Gustav Holst

Gustav Holst's Assemble All Ye Maidens Op.44 No.7 for SSA with Piano accompaniment with words by Robert Bridges.

Dirge and Hymeneal was composed in 1915 shortly before the composition of Saturn from The Planets whose music it anticipates. It was performed for the first time at the 1986 Cheltenham Festival. Scored for SSA and piano set to text by Thomas Lovell Beddoes.

Composed for the BBC Young Chorister of the Year competition this lovely setting of the Gustav Holst melody is truly sublime. Ideal for treble choirs in school church and community!

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.

A part-song for female voices with words by Tennyson and music by Holst. From The Princess.