SKU: MN.50-3092
UPC: 688670530920. English.
A setting for SSAA voices of the early-American tune INVITATION from William Walker's Southern Harmony. This energetic and pleasing setting features a double text option: one that is appropriate for Advent using the text Comfort, Comfort Now My People and the other, more widely known version for general use.
SKU: ST.CN23P
ISBN 9790220225147.
Commissioned by the BBC as part of the celebrations for International Women's Day, and reflecting its theme of hope, Like a Singing Bird was premiered live on Radio 3 on 8 March 2015 by Sarah Connolly and the St Catharine's Girls' Choir, conducted by Edward Wickham. The distinctive vocal scoring features a small solo group of sopranos or mezzo-sopranos drawn from the upper-voice ensemble. The anthem is the first of three which are collectively entitled Echoes from Willow Wood, the second also being available in Choral Now. The text, Christina Rossetti's poem 'A Birthday', features in Virginia Woolf's classic essay A Room of One's Own, based on lectures delivered at Newnham College and at Randle's own Cambridge alma mater, Girton, an institution at the forefront of women's education for two centuries. Inspired by the clock in Girton's Stanley Library, the 'chiming rhythms' which are a driving force within the piece offer a further level of connection. The music moves from quiet anticipation to bright affirmation, the sense of something life-changing heralded by an Advent plainchant quoted in the second half. The final couplet is set apart in a hushed recitative, reflecting, in the composer's words, 'the hope I and other young female composers can have as we try to make our mark in what has traditionally been a male domain.'.
SKU: GI.WW1805
UPC: 785147025269. English. Text by Laura Foley.
I have noticed joy, how it threads below the darkness… this moving work by Tim Brent and Amanda Quist expresses what it means to have hope. Laura Foley's incredible - yet simple - poem is brought to life by the composers with a steady melody and lovely partwriting.
SKU: HL.286858
UPC: 888680899158. 6.75x10.5x0.036 inches.
Four movements from the end of the “Passion†section of Considering Matthew Shepard we hear from a deer. It has been well established that Matt loved the outdoors and it is fitting that a deer should sing “All night I lay there beside you, I cradled your pain in my care.†The women sing this delicate text accompanied by three soprano soloists who bring the breeze and the hope of redemption.
SKU: OU.9780193552272
ISBN 9780193552272. 10 x 7 inches.
For SSAA and piano Refuge sets a powerful Sara Teasdale poem that perfectly captures the healing power of singing: 'For with my singing I can make a refuge for my spirit's sake'. Quartel's musical structure complements the narrative, opening and closing with music marked 'resilient and strong', with a 'warm and hopeful' central section.
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