Titus 3

Ko Matsushita composed this piece especially for young singers. He expects his song to be sung joyfully in the Latin music rhythms while feeling close the presence of Mary, Mother of God. The piece was

Takatomi Nobunaga selected five poems and set them to music by using the original language. Four of the five chosen poems are British that were written in the 19th century, and the fifth is a modern

This is a refulgent work in the Japanese choral history. The music matches up perfectly with the Japanese text. This work is regarded as the best of the best among the choral songs. It is well known

The poems of the suite were written during the domestic warfare in Yugoslavia in 1991. They dramatically express the situation of that time. The church modes and organs, the intervals that seek for a

This piece is a masterwork from one of the most important Japanese female composers Kinoshita Makiko. The famous Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji wrote this poem after seeing "The Sword Dance". Later, his

The songs are composed by cheerfully playing on words and describe the Japanese four seasons in two volumes: one as a cappella collection and another one with piano accompaniment.

Six works were "transferred" from the famous symphonies into a cappella works. Latin text gives a mystic atmosphere. Human voices directly replace instrumental parts; therefore, the range of pitches and the

Ko Matsushita has already set many poems of Naoko Kudo into music. The unaccompanied songs express the pureness and vividness of the poems. This choral suite should be performed with the sonority full of

Six works were "transferred" from the famous symphonies into a cappella works. Latin text gives a mystic atmosphere. Human voices directly replace instrumental parts; therefore, the range of pitches and the

The original poems were written by Shuntaro Tanikawa, one of the greatest poets in Japan. With the sound, Ko Matsushita aimed to express the images of the Tokyo city and the vigor and emptiness of the

Note from the Composer: I made an attempt in composing these choral songs. The attempt is rather a adventurous one in vocal music work in general. And you will find ornamental figuration as experimental

Matsuura completed this "Requiem" to express her condolences to those who suffered from the Great East Japan Earthquake. The piece reminds Durufle's or Faure's "Requiem". The work's beautiful music will

These are arrangements of Mozart's "Requiem" and "Ave Verum Corpus" for two or three female voices and piano. There are plenty of ways to approach the way of singing this arrangement: with two or three

This piece was completed on 11 March 2011, the day of the Great East Japan Earthquake. This song became the prayer for the victims of the disastrous earthquake and tsunami. The piano part is like a scene of

Texts full of pathos, humor and ambivalence are used in this song cycle. In these pieces, words and music sometimes compete with each other; sometimes they merge. They seem, at first, to be the opposites

This piece is one of the milestones of Ko Matsushita's music. The poem was written by Naoko Kudo. While listening to the songs, people can see blue skies, white clouds, and golden sunshine. This a cappella

In composing this suite, Ko Matsushita was strongly influenced by unaccompanied Hungarian and Scandinavian works for choirs. The composer hopes his work could assist choirs to develop their listening skills

Composer Michiaki INOMA arranged Yoshinao NAKADA's famous solo songs for the mixed chorus. INOMA enriched the music with color and depth while retaining the original artistry and beauty of the songs -

The song was composed while Ko Matsushita studied abroad in Hungary. The compositional style of this piece in the form of a six-part mixed chorus is influenced by various modern European choral works. The