Choral Symphony

Par VINE CARL. A large-scale work for chorus, organ and orchestra by this gifted young Australian composer. It sets a creative myth of Akkadia (c.1250 BC) describing the creation of the world from primeval chaos. The text is interspersed with hymns to the Earth, the Moon and the Sun from the Homeric Hymns of c.400 BC./ Recueil / Chorale

Symphony No. 3 (1972-1975) by Per Nørgård. Per Nørgård's third symphony commissioned by The Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra (conductor Herbert Blomstedt) was premiered in Copenhagen in 1976 and received wide attention. The work gives comprehensive expression to a new realm of musical experience which the composer began to explore toward the end of the 1960s. While the first period in Nørgårds production in the 1050s represents his personal interpretation of the Nordic music tradition – evidenced for example in his “Piano Sonata No. 2” (1957) and“Constellations” for chamber orchestra (1958) – and the second period in the 1960s saw him working with serial techniques musical collage and a new sound-palette - especially in the orchestral works “Iris” (196-67) and “Luna” (1967) – with “Voyage into the Golden Screen” (1968) Nørgård arrived at a new compositional technique based on the use of a special form of a so-called “infinity series” a principle of musical motion to be applied to all kinds of scales (chromatic diatonic et cetera). It is characteristic that that Nørgård in the 1970s chose to cultivate diatonic infinity series already evident in the mythological opera “Gilgamesh” (1971-72). Thus the Symphony No. 3 begun directly after the opera combines the infinity series major and minor scales the partial series of natural harmonics and “sub-harmonics” (Nørgårds terminology) with rhythmic patterns based on the Golden Section (the Golden Mean) in a nexus of synchronous yet disparate elements which serve the composers vision of musical coherence.. The works which followed the symphony – the operas “Siddharta” (1975-79) and “The Divine Circus” (1981-82) and Symphony No. 4 (1981) – usher a new

This exclusive collection brings together 12 of Nico Muhly?s sacred works for mixed-voice choir. These vivacious fresh and dramatic pieces will make an impact whether in the church or in the concert hall and range from the intimate Lord keep us modest when we claim to the effervescent Bright Star Carol alongside service music such as Muhly?s Third Service. All are accessible to learn and offer choirs a new slant on contemporary choral music at its very best.  'Choral music has always been at the emotional core of my musical output. Even when I?m writing large-scale orchestral works (or indeed chamber music) I alwaysfind myself returning to techniques and textures I?ve greedily stolen from centuries of music from Tye to Howells early and recent. I try to design my own choral music primarily for use in worship where the measure of the success of the piece is if it helps guide the listeners? ears upwards and elsewhere as sacred architecture and the various rituals of the church themselves are meant to do. The specificity of music heard only in certain seasons is for me an important and thrilling element of the choral tradition: a Beethoven Symphony is welcome at any point in the year but an anthem for Candlemas works only then at a certain time of day and on a certain day of the year. With this functional spirit at the heart of the compositional process I hope that the music collected here makes equal sense in a concert setting. These works range from ordinaries of the mass to hymns to motets and represent a decade and a half of output.' - Nico Muhly

The complete vocal score with Piano accompaniment for Ralph Vaughan Williams? A Sea Symphony. Completed in 1909 it is a vast work inspired by and based on four poems by Walt Whitman that Williams fashioned into a vast score containing some of his finest choral writing and a highlight of its era. It is non-ecclesiastical work and has a humanist agnostic viewpoint with a broad general theme of the Human Soul being a vessel cruising the oceans and seas of life. This suite for Soprano and Baritone Soli SATB chorus and originally Orchestra is a varied work that includes elements of Sea shanties and noble pomp in creating a majestic and evocativerepresentation of the sea.

No. 4 - In Search of Hope-In Search Of Hope from Garden of Light (A Millennium Symphony) for soprano mezzo-soprano tenor baritone chorus and orchestra was commissioned for the Third Millennium Celebration by Walt Disney Pictures premiered in October 1999 by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Kurt Masur with the New York Choral Artists and The American Boychoir. Arranged for Soprano Mezzo Soprano Tenor Baritone SATB Choir and Piano accompaniment.Named one of 75 ‘American Masterpieces of Choral Music’ by the National Endowment for the Arts.

From Symphonic Adiemus-Symphonic Adiemus presents twelve numbers from the Adiemus series in dynamic new scorings for SATB choir and full symphony orchestra.Since it was first heard in 1994 Adiemus has captured the imagination of music lovers worldwide thanks to its unique combination of classical principles with the flavours of world and ethnic music.Symphonic Adiemus includes numbers from the first three albums – Songs of Sanctuary Cantata Mundi and Dances of Time. Recorded on Decca 5793828 by the London Philharmonic Choir and the Adiemus Symphony Orchestra of Europe.

From Symphonic Adiemus-Symphonic Adiemus presents twelve numbers from the Adiemus series in dynamic new scorings for SATB choir and full symphony orchestra.Since it was first heard in 1994 Adiemus has captured the imagination of music lovers worldwide thanks to its unique combination of classical principles with the flavours of world and ethnic music.Symphonic Adiemus includes numbers from the first three albums – Songs of Sanctuary Cantata Mundi and Dances of Time. Recorded on Decca 5793828 by the London Philharmonic Choir and the Adiemus Symphony Orchestra of Europe.

Symphony No. 3 for Orchestra and Mixed Choir SATB by Søren Nils Eichebrg (2015). Poems Qu Yuan and David Vogel.Premiered by The Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra April 10 2015.

No. 3 - Is There a Place?-Is There A Place from Garden of Light (A Millennium Symphony) for soprano mezzo-soprano tenor baritone chorus and orchestra was commissioned for the Third Millennium Celebration by Walt Disney Pictures premiered in October 1999 by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Kurt Masur with the New York Choral Artists and The American Boychoir. Arranged for Soprano Mezzo Soprano Tenor Baritone SATB Choir and Piano accompaniment.

No. 1 - Home-Home from Garden of Light (A Millennium Symphony) for soprano mezzo-soprano tenor baritone chorus and orchestra was commissioned for the Third Millennium Celebration by Walt Disney Pictures premiered inOctober 1999 by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Kurt Masur with the New York Choral Artists and The American Boychoir. Arranged for SATB Choir and Piano accompaniment. Winner of the 1st Prize for Octavo SheetMusic (Single Titles) in the 2006 Paul Revere awards for graphic excellence in the music industry.

Vocal Score-CD Sheet Music is the revolutionary series of masterworks on CD- or DVD-ROM that transforms a PC or MAC computer into a virtual music library. Now you can quickly locate view and print the great works of the classical repertoire. Compared to traditional printed sheet music or music downloads it is incredibly inexpensive. Original sources are out-of-copyright standard editions from publishers such as Breitkopf and Härtel C.F. Peters G. Schirmer Carl Fischer G. Ricordi Durand and many others. The discs also include biographical and analytical information from Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians 1911 Edition. 41 works including Haydn's Creation The Seasons Mozart'sRequiem Mass in C Minor Coronation Mass Beethoven's Choral Fantasy Mass in C Major and Ninth Symphony. 2200 pages of music!

Rachel Portman's Magnificat And Nunc Dimittis for SATB choir and Organ accompaniment. Born in west Sussex England Rachel Portman began composing at age 14 and read music at Oxford University. She gained experience writing music for drama in BBC and Channel 4 films including Mike Leigh's Four Days In July and Jim Henson's Storyteller series.Her extensive film work includes scores for Never Let me Go The Joy Luck Club Benny and June and the Manchurian Candidate. She won an Academy award for her score for Emma and Academy nominations for Chocolat and The Cider House Rules.She has written a musical of LittleHouse on the Prairie as well as an opera of Saint Exupery's The Little Prince for Houston Grand Opera and The Water Diviner a dramatic choral symphony commissioned for the BBC Proms concerts. She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2010 New Year Honours.

Symphony For Voices is for a large body of voices (60-80 people) but not necessarily a choir. The voices are divided into 4 groups though not by voice-type or gender but deliberately mixed up. The music is unorthadox using mostly Extended Vocal Techniques whispering grunting shouting humming and words from a variety of different languages. Ideal for those who want a different and exciting challenge!

Vocal score for Symphony No. 3 by Søren Nils Eichebrg (2015). Text by Qu Yuan and David Vogel.