SKU: PR.312412510

UPC: 680160046546. Key: G major.

SKU: HL.49045586

ISBN 9790001166270. UPC: 841886032705. 7.5x10.75 inches. Latin.

As a singing teacher, choir director and not least as a passionate professional choir singer, Irina Rebhuna is perfectly familiar with the possibilities of the human voice. And so it is hardly surprising that the Latvian musician born in 1988 has devoted herself especially to the composition of vocal music. Her sacred choral work Libera me, Domine for mixed a cappella choir (SSAATTBB) won the special prize for the 'best composition for 4-6 voices' at the International Composition Competition 'Musica Sacra Nova' 2016. This church music gem, in which the eponymous Gregorian chorale is intonated by one of the (two) bass baritone sections at the beginning - over a musical tapestry woven by the remaining voices - and taken up again by all tenors at the end, is ideal for ambitious amateur choirs. The idea behind this work, says the composer, is 'the human reflection on the uncertain - on death, on Judgment Day or on what is inexplicable to us. Such as humility, excitement, fear,and atonement. The chant ends without ending, there is no solution. Life goes on because we ask the following question again and again: What will happen next?'.

SKU: HL.48025282

UPC: 196288161431.

Let us build a house is the closing hymn of Kim André Arnesen’s large-scale work, The Stranger. Instead of a typical majestic endingto a large work, Arnesen went for a quiet one with only an unaccompanied choir. As the composer comments, 'sometimes a message feelsstronger like that and makes us listen more carefully'. The text is from the hymn by Marty Haugen, which concludes 'Let us bring an end to fear and danger: All are welcome in this place.' A stillness and serenity pervades this short piece, suitable for intermediate choirs.

SKU: HL.48024896

ISBN 9781540095800. UPC: 840126927818.

The title's Third Word of Creation refers to verses from Rilke's Book of Hours which indicate the fear of what other delicate experiments God might come up with after 'light' and 'man'. Schultz contradicts the text by combining it with the monolithic beginning of the First Book of Moses in the Old Testament, which is imbued with the rightness of God's actions, as well as with lines by the Persian poet Rumi in the translation by Friedrich Ruckert. The latter indicate the comforting certainty of rebirth as ahigher being up to the unfathomable spirit of God. The composer accomplishes the feat of weaving all three levels into a complex, ethereal structure in which the words nevertheless always remain clearly understandable.

SKU: HL.259449

UPC: 888680747442. 6.5x10.0x0.029 inches.

James Whitbourn's “Beatus Vir” (Blessed is the man who fears the Lord) is here set for SSATB choir. With long, supporting lines are sung by the lower voices, the soprano 1 & 2 weave mellismatic lines over the top in a chant-like style. Composer Whitbourn is known for his rich harmonies and shifting tonal centers and this new work is true to this style. Commissioned for the Choir of St Matthew’s Church, Northampton. First performed on St Matthew's Day, 21 September 2017, conducted by Justin Miller.