Par PARRY BEN. Ben Parry presents a trio of Christmas classics from the 60s, 70s and 80s. Two lively, light-hearted numbers, I'm Gonna Be Warm This Winter and I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day, are followed by Band Aid's compelling Do They Know It's Christmas? Arranged for accompanied SATB mixed voices. The Choral Programme Series is now a well-established programming tool for many choirs as it offers a wealth of fresh material from many eras and in many styles.  Please view sample pages below. / Choral Music / Répertoire / Voix Mixtes et Piano

And I Love Her is a beautiful, lilting ballad from the McCartney/Lennon partnership. Its use of major and minor keys, as well as a complete key change in the final verse, gives it a sense of drama that can create the perfect climax in a choral program. This arrangement has been specially crafted for SATB choir with piano accompaniment. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Piano

Par WEIR JUDITH. Celebrate HM The Queen's 90th Birthday with your choir Sing Judith Weir's special new choral piece I Love All Beauteous Things Master of the Queen's Music, Judith Weir, has been commissioned by St Paul's Cathedral in London to write a piece for SATB choir and organ in celebration of HM The Queen's 90th birthday in 2016. The piece is now available from Chester Music, so that choirs all over the world can join in with the festivities. Churches and other local organisations are planning events on Sunday 12th June and many may want to include this approachable setting of Robert Bridges' poem. Directed by Andrew Carwood, the St Paul's Cathedral Choir will perform I love all beauteous things as part of the National Service of Thanksgiving which will take place on at 11am on 10 June in the presence of HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. At the service the Archbishop of Canterbury will give the address and the Prime Minister will read a lesson. The event will be televised live on BBC1. Judith Weir comments: 'It is a particular honour to contribute new music for this great occasion, and a pleasure to write a choral version of Robert Bridges' beautiful verse.' Preview the score here Download the digital sheet music here COMPOSER'S NOTE At the suggestion of Michael Hampel, Precentor of St Paul's Cathedral, I have set words by Robert Bridges, who was Poet Laureate from 1913-1930. Bridges was an outstanding humanitarian and writer, whose poetry has inspired me before in The Voice of Desire, a song-cycle for mezzo-soprano and piano. This short, fast-tempo setting aims to emulate the swift, fleet-footed rhyme and metre of the two-verse poem, with its unobtrusive but telling reference to 'man in his hasty days'. J.W. Commissioned by the Chapter of St Paul's Cathedral to mark the 90th birthday of HM The Queen, generously supported by the Boltini Trust. Performed at the National Service of Thanksgiving for HM The Queen's birthday at St Paul's Cathedral, London, on Friday 10th June 2016 in the presence of HM The Queen and HRH The Duke of Edinburgh. Music by Judith Weir, Master of the Queen's Music, words by Robert Bridges, Poet Laureate in the year HM The Queen was born. Duration c. 3½ minutes I LOVE ALL BEAUTEOUS THINGS words by Robert Bridges OM (1844-1930) Poet Laureate 1913-30 I love all beauteous things, I seek and adore them - God hath no better praise, And man in his hasty days Is honoured for them. I too will something make And joy in the making - Altho' to-morrow it seem Like the empty words of a dream Remembered on waking. (I love all beauteous things, etc…)/ Feuillet / Choeur Mixte (SATB) et Orgue

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)

I Saw Eternity is a choral work for mixed voices with soloists from within the choir. It was first performed by the London Philharmonic Choir in 2003. It is based on a text by Henry Vaughan ' I saw Eternity the other night Like a great Ring of pure and endless light All calm as it was bright......' a text which makes this piece suitable for a variety of contexts both sacred and secular.The Faber Choral Signature Series introduces a wealth of new or recently written choral music to choirs in search of fresh repertoire. The series draws in a rich diversity of living composers and includes both lighter and more challenging contemporary works offering athrilling array of varied styles.

A terrific Choral Suite from Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom Of The Opera and part of the Novello Voices Choral Suites Series. Contains: Think Of Me, Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, The Music Of The Night, The Phantom Of The Opera and All I Ask Of You . These popular modern songs from one of the most famous West End show have been set by Barrie Carson Turner in fabulous arrangements for SATB and Piano accompaniment. / Chant Et Piano

I Eat The Sun And Drink The Rain is a work for choir and live electronics, and this sheet music songbook features a selection of four of those pieces, arranged for SATB Choir and Piano Accompaniment. The pieces are AbendglĂĽhen, Corno El Sol, L'Infinito and Meernacht, all composed by Sven Helbig.I Eat The Sun And Drink The Rain is a concept album in which Halbig appears both as composer and as author of almost all the songs. Over the course of this selection, he weaves a loose narrative that addresses pressing questions of contemporary life.Such a powerfully resonant work includes delicate choral passages above pulsating chords, in perfect balance. Now your choir can learn to sing the dynamic and emotionally-powerful work of Sven Helbig. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Piano

Morten Lauridsen's I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes was written for Stephen Layton and Polyphony and has been recorded on Lauridsen: Nocturnes (Hyperion CDA 67580). Purchase the sheet music here arranged for mixed vocal chorus.In speaking of Lauridsen in his book Choral Music in the Twentieth Century the author Nick Strimple says of him 'he is the only American composer in history who can be called mystic [whose] probing serene work contains all the elusive and indefinable ingredient which leaves the impression that all questions have been answered [... ] From 1993 Lauridsen's music rapidly increased in international popularity and by the centuy's end he hadeclipsed Tandall Thompson as the most frequently performed American choral composer'.This piece is from Faber's Choral Signature Series which introduces a wealth of new or recently written choral music to choirs in search of fresh repertoire. the series draws in a rich diversity of living composers and includes both lighter and more challenging contemporary works offering a thrilling array of varied styles.

from Songs of Love-“I sing because...“ is the third and final movement of the choral suite Todd’s ‘Songs of Love’ which was commissioned by Elena Sharkova for the Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale in 2012. The haunting and yearning text about love and loss is written by the American poet Nils Peterson after a Greek poem by Maria Polydouri. With an aching melody which starts on upper voices and gradually builds to the whole choir this work features the composer’s characteristic lush vocal harmonies and improvisatory accompaniment. The result is a very emotionally charged piece in which the words and musiccomplement each other greatly. “I sing because...” is featured on Tenebrae’s album ‘Call of Wisdom’.

from Matilda-When I Grow Up comes from Matilda he Musical the award-winning stage version of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s novel from the Royal Shakespeare Company.The song is a wish list of the kind of pleasures adulthood is imagined to bring. Of course it is a poignant list because in this case all it contains is freedom from the trials of childhood.This choral version for SATB and piano accompaniment is arranged by Simon Foxley.Watch this brilliant performance from Matilda: The Musical (West End) - When I Grow Up:

I Eat The Sun And Drink The Rain is a work for choir and live electronics and this sheet music songbook features a selection of four of those pieces arranged for SATB Choir and Piano Accompaniment. The pieces are Abendglühen Corno El Sol L'Infinito and Meernacht all composed by Sven Helbig.I Eat The Sun And Drink The Rain is a concept album in which Halbig appears both as composer and as author of almost all the songs. Over the course of this selection he weaves a loose narrative that addresses pressing questions of contemporary life.Such a powerfully resonant work includes delicate choral passages above pulsating chords in perfect balance. Now your choir can learn to sing the dynamic and emotionally-powerful work of Sven Helbig.

David Bednall's Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? for SATB double choir unaccompanied.A setting of Shakespeare's much-loved Sonnet 18 Bednall's expressive work highlights this timeless text with sumptuous harmony including pleasing tonal shifts and topical false relations. Various choral textures are explored from the imitative lines of 'Sometime too hot' to the warm richness of the closing pages where the choir divides into eight parts. This work is part of the New Horizons series and a Piano reduction is included for rehearsal purposes.

Music for Royal Occasions is an exciting volume of pieces written for coronations and other royal celebrations over the past five centuries. It includes long-standing favourites, such as Handel's Zadok the priest and Parry's I was glad - and works from earlier years, such an Henry Purcell's I was glad and the delightful Rejoice in the Lord alway . Many well-loved composers were commissioned to write motets for the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, and several are published here, including George Dyson's stirring Confortare , William Harris's Let my prayer and Herbert Howells's Behold O God our defender . In addition, two pieces performed at the wedding oF the present Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are included: Paul Mealor's beautiful Ubi caritas , and Hubert Parry's epic anthem, Bless pair of sirens . Music for Royal Occasions provides a well-rounded concert programme in itself for choral societies or community choirs. The collection offers many useful and accessible pieces for church choirs, suitable for a wide variety of occasions. 'an inventive selection of festive music' - Jeremy Summerly, Choir and Organ / SATB

with My Jesus I Love Thee-You will find this choral setting of a modern worship song palatable and an asset for a variety of services. The pairing with a familiar hymn makes this a perfect choice for blended worship use. Available separately: SATB BonusTrax CD. Score and Parts for Orchestra available digitally (1110/1321/1/8842). Duration: ca. 4:05.