SKU: AP.46977

UPC: 038081536262. English. Words by Folliott S. Pierpoint.

Over 100 years after his death, this beloved text from Folliott S. Pierpoint lives on in a gorgeous new choral setting. Greg Gilpin's artistry and skill shine through as each voice part takes a turn with the long legato melody and warm harmonies envelop the ear. An optional flute obbligato is available free online.

About Alfred Choral Designs

The Alfred Choral Designs Series provides student and adult choirs with a variety of secular choral music that is useful, practical, educationally appropriate, and a pleasure to sing. To that end, the Choral Designs series features original works, folk song settings, spiritual arrangements, choral masterworks, and holiday selections suitable for use in concerts, festivals, and contests.

SKU: CA.175100

ISBN 9790007087845. Key: A major. Language: German.

In combination with the 2nd verse of the chorale Herzlich lieb hab ich dich by Martin Schalling (1569).

SKU: LP.765762184909

UPC: 765762184909.

We Celebrate the King combines the classic, traditional carols with new songs of worship to deliver the true message of Christmas in a fresh and exciting way. Moving from the explosive Latin rhythms of the surprise opener Emmanuel Has Come to the fresh new arrangements of beloved carols to children's voices to power ballads to the vibrant and celebrative Forever King as the closer, We Celebrate the King is widely eclectic in style and offers something for everyone. With vocal parts that are accessible for most choirs and the opportunity for both children's choir and congregational participation, this exciting new work from the Worship Ministry of Community Bible Church is an excellent resource for your Christmas programming this year and for years to come.

SKU: CA.2110100

ISBN 9790007187798. Language: French/English. Text: Delavigne, Casimir.

First critical edition. Together with Debussy, Ravel, and Dukas, Lili Boulanger was one of the most important representatives of impressionism. Despite her short life of just 24 years, she developed a distinctive personal style, and composed a huge variety of works including songs, piano music, operatic scenes, and choral music, all with great inventiveness. The Hymne au soleil (Hymn to the sun) for mixed choir, alto solo, and piano, was written in 1912 to a poem by Casimir Delavigne. In ecstatic layers of chords the sun is acclaimed; through its power it brings the colors of the earth to light anew. The edition contains both the original French text, with a singable English translation underlaid.

SKU: FG.55011-743-3

ISBN 9790550117433.

Alex Freeman’s Under the arching heavens: A Requiem (2018) was commissioned by Nils Schweckendiek and the Helsinki Chamber Choir to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the 1918 Finnish civil war. Structured around the Latin liturgy of the mass for the dead, the work has a duration of more than an hour and also incorporates poems in Finnish, Swedish and English, reflecting both the specific reason for the commission and the universality of human suffering caused by war. In the non-liturgical texts chosen by Freeman, birds are a recurring image, as is that of a mother and child. The work ends with lines by Walt Whitman from a poem written in the aftermath of the American Civil War; lines described by the composer as ‘some of the most comforting poetry in the English language.’ Also included on the disc is A Wilderness of Sea, another recent choral piece which draws on works by Shakespeare, and the poet’s images of the sea, and of mankind’s relationship with it.

Contents:
I. Sydämeni laulu (Aleksis Kivi)
II. Requiem aeternam
III. Sequentia
Dies irae
Thrushes (Siegfried Sassoon)
(Rex tremendae)
Fientliga stjärnor (Edith Södergran)
(Inter oves)
IV. Sanctus
V. Mikä lienee se lintu ollut? (Viljo Kajava)
VI. Agnus Dei
VII. O Years and Graves! (Walt Whitman)

Duration: c. 67’.