oeuvre contemporaine originale pour choeur mixte a cappella ou 4 voix solistes.Durée : 6 mn / Voix / Partition

Eric Whitacre has become a musical sensation across the globe. His new chart-topping CD release Water Night comes hot on the heels of his Grammy award-winning album Light and Gold.Water Night is an inspiring collection showcasing a mixture of sacred and secular choral pieces. The album is here presented as perfectly engraved sheet music for the most discerning choral connoisseur andperformer. New works such as the beautiful Alleluia and the ethereal Oculi omnium rub shoulders with earlier Eric Whitacre classics including the epic When David Heard and theever-popular title track: Water Night in a perfect showcase of Whitacre???s powerful choral writing.

This a cappella collection of pieces for mixed choir by Eric Whitacre is the first available printed music compilation of its kind for the composer. The book includes pieces of varying difficulty wide-rangingin theme from the iconic Sleep and Water Night to the quietly angelic Lux Aurumque (Light and Gold) and the recent Nox Aurumque (Night and Gold). A Boy and a Girl and ThisMarriage are both wonderfully tender pieces and the inclusion of the early Go Lovely Rose marks the beginning of a journey through Whitacre's choral output from this first success to the present day.Eric Whitacre is a Los Angeles-based composer and conductor who is held in the highest esteem everywhere inspiring and motivating a new generation of singers and musicians. His music creates a visceral impassioned response in audiences and performers. In 2008 the all-Whitacre choral CD 'Cloudburst' released by the British ensemble Polyphony on Hyperion Records became and unexpected international best-seller topping theclassical charts and earning a Grammy nomination. The BBC raves that 'what hits you straight between the eyes is the honesty optimism and sheer belief that passes any pretension. This is music that can actually make yousmile'.

Ave Maria Hail Blessed Flower (Op. 17) was written in 1961 and premiered at Cirencester Grammar School. It is a simple Christmas carol for unaccompanied SATB choir. It uses the image of the Virgin Mary as a delicate flower without sin reinforced by close-knit ethereal harmonies.Sir Peter Maxwell Davies (b. 1934) is a British composer and conductor who served as Master of the Queen’s Music from 2004 to 2014. He has developed from an enfant terrible in the 1960s to become one of the leading figures of the British musical establishment. In the intervening years he has revolutionised contemporary music and helped re-define Britishmusic.

Taken from Songs Between The Soul And The Bridegroom.Canciones entre el alma y el esposo is a poem consisting of forty verses. Having previously set two sections of it as separate a cappella choruses andone for two countertenors and strings I've long wanted to make a complete setting of the work and by arranging the countertenor piece for a cappella chorus and setting the remaining verses as two more anthems for the sameforces I've completed the task. The five pieces can of course still be performed separately or brought together as a twenty-five minute setting of Roy Campbell's translation from the original Spanish of this vivid and intensepoem.'Geoffrey Burgon May 2008

Judith Clurman Choral Series-With a text by Christina Rossetti this a cappella piece for mixed voices displays a full dynamic range through rich homophonic textures. A challenging and compelling work!

Peter Maxwell Davies' 1994 work for unaccompanied SATB choir using text from George Mackay Brown's 1971 poem A Hoy Calendar.A girdle round the year in five minutes. In twelve clear simple images George Mackay Brown'spoem turns through the months of Orkney life and as it turns so the modal music for a modestly able school or amateur choir moves it on its way with images of matching lucidity.Vocal score with piano accompaniment forrehearsal purposes.