Du compositeur de l'homme armé un nouveau réglage du poème de Laurence Binyon emblématique du souvenir. Un hymne simple mais intimement liées à l'agitation Last Post, la pièce s'ouvre, tout comme le poème, dans une ambiance d'action de grâces fière, puis s'oriente vers un climax puissant et parfaitement jugé, monumental, mais pas exagérée. Première au Festival Royal British Legion du Souvenir au Royal Albert Hall, Londres, 13 Novembre 2010. Apparaissant sur la 10e édition de L'Homme armé (CD EMI Classics). Orchestral matériaux disponibles en location. Convient aux intermédiaires choeurs standard de toutes tailles. / SAATTBB, Trompette Et Orgue

The Te Deum Laudamus is a single movement Choral work and was Sullivan’s last completed composition. In one movement the composer moves through all the component parts of the mass drawing them together seamlessly and expressing Sullivan’s own deeply felt faith.Composer Arthur Sullivan is known the world over for his operatic collaborations with W S Gilbert including H M S Pinafore and The Pirates of Penzance among many others. But Sullivan was also a composer of many other works among them operas Orchestral works ballets and hymns and church pieces.Among his church works Sullivan is best known for his hymn Onward Christian Soldiers and the theme of that hymn isincorporated in this Te Deum. Sullivan wrote the work on request for a Thanksgiving Service held in St Paul’s Cathedral at the close of the Boer War in South Africa. It received its first performance in 1902 in the presence of King Edward VII and other members of the royal family. That the song of thanksgiving was composed nearly two years before the end of the war perhaps demonstrated Sullivan’s patriotism.

Leighton's setting of the Morning Canticles was commissioned in 1967 for the centenary service of the Monkton Combe School in Bath. The Venite like all three movements of the setting is scored for Unison Voices SATB Choir and Organ.Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988) was a Yorkshireman and one of the most distinguished post-war composers in Britain. While he is best known for his choral works he also wrote 3 symphonies for orchestra and being a fine pianist himself also wrote regularly for the Piano. His works are often characterised by a warmth and sympathy for the ensemble he is writing for.