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<strong>James</strong> <strong>Whitbourn</strong><br />
<strong>Catalogue</strong>
<strong>James</strong> <strong>Whitbourn</strong><br />
After graduating from Magdalen College Oxford,<br />
<strong>James</strong> <strong>Whitbourn</strong> started his career in broadcasting,<br />
composing many works for the BBC.<br />
Annelies, the setting of The Diary of Anne Frank, is<br />
among the most performed large-scale choral works<br />
of the twenty-first century. Other scores reflect his<br />
eclectic interests, from a planetary portrait of C. S. Lewis<br />
(The Seven Heavens) to a portrayal of Ada Lovelace,<br />
a Carnatic-influenced work for dance (Luminosity)<br />
and a narrative work on the NASA Apollo missions. He<br />
has written for several national occasions, including<br />
a D-Day anniversary and the Queen Mother's funeral.<br />
Among the renowned ensembles who have recorded<br />
his music are the choirs of King's College, Cambridge,<br />
Magdalen College, Oxford, Clare College, Cambridge,<br />
Wells Cathedral, the Princeton-based choir Westminster<br />
Williamson Voices and the Oxford-based Commotio.<br />
<strong>James</strong> <strong>Whitbourn</strong> is also an award-winning conductor<br />
who, as a member of Oxford University's music faculty,<br />
directs the university's choral summer courses.<br />
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Arise, my love<br />
SSATB and organ<br />
Vocal score 9780193544680<br />
Digital 9780193544697<br />
Setting an invigorating Easter text from the Song of Songs,<br />
this episodic anthem is full of expressive passages and<br />
lyrical melodies. The canonical soprano parts are echoed in<br />
the lower voices, contributing towards the rich texture, all<br />
the while underpinned by an independent, sparkling organ<br />
part.<br />
2.5 minutes<br />
Solitude<br />
SATB & guitar/piano<br />
Vocal score 9780193532298<br />
Digital 9780193532496<br />
Guitar Part 9780193532366<br />
This anthem sets a powerful poem by John Henry<br />
Newman that reflects on the spirituality of solitude. An<br />
imaginative interplay between voices and instrumental<br />
accompaniment is prevalent throughout, with effective<br />
contrasts between tranquillo and animato sections and<br />
delicate ostinato patterns.<br />
7 minutes<br />
Choral Sacred<br />
Choral Sacred<br />
Solitude<br />
SSA & piano/harp<br />
Vocal score 9780193532434<br />
Digital 9780193532489<br />
Harp Part 9780193532458<br />
This anthem sets a powerful poem by John Henry<br />
Newman that reflects on the spirituality of solitude. An<br />
imaginative interplay between voices and instrumental<br />
accompaniment is prevalent throughout, with effective<br />
contrasts between tranquillo and animato sections and<br />
delicate ostinato patterns.<br />
7 minutes<br />
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Choral Christmas<br />
Choral Christmas<br />
Christmas Welcome<br />
SATB & organ<br />
Vocal score 9780193535497<br />
Digital 9780193539655<br />
Hire score and parts 9780193546981<br />
A celebratory carol in a lilting 12/8 metre, Christmas<br />
Welcome sets a joyful fifteenth-century text written by the<br />
English priest and poet John the Blind Audelay. <strong>Whitbourn</strong><br />
employs textural contrasts and call-and-response style<br />
pairings of voices to great effect, and the soloistic organ<br />
writing allows plenty of opportunity for organists to<br />
explore the full range of their instrument.<br />
2.5 minutes<br />
O magnum mysterium<br />
Treble Solo & SATB unaccompanied<br />
Vocal score 9780193550926<br />
This atmospheric carol sets the well-known 'O magnum<br />
mysterium' text in the version famously used by Victoria,<br />
with its tender, devotional additions. Set in four parts, the<br />
work unfolds simply, from stillness and silence, in awe and<br />
contemplation. The choral writing is effectively punctuated<br />
with a high solo voice singing phrases that call to mind<br />
fragments of the plainsong chant on the same text,<br />
appointed as a Responsary for Christmas Day.<br />
4 minutes<br />
Our Gold<br />
SATB (with divisions) unaccompanied<br />
Digital vocal score 9780193567269<br />
<strong>Whitbourn</strong>’s setting of Joseph Beaumont’s Epiphany<br />
oblation features a soaring melodic line over serene and<br />
delicate harmonies infused with suspensions and cluster<br />
chords. Offprinted from Carols for Choirs 6.<br />
3 minutes<br />
Shchedryk<br />
SATB & piano/organ/other instruments<br />
Vocal score 9780193572843<br />
For his expressive and accessible arrangement of the<br />
popular melody known to many as 'Carol of the Bells',<br />
<strong>Whitbourn</strong> has written new lyrics that reflect the melody's<br />
true heritage, the Ukrainian folksong Shchedryk. The<br />
Ukrainian word 'Shchedryi' means 'bountiful', and the<br />
folksong depicts a swallow displaying its goods and<br />
predicting a prosperous new year. <strong>Whitbourn</strong> also draws<br />
on the symbolism of the swallow as a bird that signifies<br />
the miracle of God's Son coming in the human form,<br />
thus retaining the melody's strong association with the<br />
Christmas season. The piece is presented with a flexible<br />
accompaniment that may be adapted to suit the available<br />
forces, including piano, organ, or guitar and melody<br />
instruments.<br />
2 minutes<br />
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Zahr Al-Khayal<br />
Orchestral<br />
Solo soprano & full orchestra<br />
2fl, 2ob, 2cl, bsn, 4hn, 2tpt (C and Bb), 2tbn, b. tbn,<br />
perc (clappers, sistra, tri, African/Egyptian drum),<br />
marimba, hp, solo sop, str<br />
Hire score and parts 9780193566361<br />
Digital vocal score 9780193568365<br />
<strong>James</strong> <strong>Whitbourn</strong> has a worldwide reputation for writing<br />
very personal yet accessible and highly communicative<br />
choral music, and these qualities are amply on display in<br />
this striking work for Soprano solo and orchestra. The text<br />
is largely a modern translation of passionate lines found<br />
on an Egyptian papyrus of c.1275 BCE, and the musical<br />
response is intense and colourful, with limpid melodies to<br />
the fore and underpinned by vivid orchestration.<br />
10 minutes<br />
Apollo<br />
Solo Organ<br />
Solo Instrumental<br />
Score 9780193532410<br />
Digital 9780193544512<br />
<strong>James</strong> <strong>Whitbourn</strong>'s Apollo tells the story of the first manned<br />
flight to the Moon (the year before the first lunar landing).<br />
A wealth of imaginative textures depicts such dramatic<br />
events as countdown, ignition, and the first sight of<br />
earthrise, leading to a fantasia on an ancient Greek melody,<br />
and a final triumphant Paean.<br />
7 minutes<br />
Orchestral & Instrumental<br />
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