Samson an oratorio for soloists mixed chorus and orchestra by George Frideric Handel libretto by Newburgh Hamilton after Milton’s Samson Agonistes. Edited by Donald Burrows. This latest addition to the Novello Handel Edition is the first complete modern edition of the composer’s longest oratorio prepared after examination of all known contemporary sources both music and word-books. The publication embodies the complete text known to have been performed at the Covent Garden premiere in 1743 as well as identifying the later shorter versions and additions performed regularly by Handel and an Appendix of allfurther variants created by him and performed during his lifetime. It is thus a comprehensive and flexible edition for between four and eight soloists with an abundance of choral writing and some of Handel’s most sublime writing for voices.Includes an historical preface extensive notes on the performance of the different versions and useful practical notes on the interpretation of Handel.

Written for SATB soli, double choir, organ and orchestra. This vocal score, edited by Denis Stevens, contains all voice parts, the organ accompaniment and some orchestral details. / Chant

King Arthur was the only one of Purcell's professionally produced operas to have been designed as a semi-opera; the others were all adaptations of earlier plays. Dryden made a real attempt to integrate the music into the drama but since he ascribed to the dramatic conventions of the period which virtually confined music to allegorical or supernatural beings and thier worshippers or servants shepherds and similar characters the main action mostly occurs in the spoken sections and even the two singing characters Philidel and Grimbald speak more than they sing.

Full Score. Purcell Society Volume 8. Edited under the supervision of the Purcell Society by Peter Dennison.

In 2013 Mealor composed With A Friend Like You for the final of the second season of the BBC 2 series 'The Choir: Sing while you work'. All three choirs of the final presented the song at Ely Cathedral. The P&O choir was declared winner. Composed for for 3-part Treble choir with soloist 3 SATB choirs with soloists Sleigh Bells Piano and Organ.

This work known as Lie Strewn the White Flocks is written for mezzo-soprano solo SATB chorus solo flute string orchestra and drums and uses poems selected from the works of Ben Jonson John Fletcher Poliziano Theocritus and Robert Nichols.Vocal score with piano accompaniment.

Fly Bold Rebellion is a work by English composer Henry Purcell for 2 Soprano 2 Countertenor Tenor and 2 Bass Soli as well as SSAATB Chorus with Strings and Continuo. The work was composed in 1683 and this edition of the score has been edited by Bruce Wood.

Theme with five variations for solo soprano mixed voices and orchestra based on Stanford's setting of Mary Coleridge's poem. Theme with five variations for solo soprano mixed voices and orchestra based on Stanford's setting of Mary Coleridge's poem.

The Piece Farthest Shore was expertly composed by British composer Paul Mealor. Farthest Shore was commissioned by the John Armitage Memorial Trust St Davids Festival and Edinburgh Royal Choral Union and first performed at St Cuthbert's Church Edinburgh conducted by Michael Bawtree.Mealor was catapulted to international attention when 2.5 billion people heard his motet Ubi caritas performed at the Royal Wedding Ceremony of His Royal Highness Prince William and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey 29th April 2011.

Paul Mealor's Stabat Mater for solo Soprano SATB Chorus Harp (or Piano) and Strings.