Eric Thiman: Summer Days

A celebratory song herlding the approaching summer, based upon a text by S. Longfellow and written for the upper voices with Piano accompaniment.

Robert Walker: Five Summer Madrigals For SATB Chorus

Five Summer Madrigals is scored for unaccompanied SATB chorus with ad lib. percussion in No.1. A Piano part is included for rehearsal purpose only. Comissioned by the Grimsby Bach Choir.

Joseph Horovitz: Summer Sunday

A challenging comical-tragical-ecological Pastoral for SATB and piano. Although this work has a serious message about the preservation of the countryside, it also has a great sense of fun which will be enjoyed by audiences and choirs alike. Indications like ?solo? or ?small group? should be distributed according to talents available and any solo which bears a ?character-name? like ?cow? or ?crow? may be sung by any type of voice regardless of pitch.A Double Bass part is available seperately - Catalogue No. NOV200174-01

Herbert Howells: Summer Is Coming

For SATB. Inscribed 'To the memory of Arnold Bax' composed for the 1965 Cork International Festival.

McCabe: Reflections Of A Summer Night (Vocal Score)

John McCabe: Double Concerto For Oboe, Clarinet and Orchestra (Study Score)

The Double Concerto for Oboe, Clarinet and Orchestra was commissioned by the English Heritage for performance at their open air summer concerts in 1988.

Richard Rodney Bennett: Suite Francaise For Flute And Piano

Suite Francaise for Flute and Piano. Richard Rodney Bennett dedicated this suite to all the flute players who have played his 'Summer Music', He was particularly keen on those who played the slow movment from memory!These tunes are French popular songs, written between the 15th and 19th centuries.

Richard Rodney Bennett: Nonsense

Nonsense is based on a set of texts from the Book Of Nonsense by Mervyn Peake. Composed in 1979 and revised in 1984, the settings were first perfomed at the Chester Summer Music Festival in July 1984 by the National Youth Choir Of Great Britain. Written for SATB chorus with Piano duet.

John Joubert: String Quartet No.3 Op.112 (Parts)

Composed during the summer of 1986, Joubert's third quartet is the second in order of composition of three works composed specially for performance this month as part of the celebrations connected with his sixtieth birthday.The quartet is dedicated to Howard Ferguson who was my composition teacher at the Royal Academy of Music from 1947 to 1950.

John Joubert: String Quartet No.3 (Score)

Composed during the summer of 1986, Joubert's third quartet is the second in order of composition of three works composed specially for performance this month as part of the celebrations connected with his sixtieth birthday.The quartet is dedicated to Howard Ferguson who was my composition teacher at the Royal Academy of Music from 1947 to 1950.

Kenneth Leighton: Columba Mea Op.78 (Vocal Score)

Composed mainly during the summer of 1978, and commissioned by the John Currie Singers (with Arts Council funds) this work was first performed in Glasgow in early 1979, and has since been given in Canada and the USA. It is a setting of quite large sections of the Song of Songs and the authorised version was chosen not because of its accuracy, which is often doubtful, but because of the beauty of the language and the power of its associations.

Gustav Holst: The Splendour Falls for SSA

The Splendour Falls and the other songs from The Princess were written for a performance of tableaux from The Princess by the girls of James Allen Girls’ School in London, where Holst taught. The song is scored for Female Voices SA with a small echo choir, unaccompanied, and is full of recognizably Holstian shifting harmonies and Vocal effects. In 1847, Alfred Tennyson – later Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom – published a narrative poem, The Princess, that concerned the education of women. In The Princess, set at a summer fete, a new college for women is created by Princess Ida. A Prince and his friends infiltrate, dressed as women. A love story ensues. The Princess was also the source material for Gilbert and Sullivan’s Princess Ida.

Elgar: Scenes From The Saga Of King Olaf

The plot of Elgar’s King Olaf cantata has been criticized for it lack of cohesion, but the musical settings contain power, majesty, stirring melodies, joyous lyricism and a finale of immense proportion and emotional effect. As a lesser work of a great composer, it certainly bears study. As a work on its own, King Olaf rewards performers and listeners with superb moments. A final a capella Chorus, As Torrents In Summer, is frequently performed on its own.Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf is widely considered to be the best of Elgar’s pre-Enigma compositions. He was commissioned to write this work for the North Staffordshire Music Festival in 1896, and he chose to adapt sections of Longfellow’s Tales of a Wayside Inn with the assistance of his neighbour, the translator H A Acworth. Acworth reduced the length of Longfellow’s twenty-two sections to just eight with added material.

John Joubert: Pro Pace Motets for Double Choir

These three motets, Pro Pace, though written at different times, form a triptych on the subject of peace. The first to be composed was Libera Plebem, composed for and first performed at the Attingham Park Summer School, 1955. The text is a 9th century Latin poem, in the form of a prayer for deliverance from the Black Death.The second motet, which was composed last, is a 10th century Latin lament for the day on which man first invented weapons for use against his own kind, and a protest against such use.The final motet, the longest and most elaborate of the set, traces the Passion story from its sombre and tragic beginnings to its hopeful and triumphant end. It is a setting of a Latin poem by Peter Abelard, and its function in the triptych is to equate the victory of Christ's Passion with the eventual victory of non-violence.