Carols Psalms and Anthems

Peter Godfrey

Peter Godfrey CBE (b. 1922) is a conductor and composer. As Professor Emeritus he directed the Chapel Choir of Trinity College.

Choir of Trinity College

Calvin Bowman

Calvin Bowman is acknowledged as one of Australia’s finest musicians: an outstanding organist, accompanist and chamber player who strives for nothing less than perfection.

Colin Brumby

Colin Brumby (1933–2018) was an Australian composer and conductor whose prolific catalogue ranges across opera, concertos, chamber music, choral works and songs.

Herbert Howells

Herbert Howells wrote Anglican church music of rare harmonic warmth and contemplative beauty, from carol-anthems such as A Spotless Rose to Latin motets and organ works steeped in the Tudor tradition.

Charles Hubert Hastings Parry

Hubert Parry's music still fills cathedrals and coronations. Best known for the choral song Jerusalem, the coronation anthem I was glad and the hymn tune Repton, his writing joins ceremonial splendour to a humane, singable warmth.

Lajos Bárdos

Richard Rodney Bennett

Andrew Carter

Henry Walford Davies

Henry Walford Davies wrote Anglican chants, sacred songs and ceremonial music that still sit in the English choral repertory, from the quiet prayer of God Be In My Head to Solemn Melody and the Royal Air Force March Past.

Nicholas Edwards

John Gardner

John Gardner (1917–2011) was an English composer of classical music. His carol Tomorrow shall be my dancing day has become a familiar part of the Christmas choral repertoire.

Orlando Gibbons

Orlando Gibbons wrote English madrigals, verse anthems, full anthems and keyboard music at the hinge of Renaissance and Baroque practice: lucid polyphony, rhetorical force without bombast, and lines that lodge in the ear like The Silver Swan.

John Joubert

John Joubert wrote choral music that sits firmly in the Anglican tradition, above all the carols Torches and There is no rose of such virtue. His wider catalogue also takes in symphonies, concertos, chamber works and operas drawn from literature.

Charles Macpherson

Robert Lucas Pearsall

Robert Lucas Pearsall (1795–1856) was an English composer chiefly of vocal music. His elaborate arrangement of In dulci jubilo and the richly harmonic part-song Lay a garland remain staples of the choral repertoire.

Peter Philips

Thomas Tallis

Thomas Tallis wrote the sacred vocal music that still defines English Renaissance polyphony: dense, luminous counterpoint that can turn from spare Anglican clarity to seven-voice splendour and the famous forty-part Spem in alium.

Tomás Luis de Victoria

Tomás Luis de Victoria wrote almost exclusively sacred polyphonic music to Latin texts: motets, Marian antiphons and Holy Week offices whose intensity and direct emotional line set him among the principal voices of the late Renaissance.