Christmas

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...

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...

Inspired by Benjamin Britten’s A Ceremony of Carols, Kristina Arakelyan’s nine-movement A Christmas Offering is a festive celebration that ranges from the energetic Alleluia, the contemplative Out of...

Two narratives are interspersed in Christmas Lullaby. The first one is a mother singing a lullaby to her son, and the second one is the larger narrative of Jesus Christ’s life, as told through the tex...

There is no rose is the second movement of Kristina Arakelyan’s nine-movement work, A Christmas Offering, a festive celebration scored for SATB chorus with harp (or piano) taking inspiration from Benj...

On this night is an adaptation of the middle movement of Will Todd’s three-movement choral suite Praise all things, which was written in 2019 for Preston Hollow Presbyterian Church, Texas. This altern...

A piano part is included for rehears al purposes.

Candles & Crowns by Christopher Norton is a lively and rhythmic choral work that combines modern influences with traditional themes. Norton, best known for his groundbreaking "Microjazz" series, also...

James MacMillan is the pre-eminent Scottish composer of his generation. This attractive five-minute Advent/Christmas carol for choir and organ sets a poem by Michael Symmons Roberts, a frequent collab...

A collection of Christmas carols in a variety of languages, Karolju was inspired by the great body of Christmas carols written over the centuries, and Orff's Carmina Burana.

This tongue-in-cheek adaptation of Rudolph is written in Latin!

This arrangement explores the Caribbean sty;e known as “Afro-Cuban”: independent melodic lines with strong rhythmic pulses are superimposed to build up textures that are both rich and tran...