Sacred & Religious Music

John Rutter has arranged A Gaelic Blessing, one of his most popular anthems, for organ solo. Especially useful for weddings and other services wher...

Choirs love Christmas. The pleasure of revisiting the familiar and exploring the new is something singers enjoy year after year. This superb new co...

The psalms are the principal scriptural songs of the Church. They have been part of the core of Christian worship since the earliest times. The psa...

Winner of the RCO Composition Competition 2020 (over 25), setting words of St Francis of Assisi for Tenor solo and organ.

David Halls, Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral, wrote this for the RCO competition held in 2020, in which it was the runner-up. A well const...

A few church musicians of today may recognise the names of J H Maunder, Caleb Simper and Ferris Tozer, but very few will know very much about them,...

Light on the Way is a collection of hymns based on Scripture, from Genesis to Revelation, by Timothy Dudley-Smith, one of todays leading hymn write...

David Halls, Director of Music at Salisbury Cathedral, wrote this charming and varied set of pieces to commemorate the 800th anniversary of the tra...

Bedard's variations on the Advent choral Nun Kom, der Heiden Heiland is a tour de force and very engaging.

A Fantasia for organ based on two well-known hymn tunes: Sagina (And can it be) and Cwm Rhondda (Guide me of thou great redeemer).

Where December has become so overburdened with commercial and social pressures, we can too easily lose the sense of expectation, hoping and waiting...

The idea of setting the words of the Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis to an elaborate falsobordone emerged from the practice at Westminster Cathedral o...

Ave Generosa is Margaret's latest collection of Choral Music. It sets to music texts by mystics Hildegard of Bingen and Thomas Merton, as well as v...

Steeped in the Catholic spiritual tradition, The Sacramentality of Music argues that musical experience, in its appeal to the entirety of the human...

for SATB and organ Written in 1911, while Browne was at Cambridge, the work is kept in a mainly homophonic style, with the organ supporting. Tenors...

for SATB and organ or small orchestra Recognising the frequency with which this buoyant Cornish carols is performed with organ accompaniment, the c...

for SATB unaccompanied This gentle anthem is built around a warm, hymn-like refrain, which gives way first to a free-flowing and expressive section...

for SATB and organ The Gift of Charity is a gently flowing anthem. It features beautifully arching phrases, an optional soprano solo, and exultant ...

for SSA and piano On this day is a bright and exuberant upper-voice setting of the English version of 'Personent hodie' from Piae Cantiones (1582)....

This is a major collection of organ music for students, players, and church musicians of all levels and abilities. Compiler and editor Anne Marsden...

This is a major collection of organ music for students, players, and church musicians of all levels and abilities. Compiler and editor Anne Marsden...

for SSAATTBB unaccompanied In 1854 Pearsall arranged his madrigal Lay a garland to the text Tu es Petrus. Richard Shephard has taken up this idea a...

for SA and piano or orchestra With a simple, appealing melody and a flowing accompaniment, The Colours of Christmas evokes a touching sense of long...

for SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied Originally published in the New Horizons collection Cantica Nova, this expansive Advent motet creates a uni...

for SATB unaccompanied This is a tender setting of the popular Christmas text by the Wedderburn brothers. Stirring climaxes are contrasted with int...

Following the publication of Jane Savage's Christmas anthem Whilst shepherds watch'd their flocks by night (CMS RS149) composed for the Asylum for ...

for SSA and organ or piano Paul Drayton's setting of three stanzas from Laurence Binyon's poem 'For the Fallen' is poignant, dignified, and atmosp...

Pentecostals throughout Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora use music to declare what they believe and where they stand in relation to religious and ...