Canticles & Anthems with Orchestra (XCI)

This unique anthology features twenty anthems and canticles from this particularly fruitful era of the British choral heritage. Barry Rose has selected and edited a set of pieces by composers including Goss Mendelssohn Stanford and Sullivan as well as several lesser-known composers of the period.This book is a rich resource suitable for services or concerts of all kinds. The huge variety of music on offer includes easily accessible anthems with simple four-part harmonies and organ or more complex and sonorous music for eight-part choirs.

Oxford Choral Classics: English Church Music assembles in two volumes around 100 of the finest examples of English sacred choral music of the past five centuries.The first volume dedicated to anthems and motets presents both favourite and lesser-known works from the exceptional Renaissance polyphony of Taverner Tallis and Byrd through the Restoration led by Purcell to the glorious works of the great nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers including Wesley Elgar Stanford Vaughan Williams and Howells.The volume contains a number of more substantial works including Mendelssohn's Hear my prayer Stainer's I saw theLord and Naylor's Vox dicentis: Clama as well as a wonderful selection of shorter pieces from Gibbons's O Lord in thy wrath to Walton's Set me as a seal upon thine heart. With the second companion volume of canticles and responses this bipartite collection presents a comprehensive survey of English sacred music at its best.

Paperback-Thomas Attwood Walmisley's setting of Magnificat And Nunc Dimittis in B flat for SSAATTBB Choir and Organ.Organist of Trinity College St John's College and Professor of Music at Cambridge simultaneously Walmisley is known today for his Evening Canticles in D minor and a handful of anthems.This fine double Choir setting was written some ten years before the D minor set and is published to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the composer's birth. There are fewer contrasts of texture than in the later setting but the two choirs are used to great effect with the Gloria starting with striding imitation between Soprano and Tenor(later Alto and Bass) over a pedal point in the Organ.

Hosanna To The Son Of David is an anthem for six-part SSAATB Choir. It is published here with a keyboard reduction for rehearsal purposes and has been transposed to the key of Eb. Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) was an English composer organist and chorister who is one of the best known musicians from the Tudor period. He studied and sang in the choir at King’s College Cambridge and later became Organist at the Chapel Royal and Westminster Abbey. He is best remembered for his madrigals and anthems such as The Silver Swan and Almighty And Everlasting God as well as his settings of the evening canticles and his hymntunes.