Considered to be one of the first modern American madrigals with text by William Shakespeare. For SATB1. Mistress mine where are you roaming? 2. Take O take those lips away 3. Sigh no more ladies sigh no more!

Howard Goodall's setting of Spared by Wendy Cope arranged for SATB divisi and piano accompaniment. This work was first performed by The Chapel Choir of The Methodist College Belfast on 27th October 2005 at St Anne's Cathedral Belfast. Wendy Cope's poem movingly evokes the events of September 11th 2001 an event that Howard Goodall witnessed firsthand. Faber Choral Signature Series introduces a wealth of new or recently written choral music to choirs in search of fresh repertoire. The series draws in a rich diversity of living composers and includes both lighter and more challengingcontemporary works offering a thrilling array of varied styles.

The vocal score of Choral Symphony by Australian composer Carl Vine. Scored for SATB choir organ and orchestra Carl Vine’s Choral Symphonysets four ancient hymns in exotic languages that have not been spoken for thousands of years: ‘Enuma Elish’ an Akkadian creation myth describing the creation of the world from primeval chaos and three Homeric Hymns  to the Earth the Moon and the Sun (in Greek 'Epic Dialect'). The vocal writing in this 26-minute symphony (Vine’s sixth) is homophonic throughout reflecting the composer’s wish for the workto ‘revel in the power of the human community’. 

Arrangeur: Carl Strommen. Par GERSHWIN GEORGE. Arrangé par programmes musicaux de Carl strommen que du monde entier vont être marquant les anniversaires des naissances de le Gershwin tout au long de 1997 et 1998. Cette merveilleuse vitrine chorale de Gershwin hits arrangé par Carl Strommen peut être le point focal pour tout programme tout au long de ces deux yearalways de Carl, hautement chantantes et exceptionnellement divertissant ! Disponible en SATB, 3-partie mixte, 2-partie, TTB./ Répertoire / Choeur

A beautiful slow dignified and evocative carol for mixed choir. The words are from a poem by Bruce Blunt and have been set to music by Peter Warlock. Arrangement for SATB with a Piano accompaniment included for rehearsal purposes though this piece should be performed as a choir without accompaniment wherever possible.

Francis Pott’s My song is love unknown sets all of Samuel Crossman’s famous verses but one (commonly omitted when the poem is sung metrically as a hymn). The music begins with offbeat repeated chords prompted—not inappropriately—by the opening to Richard Strauss’s tone poem  Death and transfiguration. In its early stages only trebles and altos are heard. The sequential flow of Crossman’s poem is soon disrupted with particular dramatic ends in mind. After a seemingly anxious harmonic distortion of the opening chords the word ‘crucify’ arises initially as a mere mutter from the lowervoices so timed as to afford assonance with other words in the upper parts and thus remain barely discernible as if only imagined. In due course however cries of ‘Hosanna’ find themselves on a collision course with a rising tide of ‘Crucify’ during which the ‘Hosanna’ faction gradually loses heart and sheep-like defects until a single treble voice—plaintively daring to repeat the ‘offending’ word—is swept aside by a murderous outcry. In due course ‘Crucify’ recurs as a further angry climax before the opening music returns this time expanding into an extended polyphonic final section for double choir and SATB soloists. The principal climax of the work subsides into a form of epilogue crowned sorrowfully by a treble soloist to whom the music in toto has by now presented many challenges. The anthem ends in the key and mood of its opening. The character of its demanding organ part reflects the possibility that it may one day be orchestrated.   My song is love unknown was composed in memory of Michael Renton a craftsman and largely self-taught ‘Renaissance’ man who was not only a member of the Winchester cathedral congregation but also the cathedral’s stonemason. He was beloved of many in the Cathedral community; a true and