This is a double choir setting (with optional [unscored] percussion) of the popular Elizabethan song "my Lord Willoughby's welcome home", based partly on the lute duet on the tune by JOhn Dowland. Composed and performed (in the men's choir version with...  moreThis is a double choir setting (with optional [unscored] percussion) of the popular Elizabethan song "my Lord Willoughby's welcome home", based partly on the lute duet on the tune by JOhn Dowland. Composed and performed (in the men's choir version with added percussion) by David W Solomons  

Exultate Singers performs 'Mother of God, here I stand' by the great British composer Sir JOhn Tavener who died on 12 November 2013. The recording is taken from Exultate Singers' new album, A Sense of the Divine, to be released in December 2013 and was re...  moreExultate Singers performs 'Mother of God, here I stand' by the great British composer Sir JOhn Tavener who died on 12 November 2013. The recording is taken from Exultate Singers' new album, A Sense of the Divine, to be released in December 2013 and was recorded in St George's Bristol Mother of God, here I stand now praying before this ikon of your radiant brightness, not praying to be saved from a battlefield; not giving thanks nor seeking forgiveness for the sings of my soul, nor for all the souls. Numb, joyless and desolate on earth; but for her alone, whom I wholly give you.  less

I Thank You God was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and premiered at the National ACDA Convention in February, 1999. The text is adapted from the E.E. Cummings poem of the same name. Composer Gwyneth Walker writes: "Thi...  moreI Thank You God was commissioned by the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) and premiered at the National ACDA Convention in February, 1999. The text is adapted from the E.E. Cummings poem of the same name. Composer Gwyneth Walker writes: "This is a poem of grandeur and of praise. Therefore it might be expected that this musical setting would aim at vastness, grandeur and awakening." Walker accomplishes this through a variety of means. First, the piano introduction includes slowly unfolding piano arpeggios which focus on open intervals of octaves, fifths and fourths, exploiting the full range of the piano keyboard. The composer also takes the singers on a harmonic journey which begins in a low register in C minor, and then travels through a number of other key areas until it reaches the distant key of G-flat. At this point, the voices are drawn closely together into a tone cluster containing the pitches G-flat, A-flat and B-flat, only to open apart into the glorious C major chords which conclude the ...    less

Oostkerk Middelburg 2013 Andantino (Vilvoorde België olv Peter De Waele) Thou knowest Lord (Henry Purcell) Actually, these words are prescribed for funerals in the Prayer Book of 1662. This was first used at Queen Mary (of William and Mary), but were...  moreOostkerk Middelburg 2013 Andantino (Vilvoorde België olv Peter De Waele) Thou knowest Lord (Henry Purcell) Actually, these words are prescribed for funerals in the Prayer Book of 1662. This was first used at Queen Mary (of William and Mary), but were also used at Purcell's own funeral and were incorporated, tune and all, inro Croft's setting of the funeral sentences. One of the opening sequences of all Royal Families as the Casket enters the Abbey, including as of late, that of Princess Diana, Princess of Wales and HM, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother.  less

Bless the Lord With Me. Callington Community Gospel Choir recorded for BBC Spotlight South West Christmas 2009. If you like this please leave feedback on our website guest book www.ccgc.org.uk

Recorded by Quorum in Leicester Cathedral on Saturday 11th February 2017

MendelssOhn: But the Lord from Elijah. MendelssOhn Singers conducted by Brett Kostrzewski. James Bourne, piano. Michael Bloss, organ. Performed at the Toronto MendelssOhn Choir's Symposium concert on January 26, 2013 at Yorkminster Park Baptist Church. T...  moreMendelssOhn: But the Lord from Elijah. MendelssOhn Singers conducted by Brett Kostrzewski. James Bourne, piano. Michael Bloss, organ. Performed at the Toronto MendelssOhn Choir's Symposium concert on January 26, 2013 at Yorkminster Park Baptist Church. This concert concluded the TMC's 2013 Choral Conductors' Symposium led by Noel Edison. Webcast produced by Inline Digital.  

ECU Singers Performing "my Souls Been Anchored in the Lord" by Moses Hogan Directed by Dr. Steven Walker

Chicagoland Voices 2016 Winter Concert Great God Almighty by Stacey V. Gibbs Guest conductor - Dana Floor