The B Flat Morning and Evening Service and Office for the Holy Communion was composed while Stanford was Organist and Master of the Choristers of Trinity College Cambridge and was already established as a composer and the energetic conductor of the Cambridge University Musical Society. It is for his church music that Stanford is best remembered and this first offering demonstrates his gifts very well.Charles Villiers Stanford was an Irish composer music teacher and conductor who was a founder of the Royal Academy of Music teaching composition to some of the greatest British composers of the twentieth century among them Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams. His own composition always displayed technical mastery and for a while he was a great figure in the world of British musical theatre.

The Queens Service-SATB and organStanford's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in F was written in 1872 while the composer was a choral and organ scholar at Queens' College Cambridge. Though early in date the work already shows his remarkable talent for composition and his gift for writing large-scale choral music. Edited by Ralph Woodward a latter-day organ scholar of Stanford's old college the setting is entitled The Queens' Service to distinguish it from the more well-known service in the same key. The work has been recorded by Queens' College Chapel Choir on Mirabilis Records (MMSCD4).

The 2002 revised edition of Charles Villiers Stanford's Te Deum Laudamus In B Flat for SATB chorus and Organ accompaniment.

From the popular setting of the 'Morning Canticles in B Flat' Charles Villiers Stanford's Jubilate Deo In B Flat Op.10 is for SATB Choir with Organ accompaniment.This freshly engraved edition includes three staves to the Organ part and a paragraph explaining the historical background and context of the work.

'The Blue Bird' was one of eight settings included in Op. 119; the other seven are no longer well-known.  If this was the only work that we remembered Charles Villiers Stanford for he would be well-worth recalling. 

A jewel of English music The Blue Bird first appeared as the third of these eight-part songs to words by the Victorian poet and novelist Mary Coleridge. Published shortly after her death in 1908 Op. 119 is the first of two such cycles composed in response to the refined sensibility of her poetry which proved an ideal match for Stanford’s mastery of word-setting and of the romantic choral idiom.

Aus Op. 10. Par STANFORD CHARLES VILLIERS. This Stanford 'Mass' consists of 'Kyrie', 'Gloria', 'Credo' and 'Sanctus'. These movements are from his famous 'Morning, Communion and Evening Service in B flat', op. 10. The work was published by Novello in 1879; it quickly became popular, and served as a model for other composers. / Messe / Répertoire / Choeur SATB et Orgue

Eight-part chorus (SATB/SATB). This Latin setting of the Nunc Dimittis for eight-part chorus was commission by Southern Cathedrals Festival as a counterpart to Charles Villiers Stanford's 1918 Magnificat (also in Latin and for eight-part chorus). It was premiered under the direction of Andrew Lumsden at the Festival Evensong on 19 July, 2008 in Winchester Cathedral by the combined Choirs of Winchester, Chichester and Salisbury Cathedrals. / SATB

John Rutter's My Soul Doth Magnify The Lord (Magnificat) for SATB and Organ.This elegant setting of the Magnificat a homage to and in the style of composer Sir Charles Villiers Stanford whose own Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis settings are staples of the English church repertoire. An accompanying setting of the Nunc Dimittis (Depart In Peace) is also available from Oxford University Press.

Blest Pair Of Sirens is one of Hubert Parry's best-known works. An ode by John Milton Parry's setting is for SSAATTBB Chorus and Orchestra. This item is the Vocal Score.   The words of one of the greatest poets in the English language are taken here and set by undoubtedly one of the more influential composers in English orchestral and choral music. Blest Pair Of Sirens was commissioned by Charles Villiers Stanford who bestowed upon Hubert Parry the claim of being the greatest English composer since Purcell.    Milton's 'At A Solemn Musik'provides the source for this wonderful work of Choral composition whose lush harmonies and sweet melody lulls the listener into a calmness and serenity. C. Hubert Parry is perhaps most familiar to millions as the composer of the great English hymn 'Jerusalem' but the brilliance of this song is similarly represented across his other works.    Any audience is sure to be hugely impressed with a performance of a beautiful Choral piece such as this. Our Blest Pair Of Sirens sheet music will ensure that every note in this sublime work is as perfect as possible. 

Charles V. Stanford 's setting of Psalm 23 for SATB Choir and Organ. Re-engraving. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Orgue

The Benedictus and Agnus Dei in B flat is published as part of an ongoing policy to reissue works by Charles Villiers Stanford in the Autograph Edition in new engravings but as the composer wrote and approved them with no editing from another hand. Simple in texture but highly effective in performance these two short movements are a useful addition to the repertoire of music available for a traditional celebration of Holy Communion and would suit a small church choir with two or three voices per part.