Arrangement: Parry Ben. Par PARRY BEN. At long last The Essential Carol Singer provides the solution to the endless problem of too many books and not enough hands! It includes thirty of the most popular carols in one book, all SATB, unaccompanied, with no divisi. This pocket-sized, lightweight volume is easy to read and the short score layout allows for optional accompaniment if required. All the carols are arranged in alphabetical order for ease of use, with one carol per page. Offering simple arrangements in practical keys, The Essential Carol Singer is every singer's companion for Christmas. / Niveau : Assez Facile / Date parution : 2002-08-22/ Feuillet / Voix Mixtes

Bob Chilcott And David Blackwell. Carols for Choirs: Book Cinq comprend 50 chants superbes pour fêter les 50 ans des célèbres Chants pour les séries chorales. De nouveaux arrangements de Bob Chilcott et David Blackwell, ainsi que des compositions originales, y compris de nombreux écrite spécialement pour cette collection. Un large éventail de compositeurs sont présentés, y compris Alan Bullard, Bob Chilcott, Gabriel Jackson, Philip Ledger, Jaakko Mantyjarvi, Mathew Martin, Cecilia McDowall, Francis Pott, John Rutter, Carl Rutti, et David Willcocks. Un mélange équilibré d'éléments accompagnés et non accompagnés, y compris l'ordre de service pour un festival de neuf leçons et cantiques de Noël. Les volumes de Carols for Choirs se sont imposés comme les livres carol quintessence de chanteurs carol à travers le monde. Comme ses prédécesseurs, Carols for Choirs 5 présente un large éventail de chants de Noël pour toutes les occasions, allant de la musique classique superbement arrangés pour les meilleures compositions originales. La collection met en valeur les noms très mieux établis et les nouveaux dans la composition chorale d'aujourd'hui, tant dans le Royaume-Uni et dans le monde entier./ Recueil / SATB et Piano

3 morality plays after Aesop's fables. Par HENZE HANS WERNER. „I. Frösche wünschen sich einen König. Sie mißverstehen die Warnung Jupiters vor diesem dummen Wunsch, darauf schickt er ihnen einen Kranich, der sie frißt. II. Früher konnten die Krähen wunderschön singen. Doch als sie versuchen, das modische Gewiehere von Pferden nachzuahmen, verlieren sie diese Fähigkeit. III. Eine Schiffsgesellschaft gerät in einen Seesturm und fleht zu den Göttern um Hilfe. Nach dem schadlos überstandenen Seegang lachen sie in der wiedergewonnenen Lebensfreude alle Autoritäten aus und feiern ein ausgelassenes Fest.” (Einführungstext im Programmheft des Jugendmusikfestes Deutschlandsberg 1991) „Dies sind drei Lehrstücke oder Schulopern, komponiert Anfang 1967 für das Musikfest in Cincinnati, wo sie im Mai 1968 uraufgeführt wurden. Ich stelle mir vor, dass sie in Musikschulen, Opernstudios und Colleges aufgeführt werden können, konzertant oder szenisch. [...] Das erste Lehrstück handelt von der Schwierigkeit, die Vorzüge anarchistischer Lebensweise zu erkennen, das zweite vom Modernismus und das dritte vom schnellen Vergessen einer Gesellschaft, die glaubt, noch einmal davongekommen zu sein. Jedes der drei Operchen ist in Nummern aufgeteilt, es sind Kurzformen, kleine Arien, Rezitative, Chorensembles.” (Hans Werner Henze)/ Répertoire / Choeur Mixte

Par BRUCKNER ANTON. Great art in small forms ? Bruckner's smaller sacred works reveal a more personal side to the master symphonist and creator of large-scale orchestral masses. Throughout his life, Bruckner?s deep faith and dedication to the Catholic liturgy inspired him to write church music in smaller forms suitable for performance at Sunday services or in sacred concerts. The long phrases and shimmering sounds of Locus iste, the chromatic modulations and thrilling climaxes in Christus factus est (1884) and in Virga Jesse (1885), or the use of church modes in almost all the motets present a range of fascinating challenges to any choir.In addition to the well-known motets, the choral collection includes smaller sacred works such as short mass settings (a cappella or with organ) and simple liturgical songs and hymns, some with organ or occasionally with trombones. In addition, the volume presents two somewhat longer works from Bruckner?s youth: a Magnificat and a setting of Psalm 23, both with piano accompaniment.The Choral Collection Bruckner. Sacred Choral Music is an expanded new edition of the successful choral collection Anton Bruckner für Gottesdienst und Konzert (Sacred works for worship and concert, Carus 2.065).A detailed preface and several indexes supplement the musical scores in the editionCHORLEITUNG with information on the works and their liturgical usability. An affordable volume (editionCHOR) is also available for purchase, as well as separate editions in print and digital form.?,New expanded volume featuring 39 sacred choral works at all levels of difficulty?,For use both in worship and in concert / Date parution : 2023-06-01/ Répertoire / SATB et Piano

Christmas carols from all over the worldIncludes pronunciation tips for foreign languagesIn simple arrangements for mixed choirThis collection of carols, arranged by Bjorn Griesheimer, explores the wide diversity of Christmas carols from around the world. Including carols from all five continents, from countries as diverse as Tanzania, China, Ecuador and Australia. / Choeur Mixte A Cappella

Par PITTS ANTONY. The Naxos Book of Carols is collection of both the very old and the very new. Commissioned by the leading international classical music label, Naxos, these twenty-four arrangements of traditional and original carols tell the Christmas story - from the hope of Advent and the message of the Angels, to the humble birth of the baby in Bethlehem and the coming of the King of kings. This collaboration between Naxos and Faber Music has brought this volume, containing all 24 carols in four narrative sequences, in new arrangements for SATB choir with minimum divisi. There is a good mix of accompanied and a capella (even the latter have optional accompaniments) and there is practical guidance on how the carols may be used by congregations, as well as choirs with varied resources. The original CD, performed by the award-winning choir Tonus Peregrinus and directed by the composer Antony Pitts, is included within the book making it incredible value for money. / Choral Music / Recueil / Voix Mixtes

There is no rose of such virtue is an anonymous mediaeval text, already well known through beautiful settings by Britten (in his Ceremony of Carols), John Joubert and others. The poem is 'macaronic' (it presents a verse in English, followed by a varying Latin refrain). This new version follows the illustrious examples above by remaining strophic and presenting broadly the same music in a succession of slightly different guises. The first verse is a straightforward four-part setting, the second gives the melody to the tenors and surrounds them with hushed, wordless writing for the other parts, and the third explores a freely canonic relationship between the tenor and soprano lines before carrying the previous verse-endings to a higher, more exalted pitch and mood. The fourth verse then expands its texture in a free climactic passage evoking the songs of praise sung by the angels. This subsides towards the final verse, where the texture of the music attenuates again to four parts, and canonic writing (based on the first four notes of the original melody) permeates all of them. This slightly extended statement leads to a hushed final cadence. Francis Pott (b. 1957) began musical life as a chorister at New College, Oxford. He held open music scholarships at Winchester College and at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he studied composition with Robin Holloway and Hugh Wood while pursuing piano studies privately in London with the distinguished British artist, Hamish Milne. Throughout the 1990s Francis was John Bennett Lecturer in Music at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and a lay clerk in the Choir of Winchester Cathedral. In 2001 he became Head of London College of Music, University of West London, later leading research across the University's Faculty of Arts and acceding in 2007 to its first Chair in Composition. Francis Pott has become recognised particularly for his sacred choral and organ music. This has been performed in concert and on radio in over three dozen countries worldwide, published by four major UK houses and released extensively on CD. Winner of four national composition awards, in 1997 he received first prize in the piano solo section of the S. S. Prokofiev Composing Competition, Moscow. In 2006 and 2011 he was a nominated finalist in the BASCA/BBC Annual Composer Awards. In summer 2012 he was winner of the international composing competition of the Cheltenham Festival, which sought new piano variations on the arioso song Bist du bei mir, well known in the arrangement by J. S. Bach. Francis lives with his wife and two children on the outskirts of Winchester. An inspiring selection of new works from a range of contemporary composers, the Novello New Choral Series offers pieces for all types of choirs, including sacred and secular works from simple, four-part settings to more expansive, yet accessible, repertoire in an exciting variety of styles. / Choeur Mixte (SATB)

Benjamin Harlan has given this Twila Paris worship classic a neo-classical touch. A gently flowing piano accompaniment accompanies solid vocal scoring. The anthem also appropriately incorporates the hymn classic 'Crown Him with Many Crowns.' Worshipful. / Choeur Mixte (SATB)

Description Noël! 3 is an exciting collection of Advent, Christmas and Epiphany music for mixed-voice choirs, from the easy to learn to the more challenging and unconventional. The contents range from the Baroque to the present: familiar settings of traditional and lesser-known carols through the ages to Howells, Berkeley and Warlock, and works by today's composers including Richard Rodney Bennett, Paul Mealor, John Tavener, Francis Pott and Richard Allain. Mixed-voice choirs of all levels will enjoy these new arrangements of favourite carols as well as stimulating original works for the Christmas season. Songlist A Lullaby of the Nativity [Blackford, Richard] A Spotless Rose [Mealor, Paul] Annunciation [Tavener, John] As I Lay Upon A Night [Hall, Jamie W.] Balulalow [Allain, Richard] Balulalow [Burton, James] Benedicamus Domino [Warlock, Peter] Bright Star Carol [Muhly, Nico] Child Of The Stable's Secret Birth [Rathbone, Samuel] Coventry Carol [Bennett, Richard Rodney] Deck The Hall With Boughs Of Holly (Arr. Adrian Lucas) [Traditional] Ding Dong! Merrily On High (Arr. Malcolm Williamson) [Traditional] Hereford Carol (Arr. Christopher Robinson) [Traditional] Hodie Christus Natus Est [Locklair, Dan] Hurry On To Bethlehem (Arr. Jonathan Wikeley) [Traditional] I Saw Three Ships [Bennett, Richard Rodney] I Wonder As I Wander (Arr. Matthew O'Donovan) [Niles, John Jacob] In The Bleak Mid Winter [Allain, Richard] In The Snow [Cleary, Pippa] In Wintertime [Berkeley, Lennox] Infant Holy, Infant Lowly [Roberts, Keith] Joseph And The Angel [Terry, Richard Runciman] Joseph Lieber, Joseph Mein [Praetorius, Hieronymus] Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming (Arr. Jan Sandström) [Praetorius, Michael] Lullay, My Liking [Hill, David] Lute-Book Lullaby [Pott, Francis] Mary, That Mother Mild (Arr. Adrian Lucas) [Gesangbuch, Kölner] My Jesu, Sleep [Harvey, Adam] O Holy Night! (Arr. John West) [Adam, Adolphe] O Magnum Mysterium [Locklair, Dan] O Mortal Man (Sussex Mummers' Carol) (Arr. Herbert Howells) [Traditional] O Radiant Dawn [MacMillan, James] Quelle est cette odeur agréable (Arr. Matthew O'Donovan) [Traditional] The Burning Babe [Wikeley, Jonathan] The Holly and The Ivy [Thompson, Stuart] There Is No Rose [Cusworth, Andrew] This is the Truth Sent From Above (Arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams) [Traditional] Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (Arr. Stuart Nicholson) [Traditional] Tua Bethlem Dref (Arr. Geoffrey Webber) [Traditional] 'Twas In The Winter Cold [Barnby, Joseph] Walking In The Air [Blake, Howard] We Wish You A Merry Christmas (Arr. John Gardner) [Traditional] Wexford Carol (Arr. Timothy Noon) [Traditional] Winter's Wait [Whitbourn, James] Xicochi [Fernandes, Gaspar]

' Ave verum was commissioned early in 2011 by Edward Rowntree for the birthday of his father, John Rowntree, director of music at Douai Abbey in the UK. My aim was to write a piece both short and simple, suitable for regular liturgical use. There are, of course, many wonderful settings of this text already, not least those by William Byrd and Edward Elgar, both of which I sang as a boy. In this instance I felt their presence as a fellowship and, having their music in my head while writing, I was encouraged rather than daunted. In fact, if you listen with this in mind, you may hear a phrase or two in homage to the great masters.' - John Duggan An inspiring selection of new works from a range of contemporary composers, the Novello New Choral Series offers pieces for all types of choirs, including sacred and secular works from simple, four-part settings to more expansive, yet accessible, repertoire in an exciting variety of styles. Born in 1963, John Duggan was a chorister at Westminster Cathedral and studied music at Oxford. While still a boy, he dreamed of writing in the great European choral tradition of Victoria, Tallis and Palestrina. His vocal music has delighted both singers and audiences across Europe and the United States, and he composes regularly for film and dance. He has composed for a number of choirs including Commotio, Westminster Cathedral Choir, the Hildegard Choir and Sospiri, and has written commissions for the Edington Music Festival, Crossover Intergenerational Dance Group, Oxford Youth Dance and The Oxford-Grenoble Association. John regularly performs as a singer and choral director and works as a recording engineer and producer. He has recently been appointed as a Creative Arts Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford. / Choeur SATB

Par FREEMAN ALEX. Alex Freeman's A Wilderness of Sea (SSSSAAAATTTTBBBB) draws from four of Shakespeare?s most famous works. It emphasizes a common thread among those works that addresses two of the most universal aspects of human existence: water and impermanence. The recording of the work by Helsinki Chamber Choir conducted by Nils Schweckendick is published by the label BIS - follow the link to listen to it. Duration: c. 15' Alex Freeman (b. 1972) grew up in Raleigh, North Carolina. Around the age of 13 he became interested in composing. In 1998 he moved to New York to begin his Doctoral studies at the Juilliard School, studying with Christopher Rouse. The focus of his doctoral document led him to Finland. The recipient of a Fulbright Full Fellowship, he moved to Helsinki in 2001 to research Sibelius's sketches and study composition with Eero Hämeenniemi at the Sibelius Academy. Dr. Freeman is currently composing full-time and lives with his wife and children in Finland. / Date parution : 2022-05-31/ Répertoire / Choeur Mixte

From our popular Fanfare and Concertato series comes this confident call of faith. The journey of promises in the text place the people of God marching to life everlasting. Though intended for choir and congregation, the anthem works just as well as a standalone. Accompany with the optional brass and handbells and make this a wonderful worship exclamation a festive opportunity for all. Superb! Score and Parts (tpt 1-2, tbn 1-2, timp) and Parts for Handbells (3 oct.) each available as a digital download. / SATB and Congregation

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

A mass in the Revised Roman Ritual. Classically conceived, but featuring elements of Brubeck's jazz idiom, this dynamic mass can be performed in many different ways including with a jazz ensemble, as a concert piece, for church service, or its individual pieces could be used in non-Eucharistic worship such as Vespers and other celebrations. The work is set for soloists, chorus, piano accompaniment, and optional handbells and celeste. Full score and parts for brass quintet, percussion and strings are available through European American Music Distributors at www.eamdllc.com. Titles include: Lord Have Mercy (Kyrie) * Alleluia * Holy, Holy, Holy * While He Was at Supper (Institution-Narrative) * Through Him, With Him (Doxology) * Great Amen * Lamb of God * Gloria and more.

There is a hopeful spirit to this refreshing folk-styled anthem. Replete with images of God's great faithfulness, worshippers are reminded that His mercies are ever new. An easy-to-learn melody supports this encouraging message, and the harmonic qualities of the work contain a few tasteful surprises. The gentle guitar-like keyboard accompaniment is a sheer delight to play. Gracefully contemporary! / SATB