Ralph Vaughan Williams

Written for Vaughan William's choir in surrey these are beautifully judged for amateur voices. The music is direct and sharply characterised. Originally with orchestra they are equally suitable for performance within choral concerts or as church anthems with either organ or piano accompaniment.

Weve Been Awhile Awandering-SATB unaccompanied or solo unison and pianoTaken from Eight Traditional English Carols

The complete vocal score with Piano accompaniment for Ralph Vaughan Williams? A Sea Symphony. Completed in 1909 it is a vast work inspired by and based on four poems by Walt Whitman that Williams fashioned into a vast score containing some of his finest choral writing and a highlight of its era. It is non-ecclesiastical work and has a humanist agnostic viewpoint with a broad general theme of the Human Soul being a vessel cruising the oceans and seas of life. This suite for Soprano and Baritone Soli SATB chorus and originally Orchestra is a varied work that includes elements of Sea shanties and noble pomp in creating a majestic and evocativerepresentation of the sea.

The Oxford Book Of Christmas Carols has to be one of the most famous and complete of all carol collections. This book contains 197 carols. The majority are for the Christmas season but some are intended for Passiontide Easter or for other seasons of the year. All but 30 have traditional carol tunes mostly with traditional texts.

SATB unaccompanied or solo unison and pianoTaken from Eight Traditional English Carols

Chorus PartSATB Ba solo and orchestra.Settings of George Herbert (Easter; I got me flowers; Love bade me welcome; The Call; Antiphon). 

Another example of the dignified majesty of Vaughan Williams’ compositions. This beautiful lyrical mass for unaccompanied SATB Solo and double chorus was specially composed for Gustav Holst and his Whitsuntide Singers.

SATB unaccompanied or solo unison and pianoThis is the Truth; The Yorkshire Wassail (We've been awhile awandering); And all in the morning; On Christmas Night; The Twelve Apostles; Down in yon forest; May Day Carol; The Birth of the Saviour.

SATB unaccompaniedNo. 2 of Three Elizabethan Part Songs. Text from Shakespeare's Othello.

The Dark Eyed Sailor has been freely arranged for SATB unaccompanied by Ralph Vaughan Williams.

One of the great hymns by Ralph Vaughan Williams Hart Morris has arranged it for SATB choir and organ. Sure to be a favorite on All Saints Sunday and services honoring those in missions the congregation is invited to join in thefinal stanza. The hymntune remains firmly intact in this arrangement while the harmony provides creative pleasure and celebration.