Christmas

Joy To The World ist Teil des Projekts Over Art, eine fächerübergreifende Initiative von Koor&Stem zusammen mit Vlamo, Muziekmozaïek, Creatief Schrijven und dem Forum für Amateurkunst in Belgien. Es b...

Joy To The World ist Teil des Projekts 'Over Art', eine fächerübergreifende Initiative von Koor&Stem zusammen mit Vlamo, Muziekmozaiek, Creatief Schrijven und dem Forum für Amateurkunst in Belgien. Es...

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...

Turnage's exquisite Three Night Carols demonstrate the composer's characteristic harmonic and melodic originality in miniature. The rich textures of the unaccompanied, mixed-voice Misere nobis (writte...

A Rock 'n' Roll style original carol by Christopher Norton, creator of the Microjazz series of instrumental publications, and actor and writer, Nigel Forde. The swing rhythms, vocal effects and catchy...

A peaceful carol telling the Christmas story of the angels' visit to the shepherds. The simple but still jazz-inspired harmonies, unison sections and attractive melodies make this a very approachable...

As the name suggests, this piece is about the less celebratory side of Christmas with an appropriately 'bluesy' style; a comical addition to your Christmas concert.

With words by Carol Barratt, this piece is a simple but highly effective meditation from the composer of Adiemus and The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace. This is originally from 'A Celebration of Christma...

This comical version of the famous 12 days of Christmas song is a re-working of an arrangement made for Fritz Spiegl and the Spieglers by their former Musical Director, Robert Ordledge. The swing styl...

Composed in 1978 this is a setting of a Dutch traditional carol. The work opens with an extended passage for solo oboe, molto rubato. The vocal writing includes sections for various combinations of vo...

Hewitt Jones' timeless new carol Baby in an ox's stall beautifully captures the joyful essence of Christmas and is sure to become a popular addition to choral seasonal repertoire. Featuring text writt...

This Christmas carol, originally in French and entitled 'La Chanson de la Naissance', first appeared in a comedy theatre show called Famille d'Artistes in 1989. Piazzolla is best known for his develop...

Sweet was the Song is a traditional English carol dating from the 16th century depicting the Virgin Mary singing a lullaby to the new-born Jesus. This setting for mixed voices (no divisi) and organ re...

Following the publication of Francis Jackson's organ reduction of Finzi's Requiem da Camera in 2014, Robert Gower, chairman of the Finzi Trust, recitalist and organist of Nottingham Cathedral, has cre...

This lively carol was commissioned in 2005 by Lichfield Cathedral Special Choir (now called the Cathedral Chorus) to celebrate the birth of the daughters of the two cathedral organists at that time. T...

A simple carol with mostly homophonic textures and some of Warlock's characteristic harmonic twists, The First Mercy (1926) was originally a solo song and an early collaboration between Peter Warlock...

A lively carol setting the anonymous 16th-century text 'All this time this song is best: Verbum caro factum est [The word was made flesh]', originally composed for the choirs of Harrow School, England...

In this Christmas carol, which is available in a version for mixed choir (BH 13453) as well as for high choir voices (BH 13454) and was composed for the Leeds Philharmonic Chorus, the composer sets hi...

Commissioned by St Asaph Cathedral Choir in Wales in 2017, Let us go to Bethlehem is an enchanting and gently flowing setting, based on verses from Luke 2:15, and full of joy and sparkling energy. Wil...

Britten's much-loved Christmas choral classic is now available for performance in French for the first time. Maurice Budry translated the majority of the work, with Britten’s approval, and it was broa...

This carol was commissioned by Celia Ellingson through LutheranArts in honor of Gary Aamodt's 80th Birthday, December 25, 2017, and dedicated to the annual St Olaf College Christmas Festival. It uses...

Written for the University of South Carolina, this new carol from Norwegian composer Kim André Arnesen sets a beautiful poem by Bliss William Carman (1861-1929). The poem describes a wintery world, wi...

The third movement of Kim André Arnesen’s Nordic Christmas, a collection of new arrangements of carols originating in Nordic countries. This carol captures the mood of Christmas Eve in those countries...

This carol, extracted from James MacMillan’s Christmas Oratorio (2020), is an arrangement of the traditional Hebridean melody, ‘Tàladh Chrìosda’, with English text derived from the Scottish Gaelic of...