Oliver: Stable Home (Vocal Score)

Lefanu: Christ Calls Man Home (Vocal Score)

Henry Purcell: Welcome, Vicegerent Of The Mighty King

This Ode was written by Purcell to welcome King Charles II back home to Windsor in 1680. It is arranged for soprano, alto, tenor and bass vocal parts.

Mozart: Sancta Maria, Mater Dei K.273

At the moment in 1777 when Mozart wrote this disarmingly simple offertory motet, both he and his father had been dismissed from their employment in Salzburg by the Archbishop and Mozart was on the point of leaving his home to seek employment elsewhere. It has been suggested that it was written in supplication to the Virgin for safe travel at the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, but what is certain is that this delightful piece remains a vibrant work in the repertoire.Sancta Maria was originally written for Violins, Viola, Cello and Organ and is here presented with a Piano reduction.

Richard Rodney Bennett: Four American Carols (Unison High Voices/Piano)

This is Bennett's first collection of choral pieces written specifically for the Christmas season. These four carols to American texts recall traditional music of the New World, the composer's home for many years, and bring a welcome fresh approach to the festive idiom: along with the well-loved Away In A Manger and I Wonder As I Wander, Bennett gives us his interpretation of two Spirituals - A Child of God and Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow.For unison high voices with Piano accompaniment.Score and parts of an orchestral string accompaniment by the composer are available on hire from the publisher (Novello & Company).

English Country Garden For SSA Chorus And Piano

‘How many insects find their home in an English country garden?’ asks the second verse of this tongue-in-cheek arrangement of the familiar, traditional English Country Garden, before moving on to the birds that ‘drive you right up the wall’ and the weeds ‘that always defeat you’.Contemporary English composer Herbert Chappell has been an active free-lance writer of music since the 1950’s, since when he has written and conducted hundreds of works that range from advertising jingles and tv and film scores to beloved works for young and amateur musicians and much in between. English Country Garden cleverly modulates upwards at each verse, adding to the fun and ending with a coda full of exasperation and humour.

Vincent Novello: Rule, Britannia Satb

Vincent Novello was a British composer and Organist who gave the Novello publishing company its first embryonic form. Here he arranges Rule, Britannia! for Voice SATB with Piano accompaniment to introduce some contrapuntal interest in the verse.When 18th century British composer Thomas Arne included his song Rule, Britannia! in a masque based on the life of Alfred the Great that was presented at Cliveden, the country home of Frederick, Prince of Wales, he could not have imagined that more than two hundred seventy years later his ditty would be known throughout the British Isles and beyond. Rule, Britannia! is widely used in the Royal Navy and British Army and is featured each year at the Last Night of the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall as a national sing-along.At the time of writing, the Dutch actually ‘ruled the waves,’ so this song was more an exhortation than a status report. The lyrics were also a statement of civil liberty. Since Cromwell’s time, Britain had had a standing army which could be turned against the native population. A standing navy, however, existed solely to protect the nation from invaders, protecting a free populace.

Arne Rule Britannia Unison

When 18th century British composer Thomas Arne included his song Rule, Britannia! in a masque based on the life of Alfred the Great that was presented at Cliveden, the country home of Frederick, Prince of Wales, he could not have imagined that more than two hundred seventy years later his ditty would be known throughout the British Isles and beyond. Rule, Britannia! is widely used in the Royal Navy and British Army and is featured each year at the Last Night of the Proms in the Royal Albert Hall as a national sing-along.At the time of writing, the Dutch actually ‘ruled the waves,’ so this song was more an exhortation than a status report. The lyrics were also a statement of civil liberty. Since Cromwell’s time, Britain had had a standing army which could be turned against the native population. A standing navy, however, existed solely to protect the nation from invaders, protecting a free populace.Rule, Britannia! has been quoted extensively by other composers, among them Beethoven, Wagner, Strauss, and Arthur Sullivan. Thomas Arne also penned a version of God Save The King which came to be the British national anthem.