Sheet music reviews: Two-Part Anthems, ed. Philip Moore

This splendid collection of anthems by contemporary composers does just what it says on the tin. There are 15 new works, all with two vocal lines, and the book comes with permission from the redoubtable boffins at RSCM Publications to ‘flex’ the living daylights out of the scoring to suit whatever singers you have available. In his introduction, the volume's editor, York Minster Organist Emeritus Philip Moore, writes of his fondness for the sonority achieved with ‘the sopranos and tenors singing an octave apart and the altos and basses singing likewise’, and goes on to say that the pieces can also be sung ‘by sopranos and altos only, or tenors and basses only’. He concludes: ‘However you perform these lovely pieces, we hope you will enjoy singing them.’