Carol Fantasia was written for the BBC Radio Orchestra's regular Tuesday night BBC Radio 2 showcase programme. It features the following carols and Christmas hymns: God rest you merry, gentlemen,

Xylophones ahoy! John Rutter's 'Partita' of 1976, now 'Cityscapes', is not a piece you might necessarily have expected from the renowned composer of some of the classics of contemporary sacred choral music.

The Crown of India March has been extracted from the elaborate theatrical presentation, a masque, originally including twelve pieces, staged in 1912 to celebrate the visit the preceding December of King

An Elgar Diptych brings together two independent and contrasting works composed by Elgar as he stood on the brink of national fame. Meditation, with its self-explanatory title, forms the first movement of

Feel the Spirit is a collection of seven spirituals originally arranged for mezzo-soprano, choir and orchestra, arranged here for mezzo-soprano, choir and concert band but may be performed by band

From the Feel the Spirit collection of seven spirituals originally arranged for mezzo-soprano, choir and orchestra, this classic is arranged here for mezzo-soprano, choir and concert band but can

From the Feel the Spirit collection of seven spirituals originally arranged for mezzo-soprano, choir and orchestra, this classic is arranged here for mezzo-soprano, choir and concert band but can

From the Feel the Spirit collection of seven spirituals originally arranged for mezzo-soprano, choir and orchestra, this classic is arranged here for mezzo-soprano, choir and concert band but can

From the Feel the Spirit collection of seven spirituals originally arranged for mezzo-soprano, choir and orchestra, this classic is arranged here for mezzo-soprano, choir and concert band but can

From the Feel the Spirit collection of seven spirituals originally arranged for mezzo-soprano, choir and orchestra, this classic is arranged here for mezzo-soprano, choir and concert band but can

In planning the piece on which this arrangement is based, John Rutter said, "In 1985 I had written a requiem - which, like any requiem, inevitably reflects on death - why not write the opposite, a work

This work was composed by John Rutter to mark the colorful commemoration of the landmark event in the history of justice and freedom, the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta. The prevailing

The circumstances surrounding the composition of the "Granada" Prelude make it, quite paradoxically, one of the most obscure pieces in William Walton's catalogue and the most often heard. It was

This setting for concert band includes Star Carol; The Colours of Christmas; Donkey Carol; What Sweeter Music; Shepherd's Pipe Carol and Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day. These

This second John Rutter Christmas medley arranged for band includes an exciting setting of a Ding Dong! Merrily on High; The Very Best Time of Year; I Saw Three Ships;

The Pomp and Circumstance Marches (full title Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches), Op. 39, are a series of six marches for orchestra composed by Sir Edward Elgar. The first four were published between

The "Prelude and Fugue" (The Spitfire) by William Walton represents the first in a series of Concert Band arrangements by Paul Noble under a License Agreement with Oxford University Press. The music,

John Rutter's Requiem is a musical setting of parts of the Latin Requiem with added psalms and biblical verses in English, completed in 1985. This arrangement is scored for soprano, mixed choir and