This beautiful collection of 14 songs for high voice offers secular pieces by some of Oxford’s best-loved composers. Suitable for solo singers and unison choirs alike, each song is presented with piano accompaniment, and high-quality, downloadable backing tracks are included on a companion website. With a wonderful selection of pieces, this is the perfect collection for use in recitals or for enjoying at home.
Rutter: A flower remembered
Chilcott: All for Love of One
Quartel: All the way home
Quartel: Blow, blow, thou winter wind
McGlade: Change upon change
Quartel: In time of silver rain
Young: Invitation to love
Rutter: My true love hath my heart
Bullard: Not too fast, not too slow,
Thompson: Supplication
Garrett: The gift to sing
Daley: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Chilcott: The Lily and the Rose
Tarney: The silver swan Also available in a volume for low voice and piano.
This beautiful collection of 14 songs for low voice offers secular pieces by some of Oxford’s best-loved composers. Suitable for solo singers and unison choirs alike, each song is presented with piano accompaniment, and high-quality, downloadable backing tracks are included on a companion website. With a wonderful selection of pieces, this is the perfect collection for use in recitals or for enjoying at home.
Rutter: A flower remembered
Chilcott: All for Love of One
Quartel: All the way home
Quartel: Blow, blow, thou winter wind
McGlade: Change upon change
Quartel: In time of silver rain
Young: Invitation to love
Rutter: My true love hath my heart
Bullard: Not too fast, not too slow,
Thompson: Supplication
Garrett: The gift to sing
Daley: The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Chilcott: The Lily and the Rose
Tarney: The silver swan Also available in a volume for high voice and piano.
Setting a well-loved medieval text, this effective piece paints the story of Jesus through lyrical melodies and beautiful harmonic surprises. The vocal lines offer both powerful intensity and skilful dialogue, and are supported by a pulsing keyboard part. Full score and parts are available to buy from OUP.
For soprano solo or upper voices, and organ or piano or orchestra
Setting a well-loved medieval text, this effective piece paints the story of Jesus through lyrical melodies and beautiful harmonic surprises. The vocal lines offer both powerful intensity and skilful dialogue, and are supported by a pulsing keyboard part. This version is flexibly scored for soprano solo or upper voices (two-part or unison). Also available in a version for SATB and organ/piano.
Dedicated to the Oxford Vaccine Team, Joseph’s Carol sets words by the composer that recount the Christmas story from the perspective of Joseph. The two expressive verses are taken by the solo baritone, with the chorus performing a macaronic refrain infused with expectancy and wonder, as well as taking on the role of the angels in a soft accompaniment to the closing words of the second solo verse. The upper three voice parts are designed to be approximately equal in strength, and the carol may be accompanied by organ, piano, or small orchestra.
The carol was premiered in the city’s Grade I listed Sheldonian Theatre, performed by Sir Bryn Terfel, the Oxford Philharmonic Orchestra and the Choir of Merton College.
With a text by John Henry Newman, Lead, kindly Light is a short, moving piece perfectly suited for our current times. Step-like movement in the melody reflects the speaker seeking light in the darkness, slow but steady in their way out of the ‘encircling gloom’.
Also available in a version for TTBB
A lilting 3/4 metre carries the listener through this familiar Christmas story, beautifully depicted in a text by the composer. Rutter employs artful word-painting throughout, and the verse-refrain structure enables the compelling melody to soon become as familiar as any traditional carol of the season. Christ our Emmanuel may be accompanied by piano or organ, or by flute, oboe, and harp. Two versions of the vocal score are available: one with piano accompaniment and one with organ accompaniment. Full scores and parts are available for purchase.
Also available digitally as a piano solo: A Child’s Lullaby
The John Rutter Christmas Album brings together eight of the composer’s best-loved seasonal choral pieces as piano transcriptions, made by John Rutter himself, for performance use or enjoyment at home. Designed for pianists at early intermediate level, the collection provides skilful and approachable arrangements of festive favourites such as Angels’ Carol and What sweeter music, and of the more recent Colours of Christmas and Christ our Emmanuel. The gentle Mary’s Lullaby, meanwhile, features a newly written Epilogue, a homage to George Shearing and evoking the style of this celebrated jazz pianist. Clearly presented and laid out, the transcriptions also include the texts (lyrics) within the piano score – this versatile collection is a joyous celebration of the season.
Oxford Choral Classics: English Church Music assembles in two volumes around 100 of the finest examples of English sacred choral music of the past five centuries. The first volume,Anthems and Motets, presents both favourite and lesser-known works, from the exceptional Renaissance polyphony of Taverner, Tallis, and Byrd, through the Restoration led by Purcell, to the glorious works of the great nineteenth- and twentieth-century composers, including Wesley, Elgar, Stanford, Vaughan Williams, and Howells. The volume contains a number of more substantial works, including Mendelssohn’s Hear my prayer, Stainer’s I saw the Lord, and Naylor’s Vox dicentis: Clama, as well as a wonderful selection of shorter pieces, from Gibbons’s O Lord, in thy wrath to Walton’s Set me as a seal upon thine heart. With the second companion volume of canticles and responses, this bipartite collection presents a comprehensive survey of English sacred music at its best.
A welcome collection of piano transcriptions made by the composer himself, featuring eight of his best-loved choral pieces spanning the last 40 years. Designed for pianists at early intermediate level, the collection provides skillful and approachable arrangements of classics such as The Lord bless you and keep you, All things bright and beautiful, and For the beauty of the earth, as well as recent gems like A flower remembered, all for performance use or enjoyment at home. Clearly presented and laid out, the transcriptions also include the texts (lyrics) within the piano score, for reference or potential sing-alongs.
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