This beautifully presented edition from Novello offers a full Mass setting alongside a Motet both for SATB chorus by Tomas Luis De Victoria. Regarded by many as one of the greatest composers of Spanish renaissance polyphony this Mass setting is rich in his characteristic tonalities and the textures of the sacred choral tradition. Alongside this is the original Motet upon which the Mass setting is based. Both are transcribed and edited by Andrew Parker.The pairing of the two works offers an exciting and fascinating performance opportunity with the devout grandeur of the Mass set against the modesty of the original Motet.

Missa O Quam Gloriosum est Regnum edited and arranged for modern use by Henry Washington. SATB. Tomas Luis de Victoria left eighteen Mass compositions. His Missa O Quam Gloriosum Est Regnum thebest-known was included in the First Book Of Masses published in Rome in 1583 with a dedication to King Philip II of Spain.

The Te Deum Laudamus is a single movement Choral work and was Sullivan’s last completed composition. In one movement the composer moves through all the component parts of the mass drawing them together seamlessly and expressing Sullivan’s own deeply felt faith.Composer Arthur Sullivan is known the world over for his operatic collaborations with W S Gilbert including H M S Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance among many others. But Sullivan was also a composer of many other works among them operas Orchestral works ballets and hymns and church pieces.Among his church works Sullivan is best known for his hymn Onward Christian Soldiers and the theme of that hymn isincorporated in this Te Deum. Sullivan wrote the work on request for a Thanksgiving Service held in St Paul’s Cathedral at the close of the Boer War in South Africa. It received its first performance in 1902 in the presence of King Edward VII and other members of the royal family. That the song of thanksgiving was composed nearly two years before the end of the war perhaps demonstrated Sullivan’s patriotism.

Kenneth Leighton?s sacred and liturgical music is widely known and performed regularly across the UK. The British composer did much to keep alive and transform the Victorian tradition of English choral music purge its piety and drag it into the (late) twentieth century.Missa Brevis which is Latin for 'short Mass' usually refers to a mass composition that is short because part of the text of the Mass ordinary that is usually set to music in a full mass is left out or because its execution time is relatively short. Along with Bernstein Britten and Kodály Leighton was one of the composers still writing in this genre in the 20thcentury.Missa Brevis was written for the choir of Liverpool Cathedral and was published in 1968. It has become one of the most popular choral settings of the communion service by a contemporary composer and is regularly heard at cathedrals and churches throughout Britain and America. In this Novello edition the short Mass is arranged for SATB Voices with Piano accompaniment which is for rehearsal purposes only.