine) and the Mey (Woodwind). The work has been recorded by EMI Classics performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra andChoir the EMO Choir of Helsinki with soloists Jurgita Adamonyte and Belinda Sykes conducted by the composer. By turns dramatic and reflective the twelve-movement work incorporates the original 13th-century Latin sequence alongside additional texts such as Ave verum corpus (originally composed for Bryn Terfel) Lament by Carol Barratt and English texts derived from ancient Babylonian and medieval Persian sources.

Pop/New Age singer Enya is well-known for her multi-layered vocal styling. This latest translates exceptionally well for choral groups and has soared to the top of the Adult Contemporary and Hot 100 Charts. An excellent graduation/spring concert feature! Available separately: SATB SAB SSA and ShowTrax CD.

With words by Carol Barratt this piece is a simple but highly effective meditation from the composer of Adiemus and The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace. For SATB choir