The Maccabaean Revolt in the second century B.C. provided the background to the story that unfolds in Judas Maccabaeus. It is part of the history of the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires. This oratorio follows the story from the death of Alexander the Great in 323 B.C. up until Judas' march on Jerusalem in 164 B.C. With a libretto supplied by Thomas Morell Handel's great work was first performed at the Theatre Royal Covent Garden on April the 1st 1747 as part of his annual Lenten season of oratorios. By the time of Handel's death in 1759 Judas Maccabaeus had become the composer's second most popular oratorio having received 33 Londonperformances under the composer's supervision (Messiah had 36).For SATB soli SATB chorus and accompaniment. This version edited by Merlin Channon. Includes historical notes.

In 2004 the number one album Come Away with Me established Norah Jones as one of the year's top performers her smooth jazz stylings and velvet voice topping the charts and winning admirers. Her former choir director Paris Rutherford has tastefully arranged this top single in a vocal jazz setting for SATB mixed choir. Ideal to add some delicate contemporary swing to any choral performance!

Viva La Vida was a massive hit for Coldplay achieving the Grammy Award for Song of the Year in addition to hitting the top spot in both the UK and Us charts.Its strong marching melody and punchy accompaniment work perfectly in this arrangement for SATB choir and Piano accompaniment.

A challenging comical-tragical-ecological Pastoral for SATB and piano. Although this work has a serious message about the preservation of the countryside it also has a great sense of fun which will be enjoyed by audiences and choirs alike. Indications like ‘solo’ or ‘small group’ should be distributed according to talents available and any solo which bears a ‘character-name’ like ‘cow’ or ‘crow’ may be sung by any type of voice regardless of pitch.A Double Bass part is available seperately - Catalogue No. NOV200174-01

opus 48- Gabriel Faure’s unconventional composition Requiem has become a firm favourite in the repertoire and available here is the vocal score for Soloists and SATB Choir with Piano Accompaniment as edited by Desmond Ratcliffe.   Requiem is probably the most famous of Gabriel Faure's long works taking him around 20 years to compose. The entire piece consists of seven movements with a total playing time of around 35 minutes. Although Faure's mother and father both passed away in the early stages of composition these tragic events were not the motivation for him to create the piece.Equally interestingly this Requiem is not set to the standard liturgical text with the wrathful 'Dies Irae' and 'Tuba Mirum' being omitted and a lyrical 'Pie Jesu' and transcendent 'Paradisum' being added. The omissions were ordinarily opportunities for composers to showcase the dramatic possibilities of a chorus and orchestra to symbolise damnation and so their deliberate exclusion by Faure creates a relatively calm and peaceful atmosphere with sublime vocal harmonies and heavenly melodies.   The work begins softly before dynamic volume and tempo changes are made throughout the piece enhancing the solemn beauty of the voices. Stunning interplay between the Sopranos and Baritones gives way to some excellent opportunities for soloists that are perfectly married with the uplifting unison climaxes. Faure himself spoke eloquently about the Requiem stating that his work was accurately called a 'lullaby of death' and that this speaks to his view that death is a positive transition rather than a painful experience. It is this sentiment that informs the music being melancholy but not depressing heart-wrenching but not heart-breaking.   For singers and listeners alike Gabriel Faure's Requiem is one of the most famous

Leonard Cohen's masterful enduring and poignant song Hallelujah has also been recorded by John Cale Jeff Buckley Bono Rufus Wainwright Kathryn Williams K.D. Lang Willie Nelson Aled Jones Michael McDonald Katherine Jenkins Alexandra Burke (Winner of 2008's 'X-Factor') and a multitude of other artists. This classic anthem is arranged here for unaccompanied SATB choir. A Piano accompaniment is provided for rehearsal purposes.

c-Moll-Cherubini's Requiem in C minor for SATB and Orchestra.Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor for mixed choir (without vocal soloists) and orchestra which is presented here in a critical new edition is among the most significant contributions to this genre in the 19th century. It was composed in Paris in 1816 and within a short time it became well known. Musicians such as Beethoven Schumann and Brahms held it in high esteem because of the work’s superior compositional construction orchestration mastery of form and the balance in proportion between text and music.

Christmas hits for SATB choir with piano accompaniment arranged by Berty Rice. Includes Happy Xmas (War Is Over) and Keeping The Dream Alive.

Large Version-Arranged for three soloists; Soprano Tenor and Baritone as well as the chorus SATB. Carl Orff?s dramatic cantata Carmina Burana was originally designed as a theatre piece a 'scenic cantata' to be danced as well as sung and played. Already 38 when he began composing Carmina Burana ? Songs from Benediktbeuern ? Orff was nearly 42 when it finally was produced in 1936. Carmina Burana reflects the period when Orff finally turned his back on chromaticism and complex polyphony for a deliberately simplified style characterised by its rhythmic energy and the repetition of short melodic phrases supported by elemental block harmonies. In Latinand High German.

Un oratorio sacré, arrangé pour le SATB avec les partition de piano. Edité avec la diminution du piano, par Watkins Shaw. En édition livre de poche. / Chant Et Piano / Partition

A lovely arrangement of Sting's 1993 hit single Fields Of Gold. Arranged here for SATB Chorus and Piano by Roger Emerson. ShowTrax CD available (HL08201584).