Mass Settings and other Sacred Major Works

Five short settings of George Herbert poems by Vaughan Williams for baritone solo with TTBB choir and piano accompaniment. Movments include: Easter; I Got Me Flowers; Love Bade Me Welcome; The Call

Based on seven poems by Langston Hughes, this seven movement work is scored for SATB divisi chorus  and chamber ensemble - flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello, percussion, and piano. This interesting

Eriks Esenvalds has become increasingly popular in choral circles, particularly with his pieces Stars; Only in Sleep and O Salutaris Hostia. These choral collections group all of his

Beethoven's Meeres Stille und Glückliche Fahrt (Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage), Op. 112 for four-part mixed chorus and symphony orchestra, his setting of a pair of poems by Johann Wolfgang

Grammy-nominated for Best Engineered Classical Album, Tuvayhun has a moving text by Charles Anthony Silvestri. This innovative 80-minute major work is based on the Beatitudes, with a message of inclusion,

Written to be performed by the combined forces of unison children's choir and SATB mixed voices, with piano throughout, this vividly communicative six-movement work is full of musical contrasts - from the

Inspired by the painting The Magdalen Weeping, this work draws strands of chants and songs into a single act of grieving. Broken into four sections, each focusing on the progression of grief:

This significant seven-movement work from Cecilia McDowall presents an imaginative pairing of extracts from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci with texts from the Latin Missa pro defunctis. Da

The Last Post
(for soprano, SATB choir and orchestra OR piano)  Duration: circa 2 minutes
The Last Post originally appeared as part of the fourth and final movement of The Great War Symphony

The Dead Soldier
(for SATB choir and orchestra OR piano)  Duration: circa 4 minutes
The Dead Soldier originally appeared as part of the third movement of The Great War Symphony written to

This larger work was written in 2016 for Chamber Choir Ireland on the centenary of the Easter Rising in Dublin. It is in three movements: Awakening; Resurrection and Tomorrow.

An interesting work that is basically a cappella - only a bass drum accompaniment. This work also has aleatoric passages and an expanded harmonic language.

This choral suite uses texts written by Vikram Seth divided into six individual movements: Lost; Oak; And; Host; Flash and This.

This five-movement work assembles songs previously published separately, all of which set poems by E.E. Cummings. Originating as a commission by a large group of choirs, these songs are now available in one

This work creates a set of stunning, aesthetic pieces for treble voices based on the descriptive words from 4th grade children about one of America's most precious assets - the national parks. Simple and

Anton Bruckner composed his Requiem in D minor at the young age of 24 in memory of a friend of his father’s who was his patron. The work was greatly influenced by the Viennese classical

The Magnificat was commissioned in 2017 by the Landesakademie für die musizierende Jugend in Baden-Württemberg for the Choir of the International Choir Festival C.H.O.I.R. In this setting

In Missa Sancti Jacobi for two four-voiced choirs, drum and triangle, Damijan Močnik was able to set free his creative imagination. The mass consists of the usual five movements: Kyrie, Gloria,

When it comes to paying tribute to Heinrich Schutz’s compositional achievement, in his art his treatment of the text and language must be mentioned first. The "Geistliche Chor-Music 1648", a

In 1953, with timpani and trumpets a la Marseillaise, a French piece of music once again captured public attention ("Eurovision Hymn") and a composer was rediscovered: the first recording of Marc-Antoine

This is a profound setting of a selection of poems by Wilfred Owen. The sense of human connection and imagery of the natural world imbued in Owen's poetry is perfectly conveyed in Chilcott's music, which is

This five-movement multimedia choral drama honors one of the great heroes of the emancipation era. The journey of those who sacrificed becomes a story we can relive and honor. Dr. Kean's goal was to compose