SKU: GI.G-002318

Text by Cecil Frances Alexander.

From the CD Christ Is Risen, Truly Risen! (002311), this sublime choral anthem by the late Fr. Chrysogonus Waddell has a brief organ introduction that sets up the first stanza for unison choir and assembly. The second and third verses were conceived for SATB a cappella performance and clearly demonstrate Fr. Chrysogonus’s fresh harmonic language and concise part-writing. A graceful organ interlude prepares us for the grand final verse with soaring descant. .

SKU: ST.W217

ISBN 9790220221941.

An expert choral director as well as a highly regarded composer, Ronald Corp has written unaccompanied SATB settings of three famous medieval carol texts, Myn Lyking, The Virgin's Cradle Hymn (Dormi Jesu) and Quem Pastores Laudavere. The idiom is modern yet accessible, with an ear for stylish harmony that includes both modal progressions and colourful added chords, embroidered in some rich yet untaxing divisi writing. The carols may be performed as separate items or as a group, the first two being cradle songs for the Nativity, the third also suited to the celebration of Epiphany on 6 Janaury. Ronald Corp is Founder and Artistic Director of the New London Orchestra and New London Children's Choir, and Musical Director of the London Chorus and Highgate Choral Society.

SKU: CA.926610

ISBN 9790007295578. German.

Peter Schindler's full-length secular choral work Sonne, Mond und Sterne (Sun, Moon and Stars) narrates a love story based on old texts which are given a new interpretation through these musical settings. Some individual numbers were published in spring, and now more movements with piano accompaniment are available in print and digitally.- choral work of medium difficulty- will appeal to experienced Brahms Requiem singers as well as ambitious chamber or youth choirs with a gospel, pop or jazz background-cross-over between jazz, chanson, and chamber music Peter Schindler about Was ist die Welt?A strict Allegro ben ritmato symbolises how inexorable the course of the world is. The choir chants the question about what Welt (the world) actually is. Hectic bustle is expressed through a pulsing basic motif. This is repeated constantly and moves through the parts. A lyrical B flat minor in the central section allows us to float like shadows on the way into a dream.The song text is a collage. The first verse, by the Baroque poet Christian Hoffmann von Hoffmannswaldau, is concerned with the vanitas motif: the world, and everything which seems beautiful to us, is ephemeral. The second and third verses were written in the 18th century by Johann Gottfried Herder. Here, the poet expounds the view that real life does not take place in the world and that people's mathematical abilities are insufficient to measure space and time.

SKU: PL.0039

Robert Roth has created a moving hymn-anthem for this beloved text from St. Francis of Assisi. The organ introduction hints at the musical material to follow and the first verse is in four parts a cappella. The second and third verses feature the men and women respectively while the fourth verse places the melody in the tenor voice. The climactic fifth verse features a descant for a few voices and the melody for the rest of the choir in unison. The harmonic setting is of interest as the second half of each verse is more chromatic in style. This anthem would be appropriate for general use as well as a choral prayer.