Chaque été, la cathédrale de Chichester dans le Sussex mobilise ses voisines de Winchester et de Salisbury pour l'un des plus grands festivals de musique religieuse de Grande-Bretagne : le Southern Cathedral's Festival. Pour l'édition de 1965, on a commandé une composition à Leonard Bernstein - les Chichester Psalms, devenus très populaires entretemps. Cette oeuvre en trois parties se base sur des psaumes hébraïques, que Bernstein a réuni lui-même pour en souligner le caractère liturgique. L'année de la création des Chichester Psalms, Bernstein était en congé sabbatique d'un an de son poste au New York Philharmonic Orchestra, une occasion qu'il a utilisée pour composer. Il raconte : « À l'époque, je n'ai composé pendant un an quasiment que de la dodécaphonie, et des choses encore plus expérimentales. J'étais heureux de faire émerger ces nouvelles sonorités ; mais après environ six mois de travail, j'ai tout jeté. Ce n'était pas ma musique, ce n'était pas sincère. Ensuite, il y a eu les Chichester Psalms - certainement la pièce tonale en si majeur la plus claire que j'aie jamais composé ».Année : 1965Pages : 44Langue : Hebrew / Choeur et ensemble vocal / Boosey and Hawkes

for SATB and organ This Easter anthem sets an evocative text by J. M. C. Crum. Stately expressive vocal lines are underpinned by a lively organ part with crisp staccato melismas that pop out of the texture.

Oeuvre a capella superbement composée pour choeur SATB (divisi: 2 Soprano, 2 Alto, 2 Tenor, 2 Basse). La musique fut composée à l'origine pour correspondre au poème écrit par Robert Frost, 'Stopping by Woods', mais à cause de problèmes juridiques complexes concernant la propriété du poète, l'oeuvre a dû être retirée. Le compositeur, après une longue délibération, a décidé de demander à un de ses amis poète, Charles Anthony Silvestri, d'écrire un nouveau texte, avec la réplique exacte de la structure du poème de Frost. / Voix

Thy Little Ones is a lovely tribute to all who find themselves in the midst of trouble. The PROSPECT tune is celebrated with simple vocal harmonizations and accompaniment. This work can be used for Christmas, and is a good choice for high school and church choirs. / Choeur Mixte (SATB) Et Piano

Par LAURIDSEN MORTEN. Morten Lauridsen's lyrical settings of Rilke's 'Les Roses' have already become part of the mainstream choral repertory. Deftly crafted and elegant in their imagery, 'Les Chansons De Roses' enhance the characteristic of the poems and capture their delicate beauty and sensuousness. / Niveau : Elémentaire / Date parution : 2003-08-28/ Répertoire / SATB

The harmonic turns and piano configurations in La vie ant?rieure ??? the ???former life??? ??? seem almost exuberantly lyrical. At the beginning the archaic sounds and words of the male choir conjure up a dream world that is soon flooded with the power of the waves and the rich polyphonic harmony of the choir and the piano. With the outcry ???C???est l? que j???ai v?cu!??? [I have lived there] which expresses the fervent yearning to return to a past life the collective desperately reinforces the longing for the past. Once more the women???s choir conjures up this lost paradise in an undulating soft sound before the desolate sadness is pierced by the power of the music of the piano postlude creating a moment that is completely in the present.

Paul Mealor's My Song for SATB chorus and Piano.This 4 minute piece was first performed on 3rd May 2014 at Canongate Kirk Edinburgh by the Edinburgh University Chamber Choir directed by Dr Eric von Ibler.

Hans Werner Henze's An Den Wind for SATB choir and instruments. Full score.This piece incorporates text by Christian Lehnert.

This collection presents five Christina Rossetti poems set by Per Drud Nielsen for unaccompanied SATB choir.'Had Christina Rossetti lived 40 years earlier and not written in English but in German I am convinced that the many Lied-composers in the first half of the 19th century would have gathered around her. And in many ways I have set her poems to music in the spirit of the Lied tradition: I have made use of simple modified strophic forms. And if you hear a loan from a well-known Schumann-Lied in one of my Rossetti-songs you are not mistaken. - Per Drud Nielsen

Rejoice O Virgin-Bogoroditsè Devo (Rejoice O Virgin) is a work by Sergei Rachmaninoff for Unaccompanied SATB Choir. From the 'All-Night Vigil ' this is the Vocal Score featuring a pronunciation guide and an explanation of the transliteration and translation. The lyrics are in the original and a phonetic transliteration.

Best known for his exemplary exuberant orchestral work The Planets Gustav Holst’s diverse gamut also included hymns pastoral songs and folk music. He and the poet Robert Bridges became great friends over time their friendship blossoming after Holst sought copyright of one of Bridges’ works in May 1925. This is a terrific hymn set to a poem of Bridges' typical of the combined workings of these two great English artists and has been edited here for SATB mixed choir and organ pedals by Alan Gibbs.