Advent Calendar by the Master of the Queen's Music Peter Maxwell Davies sets the text of the former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams .  The work for SATB and Organ was commissioned by The Choirbook Trust for inclusion in the Choirbook for the Queen published to celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty the Queen in 2012.

Art thou troubled Air from Handel's Rodelinda arranged as a four-part song for SATB by H.A.Chambers with words by W. G. Rothery. A piano part is included for rehearsal purpose only.

Soprano and Piano-Soprano and Piano. G. Schirmer is proud to announce the publication of a set of five concert arias from Harbison's powerful new opera The Great Gatsby based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel about the dark side of theAmerican Dream. The Great Gatsby was commissioned and premiered by the Metropolitan Opera where these arias were performed by Dawn Upshaw Jerry Hadley and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Where is the Old Warm World is Daisy's aria.

Features of the Barenreiter Urtext edition of Beethoven's Mass In C Major:Score with realisation of the Organ partBilingual Foreword (Eng/Ger) and Critical Commentary (Eng)Straight-forward Piano reductionFull score and performance material (BA9039) and Vocal score (BA9039-90) available for saleAmongst Beethoven’s sacred works are two settings of the Mass. The Mass In C Major was completed and premiered in 1807 and has been unjustly described as a preliminary step towards the great Missa solemnis. Yet it is a self-contained and for its time distinctly modernpiece of sacred music.Beethoven specialist Barry Cooper has drawn on a rich body of sources to suggests practical solutions to the work’s musical and interpretative problems. His in-depth study of the sources convinced him to include a fully realised Organ part in the score just as Beethoven envisioned it for the first printed edition. As stated in the original sources the parts for the soloists and choir are notated on joint staves to demonstrate that the soloists are also to sing the choral passages.This Barenreiter Urtext edition is rounded off with a foreword on the work’s genesis and a detailed critical commentary.

The Lost Lamb?is the fourth movement of Czech composer Antonin Dvorak's cycle ?Five Choruses For Male Voice?.The cycle of five choruses is set toLithuanian folk texts translated by Frantisek Ladislav Celakovsky and is written for unaccompanied male choir (TTBB Voices). The title page of the autograph score bears the note: ?Composed on the journey from Prague to Vienna 12thof December 1878?.The individual parts of the cycle present a vibrant palette of moods from the balladic ?Dwellers by the Sea? to the final light-hearted ?The Sparrow?s Feast?. The songs? melodies echothe spirit of folk songs and the composer used simple but colourful harmonies and chose a strophic form.

No. 2 - The Light of Heaven-The Light Of Heaven from Garden of Light (A Millennium Symphony) for soprano mezzo-soprano tenor baritone chorus and orchestra was commissioned for the Third Millennium Celebration by Walt Disney Pictures premiered in October 1999 by the New York Philharmonic conducted by Kurt Masur with the New York Choral Artists and The American Boychoir. Arranged for Soprano Tenor SATB Choir and Piano accompaniment.

Mendelssohn particularly loved Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream having read it with his sister from childhood. His incidental music for the play ranks among the best of its genre skillfully generating the spirit of each of the characters establishing ambiences for the various scenes and complement Shakespeare’s own drama. Mendelssohn’s music for this play is best known for the famous Wedding March though the work contains an array of beautiful music. The instrumental movements are frequently performed as an Orchestral suite or as stand-alone pieces.In spite of its title You Spotted Snakes is a lively lullabye sung to Titania in Act II. It is during this sleep thatOberon enchants Titania and all the rest of the action unfolds. You Spotted Snakes is scored for solo Voices SA with Voices SSAA and Piano accompaniment.

Edited in a new bi-lingual edition by Neil Jenkins. Part of The New Novello Choral Edition series.

Argento has crafted a five-movement suite from his 1964 opera The Masque of Angels. Designed as a mini choral drama it includes a Processional for the angels; the well-known Gloria; the colorful Arrival of the Archangels; a majestic Sanctus; and a joyful Recessional. Best for larger ensembles this suite is a showcase for magnificent choral sound. Orchestra parts are available on rental.Instrumentation: 2 oboes (2nd doubling english horn) bassoon 2 trumpets in Bb trombone 2 Violas Cello harp percussion (cymbals triangle suspendes cymbal bells/chimes Glockenspiel tambourine sleigh bells)

The Novello Vocal Score of Brahms' Requiem Op.45 for Soprano and Baritone soli with SATB chorus and orchestra. This version edited by John E. West includes the English text adapted from the Bible by Ivor Atkins. This hauntingly beautiful Requiem eschews the traditional requiem text in favour of verses from the Bible that Brahms found personally comforting.

SATB. A 9-part cantata for chorus four soloists and orchestra. This is an autobiographical statement of Menotti's 45 years of life in America. Each scene represents a specific experience in the composer's life.Commissioned/premiered by Bel Canto Chorus Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

Smoking and Drinking-The Chester Books Of Madrigals offer an exciting collection of secular European madrigals partsongs and rounds from the 16th and ear;y 17th centuries newly edited from early sources by Anthony G. Patti who contributescopious historical notes to each volume.The majority of the settings are for SATB and simplified keyboard reductions. Texts are in the original languages with an English translation (for non-English texts) provided at thehead of each piece.