Now available in a stunning SSAA voicing selected lines from Louise Driscoll's poem set here in a vibrant and grand setting will become a signature piece for your women's and mixed choirs. Beginning with vocal fanfare then long melodic and harmonic lines sing above a rhythmic and driving piano accompaniment arriving to a final and celebratory finish. A must for inspirational programming. Now available in a stunning SSAA voicing selected lines from Louise Driscoll's poem set here in a vibrant and grand setting will become a signature piece for your women's and mixed choirs. Beginning with vocal fanfare then long melodic and harmonic lines sing above a rhythmic and driving piano accompaniment arriving to a final and celebratory finish. A must for inspirational programming.

Pied Beauty-This setting of Gerard Manley Hopkins’s poem Pied Beauty was commissioned by the Rev Jim Bates Vicar of Kingston for the service in Kingston Parish Church celebrating the Golden Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. The first performance was given by the combined choirs of the Kingston Parish Church and Twickenham Choral Society on the 2nd June 2002. A good proportion of the text is reflective or descriptive – it winds through a number of examples of dappled things with suitably celebratory music: ‘skies of couple-colour’ ‘rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim’ ‘fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls’ and so on winding down toa centrally peaceful section in which Hopkins writes of ‘all things counter original spare strange’ before returning to the celebratory mood. This grand anthem would be suitable for intermediate to advanced choirs to perform particularly at festival services and important church occasions.

This joyful carol sets a text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The piece opens with an imitation of bells spread across the voices and this festive celebratory quality is maintained throughout. Simple yet elegant Christmas Bells is ideal for any upper-voice choir.