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WINTER-THEMED CHORAL MUSIC

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IT IS WINTER THAT WE DREAM OF SPRING

for mixed chamber choir

Duration:
4 minutes
 
Instrumentation:   
mixed chamber choir
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Year Composed:  
1997
 
Poem by:
Robert Burns Wilson
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Language:
English
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Premiere Performance:
18 January, 2003
Gent, Belgium
Novecanto Choir
Katrijn Friant, conductor

WINTER-THEMED CHORAL MUSIC

Contemporary winter choral music

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Contemporary Classical A Cappella SATB Choir Pieces (20th & 21st Century)

  • Samuel Barber – Sure on this shining night: Originally an art song (1938), arranged for SATB a cappella in 1961.

  • René Clausen – Set Me as a Seal: SATB a cappella with frequent divisi; widely performed.

  • Aaron Copland – Four Motets: SATB a cappella (1939–40), including Help Us, O Lord.

  • Maurice Duruflé – Quatre Motets sur des thèmes Grégoriens, Op. 10: SATB a cappella (1960), with some divisi; includes Ubi caritas.

  • Ēriks Ešenvalds – Stars: SSAATTBB a cappella with tuned water glasses; premiered 2011.

  • Morten Lauridsen – O Magnum Mysterium: SATB a cappella with divisi (1994).

  • György Ligeti – Lux Aeterna: 16-part mixed choir a cappella (1966); famously used in 2001: A Space Odyssey.

  • Pawel Łukaszewski – Nunc Dimittis: SATB a cappella (2007); lush and spiritual.

  • James MacMillan – Miserere: SATB a cappella (2009); deeply expressive and sacred.

  • Frank Martin – Mass for Double Choir: SATB–SATB a cappella (1922–26); a cornerstone of 20th-century choral repertoire.

  • Olivier Messiaen – O Sacrum Convivium!: SATB a cappella (1937); mystical and harmonically rich.

  • Arvo Pärt – Magnificat: SSATB a cappella (1989); tintinnabuli style.

  • Stephen Paulus – The Road Home: SATB a cappella (2001); based on the folk tune Prospect.

  • Francis Poulenc – Mass in G Major: SATB a cappella (1937); missa brevis without Credo.

  • Francis Poulenc – Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël: SATB a cappella (1951–52); each motet is a gem.

  • Alfred Schnittke – Choir Concerto: SATB with extensive divisi (1984–85); based on texts by St. Gregory of Narek.

  • Caroline Shaw – Partita for 8 Voices: SSAATTBB a cappella (2009–11); Pulitzer Prize-winning, experimental and genre-defying.

  • Peteris Vasks – Dona nobis pacem: SATB a cappella (1996); meditative and luminous.

  • Eric Whitacre – Lux Aurumque: SATB a cappella (2000); lush harmonies and shimmering textures.

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