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Anthony Young  

Be Still

Duration: 03' 30" Year: 2009
for SATB choir

  • Programme Note

    Much of my work is a marriage (or balancing act) between the Western art music tradition and my own position in time and place. Along with many forms, I have had a love for sacred choral music from Mediaeval times through to the present, but in not being a Christian, I have felt a reluctance to set text in which I don’t fully believe.

    In reading the work of spiritual author, Eckhart Tolle, I have discovered a new connection with biblical texts. Tolle quotes the line “Be still, and know that I am God” in his book A New Earth, as an example of a universal truth that is at the heart of all religions and belief systems. In this text “God” may be seen as the Christian God, an omnipresent spiritual dimension or the universe personified. This line, and the rest of the text, is from Psalm 46. In setting this text I have found an opening into the world of sacred choral music that aligns with my own beliefs.

    Anthony Young

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David Griffiths  

Beata Virgo

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1974
for 12 part (SSSAAATTTBBB) choir

Pepe Becker  

Cancer Two: "T'amo mia vita"

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 2001
for uncaccompanied chamber choir

David Farquhar  

Concerto Sul "La"

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1988
for SATB choir

  • Programme Note

    Concerto sul ‘la’ was commissioned by Bel Canto, with funds from the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Council (now Creative New Zealand) and the NZ Composers’ Foundation, and first performed by them in 1988 at a concert in Wellington’s St. Paul’s Cathedral, conducted by Guy Jansen.

    The piece is conceived as an exuberant fanfare for voices, using as ‘text’ only the syllable ‘la’, something that has featured in many vocal compositions and exercises over the centuries, though perhaps never so whole-heartedly as here!

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David Griffiths  

Dormi Jesu

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1969
for SATB choir

Christopher Marshall  

Faleula E!

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1993, r. 1997
for a cappella SSATBB choir

Rosemary Russell  

God's Grandeur

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 2003
for SATB choir

David Farquhar  

I Sing of a Maiden

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1963
carol for unaccompanied SATB choir

John Ritchie  

Lord, when the Sense of Thy Sweet Grace

Duration: 04' 00" Year: 1957
for SSATB choir

Ronald Dellow  

O Sing Unto The Lord A New Song (Psalm 98)

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1982
for two SATB choirs