Online Links for Practice Resources
We expect choir members to do plenty of practice between rehearsals!
Christmas 2025 Concert
To help you practice, here are a selection of sources to sing along to:
| YouTube (free) | |
| O Radiant Dawn – James MacMillan | Performance: Here Parts for practice: Bass Tenor Alto Soprano |
| Ecce Novum – Ola Gjeilo | Performance: Here Playlist of all parts for practice: Here |
| Here is the Little Door – Herbert Howells | Performance: Here Playlist of all parts for practice: Here |
| Ave Maria – Franz Biebl | Performance (Chanticleer): Here Soprano 1: Here Soprano 2: Here Alto: Here Tenor: TBC Bass: TBC |
| Magnificat – A. Herbert Brewer | Performance: Here Playlist of all parts for practice: Here |
| All Bells in Paradise – John Rutter | Performance: Here |
| Lully, Lulla, Lullay – Philip Stopford | Performance: Here Soprano: Here Alto: Here Tenor: Here Bass: Here |
| A Maiden Most Gentle – Andrew Carter | Performance: Here Soprano: Here Alto 1: Here Alto 2: Here Tenor: Here Bass 1: Here Bass 2: Here |
| A Merry Christmas – Arthur Warrell | Performance: Here Playlist of all parts for practice: Here |
| In the Bleak Midwinter – Harold Darke | Performance: Here Playlist of all the parts for practice: Here |
| Sir Christémas – William Mathias | Performance: Here Still searching for parts |
| Christmas Night – John Rutter | Performance: Here Soprano: Here Alto: Here Tenor: Here Bass: Here |
Notes on Midi and MP3 Sources available
CHORALIA (free)
These particular MP3 files use a “synthetic voice” which sounds a bit odd, but does mean you can hear each syllable pronounced. It’s very helpful, though purists may shudder!
You can choose the Voice with metronome, Emphasised voice with other voices, or All voices.
You can either play these from the web page (left-click) or download each file to your PC (right-click and “Save As”).
CYBERBASS (free)
Another useful practice resource in which the emphasised part is played on an instrument rather than voice.
CHORD PERFECT (some free, some paid)
This site enables you to hear your particular part emphasised and sung by professional singers complete with orchestral accompaniment. There are not many composers or works featured. You can find it here.
JOHN FLETCHER’S MIDI AND MP3 FILES (some free, some paid)
Works that are out of copyright are free to download. To download works that are still in copyright, you must register for a paid account and log in.
You can either play these from the web page (left-click) or download each file to your PC (right-click and “Save As”). The slowed-down sections for practice are clearly marked “at slower, rehearsal speed”. If playing a Midi file direct from the web does not work, you can download the Midi files individually to your PC by right-clicking each icon.