This anthem for SATB and organ was composed for the Musicians Benevolent Fund and is dedicated to its former Chairman Sir Thomas Armstrong. The first performance took place on St Cecilia's Day 1989 at St Sepulchre without Newgate coducted by Martin Neary Organist and Master of the Choristers Westminster Abbey. The text is from The Wreck of the Deutschland by Gerard Manley Hopkins.

The Fayrfax Carol was commissioned by the Choir of Kings College Cambridge for the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols on Christmas Eve 1997.Subtle and lyrical yet with pointed bitter-sweet harmonies the piece looks ahead to Christ?s Passion. A challenging yet immensely rewarding work.

This oratorio is the first work in this genre composed in the new world. It is edited by Thurston Dox the musicologist who spearheaded the research into this Jamaican piece once it was discovered in the 1970's.

Composed in 1823 but not performed during his lifetime Franz Schubert?s Fierabras is a ?number opera? with spoken dialogue in the manner of opéra comique. It is based on the medieval legends associated with Charlemagne including that of Eginhard and Emma and draws on the old French heroic epic (chanson de geste).Emma the daughter of Charlemagne secretly loves the knight Eginhard who is not befitting of her rank. The heathen Moorish prince Fierabras who after being defeated by Charlemagne falls into French captivity and converts to Christianity is also in love with Emma. His sister Florinda on the other hand loves the Franconianknight Roland who is being held prisoner by the Moors and whom she helps to escape. After several military conflicts where Charlemagne?s army finally conquers the Moors the lovers reunite. Only Fierabras who is reprieved renounces his love and accepts the liaison between Emma and Eginhard.Urtext edition based on the ?New Schubert Edition?Detailed foreword (Ger/Eng) by Christine Martin including information on the work?s genesis reception and performance history.Uncluttered idiomatic Piano reduction.Also available:BA5557 hardback full scoreBA5557-72 performance material for hire

A Christmas Carol (Hungarian folksong)-The piece was written originally for equal voice choir in 1929. A mixed-choir adaptation was made in 1961 at the request of Oxford University Press. This appeared in print in the same year with an English text under the title A Christmas Carol in a collection of Christmas songs as well as in a separate print. The musical material of the mixed-choir version largely follows the original. There is one essential difference in verse 5 beginning at bar 35 (Babe all holy) where the tenor solo appears with a delightful eight-bar countermelody not found in the original. Since this version only appeared in Kodály's lifetime with an English text this has been retained but we havealso provided the original Hungarian text upon which the equal voice version is based. Zoltán Kodály's complete choral works for mixed voices were published in a new extended edition in 2018 (Z. 6725 and Z. 6725A). This volume containing 51 compositions has been edited by the renowned conductor Péter Erdei one of the most devoted interpreters of Kodály's choral works. The new edition takes into consideration the manuscript sources for the compositions housed in the Kodály Archives in Budapest. The publication features new easily-legible music scores edited on uniform principles. For better readability the new edition is printed in a slightly larger format than previous editions.The present publication is an offprint from the renewed edition of Kodály's complete choral works for mixed voices. It has the same format as the volume and has been printed on excellent-quality pale-yellow paper.

A Virgin Unspotted by William Billings arranged by Richard C. Pisano for SATB choir a cappella.