Sixteenth composer John Farmer was a composer of church music and madrigals of which Fair Phyllis is the best known and most frequently performed. The finely textured work employs lightly skipping counterpoint in the ‘Up and down’ passages and an expressive change of time signature in the ‘kissing’ section.

Croantion Anthem No.1-Zadok The Priest is a Coronation Anthem for King George II and has subsequently been heard at every coronation of the British Crown during the sovereign’s anointing. The opening choral entry of Zadok The Priest is one of the most striking moments in the choral repertory and typical of Handel’s grand rousing works. Scored for SSAATBB and Piano or Organ accompanim…

The title works as long as you pronounce it the American way! This choral medley for 2-Part Choir and Piano is based on Baroque classics. Features an amusing text from Audrey Snyder and Edmond Louis Budry.

For SATB Choir and Organ.

Taken from the Novello Book Of Carols. Words 15th Century.

It was to her teacher Henri Busser professor of counterpoint at the Conservatoire de Paris that young composer and organist Henriette Roget (1910-1992) dedicated in 1934 the Four French Ballads composed to the poetry of Paul Fort (1872-1960). Nicknamed “the northern cicada” by Mistral this friend of Verlaine Mallarmé and Apollinaire began his career as a symbolist playwright at …

Schubert's setting of a text by Franz Grillparzer for Contralto soloist with a chorus of high voices and Piano.

John Dryden wrote two odes in honour of the patroness of music and musicians - A Song For St. Cecilia's Day in 1687 and in 1697 Alexander's Feast both of which were subsequently set to music by Handel. A Song For St. Cecilia's Day proved so popular that it was performed six times during the winter of 1739-40 in spite of the fact that this was a 'hard winter'. Written for soprano and tenor so…

Includes 'The Lord's Prayer' (Malotte) 'Cantique De Noel' (Adam) 'O Divine Redeemer' (Gounod) and 'How Beautiful Upon The Mountains' (Harker).

Wiegenlied-Arranged for Soprano Alto and Piano by Percy Fletcher.