• Duration: 4 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB
    • Instrumentation: Strings or Military Band
    Written for the HM's Bands of the Household Division and Royal Choral Society to mark the Platinum Jubilee and based on Shakespeare's text from Henry VIII.
    • Duration: 3 minutes
    • Chorus: unaccompanied Alto, Tenor, Baritone, Bass
    Written for The Porteous Brothers, this carol is based on the 15th century text depicting the Nativity with a lullaby sung by the Virgin Mary to the baby Jesus.
  • A carol imbued with both a sense of longing and the hope that a healing light may be born to comfort mankind. Written specially for The Self-Isolation Choir's Virtual Christmas Concert 2020.
    • Duration: 5 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB
    • Instrumentation: Organ
    A setting of some of the last sentences of the Bible from the Book of Revelation, perfect for Advent.
    • Duration: 2 minutes
    • Soloist(s): Soprano
    • Chorus: SATB choir
    • Instrumentation: Orchestra or Piano
    The Last Post originally appeared as part of the fourth and final movement of The Great War Symphony written to commemorate the centenary of the First World War, and fuses the words of the iconic poem by Laurence Binyon with the bugle (or trumpet) playing the Last Post.
    • Duration: 4 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB choir
    • Instrumentation: Orchestra or Piano
    The Dead Soldier, with words from the poem by Sydney Oswald, originally appeared as part of the third movement of The Great War Symphony written to commemorate the centenary of the First World War.
    • Duration: 4 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB choir
    • Instrumentation: Orchestra or Piano
    Gallipoli, with words from Sydney Bolitho's poem, originally appeared as part of the second movement of The Great War Symphony written to commemorate the centenary of the First World War.
    • Duration: 4 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB choir
    • Instrumentation: Orchestra or Piano
    Anthem for Doomed Youth, based on the well-known poem by Wilfred Owen, originally appeared as part of the third movement of The Great War Symphony written to commemorate the centenary of the First World War.
    • Duration: 3 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB unaccompanied
    A mystical setting of the opening words of St John's Gospel.  Perfect as an anthem at any time of the year but especially at Midnight Mass on Christmas Eve when this reading is proclaimed.
    • Duration: 2 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB unaccompanied
    Peace Beyond Thought uses simple unison singing through to rich and warm harmonic textures, with restrained dynamics throughout.
    • Duration: 3 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB
    • Instrumentation: Piano
    A lilting melody is introduced in the piano against which the independent choral parts call for love to pervade all that we do.
    • Duration: 3 minutes
    • Chorus: SATB unaccompanied
    The call of Christ to "Come To Me" is represented by gentle vocal phrases and an overall sense of yearning.  There is an atmosphere of weightlessness and calm to reflect the sentiment that Christ’s yoke is easy and his burden is light.
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    Duration: 4 minutes Soloist(s): Baritone Instrumentation: Strings
    • Duration: 4 minutes
    • Soloist(s): Soprano
    • Instrumentation: Piano
    This song takes the first two verses and last two verses from Samuel Crossman's (1624-83) marvellous poem.  There is no reference to the well-known hymn tune; instead the listener is taken through a whole range of emotions as the piano supports the soprano voice with warm, sonorous textures.
  • Duration: 4 minutes Soloist(s): Soprano Instrumentation: Piano
    The piano depicts the gentle flowing of the fountain which the poet, Ben Johnson (1572-1637) sees as a mirroring of grief and sorrow.  The solo soprano voice conveys the deeper nuances of the text with broken, 'sighing' phrases and, at points of climax, with more expansive sweeping statements.
    • Duration: 5 minutes
    • Chorus: SSAA
    • Instrumentation: Organ
    A bright, festive arrangement of the well-known Dutch carol written for the girls of the Charterhouse Choir. Each verse provides variation and contrast with the intricate, playful organ underpinning the soprano and alto textures.

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