Setting a heart-breaking wartime text by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson, Pott has created a beautifully poignant piece befitting any Remembrance occasion. Written in memory of Staff Sergeant Olaf Schmid, a bomb disposal expert killed in 2009 during the Afghanistan conflict, Lament embodies a sense of timeless commemoration. Combining this with Pott's striking harmonic language and deftly interweaving vocal lines results in a highly compelling work, both emotionally and musically.

This rich setting of an eighteenth-century poem, for SATB and piano, suggests the timeless calm of the night. Punctuated by tolling bells in the piano, it builds to a grand climax before subsiding into peacefulness again. It is the first movement of the cantata 'Pictures of Night' (CE43) and it can stand on its own as a colourful concert item.

A setting of a poem by Ursula Wood, later to become Ursula Vaughan Williams. The dedication reads, 'To the memory of Charles Villiers Stanford, and his Blue Bird'.

Evocation to a Friend was commissioned for the Choristers of Canterbury Cathedral on behalf of Befrienders International (now Befrienders Worldwide). The text is by David Race and explores themes of friendship and hope. The music grows in intensity over a cyclic harmonic pattern, with repeating melodic fragments arranged across the four voices creating a hypnotic effect. After a bleak and reflective interlude in the middle, the music unwinds to a peaceful conclusion.The Novello New Choral Series is an inspiring selection of new works from a range of contemporary composers, offering pieces for all types of choirs, including sacred and secular works from simple, four-part settings to more expansive, yet accessible, repertoire in an exciting variety of styles. This collection is perfect for choirs looking to broaden their repertoire and explore some of the best new music around.Timothy Noon (b.1974) is Director of Music at Holy Trinity Cathedral, Auckland, New Zealand. He received his musical education as a chorister at Hereford Cathedral and subsequently as Organ Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford. Following appointments at St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin, and Canterbury Cathedral, he became Organist and Master of the Choristers at St David’s Cathedral, Pembrokeshire, and then Director of Music at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, before moving to his present position in 2011. Timothy Noon - Evocation To A Friend by musicroom

Invocation was written for the Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford and represents the culmination of the composer’s time as a research fellow at the college, when he worked closely with the choir. Phillip had long been a devotee of Edward Thomas’s evocative poem, Adlestrop, with its dreamy pastoral feel invoking the very essence of a sultry English country afternoon. It seemed a natural choice to set, not least because it mentions the two counties in which he has spent the last seven years, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire. Phillip wanted the work further to emphasise the link with everything we might class as a stereotypical English country afternoon – cricket on the green, church bells, birdsong and warm beer – the mythical ‘middle-England’. His work in no way tries to depict this, rather to distil the feeling – it is a rhapsody on a theme of English country life, that men went to war to preserve, something very different from the more rugged landscape he grew up with in the Lake District. The work is called Invocation, because it is precisely that, a spell or charm, something that bewitches the listener and that the composer hopes stays long in the mind, rather like Adlestrop or indeed Adlestrop itself. The Novello New Choral Series is an inspiring selection of new works from a range of contemporary composers, offering pieces for all types of choirs, including sacred and secular works from simple, four-part settings to more expansive, yet accessible, repertoire in an exciting variety of styles. This collection is perfect for choirs looking to broaden their repertoire and explore some of the best new music around. Phillip Cooke was born in Cumbria in 1980, spending his formative years there. He has had works played across the country by many of the country’s top choirs and ensembles. New works in 2011 were featured in the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music, John Armitage Memorial Concert Series, Choir & Organ and the Lake District Summer Music Festival, and by the Temple Church Choir, Eton College Choir and many cathedral, university and Oxbridge college choirs. He is strongly infl uenced by his native Lake District and by history, poetry and literature. He is active as an academic with teaching positions at Oxford University and Eton College and is currently co-editing a book of essays on Herbert Howells for publication in 2013.

Setting a Native American text, The Song of the Stars is a bright and rhythmic piece scored for double upper-voice choir. Featuring rhythmic ostinatos, imitative effects, and rich harmonies, this is a welcome addition to both the secular and upper-voice repertories.If ordering more than 10 copies, please call us on +44 (0)1284 725725 to check availability.

For unison children's choir, SATB choir, and Piano. Combining texts by Christina Rossetti and Robert Burns, this mixed voice version retains the upper-voice opening of the original, with the latter section being expanded into mixed-voice harmony.If ordering more than 10 copies, please call us on +44 (0)1284 725725 to check availability.

This secular text, written by Edgar Allen Poe, is fanciful, calling into question whether reality is a dream, or even a dream within a dream. The music is lush and has a subtle hint of popular harmonies alongside well-written choral lines and an accessible piano part. This would be perfect material for a good secondary school choir.If ordering more than 10 copies, please call us on +44 (0)1284 725725 to check availability.

Not no faceless Angel is a beautifully reflective work. Originally commissioned by Joy Hill and the RCM Junior Department, the work is a sensitive setting of words by Tanya Lake. The themes of loss and love are articulated through expressive melodic lines and touching imagery.If ordering more than 10 copies, please call us on +44 (0)1284 725725 to check availability.

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Se lamentar augelli was commissioned by the Harvard Glee Club Foundation for the Harvard Glee Club, on the occasion of the anniversary of the 30th anniversary of Dr Jameson N. Marvin as Director of Choral Activities at Harvard University.

SSA (with divisions).If ordering more than 10 copies, please call us on +44 (0)1284 725725 to check availability.

If ordering more than 10 copies, please call us on +44 (0)1284 725725 to check availability.This Day by Bob Chilcott unites five very different texts, both sacred and secular, in an exploration of man's relationship with the world and with God. A wonderful concert piece for upper-voice choirs of all ages. For SA and Piano.

Written for unison voices and piano.

Arranged for SSAA unaccompanied choir by Noel Cox.

Written for two solo sopranos, tenor, baritone, SATB chorus and orchestra. Text by Andrew Hawes.

Music For Special Occasions brings together 10 secular choral works in on volume, carefully selected to cater for a wide variety of performance contexts - whether joyful, reflective, or commemorative. Practically and flexibly arranged for Soprano and Baritone or Low Alto, this unique collection of best-loved classics and new pieces is a must-have resource for all school, community and church choirs.If ordering more than 10 copies, please call us on +44 (0)1284 725725 to check availability.

Written for SATB chorus, Piano or Organ with optional Oboe.

Written for SSA chorus, piano or organ with optional oboe.

Taken from For the fallen and arranged for SATB choir and piano accompaniment.

We Remember Them is an arrangement of the central section of the three movement work, Triptych, which itself represents the concatenation of two commissions.

Ruth Elaine Schram's delightful Hear the Music set for 2-part upper voices and Piano accompaniment.If ordering more than 10 copies, please call us on +44 (0)1284 725725 to check availability.

Nine classic Chilcott songs including original pieces and arrangements of traditional material, all written for SATB chorus with some Piano accompaniments.The varied nature of the collection highlights Chilcott's prodigious gifts. Some of the pieces are published here for the first time.If ordering more than 10 copies, please call us on +44 (0)1284 725725 to check availability.

This is a hauntingly beautiful, spiritual-style setting of a sixteenth-century text attributed to Thomas Ravenscroft, for SATB chorus with Piano accompaniment.If ordering more than 10 copies, please call us on +44 (0)1284 725725 to check availability.