The playful side of versatile British composer conductor arranger and performer Richard Rodney Bennett comes to the fore with this delightful setting of seven nonsensical poems by Mervyn Peake. It was said of Peake during his lifetime that his serious work was full of humour while his nonsense verse was full of philosophy. This duality makes his lyrics a superb match for Bennett a composer who it is impossible to categorise. Composer performer and arranger Richard Rodney Bennett was internationally respected for his serious music and many award-winning film scores (Murder on the Orient Express Nicholas and Alexandra) as well as his works for children and his religiouspieces. In addition this markedly versatile musician frequently performed as a jazz pianist and arranger. Nonsense works equally well for students Choruses as well as for adult groups.

The jubilance of Richard Smallwood's gospel classic reaches glorious heights of rejoicing in Keith Hampton's authentic but accessible choral setting with the familiar psalm text: Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord! Duration: ca. 4:40.

This is a beautiful setting of Lullay Mine Liking by Richard Rodney Bennett. It is arranged here for SATB choir a cappella and includes a Keyboard reduction for rehearsal purposes.

Richard Allain's delightful and accessible setting of the popular anonymous fifteenth-century Nativity song for SATB choir dividing into eight parts.

An anthem for four voices attributed to the Renaissance composer Richard Farrant. Edited by Martin Shaw and written for SATB chorus with Piano accompaniment for rehearsal purposes only.

For SATB choir with Piano accompaniment.'In 2000 the poet Tony Harrison to cheer me up during a troubled period of my life sent me a copy of Goethe?s poem. I began to sketch music for it then and finished it in 2003. It is set for mixed chorus and strings. A winding forlorn cello figure like a lost soul leads to a softer tender violin theme that evokes the healing power of music to the troubled spirit. The hushed chorus enters a cappella and the forlorn cello figure is developed as they describe the illusory nature of the ?splendid? world. The ?healing? theme returns now elaborated by the sopranos and the whole chorus joins them building a sustainedmessage of hope and thanks for the regenerative power of music and love.This short piece is fondly dedicated to my friends Jane and David Fanshawe. It was commissioned by the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus and first performed by them in Poole on 17 April 2004.'????????????????????????????????- Richard Blackford

Richard Rodney Bennett's setting of Christina Rossetti's text In the Bleak Mid-Winter. For SATB chorus unaccompanied.

The classic Edmund Sears poem from the nineteenth century was put to music by Richard Storrs Willis and has now been beautifully arranged by Barry Rose for SATB choir and Organ.

Accessible and beautifully written this original setting of I Saw Three Ships by Richard Rodney Bennett is for SATB a cappella; a perfect addition for a carol service.

POD-Richard Rodney Bennett's Lullaby Baby is dedicated to the Choir of King's College Cambridge. This work for SATB choir unaccompanied is a setting of text by John Phillip.Duration: 3 minutes. 'This delightful setting of a 16th-century text was written for the choir of King’s College Cambridge and requires fine intonation especially in the jazz-influenced harmonies. A good performance of this carol will create a momentary time of peace amid the jollity of Christmas'. 'Sunday by Sunday’ December 2017   Lullaby Baby a 1986 setting of words by the 16th-century John Phillip (alsoset by Britten) is dedicated to King's College Cambridge and needs such a choir to do justice to the richly varied harmonies which set the repeated stanzas and refrain. Organists Review December 2017

A solemn anthem attributed to Renaissance composer Richard Farrant for SATB voices with a short score arrangement provided as an Organ guide.

Richard Rodney Bennett's wonderful version of the Missa Brevis arranged for SATB Choir with a Piano accompaniment for rehearsal purposes.