'for the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain'for junior-upper voice SSSA Choir and Double SATB Choir a cappella (Score)Commissioned by the National Youth Choirs of Great BritainText is by Arthur W. E. O'Shaughnessy, adapted by Jessica Duchen.Composer's NoteWhen the National Youth Choirs of Great Britain requested a short piece for their gala concert at Birmingham's Symphony Hall, I was particularly excited about the prospect of writing for 300 singers. A recent research trip to Estonia resulted in somewhat of a revelation: having heard and seen their world-renowned choirs in action (literally!) has resulted in We are the Music-Makers having the less mainstream 'surround-sound' of upper voices/junior choir at the back and sides of the audience and a further stereophonic double-choir on stage.This poem was sent to me by Tim Williams (my ex Head of English at school), and immediately seemed to fit this occasion. This text has already been set magnificently by Elgar, so partly to avoid any kind of comparison and also to bring its timeless message up to date, I asked my poet friend Jessica Duchen to give it a sligtly more contemporary feel.A poem about global music-making (which ties in with the NYCGB's recent World-Music CD), it speaks about humankind, nation to nation, and the mention of Babel inspiring a 'speakng of tongues' effect by using as many different international words for 'music' as possible as an accompaniment (not an easy task, as many of them are similar to our own word!). These are: French (Musique), Romanian (Muzica), Swahili (Mahewa), Polish (Muzka), Estonian (Muusika), German (Muzik), Japanese (Ongaku), and Spanish (Música). / Choeur Mixte (SSAATTBB) A Cappella

Par KERNIS AARON JAY. This piece comes from Ecstatic Meditations which includes Effortlessly Love Flows, How the Soul Speaks to God, I Cannot Dance, O Lord, and How God Answers the Soul. / Date parution : 2022-12-20/ Répertoire / Ch?ur Mixte SSAATTBB

Dernièrement, le pape ' choeur ' Clytus Gottwald a organisé plus tard pièces du répertoire romantique pour choeur a cappella. Il a dit: ' l'idée de faire de la musique au tournant du XIXe au XXe siècle accessible aux chorales dans les transcriptions sont sortis de la compréhension que chorale a cappella musique avait été sous-développée à ce moment-là. ' Afin de réaliser cette idée, Gottwald a porté sur des morceaux de Wagner, Mahler, par l'intermédiaire de Ravel, Debussy, Messiaen et Holliger. Cet arrangement est basé sur une chanson originale de piano de Paul Hindemith sur un poème par Else Lasker-Schüler, et son doux et expressive rend particulièrement adapté pour un paramètre de la choral. / Choeur Mixte (SSAAATTBBB) A Cappella

A cappella motet from The Healer: A Cantata For St Luke-Motets is a set of intimate and spiritually uplifting a cappella choral works by Karl Jenkins featuring new pieces and arrangements of a selection of movements from his most popular works including The Armed Man Requiem Adiemus and The Peacemakers.Although scored for mixed choir a cappella most pieces include an optional accompaniment for piano or organ. Next to the complete vocal score (BH 12937) all 19 separate motets are also available as single pieces.Motets was recorded on Deutsche Grammophon 0289 479 3232 by Stephen Layton and Polyphony.

A cappella motet from The Armed Man: A Mass For Peace-Motets is a set of intimate and spiritually uplifting a cappella choral works by Karl Jenkins featuring new pieces and arrangements of a selection of movements from his most popular works including The Armed Man Requiem Adiemus and The Peacemakers.   Although scored for mixed choir a cappella most pieces include an optional accompaniment for piano or organ. Next to the complete vocal score (BH 12937) all 19 separate motets are also available as single pieces.Motets was recorded on Deutsche Grammophon 0289 479 3232 by Stephen Layton and Polyphony.

POD-Upheld By Stillness is a work for Unaccompanied SSSAATTBB Choir by composer Owain Park. A setting of the poem 'The World' by Kathleen Raine the piece lasts around 6 and a half minutes. Park describes the work as 'A reflection on the Sanctus and Benedictus from the Mass for five voices by William Byrd ' ...Some echoes of Byrd's music are incorporated in the piece including two sections marked 'quasi Hosanna' but the composer focuses mainly on creating various effective bi-tonal chord clashes to generate an appropriate atmosphere for the cosmic theme of the poem complete with star-like 'flickering'. - Geoffrey Webber Choir& Organ Magazine   

Commissioned by Soli Deo Gloria this 9-minute setting of Psalm 104 is described by the composer as overflowing with the glories of creation earth and the heavens. Glorious Majesty is a work of contrasts with sections performed by both large and small groups of singers as well as shifting moods and harmonies to highlight the distinction between passages in the text that praise God and those that praise God's creation.