Paul Mealor

Crucifixus by Paul Mealor is here presented in a version for Baritone solo SATB choir and Organ accompaniment.Also available for solo baritone SATB chorus and Piano (NOV293304).

Arranged for SATB chorus and Piano accompaniment.Commissioned by Gareth Malone for Series Four of BBC TV's 'The Choir' and first performed by Malone and the Military Wives' choir as part of The Royal British Legion's Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall on 12th November 2011 in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen.A favourite for the 2011 Christmas Number One with support from radio DJ Chris Evans who has suggested every choir in the country should sing this song it's the biggest threat to X-Factor chart domination this year.The text is taken from poems letters and prayers written by the Military Wives selected and adapted by PaulMealor and a passage from the Book of John:Wherever you are my love will keep you safe;My heart will build a bridge of light across both time and space.Wherever you are our hearts still beat as one I hold you in my dreams each night until your task is done.Light up the darkness my wondrous star Our hopes and dreams my heart and yours forever shining far.Light up the darkness my prince of peace;May the stars shine all around you may your courage never cease.Wherever I am I will love you day by day I will keep you safe cling on to faith along the dark dark way.Wherever I am I will hold on through the night;I will pray each day a safe return will look now to the light.Greater love hath no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.John 15:13

Paul Mealor's setting of the Latin hymn Ubi Caritas was composed for the Marriage of His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales K.G. to Miss Catherine Middleton and first performed by the Choirs of Westminster Abbey and Her Majesty's Chapel Royal St James's Palace conducted by James O'Donnell at the wedding service at Westminster Abbey on Friday 29th April 2011.For SATB choir (with divisi). 'My new piece Ubi Caritas for the Royal Wedding takes its text from the sixth century Christian hymn that was normally sung at the service for the washing of the feet on Maundy Thursday. The words originally in Latin mean: 'Where charity and love are God is there. Let us come together in God's love and let us love each other with a sincere heart.' '  - Paul Mealor guardian.co.uk   Friday 29 April 2011

Choral arrangements of well-loved songs for upper voices as written for the Military Wives choir and recorded on their best-selling album: In My Dreams with new music by Paul Mealor.

Phineas Fletcher's famous text in a spectacular anthem setting for mixed voices by Paul Mealor whose 'Ubi caritas' featured at the Royal Wedding in April 2011 and whose 'Wherever you are' became the No 1 UK Christmas single the same year recorded by Gareth Malone and the Military Wives.

Paul Mealor's setting of the Latin hymn, Ubi Caritas , was composed for the Marriage of His Royal Highness Prince William of Wales, K.G. to Miss Catherine Middleton and first performed by the Choirs of Westminster Abbey and Her Majesty's Chapel Royal, St James's Palace, conducted by James O'Donnell, at the wedding service at Westminster Abbey on Friday, 29th April 2011. For SATB choir (with divisi). 'My new piece, Ubi Caritas for the Royal Wedding, takes its text from the sixth century Christian hymn that was normally sung at the service for the washing of the feet on Maundy Thursday. The words, originally in Latin, mean: 'Where charity and love are, God is there. Let us come together in God's love and let us love each other with a sincere heart.' ' and nbsp - - Paul Mealor, guardian.co.uk, and nbsp - Friday 29 April 2011 / SATB

Between Eternity And Time by Paul Mealor was commissioned by Irene Drummond with funds provided by the Scottish Arts Council and first performed by her with Alasdair Beatson (piano) at King’s College Chapel Aberdeen on 6 November 2008.

The second of four madrigals on rose texts 'Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal' for SATB (with divisi). Commissioned by John Armitage Memorial and first performed by the joint choirs of the University of St Andrews Chapel Choir University of Aberdeen Chamber Choir and the Edinburgh University Chamber Choir conducted by Michael Bawtree on October 28th 29th & 31st 2010.

Paul Mealor's Behold A Tender Babe is a work for Unaccompanied SATB Choir commissioned by the Hauser-Oberschneider family to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Summer Fields School. The work sets extracts from Robert Southwell's 'In Freezing Winter Night' and lasts around 4 minutes. A review in the September 2016 issue of Organist's Review states that the 'music responds sensitively and dramatically to the lines of the lyric it chooses to set rising triumphantly at the words 'with joy approach' before gently falling away as it repeatedly insists 'behold a tender babe'.' No less difficult but also no less rewarding is PaulMealor’s Behold a tender babe written a year earlier. But it is carefully written so that the difficulties are manageable. The two places where sopranos have a top C are the only points where sopranos divide so only the first sopranos ascend there. The music follows the details of the words with drama at ‘do homage to thy King’ and then falling away most beautifully to ‘behold a babe’. - Julian Elloway

For String Quartet.Published in 2002.Commissioned by the Vale of Glamorgan Festival.First performed by Chamber Domaine Museum of Welsh Life Cardiff as part of the Vale of Glamorgan Festival September2002.Score.

I am the gentle light by Paul Mealor is dedicated to Christopher Bell and the National Youth Choir of Scotland's National Boys Choir and was premiered by them on BBC One's Songs of Praise on St Andrew's Day, 2012. / Choeur A 2 Parties, Piano Et Guitare

A Welsh Prayer is a setting of a poem by Grahame Davis for SATB Choir and two Harps composed by Paul Mealor. A Welsh Prayer was commissioned by Holywell Music and the North Wales International Music Festival as a gift to celebrate the 65th birthday of His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales.The piece was premiered by the Aberdeen University Chamber Choir with harpists Hannah Stone and Catrin Finch conducted by the composer on 22 September 2013 at St Asaph’s Cathedral as part of the North Wales International Music Festival.Vocal Score: NOV294239 and Full Score: NOV294228