She Is the Mother - SATB

This work was commissioned by the Verbal Arts Centre to mark the opening of its new building at Mall Wall and Stable Lane. 'W.B. Yeats is one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century. He wrote The Motherof God in between two of his most magnificent poems - Byzantium and Vacillation. The words alone inspired this setting. I read them several times and then the music came to me fully grown.' - JohnTavener

Written for SATB choir and Organ.The Veil of the Temple was commissioned by the Temple Music Trust. The world premiere took place on 27th June 2003 at the Temple Church London performed by the Choir ofthe Temple Church and the Holst Singers with Patricia Rozario (soprano) conducted by Stephen Layton as part of The City of London Festival 2003.The anthem Mother of God here I stand was sponsored by the ToulminFamily and it is dedicated to the Choir of the Temple Church its Director of Music Stephen Layton and the Master of the Temple the Rev. Robin Griffith-Jones. It was first performed on 13th May 2004 by the Choir of the TempleChurch conducted by Stephen Layton. Mother of God also features in the film Philomena starring Judi Dench and Steve Coogan and directed by Stephen Frears.

'Yankee Doodle' with variations is the most concise way to describe the piece commissioned by the New Haven Symphony Orchestra to commemorate Conneticut's participation in The United States Bicentennial. 'Yankee Doodle' a tune dating back to the Middle Ages in Holland and England (and used by the British as early as 1755 to poke fun at untrained American troops in the French and Indian war) is interwoven with other folk and national melodies to stitch a patchwork or a musical collage. It is a personal view of American history.'To explain my approach to They All Sang Yankee Doodle I must explain my own background because the piece is made up ofmusical memories imprinted from early childhood.My earliest musical memories are a juxtaposition of sounds - hymns and Bach chorales from the church next door where my mother was choir director; early twenties jazz from my oldest brother's dance band; classical piano from my middle brother and my mother's piano studio; and cowboy songs and turn-of-the-century ballads that I have always identified with my father. Concord California where I was born was once part of a land grant from the Mexican government and the Spanish-Mexican influence remained strong even as the town expanded from a sleepy settlement into an American microcosmos with a wide variety of ethnic groups. Over fifty years ago most of us who sang 'Yankee Doodle' in Concord could not trace our ancestry to the founding fathers. Those of us with Anglo-Saxon names were at the end of the Westward push our forefathers having left behind the Eastern cities a few generations before settling for a time mid-continent then restlessly pushing further West. Little is known of my paternal grandfather for instance except that he had come to California from Indiana walking across Nevada desert to become one of the first settlers in Mordoc Indian territory.Of course the native American the Indian was there to greet each new migration and it is his

For SATB Choir and Organ. Composed for the B.B.C broadcast coverage of the funeral of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother April 2002.

Unlike the works Karol Szymanowski composed during the first two decades of the 20th century his Stabat Mater could only have been written in a country with Slavic culture. Drawing on his musical roots and mother tongue he wrote a transparent score for soloists mixed choir and orchestra. It is all fascinatingly simple. The melodies consist of minor and major seconds and thirds and the pace of most movements is slow; only the second movement has a rhythm and melody that seem to pre-empt Orff’s Carmina Burana. It is a unique masterpiece of oratorio.Vocal score for Solo Soprano Alto Baritone SATB chorus andPiano reduction.

Full Score for John Tavener's Three Hymns Of George Herbert for SATB chorus percussion and strings. Commissioned by the Legatum Institute [www.LI.com] as part of its ?British and American Notions of Liberty?programme in the year of the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. First performance on 21st April 2013 in Washington National Cathedral by the City Choir of Washington conducted by Robert Shafer.'The ThreeHymns of George Herbert were written after a long illness and represent for me a Hymn of thanksgiving to God for a relative return to health. They are intended to be sung in a large resonant acoustic with the main choir andstring orchestra at one end of the building and an echo choir and string quartet at the other. The percussion (tubular bells gongs and tam-tams) should sound from a gallery or other raised position.The Hymns wereinspired by the transparent poetry of George Herbert and are dedicated in gratitude and love to the memory of Mother Thekla former Abbess of the Orthodox Monastery of the Assumption Normanby near Whitby who died in 2011.' -John Tavener

Faure was not drawn to compose a Requiem because of the death of a loved one even though his mother had died during the early stages of composition and his father had passed away two years before. Faure’s composition does not set his Requiem to the standard liturgical text instead adding a lyrical Pie Jesu and transcendent Paradisum and omitting the Dies Irae and Tuba Mirum - which for most composers are opportunities to demonstrate the dramatic possibilities available with the choral and orchestral forces. As a result the mood of the Requiem is relatively calm and peaceful and often referred to as a lullaby of death.Faure’sunconventional composition has become a firm favourite in the repertoire and available here is the vocal score for Soloists and SATB Choir with Piano Accompaniment as edited by Desmond Ratcliffe.

Thy Kingdom Come O God is a work by Nico Muhly taken from the four-movement work 'Our Present Charter' commissioned by the Choir of the Temple Church Mother-Church of the Common Law to celebrate the 800th Anniversary of the Sealing of Magna carta on 15th June 1215. This is the Vocal Score scored for SATB Choir and Organ Accompaniment lasting around 4.5 minutes.

A carol for unaccompanied SATB choir by John Tavener with words by Mother Thelka. This work was first performed in December 1989 at Westminster Abbey London by the Choir of Westminster Abbey conducted by Martin Neary.

This glorious collection of beautiful choral music by composer James Whitbourn includes fifteen short works drawn from his oeuvre from the first few years of the 21st century. Many of his greatest compositions areincluded in The Choral Collection with many of the pieces working perfectly for seasonal performances while also reflecting the many fruitful collaborations of Whitbourn's distinguished career. Allworks are arranged for SATB Choir. James Whitbourn has become renowned throughout the world for his acclaimed compositions and settings of numerous texts. He has been described as truly originaland an innovator of contemporary British choral music collaborating with people like Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the Choir of King's College Cambridge. The former appears here as A Prayer Of Desmond Tutu a setting ofone of the Archbishop's prayers. His arrangements and compositions for the King's College Choir have been universally critically acclaimed with A Great And Mighty Wonder Nunc Dimittis and Were You There?representing these hugely popular collaborations. Whitbourn has also had a very close relationship with the BBC since his beginnings as a composer working with them on three pieceswithin The Choral Collection. Eternal Rest and Give Us The Wings Of Faith were both composed specifically for television broadcast the former (in its orchestral form) was played for thefuneral of the Queen Mother in 2002. His longest work for which he is most famous is a setting of text from'the Diary of Anne Frank'. There Is No Speech Or Language comes from this work taking its text from othersources but that still maintain the beauty and tragedy of the wider piece. The Choral Collection of fifteen compositions by James Whitbourn is full of beautiful haunting

Nico Muhly's Our Present Charter is a work for SATB Chorus and Organ Accompaniment commissioned for the Choir of the Temple Church Mother-Church of the Common Law to celebrate the 800th Anniversary of the Sealing of Magna Carta on 15th June 1215. This work lasts around 16 minutes.

Górecki's Church Songs, based on melodies from Rev Jan Siedlecki's ?piewniki Ko?cielne ('church songbooks'), were composed in 1986. This edition is based on the PWM edition of 2013, which was produced with the assistance of Anna Górecka and Miko?aj Górecki. A special feature of the Boosey publications is the new, alternative Latin sung text by Edward Tambling, which will be attractive to the many choirs who do not wish to sing in Polish. The Latin text is carefully crafted to fit Górecki's score and is both poetic and sensitive to the devotional aspect of the songs. English translations from the Polish are also included, for reference only.The three publications present the songs for sacred use according to devotional subject-matter. In concert performances the songs, or a selection of them, may be performed in any order and combination. Vol 1 contains six songs in praise of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The seven songs in vol 2 take the themes of Good Friday, the Crucifixion, The Cross of Christ and the Resurrection. Vol 3 contains seven songs in praise of St Joseph, St Anne and St Nicholas, the Blessed Sacrament, the Trinity and the Black Madonna of Cz?stochowa. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) A Cappella

The Veil of the Temple is a journey from darkness into light. Care and attention has been given to the key chosen for each anthem and to the voicings so that these versions are attractive to the broadest possiblerange of amateur as well as professional singers. The breathtakingly simple Mother Of God here I stand and the quietly ecstatic Awed by the Beauty are for unaccompanied chorus. The remaining three anthems are scoredwith Organ accompaniment: the sonorous You mantle yourself in light; the contemplative What God is we do not know and the radiant O Mary Theotokos.