New Publications

Rememberance Day is coming and you might be looking for appropriate music for your choir for that occasion. Cypress Choral Music has a vast Remembrance Day collection. One of our favourites is “Boy with Orange” by Alex Eddington. Boy with Orange (out of Kosovo) takes its text from the poem of the same name by […]

Christmas is coming and David Rain has written a totally new version of Good King Wenceslas! “I love the Wenceslas story, but I always struggled with the original song’s placement of “las” (as in Wenceslas) on the downbeat. As a kid, I even thought the words were “Good King Wences last looked out.” Using the […]

Dear conductors, I’m happy to let you know that the SATB setting (with piano) of my piece “EVERY CHILD HAS KNOWN GOD”, on a poem by Hafiz, is now available at Edition ICOT in Japan (digital download possible). ORDER HERE LISTEN TO THE SSA + piano version   Enjoy! Ivo Antognini

In his 1898 poem, Charles G.D. Roberts, one of Canada’s most prominent confederation-era poets and a keen follower of Emerson and Thoreau, vividly evokes the transcendentalist theme of the sublime in nature. Patrick Murray’s own musical response to the poem grows out of a simple, hymn-like melody, fragmented and transformed over the course of the […]

Ronald Beckett’s modern setting in the traditional burden carol style evokes the golden age of the English carol. About 500 such 15th Century texts survive, many referencing the Virgin Mary. Alleluia has seldom been set by modern composers. Enjoy! Sheet Music Available at Cypress Choral Music https://cypresschoral.com/alleluia-pro-virgine-maria/

Composer Scott Reimer gives Kim Baryluk’s unique winter song very special and exciting treatment. Meaningful and great fun! Check out this video of Scott and his group Antiphony in the studio recording this wonderful piece of music, Enjoy! Sheet Music Available at Cypress Choral Music https://cypresschoral.com/composers/scott-reimer/solstice-carole-satb/