The Sarah Quartel Songbook brings together a selection of the composer's best-loved pieces for upper voices, including favourites such as The Birds' Lullaby, I remember, and All the way home. This is an invaluable resource both for choirs looking to explore the work of this fine choral composer for the first time and for admirers of Quartel's style hoping to find staple repertoire conveniently gathered together in one volume.
This 91-page anthology of 11 pieces not only represents very good value in relation to the price, but could offer a stimulating educational opportunity to study and perform a variety of works by a single composer. The collection embraces a wide range of secular texts and musical styles, and includes some of the composer's well-known favourites, such as Voice on the Wind, Sing my Child, and The Birds' Lullaby; but it also features some exciting new pieces, including All shall be well, setting the text by Julian of Norwich, that she was commissioned to write for the National Children's Chorus in the USA.