John Rutter : Anthem Collection

Review: A collection of John Rutter's anthems, featuring eleven of his best compositions. These selections have been carefully chosen to reflect the breadth and beauty of Rutter's sacred choral music making this collection an invaluable addition to any music library.

Songlist: God Be In My Head, A Prayer Of Saint Patrick, All Things Bright And Beautiful, For The Beauty Of The Earth, I Will Sing With The Spirit, Look At The World, Go Forth Into The World In Peace, A Clare Benediction, The Lord Bless You And Keep You, The Peace Of God, A Choral Amen

John Rutter : Birthday Madrigals

Review: Birthday Madrigals was written at the invitation of Brian Kay, conductor of the Cheltenham Bach Choir, to celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday of the great jazz pianist George Shearing. The first performance was given, in his presence, in Cheltenham Town Hall on June 3, 1995 by the Cheltenham Bach Choir with Neil Swainson (double bass), John Rutter conducting. The seed of the composition was 'It was a lover and his lass,' witten in 1975. The other four movements, their texts also drawn from the madrigal era (hence the work's title), were added in 1995 to make the present choral suite.

Songlist: It Was A Lover And His Lass, Draw On, Sweet Night, Come Live With Me, My True Love Hath My Heart, When Daisies Pied

John Rutter : Fancies

Review: Featured on the Cambridge Singers' album of the same name, 'Fancies' is an exquisite cycle of choral settings for mixed voices and small orchestra.

Songlist: Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred, There Is A Garden In Her Face, The Urchins' Dance, Riddle Song, Midnight's Bell, The Bellboy's Song

John Rutter : Feel The Spirit

Review: This collection of familiar spirituals arranged by John Rutter is beautifully set for mezzo-soprano solo and mixed choir. Each selection can be performed alone, or the collection can be performed as a whole to showcase the rich heritage of the spiritual.

Songlist: Deep River, Ev'ry Time I Feel the Spirit, I Got a Robe, Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho, Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child, Steal Away, When the Saints Go Marching In

John Rutter : Five Childhood Lyrics

Review: This choral collection includes settings of children's poems and nursery rhymes for SATB unaccompanied - with some divisi.

Songlist: Monday's Child, The Owl And The Pussy Cat, Windy Nights, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, Sing A Song Of Sixpence

John Rutter : Five Traditional Songs

Review: In this choral collection we have five settings of traditional songs, arranged by John Rutter for SATBB unaccompanied voices.

Songlist: The Girl I Left Behind Me, O Waly Waly, The British Grenadiers, Golden Slumbers, Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron

John Rutter : Gloria

Review: Composed by John Rutter, this vocal score for mixed voices and piano is a brilliant choral piece that your singers and audience members will love. The score comes with choral notation and piano reduction, the text language is Latin, with a total of 44 pages.

Songlist: Allegro Vivace, Andante, Vivace e Ritmico

John Rutter : Psalmfest

Review: This excellent choral collection by John Rutter is written for mixed voices and keybord. The nine movements form a single choral work comprising seven pieces previously published separately and two new movements. A broad range of emotions all find their place with rich and varied musical settings. It features solos for soprano and tenor soloists - an excellent addition to your sacred choral program!

Songlist: O Be Joyful In The Lord, I will Lift Up Mine Eyes, Praise The Lord, O My Soul, The Lord Is My Shepard, Cantate Domino, The Lord Is My Light And Salvation, O Clap Your Hands, O How Amiable Are Thy Dwellings, O Praise The Lord Of Heaven

John Rutter : Sacred Choruses

Review: This volume comprises twenty-eight of the finest oratorio choruses, complete short choral works, and movements from masses or requiems from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. Drawing repertoire from Britain and mainland Europe, the volume features renowned choruses and familiar cornerstones of the repertoire, as well as some choral discoveries, all in new, carefully researched, and practical editions. Playable piano reductions for rehearsal use are included in the main volume, with a separate volume of purpose-made three-stave organ accompaniments, and newly typeset orchestral material available on rental. Intended for choral societies and cathedral, church, and concert choirs, this is a unique collection of choral classics for mixed voices and orchestra, and an invaluable practical addition to any choir's library.

John Rutter : The Sprig of Thyme

Review: Featured on the Cambridge Singers' album of the same name, 'The Sprig of Thyme' is a beautiful cycle of folk-song settings, each setting giving plenty of opportunity for different voices in your choir the opportunity to shine!

Songlist: The Bold Grenadier, The Keel Row, The Willow Tree, The Sprig Of Thyme, Down By The Sally Gardens, The Cuckoo, I Know Where I'm Going, Willow Song, O Can Ye Sew Cushions, Afton Water, The Miller Of Dee

John Rutter : When Icicles Hang

Review: In this collection we have a cycle of choral settings with words by Campion, Shakespeare, and anon. for SATB (with tenor solo) and small orchestra.

Songlist: Icicles, Winter Nights, Good Ale, Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind, Winter Wakeneth All My Care, Hay Ay

John Rutter (editor) : English Church Music, Volume 2: Canticles and Responses

Review: Oxford Choral Classics: English Church Music assembles in two volumes around 100 of the finest examples of English sacred choral music. The second volume presents a wealth of service material suitable for use throughout the year. The evening canticles are given due space, with seventeen settings, including those by Byrd, Gibbons, Purcell, Walmisley, Stanford, Noble, Howells, Walton, and Tippett. Also included are settings of the Te Deum and Jubilate Deo, alongside seven settings of the Preces and Responses and two additional early Lord's Prayers. The selection is completed with three supplementary items: a set of previously unpublished Psalm chants by Howells, John Sanders's Good Friday Reproaches, and a written-out Order for Compline. Robert King has prepared completely new editions of all the pre-twentieth-century works, going back to the earliest and most reliable manuscripts or printed sources. Playable keyboard reductions have been added for the majority of unaccompanied items.

Songlist: Preces & Responses, Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B minor (original setting), Preces & Responses, Second Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis), Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in C minor (unison voices) (transposed to D minor), Preces & Responses, Lord's Prayer, Short Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis), Second Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis), Short Service (Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis), Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B minor, Psalm Chants, Preces & Responses, Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B minor, Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in G minor, Preces & Responses, Good Friday Reproaches, Preces & Responses, Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in G, Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in C, Te Deum and Jubilate in C, Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in A, Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in B flat, Lord's Prayer, Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis (St John's service), Preces & Responses, Te Deum in G, Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in D minor, Magnificat & Nunc Dimmitis (Chichester Service), Jubilate Deo, and more

John Rutter (Editor) : European Sacred Music

Review: The Oxford Choral Classics gathers together over three hundred of the world's choral masterpieces into a unique series of seven volumes that span the whole of Western choral literature. Each volume contains all of the established classics of its genre under a single cover, in authoritative new editions and at a budget price. European Sacred Music is the second volume in the series and a fabulous value for money. From the Allegri Misereri to the Victora O vos omnes, John Rutter and co-editor Clifford Bartlett have researched the best available sources and provided excellent new English singing translations and sensible, practical keyboard reductions.

Songlist: Miserere, Cristus factus est, Otche nash (The Lord's Prayer), O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht, Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Muhseligen?, Ach, arme Welt, Geistliches Lied, Ave Maria, Christus factus est, Os justi, Locus iste, Magnificat, O vos omnes, Cantique de jean Racine, Panis angelicus, Jubilate Deo, O vos omnes, The Cherubic Hymn (Izhe kheruvimyi), Ave aris stella, Ave Virgo sanctissima, Pater noster, Dixit Maria, Crux fidelis, Ave Maria, Adoramus te, Christe, Ave verum Corpus, Timor et tremor and Exaudi Deus, Crucifixus a8, Psalm 48 (Richte mich, Gott), Verleih uns Frieden, and more

John Rutter (editor) : Folk Songs For Choirs Vol 1

Review: Editied by John Rutter these songs come from the British Isles and North America, ranging widely in regional origin and character.

Songlist: Among the Leaves so Green, O, Bushes and Briars, Black Sheep, Bobby Shafto, Dashing Away With The Smoothing Iron, Early One Morning, Greensleeves, Londonderry Air, My Sweetheart's like Venus, O Waly, Waly, She's Like the Swallow, Sourwood Mountain

John Rutter (editor) : Folk Songs For Choirs Vol 2

Review: Edited by John Rutter all these songs come from the British Isles.

Songlist: Afton Water, Brigg Fair, Ca' the Yowes, Faithful Johnny, I love my Love, Strawberry Fair, Swansea Town, The Keel Row, The Oak and the Ash, The Sailor and Young Nancy, The Three Ravens, The Turtle Dove, Yarmouth Fair

John Rutter (Editor) : Opera Choruses

Review: The Oxford Choral Classics series gathers together over three hundred of the world's choral masterpieces into a unique series of seven volumes. Each volume contains all of the established classics of its genre under a single cover, in authoritative new editions, at a budget price. Opera Choruses is the first volume in the series. Audiences will love these classic choruses, skillfully arranged as separate concert works and available for the first time together. Rutter has researched the best available sources and provided excellent English singing translations, as well as sensible and practical new keyboard reductions for rehearsal accompanists.

Songlist: Prisoners' chorus (Fidelio), Roman carnival (Benvenuto Cellini), Habanera (Carmen), March of the toreadors (Carmen), Polovitsian dances (Prince Igor), Chorus of wedding guests (Lucia di Lammermoor), Soldiers' chorus (Faust ), Chorus of encanted islanders (Alcina), Bell Chorus (Pagliacci), Easter hymn (Cavalleria rusticana), Priests' chorus (Die Zauberflote), Voyagers' chorus (Idomeneo), Coronation scene (Boris Godunov), Humming chorus (Madama Butterfly), Dido's lament, and final chorus (Dido and Aeneas), Procession of the nobles (Mlada), Prayer (Moise), Villagers' chorus (Guillaume Tell), Chorus of peasant girls (Eugene Onegin), Waltz scene (Eugene Onegin), Anvil chorus (Il trovatore), Brindisi (La traviata), Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves (Nabucco), Chorus of Scottish Refugees (Macbeth), Matadors' chorus (La traviata), Rataplan (La forza del destino), Soldiers' chorus (Il trovatore), Triumphal scene (Aida), Witches' chorus (Macbeth), Bridal Chorus (Lohengrin), and more

John Tavener : Birthday Sleep

Review: Commissioned by George Watson's College, to mark the Millennium. The work was first performed in December 2000 at St. Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, as part of the College's Festival Of Nine Lessons And Carols, by the choir of George Watson's College.

John Tavener : Butterfly Dreams

Review: A Choral Suite in eight movements for SATB (multi divisi). The texts are taken from different sources, including Chuang Tse, an Acoman Indian and a poem written by a young Czech victim of Auschwitz. Scored for 4 Sopranos, 3 Altos, 3 Tenors and 3 Basses (SSSSAAATTTBBB) a cappella.

John Tavener : Choral Collection

Review: A collection of Tavener's most popular choral pieces most all of which are a cappella. The text of Annunciation is taken from St Luke's gospel. The words of the Archangel are sung by the main choir, and should build up to a thunderous, awesome theophany. The response of the Mother of God 'How shall this be' comes form a quartet of solo voices set apart, preferably raised in a gallery. This songbook includes program notes from Tavener himself.

Songlist: Annunciation, Come and Do Your Will In Me, Eonia, Funeral Canticle, Hymn to the Mother of God, I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes, Ikon of St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne, Love Bade Me Welcome, Prayer To The Holy Trinity, Song From Athene

John Tavener : Come and Do Your Will with Me

Review: This is a wonderful work for unaccompanied SATB choir, to be sung with enormous intensity and sonority. First performed in June 1998 by the Chester Cathedral Choir conducted by David Poulter. This is a special item which is made to order. Please e-mail our Mail Order Department for further information.

John Tavener : Coplas

Review: Coplas is a short anthem for voices and belongs to a much larger work called 'Last Rites' which is based on the mystical idea of St. John of the Cross. In once sense Coplas is a prolonged decoration of the 'et sepultus est' cadence from the Crucifixus in Bach's Mass in B minor. In another sense I think of it not so much as my music but a way of listening to Bach's music.

Songlist: Coplas

John Tavener : Exhortation and Kohima

Review: Composed by John Tavener through commission by the Royal British Legion for the Festival of Remembrance. First performed on the 8th November 2003 at the Albert Hall, London. The piece is written for double choir, one as a central focus and another as a semi-chorus 'Echo-Choir'. The two groups are then unified for the closing Kohima movements. In accordance with the occasion, the music is slow, noble and highly dignified.

John Tavener : Favorite Anthems

Review: Favourite Anthems' for SATB choir presents some of John Tavener's most popular works from his outstandingly varied and extensive catalog of works for choir. Also included are beautiful miniatures and radiant anthems which trace a line over the years from the exquisite simplicity of his setting of William Blake's The Lamb to the monumental Veil of the Temple and beyond.

Songlist: A Christmas Round, A Hymn To The Mother Of God, Advent Antiphon, Agnus Dei, As One Who Has Slept, Exhortation And Kohima, God Is With Us (A Christmas Proclamation), Nunc Dimittis, O That We Were There, Rocking, Song For Athene, The Founder's Prayer, The Lamb, Today The Virgin, What God Is, We Do Not Know

John Tavener : Funeral Ikos

Review: A sacred work for unaccompanied SSATBB choir, using text from The Order for the Burial of Dead Priests, translated from Greek by Isabel Hapgood. Vocal score with piano accompaniment for rehearsal purposes.

John Tavener : Hymns of Paradise

Review: Hymns Of Paradise, for bass solo, SA chorus and six violins. This work was commissioned by Ross Pople for performance by the London Festival Orchestsra. It was first performed on 27th May 1993 at St Paul's Cathedral.

John Tavener : Ikon of the Crucifixion

Review: John Tavener's 1988 work for soprano, countertenor, baritone, bass, SATB chorus, group of tenors and basses and large chamber group. This work, the duration of which is approximately 10 minutes, was commissioned by BBC Television and Radio 3. This is a special item which is made to order.

John Tavener : Ikon of the Trinity

Review: An attempt to express in music and words the mystery of the Trinity. The text is taken form the ancient Trisagion (sung in Greek). The first section represents God The Father, the second section God The Son, and the third section God The Holy Spirit. For chorus of mixed voices.

John Tavener : Lament for Jerusalem - A Mystical Love-Song

Review: It is only through love, that there can be a transcendent unity of all religions, and all manifestations of God. There is the Christic element in Christ's lament over Jerusalem, which is sung by the chorus in the original Greek; then, there is the Judaic element in the Psalm 'By the Waters of Babylon we sat down and wept', sung by the choir and soprano solo; the Islamic dimension is taken from the prologue of Rumi's sublime Masnavi, and this is always sung by the counter-tenor.

John Tavener : Missa Wellensis

Review: Commissioned by Cathedral Commissions of Wells Cathedral, this setting of the missa brevis was written as a tribute to the Spanish Renaissance composer Victoria, who inspired Tavener throughout his life. The final movement (Agnus Dei ) includes a quotation from Victoria's O Vos Omnes from the Tenebrae Responsories.

John Tavener : Pluies

Review: John Tavener's Pluies is a work for Solo Mezzo-Soprano, SATB Chorus and String Quartet. The piece was first performed on 31st January 2015 and lasts around 5 minutes. This is the vocal score.

John Tavener : Preces and Responses

Review: John Tavener's Preces and Responses for Double Choir were commissioned by Cathedral Commissions of Wells Cathedral and were first performed on Sunday 18th May 2014 during New Music Wells 74-14, by Wells Cathedral Choir conducted by Matthew Owens.

Songlist: Preces and Responses

John Tavener : Svyati (O Holy One)

Review: Quoting Tavener: I began to write Svyati in early 1995: while sketching it, I learned that John Williams, father of Jane, my dear friend and publisher, was dying. I could not refrain from dedicating it to Jane and to the memory of her father. The text is in Church Slavonic, and it is used at almost every Russian Orthodox service, perhaps most poignantly after the congregation have kissed the body in an open coffin at an Orthodox funeral. The choir sings as the coffin is closed and borne out of the church, followed by the mourners with lighted candles. The cello represents the priest or icon of Christ, and should play at a distance from the choir, perhaps at the opposite end of the building. As is Greek drama, choir and priest are in dialogue with each other. Since the cello represents the icon of Christ, it must be played without any sentiment of a Western character, but should derive from the chanting of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

John Tavener : The Apocalypse

Review: John Tavener's The Apocolypse for SATB choir with piano accompaniment. This work was commissioned by the BBC for performance during the 100th season of Henry Wood Promenade Concerts. It was first performed on August 14, 1994, at the Royal Albert Hall, London, conducted by Richard Hickox, with Thomas Randle (St. John), Patricia Rozario (The Woman), Stephen Richardson (Voice of God), Ruby Philogene (Whore of Babylon), Christopher Robson (Angel), David Nickless (Solo Treble), The New London Children's Choir, the City of London Sinfonia Chorus and the City of London Sinfonia.

John Tavener : The Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom

Review: For SATB choir and readers.

John Taverner : Five Anthems from the Veil of the Temple

Review: The Veil of the Temple is a journey from darkness into light. Care and attention has been given to the key chosen for each anthem and to the voicings, so that these versions are attractive to the broadest possible range of amateur as well as professional singers. The breathtakingly simple Mother Of God, here I stand and the quietly ecstatic Awed by the Beauty are for unaccompanied chorus. The remaining three anthems are scored with organ accompaniment: the sonorous You mantle yourself in light; the contemplative What God is we do not know and the radiant O Mary Theotokos.

Songlist: Mother Of God, Awed by the Beauty, You, What God is we do not know, O Mary Theotokos

John W. Work : American Negro Songs - 230 Folk Songs

Review: From joyous gospel to deeply felt blues, this wonderful collection contains vintage songs sung and played through the years by black Americans - at work, in church and for pure entertainment. included are spirituals, blues, work songs, and a variety of social and dance songs. This book was originally compiled by Dr. John Work, the noted musicologist affiliated with Fisk University and the celebrated Fisk Jubilee Singers and is a indispensable treasury of music for singers seeking a comprehensive sourcebook of black American folk music.

Songlist: Origins, Spirituals, The Blues, Work Songs, Social and Miscellaneous, The Songs

John Winzenburg : Half Moon Rising

Review: Half Moon Rising, compiled and edited by John Winzenburg, offers a broad range of choirs an informed introduction to performing Chinese choral music. The collection includes a representative and contrasting selection of works from the past century - folksong arrangements; pieces mixing traditional Chinese and Western Romantic styles; and contemporary settings of ancient poetry. Includes a broad range of styles and dialects, illustrating the region's rich diversity, all presented with the transliterated original text with poetic English translations below the staves and introductions containing information on the composers/arrangers; performance notes; and literal English translations.

Songlist: Ba Jun Zan | Magnificent Horses, Diu Diu Dang Ah | Old Train Song, Dui Hua | Antiphonal Flower Song, Gai Tau Hong Mei | Street Calls, Ge Lao Huan Ge | Happy Song of the Gelao, Hong Dou Ci | Red Bean Poem, Ken Chun Ni | Cultivating Spring Soil, Kuai Le De Ju Hui | Happy ReunionLok Sui Tien | Rainy Days, Mo Li Hua | Jasmine Flower, Mu Ge | Shepherd's Song, Pao Ma Liu Liu Di Shan Shang | Horses Run on the Mountain, Qing Chun Wu Qu | Dance of Youth, Ru Meng Ling | Like a Dream, Seui Diu Go Tau | Under the Mid-Autumn Moon, Shui Guang Lian Yan | Ripples Glisten Away, Shui Xian Hua | Narcissus Flower, Tin O O | Dark Clouds, Xiao He Tang Shui | Flowing Creek, Xiao Huang Li Niao | Little Oriole, Yang Guan San Die | Parting at Yangguan Pass, Yi Wang | To Forget

Johnathan Crumpton : Top Anthem Collection Vol 1

Review: This best of the best resource combines top anthems chosen by Music Pastors for effective content, ministry value, and overall impact to the church and community. This new choral book spans across various styles, genres, and generations by delivering meaningful, worshipful, and inspiring songs that can be used in a way that works best within your ministry. These top anthems are arranged and orchestrated by many of today's top arrangers, including Bradley Knight, Cliff Duren, Mike Speck, Marty Parks, Daniel Semsen, Gary Rhodes, plus many more! These inspiring arrangements will allow your choir to sing with confidence all while keeping accessible vocal ranges in mind.

Songlist: Wonderful Grace of Jesus with At Calvary, A Mighty Fortress, Jesus Saves, Every Road, The Love of God, This Blood with Nothing, To the King, Settled at the Cross, Your God Will Come, Healing Is in Your Hands, Somebody Prayed for Me, Glorious Day (Living He Loved Me), Lord, You're Holy, Ride the Morning Winds, He Came Down

Jonathan Harvey : Forms of Emptiness

Review: Forms of Emptiness is a work for mixed choir which sets words from the Buddhist Heart Sutra, in the original Sanskrit, and three poems by E.E. Cummings. The E.E. Cummings poems all have emphasis on the here and now, on 'catching the joy as it flies'. Seeker of truth Follow no path All paths lead where Truth is here Against these vivid flashes of joy and colour is set a chant - the sanskrit of the Heart Sutra - which acts as a ground from which the 'forms of emptiness' briefly emerge, and against which they are comprehended as transient, scarcely real. There are references to other 'sacred styles' as well as that of the chant - to those of Palestrina and Messiaen for instance. Jonathan Harvey

Jonathan Rathbone : My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose

Review: Scottish traditional song based on the text of Robert Burns

Songlist: O My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose

Jonathan Wilcocks : Three Sea Shanties

Review: From noted English choral arranger Jonathan Wilcocks a collection of sea songs. A more serious central shanty, Demons, is framed by two light-hearted settings, Enticement and Drunken Sailor. The ending is extrovert and rumbustious and almost guaranteed to bring the house down.

Songlist: Enticement, Demons, Drunken Sailor

Jonathan Willcocks : Lux Perpetua

Review: This six-movement work celebrates the themes of peace and unity to produce music of beauty, power, compassion, and great poignancy. The choral writing contains semi-chorus and solo voices from within the choir, but no separate soloists are needed.

Joseph Linn : Moving Up To Gloryland

Review: 75 favorite gospel songs overflowing with warmth and natural exuberance are the hallmark of this collection of 4-part, hymnal-style arrangements usable for choirs, ensembles, soloists or congregations. Dozens of southern gospel classics, along with newer songs are presented so in a flexible format, so they can be sung either individually or in a thematic medley. Introductions, modulations, and endings are provided.

Songlist: Behold the Lamb Medley (Behold the Lamb; Stand Still and See His Glory), Calvary Medley (The Old Rugged Cross Made the Difference; I Believe in a Hill Called Mount Calvary; My Faith Still Holds), Changed Medley (Then I Met the Master; Redeemed; I've Been Changed); Coming Soon Medley (Redemption Draweth Nigh; Jesus Is Coming Soon), Do You Know Medley (Healer of Broken Heart; Do You Know My Jesus?, Dying Love Medley (Love Is Why; If That Isn't Love; He Looked Beyond My Fault), Gladness Medley (I've Got That Old Time Religion in My Heart; I'm Feeling Fine), Heavenly Journey Medley (I'm Climbing up the Mountain; God Made a Way), Heavenly Praise Medley (I Bowed on My Knees and Cried, "Holy!"; O for a Thousand Tongues), Hide Me Medley (Hide Thou Me; Hide Me, Rock of Ages), Holy Presence Medley (Sweet, Sweet Spirit; Holy Spirit, Thou Art Welcome; Holy Ground), How Long Medley (How About Your Heart?; How Long Has It Been?), I Am Free Medley (Down on My Knees; Can He? Could He? Would He? Did He?; Thank God, I Am Free), Jesus and Me Medley (Jesus and Me; Jesus, Hold My Hand; He Will Pilot Me), Jesus First Medley (Love Thou Me More Than These?; Remind Me, Dear Lord; Whatever It Takes); Jubilee Medley (The Meeting in the Air; The Happy Jubilee; Heaven's Jubilee), New Jerusalem Medley (I'm Bound for That City; Touring That City; Your First Day in Heaven), Prayer Medley (Where Could I Go?; He Knows Just What I Need; Just a Little Talk with Jesus), Reaching Out Medley (Show Me Thy Ways, O Lord; Let Me Touch Him), Resurrection Life Medley (Hallelujah! We Shall Rise; I'll Have a New Life), Reunion Medley (The Eastern Gate; I'll Meet You in the Morning; Everybody Will Be Happy Over There; That Glad Reunion Day), Risen Medley (Rise Again; The Night Before Easter), Seeing Jesus Medley (Jesus Will Outshine Them All; What a Day That Will Be; We Shall Behold Him), Solid Rock Medley (I Go to the Rock; I'm Standing on the Rock), Sufficient Grace Medley (Sheltered in the Arms of God; His Grace Is Sufficient for Me), The King and I Medley (The King and I Walk Hand in Hand; Led by the Master's Hand), Traveling On Medley (I Won't Turn Back; I Feel Like Traveling On), Up and Away Medley (Goodby, World, Goodby; Moving Up to Gloryland; I'll Fly Away), Savior Medley (What a Savior; Wonderful Savior), Heavenly Love Medley (Heavenly Love; When God Dips His Love in My Heart)

Joseph Martin : Candles of Grace

Review: This brief choral cantata is well suited for use during Holy Week as a Tenebrae observance or as a time of reflection. A musical service of shadows, Candles of Grace is filled with emotive texts and deeply expressive music portraying the events of the Passion. A thoughtful orchestration adorns this chamber cantata with refined beauty and grace, giving directors an instrumental or track option for their presentations. From the delicate opening phrases to the fragile whispered ending, this work is essential for remembering and experiencing the suffering of the Lord. Songs include: Prelude (The Shadow Falls); Bring Me to the Cross; The Garden Call; Man of Sorrows, What a Name; Jesus, Lover of My Soul; Keep Me Near the Cross; Scenes from a Solemn Cross; Epilogue. Score and Parts (pno, fl, vn 1-2, va, vc) available as a digital download. For the Accompaniment and Part Dominant Tracks: Audio is accessed online using the unique code generated upon purchase and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.

Songlist: Bring Me To The Cross, Jesus, Lover Of My Soul, Man Of Sorrows, What A Name, Near The Cross Of Jesus, Prelude/Epilogue- The Shadows Fall, Scenes From A Solemn Cross, The Garden Call

Joseph Martin : Just Voices - A Cappella Anthems for Any Occasion

Review: Here is the ultimate a cappella collection for church choirs everywhere. Between these covers you will find bestsellers for almost every occasion. Some of the greatest names in sacred music are represented here: Roy Ringwald, Gordon Young, Don Besig, Patsy Ford Simms, Joseph Martin, Pepper Choplin, and many others. There are exciting gospels and expressive ballads, delightful seasonal offerings and useful service music selections to enhance your worship planning. Bring the glory of the human voice into your music program with this amazing compilation.

Songlist: Woke up This Mornin', Deep River, Down to the Water to Pray, The Lord Is My Shepherd, Jesus Leads Me All The Way, We Are Surrounded, Great Joy A Comin', All on a Starry Night, The Light of the World, America, The Beautiful, Lord, I Believe In You, Meditation for Communion, In the Shadow of the Cross, Wonderful Savior, We Are not Alone, Ring Ye Bells of Easter Morning, My Master From A Garden Rose, A Parting Blessing

Style: Church

Joseph Martin : Of Faith and Freedom

Review: Celebrate our legacy of liberty and the foundations of our faith with this thoughtful new choral collection from the pen of Joseph Martin. Newly composed chorals and arrangements mingle with bestsellers to create a work of uncommon power and emotion. Included in this inspiring compilation are optional religious and civil service suggestions to make your presentation a meaningful and affirming declaration of our treasured values.

Songlist: If My People, Once To Every Man And Nation, Song for the Unsung Hero, God of Our Fathers, Faith of Our Fathers, Prayer for our Time, Our Heritage of Faith

Joseph Martin : The Rose of Calvary

Review: The Rose of Calvary is the greatly anticipated sequel to the best-selling cantata, The Winter Rose. Using the same beautiful imagery, the work tells the story of Jesus's ministry, passion, death on the cross and his triumphant resurrection. This creative work has nine new anthems and contains opportunities for soloists and narrators. Written to function as either a work for Holy Week or with the optional ending as a joyful celebration of the resurrection, this musical offers maximum flexibility to the director. Brant Adams reprises his role as orchestrator, and Pamela Martin once again provides thoughtful and meaningful narration. Spectacular!

Joseph Martin : The Thrill of Hope

Review: Combining traditional carols with the best of today's contemporary Christian seasonal selections, this cantata is an ideal choice for the traditional/transitional church. Using the well-known Lessons and Carols template, this work brings it all together for an outstanding blend of old and new. A fresh version of the traditional lessons written in modern language is a special feature. The work includes opportunities for the congregation to participate and as well as options for children's choir. Tell the old, old story in a brand new way with The Thrill of Hope. Songs include: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel; O Come, All Ye Faithful; Oh Children Come; Advent Hymn; All Is Well; Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus; What a Beautiful Name; Noel; Let the World Sing Gloria; One King; The Thrill of Hope; O Holy Night. Score and Parts (fl, ob, cl, hn 1-2, perc 1-2, rhy, vn 1-2, va, vc) available as a Printed Edition and as a digital download. Score and Parts for Praise Band (perc 1-2, rhy) available as a digital download.

Songlist: Emmanuel, O Holy Night, All Is Well, O Come, All Ye Faithful, One King, Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus, Noel, Let The World Sing Gloria, Oh Children Come, What A Beautiful Name, Advent Hymn, The Thrill Of Hope

Josquin Desprez : Missa De beata

Review: Missa de Beata Virgine is a musical setting of the Ordinary of the Mass, by Renaissance composer Josquin des Prez. A late work, probably composed or assembled around 1510, it was the most popular of his masses in the 16th century. The Missa de Beata Virgine is unusual among Josquin's masses in that the first two movements are for four voices, and the last three for five, with the fifth voice derived canonically. Like most musical settings of the mass Ordinary, it is in five sections, or movements. It uses different plainsong chants for each movement, and is a paraphrase mass, one in which the original chants are elaborated, broken up, passed between voices, or sung in different voices simultaneously. The movements differ in their treatment of the source plainchant. The Kyrie has the chant in all voices, imitatively and paraphrased; the Gloria treats the chant as a cantus firmus, migrating it from voice to voice. Tonally, both movements end on G, and most of their cadences are on G or D. The Credo, the first movement for five voices, ends with a surprising Phrygian cadence on E, and uses canonic techniques more prominently than in the preceding movements.

Songlist: Missa De beata, Kyrie 1, Christe, Kyrie 2, Et in terra, Qui tollis, Cum Sancto, Credo sections, Sanctus, Pleni sunt caeli, Hosanna, Benedictus, Agnus Dei 1, Agnus Dei 2, Agnus Dei 3

Judith Clurman : Sing Out, Mr. President

Review: Judith Clurman commissioned 16 contemporary composers to write short choral pieces based on the words of 16 American presidents for this collection that combines American history, culture and music. First featured on NPR for President's Day in 2011, this collection is a fantastic resource for choirs, singers and music enthusiasts everywhere! Includes: George Washington Washington Round (Michael Gilbertson), John Adams John Adam's Prayer (Jake Heggie), Thomas Jefferson Opinion Is Power (Larry Hochman), James Madison Round (Milton Babbitt), Andrew Jackson One Man with Courage Makes a Majority (Nico Muhly), Abraham Lincoln The Ballot Is Stronger than the Bullet (Jason Robert Brown), Theodore Roosevelt A Theodore Roosevelt Round (Thomas Cabaniss), Woodrow Wilson I Believe in Democracy (Andrew Lippa), Franklin Delano Roosevelt Admonition of FDR (Samuel Adler), Harry Truman Truman (David Ludwig), Dwight David Eisenhower Eisenhower Round (Paul Moravec), John Fitzgerald Kennedy Freedom's Road (Robert Beaser), Ronald Reagan Moral Courage (Jesse Wiener), William Jefferson Clinton An Ode (Zachary Wadsworth), George W. Bush A Simple Oath (Nora Kroll-Rosenbaum), Barack Obama With Hope and Virtue (Georgia Stitt).

Songlist: Freedom's Road, A Simple Oath, A Theodore Roosevelt Round, Admonition Of FDR, An Ode, Eisenhower Round, I Believe In Democracy, John Adams' Prayer, Moral Courage, One Man With Courage Makes A Majority, Opinion, Round, The Ballot Is Stronger Than The Bullet, Truman, Washington Round, With Hope And Virtue