All For Me Grog : Traditional Sea Shanty

Originally from England, where All for Me Grog was heard in music halls as well as on ships, the shanty was sung while working the capstan and the halyard.

All for Me Grog : Traditional Sea Shanty

Originally from England, where All for Me Grog was heard in music halls as well as on ships, the shanty was sung while working the capstan and the halyard.

Breakthrough : (The Music In Me)

Taking advantage of the ancient and at the same time relevant musical style we know as Chant, Stephen Hatfiled has created a Funky, rhythmic, modern look at musical styles and how reality and the digital world has changed what is possible. Music is “in us” and has been in us from the beginning of time. Now is the time to express “the music in me”.

Come live with me

Written as a wedding present for two of the composer’s friends, Come live with me sets Christopher Marlowe’s archetype of the late renaissance ‘Pastoral Style’, The Passionate Shepherd to His Love. As a nod to the greattraditions of Elizabethan and Victorian partsong writing, this setting is predominantly homophonic. Taking an A-B-A-coda structure, the sweeping melody of the opening section (rising and falling like “craggy mountains”) is laterreprieved in a more luscious harmonization, and continues to form the basis of the soprano and tenor duet during the coda. In the B section (“There will I make thee beds of roses”) the texture elaborates to more contrapuntallinesof dialogue between upper and lower voices, with the passion reaching a understated zenith in the soprano 1 and tenor 1 rhapsodic rising duet, under which the parts twine themselves around each other like “leave ofmyrtle”.An imaginative setting, closely allied with the text, Come live with me is an exciting addition to the contemporary repertoire of choral music on the theme of love.

Lead Me Lord

Will Todd, born in 1970, is forging a strong reputation for himself as a composer who is equally at ease in opera, oratorio, church music and jazz. His style is instantly accessible and lastingly memorable. He spent his formative years steeped in both jazz and the English choral tradition so in his choral music he is able to juxtapose strong rhythmic drive and rich harmonies with exquisitely lyrical vocal lines.Although written for a school choir, the charming 'Lead me, Lord' is flexible enough to be thoroughly suitable for a church orcathedral choir, or a chamber choir, with accompaniment for either piano or organ. The soprano (or treble) solo isstraightforward, as are thechoir parts.

Sing Me A Song : Fa una canzona

“Sing Me a Song” (Fa una canzona) is one of the more popular Italian canzonetta of the late 16th Century. Similar to the madrigal with a secular text, the canzonetta is less serious with bright melodies and up-beat, dance-like rhythms. This arrangement offers English text and SSAB voicing for choirs with limited male voices.

Stay With Me, Lord : (Tenebrae version)

Stay with me, Lord was originally commissioned by the Genesis Foundation as one of three commissioned settings of Padre Pio’s Prayer after Communion, and first performed in June 2008 at Westminster Cathedral, London by TheSixteen, conducted by Harry Christophers. This version was arranged for the 2012 album The Call of Wisdom, an album of a selection of Will Todd’s choral music performed by Tenebrae and The English Chamber Orchestra, conducted byNigel Short. It alters much of the way the work is accompanied both by the piano, but also by adding an alternative strings and harp scoring (full score and parts available on download). Todd’s stirring harmonies, which makefulluse of the mixed-voice choir with only the very occasional need for divisi, and ability to write the most beautiful melodies has resulted in this work proving very popular with choirs of a range of abilities.

Piano Compositions Volume 3

Front cover picture:Landscape near Oberstdorf, 1912 (panel), by Alesej von Jawlensky, Haags Gemeentemuseum / Bridgeman Art Library HGM 79814

Piano Compositions Volume 3

Front cover picture:Landscape near Oberstdorf, 1912 (panel), by Alesej von Jawlensky, Haags Gemeentemuseum / Bridgeman Art Library HGM 79814

Volver a la Montana : from Islas y Montanas

Volver A La Montana (Return to the Mountain) is based on several folk tunes of the Quechua (Inca) people of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Near the end of the movement, the folk song Sepracion (Separation) is quoted briefly. The words are My mother told me no to cry, though I'm leaving the mountains forever. Over the past century, many of the Quechua people have had to leave their villages forever because of the economic difficulty of trying to maintain their traditional mountain lifestyle. The movement opens with a stately processional, followed by a fast dance that uses the characteristic Latin American alternation or simultaneous appearance of two- and three-beat patterns. Inthe return to the processional theme near the end of the movement, muted trumpets echo the flutes, as sound would echo in the mountains.

Volver a La Montana : from Islas y Montanas

Volver A La Montana (Return to the Mountain) is based on several folk tunes of the Quechua (Inca) people of Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. Near the end of the movement, the folk song Sepracion (Separation) is quoted briefly. The words are My mother told me no to cry, though I'm leaving the mountains forever. Over the past century, many of the Quechua people have had to leave their villages forever because of the economic difficulty of trying to maintain their traditional mountain lifestyle. The movement opens with a stately processional, followed by a fast dance that uses the characteristic Latin American alternation or simultaneous appearance of two- and three-beat patterns. Inthe return to the processional theme near the end of the movement, muted trumpets echo the flutes, as sound would echo in the mountains.

A gift of song : Shine lovely Christmas star

Unison. Caldwell, Me

Sonnet 116 : Let me not to the marriage of true minds

William Shakespeare’s famous sonnet (‘Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments’), often used at weddings and civil ceremonies, is here set to beautiful, fresh music by young composer Ed Rex. The mostlyhomophonic setting employs the composer’s distinctive close harmonies, which, together with short phrases and natural rhythm, serve to add greater meaning to the poignant and moving text. Spells of parallel and contrary motion inthe inner parts are intended in some way to reflect important elements of the commitment two people make to each other in marriage or partnership. Sonnet 116 is sure to add an unforgettable moment to a happy couple’s specialday,and would also be an excellent addition to concerts using a theme of love.

The Pilgrimage : Solo Cantata on Biblical Texts

Contents: Man That is Born of a Woman · Save Me, O Lord, for the Waters are Come in Unto My Soul · O Lord, Thou Hast Searched Me and Known Me · Praise the Lord, O My Soul · For I am Persuaded.

Petty Harbour Skiff : Newfoundland Folk Song

This Canadian Folksong describes the tragic sinking of a Bait Skiff near Petty Harbour in 1852, losing all but one of the crew.

Speak to Me

Sililiza : Hear Me

Composer Jim Papoulis has created an energetic and uplifting work that fuses the rhythms from African, American and Latin cultures, and uses a text primarily in Swahili interspersed with phrases in Spanish. Supported by shaker,Djembe and agogo bell, the middle section has the feel of a real celebration with layers of spoken word that lead us to the understanding: “listen, hear, stand strong.”

Earth Teach Me

Rupert Lang has created a beautiful mediative and reflective work based on an Ute Nation prayer. From the Earth we can learn how to live our lives with wisdom.

Abide With Me

Abide with me

Search Me, Lord

Bheir Me O

A traditional folk song originating from the Hebrides. This love song gently tells the story of a loved one left behind.

Music Makes Me