";s:4:"text";s:5601:" Together, the 12 pieces represent a wonderful diverse telling of the Christmas story to delight and inspire choirs and their audiences throughout this season of the year.This compact anthem for unaccompanied choir is the result of another successful collaboration between Bob Chilcott and the poet Charles Bennett. The anthems have been carefully selected to be both approachable to a wide range of choirs and appropriate to the needs of today's liturgy. His wistful melody, varied vocal textures, and rich harmony combine with the poet's powerful imagery to create a setting of great beauty.One of the King'singers' most requested folksong settings. All burst with freshness and invention to provide singers with inspirational, moving and above all enjoyable repertoire. The excellent writing of Chilcott breathes new life into this favorite.Songs And Cries Of London by Bob Chilcott is a vibrant and varied choral cantata in five movements for SATB choir, upper-voice choir, piano duet, and optional percussion. "Joshua fit the Battle of Jericho" and "Steal Away" alongside exquisite discoveries that are less well known. Suitable for performance as a suite or as stand-alone pieces, these charming and emotive songs will be a welcome addition to the repertoire of any upper-voice choir.Bob Chilcott and Susan Knight have searched the globe for vibrant, exciting music representing a wide range of choral traditions and styles-from a powerful arrangement of an old Armenian hymn to a percussive Dominican "villancico," a carol in the style of Nigerian art music, a Polish folk carol, a new arrangement of popular Canadian carol, and much more besides. Even the audience can join in!Bob Chilcott joined the King's Singers in 1987 and sang tenor in the group for 12 years while also serving as their primary arranger. 'Please contact our Customer Service Team if you have any questions.Composer Bob Chilcott discusses his approach to finding and setting words to music, and talks about his experiences of working with poet, Charles Bennett. He performed the Pie Jesu of Fauré's Requiem on the 1967 recording.
Born in Plymouth, he sang in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, both as a boy and as a university student - notable achievements including singing the Pie Jesu on the renowned 1967 King's recording of Gabriel Faure's Requiem. Robert "Bob" Chilcott (born 9 April 1955) is a British choral composer, conductor, and singer, based in Oxfordshire, England. The song 'Mo li hua' was written for The Bach Choir and David Hill, who gave its premiere while on tour in China in April 2014.An exciting collection of 20 specially commissioned SATB arrangements almost all of which are a cappella.
This version is for an SATB choir but retains the flexibility to include 'guest' performers. Bob Chilcott is one of the world's premier composers and choral conductors in Britain today. He was a member of the King's Singers from 1985 to 1997, singing tenor. But neither do they want soft, soppy, kids' stuff, so easy there's no sense of achievement. He has been a composer since 1997.His cantata for choir and percussion The Making of the Drum has been performed by the BBC Singers, the New Zealand Youth Choir, the Chamber Choir of Europe, and the Taipei Chamber Singers. George Herber's text in 'Even-Song' is brought to life with gorgeous harmonies and yet another sweet soprano solo.One of the king'singers' most requested arrangements in a lush a cappella setting - Billy Joel's hit ballad arranged by Bob Chilcott.Chilcott's fresh and simple arrangement has a touch of magic that makes it a perfect leave-taking concert item. Bob Chilcott, described by The Observer as “a contemporary hero of British Choral Music”, has become one of the most widely performed composers and arrangers of choral music in the world. 135 talking about this.
Bob Chilcott. The minor tonality reflects the sentiments of the newly written text by Charles Bennett; while we can present temporary gifts for the child of winter, only his arrival will bring 'our summer without end'.This vibrant collection presents five jazzy settings of poems from William Blake's Songs of Innocence. Chilcott's skill for capturing the essence and meaning of words in music shines throughout the work.A delightful traditional English nonsense song from the King'singers Edition series. Suitable for performance as a suite or as stand-alone pieces, these charming songs will be a welcome addition to the repertoire of any children's or upper-voice choir.The haunting melody of this Canadian folk song is accented by a lyric vocal accompaniment. The UK premiere of On Christmas Night was given on 28 November 2011 in Rugby School by the Arnold Singers conducted by Richard Dunster-Sigtermans. Bob Chilcott Biography Click Here for Arrangements, Compositions and Recordings. Bob Chilcott Biography by James Manheim + Follow Artist. The piece starts out with soft, but expressive, four-part harmonies. Chilcott expertly employs the double SSA forces, resulting in a colourful array of textures and vocal combinations, from unison to six parts.