David Bednall: Mass For Solo Voice & Organ (High)

This mass setting, with texts in both Latin and English (Book of Common Prayer), is typical of the composer’s style: musically sophisticated, with motivic solo lines and a great deal of chromaticism and continual time changes. Vocal range: C4-Gb5 (opt. A5).

Sarah Dacey: Love Letter (SATB)

Settings words from part of a letter by Edna St Vincent Millay to her lover Arthur Davison Ficke, this is a gentle, charming piece that celebrates our freedom to love. Dacey’s rich harmonies and quirky melodies are presented in a rocking 5/8 time signature, and conclude softly with the central message as the phrase you […]

Chilcott: Songs my Heart has Taught Me

It was a privilege and an honour to be invited to write the Raymond Brock Memorial Commission for the ACDA National Conference in Dallas in 2021. I was asked to write something that embraced certain aspects of diversity: a rich, beautiful, and complex subject. I asked a brilliant young poet, Delphine Chalmers, to come on […]

Sarah Quartel: God with me (SATB)

Sarah Quartel: God with me (SATB) This a beautiful and meditative setting of a translated text from Carmina Gadelica, a collection of Gaelic hymns, prayers, and other texts. With gentle suspensions and exquisite harmonies, this anthem by Quartel is warm, refreshing, and uplifting, perfectly demonstrating her signature style.