Composer's Note'The words of this piece are taken from the poem They are all gone into the world of light by Henry Vaughan. The music came to me after attending the beautiful and moving funeral of MarianneYacoub wife of the eminent heart surgeon Sir Magdi Yacoub who has been such a great support to me over many years.'             - JohnTavenerThey Are All Gone Into The World Of LightThey are all gone into the world of light!And I alone sit ling’ring here;I see them walking in an air of glory Whoselight doth trample on my days:My days which are at best but dull and hoary Mere glimmering and decays.Dear beauteous Death! the jewel of the just Shining nowhere but in the dark;Could man outlookthat mark!And into glory peep.Either disperse these mists which blot and fillMy perspective still as they pass:Or else remove me hence unto that hill Where I shall need noglass.             - Henry Vaughan

from Walt Disney Pictures' Tangled-Nominated for an Academy Award this ballad from the Disney animated film Tangled is simply gorgeous! Choirs of all levels will want to perform this lovely song with music by Alan Menken lyrics by Glenn Slater andwonderfully performed in the film by Mandy Moore and Zachary Levi. Available separately: SATB SAB 2-Part ShowTrax CD. Duration: ca. 3:15.

The popular jazz standard I'm Beginning To See The Light was recorded by Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald. It has here been arranged for SATB choir with Piano accompaniment.

Commissioned for Tenebrae and their director Nigel Short. John Tavener writes:'Mother and Child celebrates the miracle of childbirth. It also celebrates Mary in her universal aspect as mother of all Prophets andco-redemptress with Christ. But behind all this is the Theophanic Light single and infinite and the same in every Religious tradition. The music is at once tender ecstatic and luminous and follows the text. I have interpolatedinto Brian Keeble’s poem texts celebrating the Eternal feminine in Greek and then at the climax an outburst in Sanskrit of ATMA. This is supreme Reality the true Self shining and infinite the one single God expressedin music by pulsating awesome strokes on the Hindu Temple Gong with organ and choir in massive blocks. This seems to say that the real ‘Mother and Child’ are both beyond birth and beyond death and beyond time.'

The Tallis Psalter comprises a collection of Tallis's 9 tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter, preces and responses, the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Dorian Service) and a number of easily learnable anthems, all by Tallis. David Skinner is one of the leading scholars in editing music of this period, and this book will be attractive to choirs looking for easily performable and new versions of Tallis choral works. 'I was delighted to see this neat little book cataining the English church music, expressing the simplicity of the needs of the reformed church and the needs of current Anglican choirs.' - Clifford Bartlett, Early Music Review / Choeur Mixte (SATB)

When the BBC commissioned this work for the Last Night of the Proms 2018 I was given quite a detailed brief. First the work should be for the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Chorus (with the BBC Symphony Orchestra) and the two choirs should be quite independent of each other. Secondly the words should acknowledge the centenary of the end of World War I but look optimistically to the future. For the centenary I chose In the Underworld by World War I poet Isaac Rosenberg written in 1914. Originally about unrequited love it can read if you do not know its context as a prophetic look at the next four years with the sense that the women left at home cannot begin tocomprehend the horrors their men face in the trenches. The BBC Singers represent Rosenberg and their music is based on a beautiful Ashkenazi-Jewish prayer mode â?? also known as the â??Ukrainian Gypsyâ?? mode. While I was reading The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran (written in 1923) I came across these lines which seem to answer and assuage the fears expressed in Rosenbergâ??s poem. The BBC Symphony Chorus take on the role of Gibran singing in a beautiful melismatic Maronite Syriac chant into which faith Gibran was born in Lebanon. Later in his life he became very interested in Islam particularly Sufism; therefore the whole piece is in the form of a Sufi Zikr with Sufi devotional rhythms in the percussion starting quiet and low but slowly becoming higher faster and louder. The two choirs start separately but merge into a â??conversation â?? sometimes overlapping and ending on a positive note: Rosenbergâ??s Creature of light and happiness over Gibranâ??s We shall build a tower in the sky. Quite by accident all three Abrahamic faiths are represented in this piece â?? but as Kahlil Gibran famously said: â??You are my brother and I love you. I love you when you prostrate yourself in your mosque and kneel in your church and pray in your synagogue. You and I are sons of one faith â?? the Spirit.'

Psalm 23, John 1 :13 Isaiah 60:1, Revelation 21:1, Isaiah :7. Par TROTTA MICHAEL JOHN. Designed to be accessible for the choir looking to prepare a larger work within the constraints of limited rehearsal time, this work provides conservative ranges and straightforward rhythms that allow time to craft a more artistic performance. Cast in eight movements, this major work draws on texts that examine the many facets of death, the pain of transitions, and the hope and joy of a better place. The work is scored for choir, organ or piano, and optional string orchestra. Each of the movements is available separately; the work as a whole or as individual parts is recommended for concert or liturgical service use. Movements: 1. Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep; 2. I Seek a Faith; 3. The Lord Is My Shepherd; 4. A Light Shines in the Darkness; 5. Death Shall Be No More; 6. I Saw a New Heaven; 7. Love Conquers All; 8. Gaelic Blessing (Deep Peace). / Date parution : 2021-11-03/ Répertoire / Ch?ur Mixte SATB et Orgue ou Piano

Set of parts for Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen's No Ground Green for Mixed Choir (SATB) and String Quartet (2012). Score: WH31464 Programme note: New Ground – No Ground – Green In 1986 I wrote Ground for the Kronos Quartet. I used the principle of the baroque ground and created a series of chords – going up and going down symmetrically. The material formed the basis for the quartet. In my next collaboration with Kronos I wrote the darker Last Ground – at the time supposed to be my last composition of the kind. After some years this seemed a bit pathetic and I decided to write a new– lighter ground –New Ground. To disappoint my listeners as much as possible I based this piece on a very old and very well-known ground: Pachelbel’s Canon.  The piece is tonal and that suggested another –atonal – composition – No Ground (based on another string quartet – no. 7 Parted from 1984 first performed by Kronos). I am very fond of the elaborated constructivism of the medieval or early renaissance music so in my view the two new quartets needed to be connected and combined. The two quartets can be performed in combination with the four-part vocal piece Green. The text is from medieval England. The pieces are written for the Kronos Quartet and Theatre of Voices.

Judith Clurman Rejoice: Honoring the Jewish Spirit Choral Series-These two Ladino Folk Songs arranged by David Ludwig breathe new life into the nearly lost music and language of Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492. These songs feature an emotionalexpression and melodic richness that are the hallmark this early music. The two songs included are the chant-like ?Camini por altas torres? (I Have Walked by High Towers) and the light and rhythmic ?La la la? (When I See a Pretty Girl).

Arch Gwyn (Arranger). Par ARCH GWYN. La série acclamée par la chorale Programme est très appréciée par les chefs de choeur pour sa largeur de répertoire et de pratiques pour l'optimisation éditions. La série a été re-conçue et offre maintenant un nouveau look élégant sur toute la gamme. Chaque volume est publié à une plus petite et plus maniable ' in-octavo 'taille (254x176mm) et coloris distinctif aider à distinguer entre genre et accordage supérieure et inférieure. Cinq nouvelles publications maintenant étendre davantage l'immense étendue du répertoire./ Feuillet / SATB

Canticles Preces and Responses-The Tallis Psalter comprises a collection of Tallis's 9 tunes for Archbishop Parker's Psalter preces and responses the Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Dorian Service) and a number of easily learnable anthems all by Tallis. David Skinner is one of the leading scholars in editing music of this period and this book will be attractive to choirs looking for easily performable and new versions of Tallis choral works.'I was delighted to see this neat little book cataining the English church music expressing the simplicity of the needs of the reformed church and the needs of current Anglican choirs.' - Clifford Bartlett Early MusicReview

(from All Is Well)-Uses: Christmas Epiphany Youth Choir Scripture: Isaiah 9:2 I Samuel 8 John 8:12 A primal rhythmic drive propels this contemporary Christian standard straight to the spirit of the listener. A shining text for Christmas and Epiphany this modern carol of the seeker is presented with a bright track or orchestra option that walks between folk and pop styles yet is comfortable wearing choral clothes. A wonderful change of pace!

Uses: Advent Christmas Scripture: Luke 2 David Angerman and Michael Barrett have combined to provide a new Christmas cantata seeking to blend traditional carols with some contemporary Christian seasonal selections. Designed for choirs of any size this quickly learned cantata includes songs by Michael W. Smith Keith Getty Amy Grant Point of Grace and others. The accompaniment tracks available are produced with a fresh folk sound making the work both current and comfortable to all types of audiences. Optional obbligato instruments give thoughtful directors choices for acoustic instrumental additions if desired. The simple narration reminds us of the comfort and joy we have inthe miracle of grace. Titles include: Prepare Ye the Way O Savior of Our Fallen Race Promises of Isaiah Breath of Heaven Here I Am to Worship One King Light of the Stable All Is Well. Available separately: SATB Listening CD Preview Pack Orchestration CD-ROM (Score & parts for Flute 1&2 Oboe Clarinet Horn 1&2 Piano Synth. Acoustic Guitar E. Bass Percussion 1&2 Harp Violin 1&2 Viola Cello) StudioTrax CD Split-Trax CD 10-Pack CDs RehearsalTrax CDs. Duration: ca. 37:00.

The Disturbing Duckling-D'Monstrantz Vöögeli (The Disturbing Duckling) by Per Nørgård. Work for bird voices (CD) and human voices (12 SATB soloists) with text (sung in German) by Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930). A CD of Bird Song is available separately - use product code KP00830. Text (sung in German): Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930).Programme note:'D´Monstrantz Vöögeli' is the main (and middle) movement of my three-movement choir suite 'The Alarming Duckling' the title of which is borrowed from a painting from 1959 by the Danish artist Asger Jorn apainting which - as this choral piece - is partly based on 'found objects': Asger Jorn painted on top of an idyllic old fashioned landscape painting with a house and trees - and he painted a very disturbing alarming duckling. It may be ugly the duckling but in any case it is most peculiar in its surroundings with spontaneous colorful wide painted feathers standing and looking dreamy beyond a birch in the golden light of the afternoon (a very big duckling indeed!) In 'D´Monstrantz Vöögeli' the dark nightly visions are unfolding with texts by the Swiss schizophrenic artist Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930). His transcending poems prose paintings and ideas inspired me for many compositions in the 1980s i.e. Symphony nr. 4 ('Indischer Roosen-Gaarten und Chinesischer Hexensee' - Hommage a Wölfli') The opera The Divine Circus and a series of choral works. The piece is written for 12 vocal soloists - singing whistling screaming and whispering. In 'D´Monstrantz Vöögeli' - for a choir of humans and birds - many 'found objects' are used: The tape/cd only contributes with unmanufactured birdsong - even though using full half and fourth speed so it is easier to understand and learn from the brilliant birds (especially the fantastic American Musician Wren

Choral Highlights from the Broadway Musical-From the 1969 Rock Opera through film live concerts and finally to Broadway in 1993 the thrilling musical score and outstanding visual effects electrified audiences of all ages. Now your singers and listeners will enjoy this 8-minute medley that captures the vivid excitement of the music with these top songs: Go to the Mirror Boy; I'm Free; Listening to You; Pinball Wizard; See Me Feel Me; Tommy Can You Hear Me.