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Welcome to the Choral Catalogue for large and small vocal ensembles! Hal Leonard Australia represents a rich Please take the time to visit the publishers’ and diverse collection of choral music websites for further information on these from our Australian and International works and many others! composers to suit all choir sizes and performance levels. Contact us today if you would like to organise a perusal. Whether you are looking for a large choral spectacular or an acapella [email protected] ensemble work, we are certain to have new and classic works to inspire Hire Order, Perusal Request and Grand and challenge. Rights Choral application forms are available on our website. *Please note that performance rights must be sought for all choral works http://www.halleonard.com.au 20 minutes and over in duration by submitting a Grand Rights Choral application form. Hal Leonard Australia represents catalogues including: Boosey & Hawkes | Schott Music | Faber Music | Oxford University Press | Universal Edition | Ricordi Milan, Munich & London | Editions Durand-Salabert-Eschig | Josef Weinberger | Fennica Gehrman | Gehrmans Musikforlag | European and American Music | Robert Forberg Musikverlag | Peer Music | Bardic Edition | Collegium Music Publisher | Peters Edition | Stainer and Bell | Theodore Presser | Breitkopf & Härtel | Alphonse Leduc Heugal Also representing Music Theatre International (NY) and Dramatists Play Service, Inc. Howard Ferguson Amore Langueo op. 18 Leonard Bernstein Duration: 25mins Sergei Prokofieff Chichester Palms 2(II=picc).2(II=corA).2.2-4.2.3.1-timp. Seven, they are Seven op. 30 Duration: 19mins perc(2):gong/cyms/BD/SD-harp- strings Duration: 7mins 3tpt.3trbn.timp.per(5):chime/susp. For tenor solo, chorus, and orchestra 2.2picc.3.corA.3.bcl.3.dbn-8.4.4.2-timp. cym/cyms/BD/SD/xyl/glsp/tamb/tgl/ Vocal Score available for sale. perc:t.bells/xyl/cyms/tam-t/ BD/SD/tamb- wdbl/3bongos/whip/rasp/tpl.bl-2harp- 2harpsstrings strings The Dream of the Rood op. 19 Akkadian Incantation for tenor solo, For mixed chorus (or male chorus), boy Duration: 27mins chorus, and orchestra soloist, and orchestra 2(II=picc).2(II=corA).2.2-4.2.3.1-timp. perc(2) -harp-cel-strings Choruses from The Death of Klinghoffer Kaddish (Symphony No . 3) For soprano (tenor) solo, chorus, and Duration: 45mins Duration: 40mins orchestra. Vocal Score available for sale. For chours and orchestra: 4(III=afl,IV=picc).2.corA.2.Ebcl.bcl. 2(I,II=picc).2(II=c orA).2(II=bcl).2(II=dbn)- asax.2.dbn-4.4(IV=Dtpt).3.1- timp.perc(4) 2.2.2.0- perc(1):timp-2keyboard samplers- -harp-celpft-strings Gerald Finzi strings(8.8.6.6.4) For orchestra, mixed chorus, boys’ choir, For St. Cecila op. 30 The Death of Klinghoffer, John Adams’s speaker, and soprano solo Duration: 19mins second opera, travelled widely in its 1991 Full Score / Vocal Score available for sale. Ceremonial Ode for tenor solo, chorus and premiere production by Peter Sellars. orchestra: 3(III=picc).2.corA.2.bcl.2.dbn- The work effectively crosses boundaries 4.3.3.1-timp.perc(3)harps-cel-strings between opera and oratorio, resulting Benjamin Britten This is ideal for choirs who have enjoyed in part from the influence of the Bach Spring Symphony op. 44 performing works such as Parry’s Blest Pair Passions. This ritualised quality has Duration: 45mins of Sirens, an ode with which it bears many brought the work equal success in concert For soprano, alto and tenor soloists, similarities, not least in the resplendent, performance. Running through the opera chorus, boys’ choir, and orchestra: ceremonial orchestral prelude which is a series of choruses, which can be 3(III=afl,picc).2.corA.2.bcl.2.dbn-4.3.3.1-cow announces the choir’s fanfare-like first performed in concert in their own right. horn-timp.perc(4): entry. For choirs who have not performed gong/t.bells/vib/xyl/cyms/cast/wdbl/BD/SD/ any Finzi previously, this work would make tamb/TD-2harps-strings an excellent and rewarding introduction. Steve Reich A hybrid work – part symphony, part Vocal Score available for sale. The Desert Music oratorio and part song-cycle –the large Duration: 46mins forces provide a flexible resource for a In Terra Pax op. 39 for 10 (or 27) amplified voices and orchestra: number of smaller combinations that Duration: 14mins 4(II,III,IV=picc).4(II,III,IV=corA).4(II,III,I change for each setting. Study Score / Vocal Christmas Scene for soprano &baritone V=bcl).4(IV=dbn)-4.4 (I=picc.tpt ad Score available for sale. soloists, chorus and orchestra: lib).3.1timp(2players=rototoms). 2(II=picc).2.2.2-4.2.3.0timp.perc: harp- perc(7):medium tamt/maracas/sticks/2BD/ War Requiem op. 66 strings Reduced Version: 2glsp/2xyl/ 2vib/2marimba-2pft(4players)- Duration: 85mins 2(II=picc).2.2.2-2.0.0.0timp.perc:cyms/tgl- strings(12.12.9.9.6) (voices and woodwinds For soprano, tenor and baritone soloists, harp-strings amplified) chorus, boys’ choir, orchestra, and Written just two years before Finzi’s death The Desert Music was begun September chamber orchestra; main orchestra: in 1956, In terra pax skilfully juxtaposes 1982 and completed in December 1983. 3(III=picc).2.corA.3(III=Ebcl,bcl).2.dbn- words of Robert Bridges (which are set Commissioned by The West German Radio, 6.4.3.1 timp.perc(4): -harp-string quintet for the baritone soloist) with the familiar Cologne and The Brooklyn Academy of Commissioned to celebrate the opening Christmas passage from St Luke (set for Music in New York, it is a setting of parts of of the new cathedral at Coventry, built the soprano soloist and chorus). With a poems by the American poet William Carlos to replace the one destroyed by bombs, childlike serenity of style, the work unites Williams. Britten used the opportunity to write a all its feelings, images and familiar events large-scale composition embodying his into one simple, shapely musical narrative. deeply held pacifist and humanitarian Vocal Score / Full Score available for sale. Igor Stravinsky beliefs. The result, the War Requiem, is Symphony of Psalms regarded by many as his masterpiece in the Intimations of Immortality op. 29 Duration: 23mins non-operatic sphere. Vocal Scores available Duration: 43mins For chorus and orchestra: for sale. Ode for tenor solo, chorus & orchestra: 5(V=picc).4.corA.0.3.dbn-4.5.3.1-timp. 3(2)(II=picc).2.corA(ad lib).2.bcl(ad lib)2. perc:BD-2(1)harps-2pft-vlc.db; Saint Nicolas dbn(adlib)-4.3.3.1 timp.perc(2): harp-strings NB: chorus should contain children’s voices if Duration: 50mins This is the most extended of Finzi’s choral possible timp.perc(1-2)-pno(4hands)-organ-strings works, composed in one continuous By far the best-known of Stravinsky’s Conceived and composed with semi- musical movement of truly symphonic religious works, the Symphony of amateur performance in mind and the proportions. Perhaps of all the choral Psalms is formidably devout but never technical demands of the choral and works, Intimations shows his word- confessional. A double fugue suggests the orchestral writing are appropriately setting at its most expressive and poignant, way of God – not majestically Baroque, but straightforward. The audience also gets to demonstrating his personal affinity with the factual, inexorable, Byzantine. A timeless join in two well-known hymns, All people poet Wordsworth, and his resourcefulness “Aleluia” clinches the final impression that on earth do dwell and God moves in a in finding imaginative ways to set poetry. of metaphysical grandeur. Vocal Score mysterious way. Vocal Score available for sale. available on sale. Gloria Duration: 34mins Karl Jenkins For solo voice, SATB chorus and orchestra Adiemus I: Songs of Sanctuary 2(II=picc).2(optional).2(II=bcl).2(I Duration: 54mins I=dbn, optional) 4.3(III=optional). For female voices and orchestra 2.btrbn .1(optional)timp.perc(3) -harp- recorder-perc(8):4tomt/congas/ claves/ organ(optional)-strings James MacMillan cyms/susp.cym/floor tom/BD/ mark tree/ Seven Last Words from the Cross bass bell in C/cabaca/ wdbl/tgl-strings Stella Natalis Duration: 45mins Vocal Score available on sale. Duration: 51mins Cantata for 8-part choir and strings For soprano solo, SATB chorus (+SSA opt.) Widely admired as one of MacMillan’s Adiemus II : Cantata Mundi and ensemble) finest achievements, his Seven Last Duration: 65mins tpt(=picc.tpt)-timp.perc(2)pft. cel-strings Words promises an absorbing and moving For voices and orchestra experience in concert, for performers 2(II=picc).2(II=corA).2.2-6.3.4.1-timp. Joy to the World and audience alike. This cantata follows perc(9):claves/cowbell/guiro/ 2cabaca/tgl/ Duration: 30mins Christ’s final utterances at the Crucifixion, chenchen/egyptian tabla/doholla/tomt/ For soprano solo, SATB chorus (+SSA opt.) meditating on each to form a dramatic and cyms/chekere/xyl/ glsp/bass marimba/ and ensemble) emotional sequence. Vocal Score / Study bongos/rek/uduot/tablas/sticks/pandeiro/ tpt(=picc.tpt)timp(optional).perc(2):sleigh Score available for sale. timbales/ surdo/ BD/tam-t/susp.cym/tamb- bells/tgl/castanets or tamb/ darbuca (goblet solo recorder-strings drum)/glsp/xyl/tom-t (low)/floor toms/SD/ Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis Full Score / Piano Score available for sale. kick drum (optional)-pft(=cel)-strings Duration: 20mins For chorus and orchestra OR organ: Adiemus III : Dances of Time The Peacemakers 2(II=picc).2(II=corA).2.2-4.3.3.1-timp.
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