Christmas

Introducing a new addition to the Vox tradition - this time it's for the holidays! Greg's clever and rhythmic vocables suggest sounds of the season; "fa la las" (carolers) , "ding dong dings" (bells)...

Introducing a new addition to the Vox tradition - this time it's for the holidays! Greg's clever and rhythmic vocables suggest sounds of the season; "fa la las" (carolers) , "ding dong dings" (bells)...

I have embedded this internationally well-known melody in a harmonic room of bells which is rendered by the male voices. To enhance the feeling of two independent entities, the melody and the bell ost...

Following the success of Oliver Gies’ collection "Why Do I Actually Sing in a Choir?" (BE 496), here is a Christmas-themed collection featuring both new and traditional Christmas carols. It incorporat...

Will Todd, born in 1970, is forging a strong reputation for himself as a composer who is equally at ease in opera, oratorio, church music and jazz. His style is instantly accessible and lastingly memo...

Gaudete ('rejoice') is an anonymous composition whose chorus was first published in 1582 in the Piae Cantiones collection. The verses are taken from a medieval Czech song, Ezechielis Porta, and tell o...

Nigel Short, founder and director of the choir Tenebrae, adds a jazz flavour to this well-known carol. The result is a serene arrangement with luscious, close harmonies which would be add a reflective...

Another close harmony arrangement of a traditional Christmas melody, with Latin text. The melody, shared by different voice parts, is accompanied by sustained, stirring harmonies in the remaining part...

Ein fröhliches, jazziges Arrangement des berühmten Weihnachtslieds mit einer frechen Wendung - ein ideales Finale oder eine perfekte Zugabe, das bzw. die jedem Hörer ein Lächeln ins Gesicht zaubern wi...

Close harmony arrangement of a traditional Christmas text by the former member, and later musical director, of the Swingle Singers, Carol Canning.

Close harmony arrangement of a traditional Christmas text by the former member, and later musical director, of the Swingle Singers, Carol Canning.

A new addition to the Boosey & Hawkes Contemporary Choral Series, this carol by the leading Finnish composer of his generation was commissioned by King's College, Cambridge and first performed at A Fe...

This Christmas carol, commissioned by the Finnish broadcasting company Yle and first performed in Helsinki by Helsinki Chamber Choir, conducted by Nils Schweckendiek, is based on three texts, two by W...

A new setting of the well-known Christmas text, this work was written for London Consort Choir. It is a mostly homophonic and approachable but effective alternative to other settings of the text, whic...

A song was heard at Christmas was written for Gorseinon Youth Choir and premiered at Swansea's Brangwyn Hall in December 2009. It was featured on BBC Radio 3's Carols for Breakfast in 2011.Featuring t...

A new carol for unaccompanied choir by Hywel Davies, featuring the composer's own text.

Commissioned by the Fairhaven Singers (Ralph Woodward, conductor) and premiered in December 2013, this Christmas carol is not explicitly religious and so can be used at any occasion during the festive...

This short carol, a setting of an anonymous 15th-century text, was commissioned for a service given in Cambridge in 2012 by the Fairhaven Singers, conducted by Ralph Woodward. A witness account of The...

Devised as a choral Christmas waltz, this carol for unaccompanied mixed voices (no divisi) by Welsh composer Gareth Treseder is a jolly setting of a traditional text. The work is structured in the man...

The set of 'Four Carols for Dark Times' was written between 2003-5 and commissioned at the rate of one piece per year for the Birmingham Bach Choir to perform at their Christmas concerts. The third ca...

Predating the well-known Bethlehem Down by just a few years, As dew in Aprylle is one of several choral works by Warlock to draw on texts from the 15th century Sloane Manuscript, yet musically this wo...

Two traditional French carols, Berceuse de Noël ('Entre le boeuf et l'âne gris') and Nouvelle agréable ('Nouvelle agréable un Sauveur Enfant nous est né') arranged for unaccompanied mixed voice choir,...

This carol was commissioned by the John Lewis Partnership Music Society and first performed at their annual Service of Nine Lessons and Carols at Westminster Cathedral in December 2014, conducted by M...

These well-known words seem endlessly fruitful for the composer and conjure up such lovely images which strike each of us in our own way. For Paul Spicer it was the beauty of the language with its flo...

A contemporary arrangement of the Basque Christmas carol, The Angel Gabriel by Nicholas Maw (1935-2009) is one of four Christmas songs written by the composer in the 1960s. The familiar melody is trea...