We have a wide range of compendia and sheet music to hire as listed below. Please email etcetera@civilservicechoir.org.uk and we shall advise on the hire price and availability.
Compendia
| Title | Quantity | Genre | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Little Carol Book (arr. John Rutter) | 2 | Christmas | OUP |
| Carols for choirs 1 (Green book) | 47 | Christmas | OUP |
| Carols for choirs 2 (Orange book) | 44 | Christmas | OUP |
| Carols for choirs 3 (Blue book) | 25 | Christmas | OUP |
| Carols in Concert (composed/arr. Donald Cashmore) | 2 | Christmas | Novello |
| European Sacred Music | 61 | Sacred | OUP |
| Five English Folk Songs | 11 | English Folk | Stainer & Bell |
| Fly me to the Moon (Jazz compendium, arr. Gwyn Arch) | 15 | Faber Music | |
| Gilbert and Sullivan opera chorus (book 1) | 33 | Opera | Faber |
| Oxford book of English madrigals | 17 | OUP | |
| Sing Nowell | 29 | Christmas | Novello |
| The Chester book of carols | 23 | Christmas | Chester |
| The memory of all that | 14 | Light | Alan Simmons |
| Three hundred years of english partsongs 1600-1900 | 19 | Faber Music |
Individual works
| Title | Composer | Quantity | Voices | Genre | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Ceremony of Carols | Britten | 36 | Trebles 2 & SATB 34 | Christmas | Boosey & Hawkes |
| A Hymn to the Virgin | Britten | 4 | SATB double | Christmas | |
| All in the April evening | Hugh Roberton | 31 | SATB | Curwen | |
| Alleluia | R Boughton | 35 | SATB | Curwen | |
| America | Leonard Bernstein arr. William Stickles | 31 | SATB | Contemporary | Boosey & Hawkes |
| And so it goes | Billy Joel arr. Bob Chilcott | 13 | SATB | Hal Leonard | |
| As Torrents in Summer | E Elgar | 46 | SATB | Novello | |
| Balulalow | Peter Warlock | 38 | SATB/Sop Solo | OUP | |
| Blessed be that maid Mary | Charles Wood | 36 | SATB | Christmas | OUP |
| Break forth in joy | J S Bach | 69 | SATB | Sacred | Novello |
| Carol of the Birds | E Thiman | 22 | SATB | Christmas | Boosey & Hawkes |
| Carol of the drum | Katherine K Dawes | 33 | SATB | Christmas | BF Wood Music |
| Carwash | tbc | 17 | SATB | Contemporary | Hal Leonard |
| Chattanooga Choo Choo | Warren arr. Pete Shchmutte | 42 | SATB | Contemporary | Belwin |
| Chichester Psalms | Bernstein | 1 | SATB | Sacred | Boosey & Hawkes |
| Christmas is Coming | Walford Davies | 26 | SATB | Christmas | Novello |
| Christmas song | Holst | 33 | SATB | Christmas | Curwen |
| Come again sweet days | John Dowland | 25 | SATB | Novello | |
| Emmanuel | M Praetorius | 38 | SATB | Novello | |
| Fantasia on Christmas Carols | Vaughan Williams | 12 | SATB | Christmas | Stainer & Bell |
| Flocks in pastures green abiding | J S Bach | 7 | SATB | OUP | |
| For the Beauty of the Earth | John Rutter | 20 | SATB | OUP | |
| For this Mortal must put on immortality | S S Wesley | 2 | SATB | Church Music Society | |
| God is with us | Tavener | 55 | SATB | Sacred | Chester |
| Goldfinger | Arr. Alexander L’Estrange | 35 | SATB | Contemporary | Faber |
| Great Mass in C Minor | Mozart | 75 | SSAATTBB | Sacred | Peters (Beyer ed.) |
| Hail Holy Queen | arr. Marc Shaiman, adapted by Roger Emerson | 35 | SATB | Contemporary | Hal Leonard |
| Heavenly Aeroplane | John Rutter | 32 | SATB | Contemporary | OUP |
| Hodies Christus Natus Est (from Quatre motets) | Poulenc | 22 | SATB | ||
| Howard Goodall’s Great big Tunes (Compendium) | Howard Goodall | 36 | SATB | Contemporary | Faber |
| I was glad | Hubert H Parry | 18 | SATB | Sacred | Novello |
| I will go sailing no more | Randy Newman arr Philip Lawson | 15 | SATB | Hal Leonard | |
| In a Monastery garden | Albert W Ketelbey | 16 | SATB | Edwin Ashdown | |
| In the Bleak Midwinter | Darke | 15 | SATB | Christmas | Stainer & Bell |
| Java Jive | Ben Oakland arr. Kirby Shaw | 28 | SATB | Contemporary | Belwin |
| Jesu priceless treasure | J S Bach | 36 | SATB | Christmas | Novello |
| Joseph’s carol | Giles Swayne | 29 | S/A | Christmas | Novello |
| Lean on me | Withers arr. Christopher Hussey | 12 | SSA | Contemporary | Novello |
| Love Changes Everything | Lloyd-Webber arr. Ed Lojeski | 1 | SATB | Contemporary | Hal Leonard |
| Lully, Lulla,Thou Little Tiny Child | Leighton | 16 | SATB + sop | Christmas | Novello |
| Lullay my liking | G Holst | 22 | SATB | Christmas | Curwen |
| Matona, lovely maiden (Matona, Mia Cara) | O Lassus | 23 | SATB | Novello | |
| Missa Brevis | Mozart | 4 | SATB | Sacred | G Schirmer |
| Moon river | Henry Mancini arr. Steve Zegree | 37 | SATB | Contemporary | Hal Leonard |
| Nazareth | Charles Gounod | 34 | SATB | Novello | |
| Nine Hundred Miles | arr. Christi Cary Miller | 32 | SATB | Contemporary | Shawnee Press |
| Northern lights | Ola Gjeilo | 125 | SATB | Sacred | Walton |
| Nunc Dimittis | Burgon | 48 | Solos S, SATB | Sacred | Chester |
| O clap your hands | Maurice Greene | 39 | SATB | Sacred | Concordia |
| O Happy Day | arr. Teena Chinn | 10 | SATB | Spiritual | Belwin |
| O Magnum Mysterium | Morten Lauridsen | 60 | SATB | Sacred | Faber |
| O Magnum Mysterium (from Quatre motets) | Poulenc | 25 | SATB | Christmas | |
| O Radiant Dawn | MacMillan | 50 | SATB | Christmas | Boosey & Hawkes |
| Of the Father’s love begotten | Eric Thiman | 28 | SATB | Christmas | Novello |
| Passing By | E Purcell | 13 | SATB | Edwin Ashdown | |
| Quatre Motets pour Noel (motets available separately) | Poulenc | SATB | Christmas | editions salabert | |
| Quem vidistis pastores dicite (from Quatre motets) | Poulenc | 25 | SATB | Christmas | Salabert |
| Raindrops keep falling | Bacharach arr. Clay Warnick | 39 | SATB | Contemporary | Blue Seas Music |
| Rejoice in the Lord always | Henry Purcell | 25 | SATB | Sacred | Novello |
| Requiem | John Rutter | 3 | SATB | Sacred | OUP |
| Sailing | Gavin Sutherland | 11 | Unison | Contemporary | Island Music |
| Shenandoah | James Erb | 17 | SSSAATTBB | Alfred | |
| Silent Night | F Gruber arr. H A Chamber | 11 | SATB | Christmas | Novello |
| Silent Night | F Gruber arr. John E West | 24 | SATB | Christmas | Novello |
| Skye boat song | arr, Jay Althouse | 57 | SATB | Alfred Archive | |
| Swansea town | G Holst | 14 | SATB | Curwen | |
| Sweet and low | J Barnby | 1 | SATB | Novello | |
| Te deum | Haydn | 48 | SATB | Sacred | OUP |
| The chelsea carol | Whitacre | 101 | SATB | Christmas | Chester |
| The citizens of Chartres | A E Foster & J Wilson | 61 | SATB | Christmas | Novello |
| The goslings | Frederick Bridge | 25 | SATB | Novello | |
| The holly and the ivy | Rutland Boughton | 53 | SATB | Christmas | |
| The hundredth psalm | Vaughan Williams | 23 | SATB | Stainer & Bell | |
| The journey | D Twigg / E Story | 38 | SATB | Self | |
| The king shall rejoice | Handel | 2 | SATB | Novello | |
| The Long and Winding Road | Lennon & McCartney | 53 | SATB | Music Sales | |
| The Lord is my Shepherd | Will Todd | 85 | SATTBB | Boosey & Hawkes | |
| The National Anthem | Britten | 55 | SATB | Boosey & Hawkes | |
| The silver swan | O Gibbons | 10 | SATB | Novello | |
| The three Kings | P Cornelius arr. Ivor Atkins | 17 | SATB | Christmas | OUP |
| The twelve days of christmas | Chilcott | 61 | SATB | Christmas | OUP |
| The virgin’s cradle hymn | Edmund Rubbra | 30 | SATB | OUP | |
| The wassail song | arr. Stainer / Brambley | 31 | SATB | Christmas | Novello |
| The wind in the willows | John Rutter | 8 | SATB | OUP | |
| There is no rose (from A Ceremony of Carols) | Britten | 40 | Trebles | Christmas | |
| This little light of mine | Arr. Johnson | 125 | SATB | Spiritual | Hal Leonard |
| This is the record of John | O Gibbons | 42 | SATB | Novello | |
| This Marriage | Eric Whitacre | 35 | SATB | Chester | |
| Thou must leave thy lowly dwelling | H Berlioz | 25 | SATB | Novello | |
| Ticket to Ride (medley) | Lennon & McCartney arr. Audrey Snyder | 50 | SATB | Hal Leonard | |
| Unchained Melody | North arr. Mark Brymer | 39 | SATB | Hal Leonard | |
| Videntes Stellam (from Quatre motets) | Poulenc | 23 | SATB | Christmas | Editions Salabert |
| Wassail song | arr. Vaughan Williams | 36 | SATB | Christmas | Stainer & Bell |
| Wayfaring Stranger | Arr. Shelley Cooper | 33 | S/A | Hal Leonard | |
| Yellow Submarine | Lennon & McCartney arr. Mark Brymer | 48 | SATB | Hal Leonard | |
| Zadok the priest | Handel | 39 | SSAATTBB | Novello |
