Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. for SATB and piano Jonathan Wikeley's choral arrangement of Vaughan Williams's Four Last Songs offers a new way to engage with these beautiful late works. The first and last songs are accompanied with the middle two unaccompanied. The original settings are available in the first volume of Collected Songs by Vaughan Williams. / Date parution : 2023-03-11/ Répertoire / SATB et Piano

American composer and conductor Theodore Morrison has set this lovely William Butler Yeats' poem filled with Irish musical quotes. As an opera composer Morrison has a strong grasp on the emotional impact made possible through programmatic music and he uses this in effective ways in this piece. The virtuosic nature of the Horn part and advanced choral music require an accomplished ensemble but the results will be impressive!

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. Les paramètres de Ralph Vaughan Williams de 71 Sonnet de Shakespeare et de Ben Johnson ' D'Echo élégie pour Narcisse ' sont publiée ici pour la première fois et de présenter un regard fascinant sur le début du développement de l'un des plus grands compositeurs de XXe siècle de la Grande-Bretagne. Ecrits lorsque Vaughan Williams était un étudiant à la Royal College of Music, étudiant auprès de Charles Standford, deux chansons sont une excellente et contrastée paire - le premier deuil véritable adressage - la seconde qu'une parodie madrigalian délicieuse - et tous deux faire des ajouts importants et passionnants pour le répertoire choral. La série de la chorale Programme Faber musique fournit une multitude de concert précieux répertoire incluant les oeuvres de Brahms, Holst, pont, Standford, Warlock, Faure, Saint-Saens, Schubert et Schumann, ainsi que répertoire Noël, choeurs de l'Evangile, arrangements de chansons folkloriques et les hits de la montre./ Recueil / SATB

Paul Williams has never written better than in this introspective poem and with Douglas Nolan's quiescent musical approach this Holy Week anthem will be an exceptional choice during the season of shadows. Williams's vividportrait of grace is perfectly suited for Maundy Thursday or more specifically Good Friday commemorations. Breathtaking!

Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. Johann Sebastian Bach did not write any cello concertos. Or did he? Many of his music manuscripts disappeared after his death. Included in that lost treasure may have been a couple of cello concertos. Bach wrote six suites for cello and three sonatas for viola da gamba, so, yes, why not a cello or a gamba concerto? Here is the Concerto In F Minor BWV1056 arranged for cello and piano./ Feuillet / SATB

Music played an enormous role in the works of William Shakespeare, while his own sonnets, poems and soliloquies have provided continuing inspiration for many composers through the years. The Novello Shakespeare Choral Collection, inspired by the 400th anniversary of the Bard's death in 2016, is an exciting anthology of choral works that are settings of Shakespeare's words. For choirs of all types and abilities, this collection has been edited by David Wordsworth so that all the pieces are fantastic both to sing and hear.The collection features some beautiful settings that have well and truly stood the test of time, such as Thomas Arne's Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind and Henry Leslie's How Sweet The Moonlight Sleeps. More recent settings from 20th century and contemporary composers include Ernest Moeran's Sigh No More, Ladies, Gary Carpenter's Lo, Here, The Gentle Lark and John Tavener's Fear No More and Look In Thy Glass.Not only this, the Shakespeare Choral Collection boasts several works that were specially commissioned, including John Joubert's Be Not Afeard, Richard Sisson's Light Thickens and Pawel Lukaszewki's Weary With Toil, I Haste Me To My Bed. Some pieces have never appeared before in print, such as those by Kevin Olsen, Bernard Hughes and John Gardner. These songs truly are a joy to perform, with some relatively simple arrangements that are purely fun to sing, while some more complex settings that will be thoroughly rewarding for choirs and audiences alike.A total of 26 fantastic works comprise The Novello Shakespeare Choral Collection, which would work as a wonderful concert programme on its own, or could provide a wealth of options for choirs looking to expand their repertoire with a range of unique settings. Also included is a fascinating introduction by editor David Wordsworth, and notes describing each piece.Words written by indisputably the greatest writer in the English language can only be matched with music by composers of talent and renown such as these. The Novello Shakespeare Choral Collection is an essential anthology of stunning settings of beautiful words which will be performed and enjoyed for many years to come. / Choeur Mixte (SATB)

Martin Neary is a contemporary British Organist and Choral conductor. As Organist for Westminster Abbey he produced these works for the fiftieth anniversary of the marriage of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh in Westminster Abbey in 1997. William P Rowlands’s hymn Love Divine All Loves Excelling has been a favourite of congregations for generations.

Lute Book Lullaby (Christmas)-The second of a trilogy of choral works A Year's Carols for SATB Choir and Organ commissioned by David Whitehead and the choir of St John's Cathedral Portsmouth. This is a very original setting of the frequently-used text of William Ballet.

The Rose-Bud is composer William Cole's setting of William Browne's poem for unaccompanied SATB chorus.

We Will Remember Them: Music For Remembrance is a collection of some of the finest pieces of choral music on the theme of remembrance.We Will Remember Them: Music For Remembrance is suitable for church cathedral school youth and community choirs. It contains music appropriate for Remembrance Sunday services and beautiful pieces suitable for concerts memorial and funeral services and other acts of remembrance and reflection.We Will Remember Them: Music For Remembrance includes classic choral works such as Samuel Barber’s Agnus Dei Edgar Bainton’s And I saw a new heaven and WilliamHarris’s Bring us O Lord God alongside other works by well-loved composers including John Tavener Richard Rodney Paul Mealor and Eric Whitacre.New arrangements such as David Hill’s choral reworking of Edward Elgar’s Nimrod are included with other new works by some of the best contemporary composers.In a glowing review in the January/February 2015 edition of Choir & Organ Jeremy Summerly writes of the appropriateness of many of these works for Remembrance concert programmes and the effectiveness of a great number of these choral pieces.

Love's As Warm As Tears was expertly composed by Paul Mealor. The piece was commissioned by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster and first performed on the 22nd November 2013, at a service dedicated to C. S Lewis, by the Special Service Choir of Westminster Abbey, conducted by James O'Donnell.Paul Mealor is a Welsh composer, recognised for his contribution to choral music. Mealor came to the public's wider notice when his motet Ubi Caritas et Amor was performed at the wedding of Prince William, watched by over 2.24 million people. / Choeur Mixte (SATB)

Finnish/English Vocal score for Jean Sibelius' The Tempest Op.109 (1925-26) - Incidental Music to William Shakespeare's 'The Tempest'. For soloists (S M T 2Bar) Choir SATB and Orchestra. Full Score: KP01494 Parts are avilable on hire: hire@ewh.dk

Unite To Praise Thy Maker's Name is a composition by William Lloyd Webber for SATB chorus and Organ Accompaniment featuring words by Bryn Rees based on Psalm 103. This hymn-anthem is suitable for Harvest or General Thanksgiving.

William Schuman's Prologue to a poem by Genevieve Taggard. Reduction for SATB choir with Piano accompaniment.

William Billings' David's Lamentation for SATB choir a cappella. This work is a setting of text from Samuel II: 18 33.