A Choral Suite for Two Part (Soprano and Alto) Children's Chorus setting the text of George Mackay Brown. This enchanting 12-minute cycle is typical of the subtle and delicate way Maxwell-Davies approaches writing forchildren: straightforward tender affectionate yet with just a hint of the complexity found in challenging 'adult' works like the cycle Westerlings. George Mackay Brown's poetry with its haiku-like short stanzas and pointillisteallusive imagery leaves you constantly intrigued : who is the boy 'lost on the hill till sundown' and why is time 'a bird with white wings?' Is this perhaps the poet himself playing a bit of holiday truant?

First performed on 17 October 2000 at the Pieve dell'Assunta Cavalese Trentino Italy by the Mayfield Singers this is an Italian translation of the text A Hoy Calendar from the poem sequence Fishermen withPloughs. Written for SATBB chorus with optional Piano or Organ accompaniment.

Gareth Malone: Voices is Malone's latest and most personal album embodying his vision of the future for Choral music.After searching the UK for the most talented young voices in the country he formed a genre-breaking new group.Gareth Malone: Voices features the main tracks from the album including one by Paul Mealor selected and arranged for SATB Chorus - including full lyrics.

Version for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano. Commissioned jointly by BBC Radio 3 and the Royal Philharmonic Society as part of the New Generation artists scheme. The texts for the work were taken from the Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes.

Written in collaboration with composer Carl Davis Liverpool Oratorio displays the hallmarks of McCartney’s melodic genius. The text draws on the events of McCartney’s early life in Liverpool inspiring an expansive work which poignantly and vividly articulates the hopes joys and crises of life in the modern world.

Martyr was commissioned by St Albans Chamber Choir in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of their founding. It was premiered by the St Albans Chamber Choir and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in St Albans Abbey on 24 January 2009 under the direction of John Gibbons. Martyr was written as a counterpart to Haydn's Missa in Angustiis ('Nelson' Mass) using the same orchestration as Haydn's original version. In venues where an organ is present the optional organ part should always be used. The four SATB solo parts should be performed by a group of singers placed to the side or to the front of the orchestra away from the main chorus. Although written withindividual 'professional' solo voices in mind the solo parts may also be performed by a semi-chorus with for example two or three voices to a part.SATB chorusSATB solo3 Trumpets in Bb (3rd off-stage)TimpaniOrgan (optional)String Orchestra: (minimum desks 2.2.2.2.1)

Commissioned for the Nine Lessons and Carols service at King's College Cambridge December 2005.For unaccompanied SATB Chorus with soprano solo.

Now available for men's voices Eric Whitacre's elegant setting of the Latin translation of an Edward Esch poem will captivate choir and audience alike. Moderately difficult for an advanced high school choir. Already a great success for mixed choir!As performed by Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir

This new volume of 14 Selected Songs gathers together the best of Busch's songs in one volume. The volumes contains a foreword by the distinguished music critic John Amis who knew Busch.