Kikapust. Par TRADITIONNEL. Le Kikapust qu'offre de série Choral choeurs un vaste choix de clôture-harmony un arrangements cappella. Tous nos arrangeurs / compositeurs - Jonathan Rathbone, Ben Parry and Mark Williams - étaient membres de longue date de Swingle Singers. / Niveau : Assez Facile / Jonathan Rathbone / Feuillet / A Cappella

Ivor Novello Award winner and double Grammy Award winner Paul Phoenix teams up with a cappella ensemble Apollo5 and orchestra to share tracks on the latest recording from Edition Peters Sounds.Paul Phoenix, famous as a choirboy, former member of The King's Singers and founder of Purple Vocals presents some of his favourite tracks, including Nunc Dimittis the theme-tune from BBC TV's Tinker, Tailor…

Par SACRE GUY. La poésie d’Apollinaire – comme celle de Verlaine – est presque toute déjà musique : comment ne tenterait-elle pas un musicien ? Mais justement, cette attirance doit le mettre en garde ; ce qui chez elle est vertu, chez lui peut tourner, s’affadir, pis encore, s’aigrir. Céder à la « chanson », pour une « mélodie », ce n’est pas déchoir ; mais à la « chansonnette », je ne sais… Dans …

Par FAURE GABRIEL. Being such a prolific composer, particularly for Vocal and Piano works, Gabriel Faure 's music is always addressed with high expectations. His Les Djinns for SATB choir and Piano is no exception. Faure (1845-1924) began receiving high quality musical instruction from age 10 at the Niedermeyer School. He eventually became a piano pupil of Camille Saint-Saë ns. Faure 's career saw…

Par BACH JOHANN SEBASTIAN. All of Bach ’s six authenticated motets were written between 1723 and 1727 for St Thomas’ Church, Leipzig, where Bach was appointed as director of music in 1723. During this period, Bach composed most of his cantatas, and it seems likely that for ordinary Sunday services he used existing motets from the seventeenth century tradition, reserving his own motet compositions …

Chorale Setting. Par TELEMANN GEORG PHILIPP. Chorale settings form a central part of Telemann's oeuvre. His 1754 setting of the church hymn Christus, der ist mein Leben, based on Melchoir Vulpius' melody from the Hamburg Hymnal, is especially well-suited to display his mastery in depicting the words of the chorale. The so-called 'Ausfüllungsbass” (a vocal bass added to the principal bass in tutti …

Par FAURE GABRIEL. Gabriel Faure 's Nocturnes, nos. 1-8. Gabriel Faure was born in Pamiers (Ariège) on 12 May 1845. Owing to his precocious musical gifts, he was able, at the age of nine, to enter the celebrated Niedermeyer School, founded in Paris to train organists and choirmasters. For about ten years he received instruction of great quality, centred mainly on the study of sacred music and the …

Par HINDEMITH PAUL. These canons now published for the first time document Hindemith's fondness of composing little parodistic works with a wink on certain occasions. More than 30 artistic postcard-sized works were written by the composer. In strict counterpoint, he used them to convey season's greetings, congratulations on birthdays and anniversaries, and thanks to friends, colleagues and cultura…

Love's As Warm As Tears was expertly composed by Paul Mealor. The piece was commissioned by the Dean and Chapter of Westminster and first performed on the 22nd November 2013, at a service dedicated to C. S Lewis, by the Special Service Choir of Westminster Abbey, conducted by James O'Donnell.Paul Mealor is a Welsh composer, recognised for his contribution to choral music. Mealor came to the public…

Par SPEARS GREGORY. The Tower and the Garden is a setting of three poems for choir and string quartet. The texts juxtapose the dangers of technological hubris (the tower) and the need for a place of refuge (the garden) in a world threatened by war and ecological disaster. Each text suggest ways in which Catholic thought and imagery might challenge the status quo. The first text, poem 80 from the …