English composer Gustav Theodore Holst most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets had a style many of his contemporaries even admirers found austere and cerebral. Love Is Enough is a four-part song composed by Holst with words written by William Morris. The sheet music has been arranged for SATB choir with a piano reduction for rehearsal only.

The Novello Book Of British Folksongs For Mixed-Voice Choirs is an enjoyable collection of diverse tunes that have descended from the folksongs across the British Isles. A variety of arrangements are included, both old and new, of well-loved tunes as well as some lesser-known pieces. All 34 tunes are arranged for SATB Chorus with Piano accompaniment, making this a brilliant way to enhance your cho…

The Splendour Falls and the other songs from The Princess were written for a performance of tableaux from The Princess by the girls of James Allen Girls’ School in London where Holst taught. The song is scored for Female Voices SA with a small echo choir unaccompanied and is full of recognizably Holstian shifting harmonies and Vocal effects. In 1847 Alfred Tennyson later Poet Laureate of…

In his use of authentic Englsh folksongs Gnostic texts and Vedic hymns one can discern Holst’s search for a compositional Voice beyond the constraints of the European canon in the early 1900’s. In 1916 hepublished Six Choral Folk Songs of which Hampshire folk tune The Song of the Blacksmith is the fourth.Holst uses the power of his mixed Voice Chorale to set the song among onomatopa…

The Joy Of Holst is a fantastic collection of 11 original and newly-arranged pieces by the great English composer Gustav Holst.This album for solo Piano includes Nocturne In The BleakMidwinter selections from his masterpiece The Planets and excerpts from The Perfect Fool and Somerset Rhapsody.'The Joy Of...' series is a constantly growing collection of musical editionsthat is now recognised and…

Words by Christina Rossetti-This arrangement of the famous Christina Rossetti poem set to music by Gustav Holst features an introduction and an interlude incoporating Pachelbel's Canon in D. Memorable and easy to learn this piece offers a supportive pianoaccompaniment making this a lovely selection for the young singer.

Composed for the BBC Young Chorister of the Year competition this lovely setting of the Gustav Holst melody is truly sublime. Ideal for treble choirs in school church and community!

Holst composed this one of his better-known chamber works on a visit to a festival in Ann Arbor Michigan in 1923. The first movement has been described as a dialogue between the two solo instruments while the second movement recalls Holst’s love of Bach. The seriousness of the final movement is undercut by the introduction of the old British dance tune ‘If all the world were paper�.

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