Includes: Chattanooga Choo Choo £ It's a Big Wide Wonderful World £ Oh What a Beautiful Mornin' £ Over the Rainbow £ People Will Say We're in Love £ Sentimental Journey £ You Are My Sunshine.

“Joy to the World” and “Ding Ding! Merrily on High” to reverberate with choral excellence in this new holiday work. A spirited and well-arranged piano accompaniment supports the celebratory vocals that are full of exuberance rhythmic drive and choral interplay. Building to a triumphant ending you'll find this selection worthy of any holiday and Christmas concert secular or sacred.

Per Nørgård's 2 Nocturnes - for 12 voices (2003) 1. Summer's Sleep (text: Ole Sarvig) 2. Michael's Night (text: Ib Michael) English version. Programme note:These two choral pieces for 12 voices consists of radical recompositions on of earlier themes: in Summer's Sleep we hear new combinations of two 'Sarvig melodies' from the 1970s (one of which is now in the Danish Hymnbook under the title 'Året' The Year); Michael's Night is based on an earlier simple choral song (Star Mirror 1987) now for 12 voices and composed such that an originalidea of 'simultaneously displaced opposite motions' cf. the poem) comes out as desired. Of the Nocturnes Nørgård writes: 'Summer's Sleep was composed to stanzas of Ole Sarvig's poem The Year (from the collection Forstadsdigte ('Suburban Poems')) and forms the picture of 'the summer of life' which is asleep - while the 'heaven seed' waits for the summer wind ('invisible to every mind'). The many layers of text are expressed musically in a multilayered choral texture with 'looks' up and down through the various tempo and time-worlds: summer sleep summer dream. 'The second nocturne Michael's Night takes its name from the author Ib Michael whose poem Star Mirror (from the collection Himmelbegravelse ('Sky Funeral') (1986) I pushed/coaxed him to expand from one to nine stanzas. The four selected stanzas set in the nocturne focus on the pan-erotic elements of the moonlit starlit night. With the titles I have chosen I have stressed the mythic layer of the text the summer night not as a dream but as sensual reality. 'The two nocturnes are dedicated to Ivan Hansen on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday on 25th February 2003 out of gratitude for over a quarter of a century of inspiring collaboration'. Danish version available: KP01444

Kali-Yuga is a short symbolic piece for choirs representing in a simple almost child-like way the last days of the Kali-Yuga the Dark Age of Hinduism. We live in these days. The ?ugliness? of the modern world is portrayedin the first two sections as the singers from Choir II are given a free rein to represent ?triviality? in the first song and ?ugliness? in the second while the singing chorus in Choir I describes the events in Schuon?s Germanpoetry. The third section represents ?weeping humanity? personified by the two women and two men from the choirs as the rest sing with great dignity and solemnity about the Kali-Yuga.The musical material is tightly knitthroughout and the performance should be as vivid and imaginative as possible.

Featuring exciting new songs from Geron Davis this worship experience presents the Christmas story in a fresh new way-Jesus is our Hope and will return as conquering King. With celebratory praise and awesome worship songs thismusical incorporates soloists worship teams as well as adult and children's choirs. Music narration and production notes are included in the songbook. Titles include: Christmas Praise Medley The Cradle That Rocked TheWorld Glory To God Hope Has Come Isn't It Amazing Lord I Lift Your Name On High Sing Watch For The Light Why Would He Choose Me? Worship (Worship The King). Orchestration includes score and parts for Flute 1 2 Oboe Alto Sax Tenor Sax Horn 1-3 Trombone 1-3 Tuba Percussion Harp Rhythm Violin 1 2 Viola Cello String Bass. Instrumentation varies. SATB Listening Cassette Listening CD CD Accompaniment Trax (Split) RehearsalTrax CD Orchestration CD 10-Pack Preview Pack (Cassette) Preview Pack (CD) Bulletin Pack (100) Poster Pack (10) also available.

Kantate Zum Epiphaniasfest. Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. This six-movement cantata uses the hymn of the same name by Ahasverus Fritsch, first recorded in 1698 in the Darmstädter Liederbuch. This places it amongst those chorale cantatas which use a hymn from the repertoire associated with Pietism. As was customary, the hymn text is retained in the outer movements, whereas the text for the inner movements - two secco recitatives and a tenor and a bass aria - are concerned with the contrast between the hostile world and the certainty of Jesus- the links between the cantata text and the Feast of the Epiphany are correspondingly tenuous. In the first movement the soprano sings the hymn melody complete, accompanied by mainly homophonic vocal parts, whilst the instrumental writing is largely influenced by the melody of the first line of the hymn. Remarkable is the tenor aria, with its contrasting central section and its chromatic twists and turns, in which Bach once again proves himself to be a master of harmony. The demands on the chorus are fairly modest, whereas the instrumentalists are challenged in the first movement and in both the arias./ Répertoire / Choeur Mixte (SATB) et Piano

Rudolph: three classic Christmas songs skilfully arranged by Alexander L?Estrange to offer a unique twist on the originals.  Get in the groove with our ?Take Five?-feel arrangement of all-time classic Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer; have your dancing shoes ready for a quirky take on Santa Claus is Coming to Town with its mix of swing and waltz rhythms; and bring any yuletide concert to a festive close with traditional favourite We Wish You a Merry Christmas. Choral Basics has been carefully designed to provide rewarding varied repertoire for beginner choirs.Perfect for singers of all ages the series offers attractive idiomatic arrangements for SA and SA/Men choirs with carefully considered vocal ranges and straightforward piano accompaniments that support the singers. Embracing world music spirituals folk song pop classics hit shows and original pieces this series offers everything a budding choir could wish for.

Exploring the sound world of Northern India while setting the words of Bengali poet Tagore here is a stylistic new work suitable for any community choir. The English translation is the poet's own and the musicalcharacteristics are a combination of Eastern scales combined with Western harmonies.

from Missa Brevis-Kodály's Missa Brevis was first performed in 1945 just after the end of the Second World War. It is a hymn to hope in the divinity that provides comfort and strength in the most difficult of circumstances. Divided into deliberate sections 'Gloria' opens with a plainchant followed by a chorus fanfare to a solo section at a much slower tempo and ends in a joyful character to the final Amen. Duration: ca. 4:00.