This superb power-ballad ticks all the boxes for a hit single. The song starts slowly building to a powerful final third of the song. Joe McElderry won 2009's X Factor by securing 61% of the votes. He sang a duet with George Michael in the final of the show which was watched by an estimated 19 million people.The 18 year old has now secured a £1 million recording deal.This cover of the Miley Cyrus/Hannah Montana hit has a strong melody and a catchy chorus it's sure to stick around for years to come.This edition has been arranged for SSA Choir with Piano accompaniment by Christopher Hussey.

The Splendour Falls and the other songs from The Princess were written for a performance of tableaux from The Princess by the girls of James Allen Girls’ School in London where Holst taught. The song is scored for Female Voices SA with a small echo choir unaccompanied and is full of recognizably Holstian shifting harmonies and Vocal effects. In 1847 Alfred Tennyson later Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom published a narrative poem The Princess that concerned the education of women. In The Princess set at a summer fete a new college for women is created by Princess Ida. A Prince and his friends infiltrate dressed as women. A love story ensues. ThePrincess was also the source material for Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida.

Handel’s opera Rodelinda was first presented in 1725 in London at the peak of the composer’s operatic production for the Royal Academy of Music. This aria composed for castrato has been transposed from its original key of E to G and arranged for three Voices SSA without Handelian ornamentation. The aria has frequently been performed and recorded in its English incarnation as Art Thou Troubled.

Written by John and Michelle Phillips two years before they formed The Mamas And The Papas the evocative California Dreamin' reflects a longing from chilly New York for the warmth of the West Coast. California Dreamin' was released by The Mamas And The Papas in 1965 and has since become almost an informal signature tune for the hippie phenomenon that had hardly started when it was written. It has been arranged for female choir with piano accompaniment.

William Lloyd Webber's Sing O Heavens is an anthem for SAB chorus with Organ Accompaniment.

Over the Rainbow is a standard that has become forever associated with its most famous interpreter, Judy Garland. Her troubled adult years only added poignancy to her guileless interpretation of the song, preserved on celluloid in The Wizard of Oz when she was seventeen. The song would also do something similar for Eva Cassidy whose 1992 version brought her posthumous fame almost a decade later. Arranged beautifully by Christopher Hussey for SAB choir with Piano accompaniment, this anthem of hope has not lost its bitter-sweet yearning. / Choeur Mixte (SAB) Et Piano