Choral Sheet Music

Each year the BBC Music Magazine commissions a brand-new Christmas Carol for their readers and, when Grace-Evangeline Mason was invited to compose the 2021 carol, she decided to write and set her own...

This new setting of the traditional text is intended to offer a darker interpretation of the carol. The universally recognised words of Away in a manger are usually associated with one of two well-kno...

This carol is one of the pieces that were produced during a full weekend of group composition with Anna Lapwood and the Pembroke College Girls’ Choir, a process with which they had experimented previo...

This carol sets the final three verses of Sara Teasdale’s light-hearted retelling of the nativity story, in which a host of angels arrive at the stable, and herald the birth with their joyful song. Th...

The poet, Wendy Cope, conjures a heartwarming image of Christmas in the home. This setting of her comforting poem translates this imagery into a classic Christmas choral sound - a simple, memorable tu...

The text of this new carol, written by the composer, connects the miracle of the incarnation with the preciousness of God’s gift of our earthly home – the ‘miracle we share’ is both the natural enviro...

One of the lesser-known Mediaeval Christmas texts, starting ‘Als I lay on Yoolis Night, alone in my longing, me thought I saw a well fair sight, a may hiar child rokking’, provides the words for this...

Ward Swingle was a founder member of the fabled vocal group Double Six in Paris in the 1960s. He then took the scat singing idea and applied it to the works of Bach, with another vocal group which bec...

A setting of an anonymous Old English Carol ’(‘We saw the light shine out afar, On Christmas in the morning), subtitled ‘of Melchior, Balthazar, and Caspar, the Three Kings’, The Golden Carol tells of...

A setting of the Latin text of the great Antiphon ‘O Sapientia’ (O Wisdom) for Advent, commissioned by Choir & Organ magazine in partnership with the Choir of King’s College London and supported by PR...

Written for a 2024 commission from Jonathan Harris for Newport Pagnell Singers, the music for Rejoice in the light came to composer Ben Ponniah in a dream. It possesses a rugged, medieval character si...

O Little One Sweet was commissioned by Simon Bell for the Chapel Choir of Dean Close School and Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum. Each verse of the carol becomes more animated and moves further harmon...

Three Christmas carols in easy settings by the English choir conductor Malcolm Goldring.The original Basque Christmas lullaby 'The Infant King' is very popular in English-speaking areas. The gentle so...

Die spanisch-deutsche Komponistin Raquel Cristóbal, die bereits mit Ihrem Gewinnerstück beim Kompositionswettbewerb des Chorverband NRW 'An den Mond' (C55497) für Aufsehen sorgte, schenkt uns zur Weih...

A modern interpretation and setting of the Christmas text about the Immaculate Conception by the award winning American composer Matthew Brown, who has had his choral works premiered all over the US.

This short piece for four-part mixed choir was composed by Krzysztof Penderecki in 2015 on the text of a well-known Polish Christmas carol. The traditional text is about common shepherds travelling to...

'O Magnum Mysterium' by the Spanish composer Francisco Carbonell won the 3rd prize at the International Composition Competition Musica Sacra Nova 2016. A chamber choir work with moods of film music fo...

Andrej Makor, currently a master student of composition at the Conservatorio Cesare Pollini in Padua, has already won numerous international composition prizes. The highly respected works by the artis...

Altes mit Neuem kunstvoll zu verbinden - das zählt zu den Markenzeichen von Alwin M. Schronen. Dass dem vielseitigen Tondichter und Träger zahlreicher Kompositionspreise dieser künstlerische Spagat me...

Das Weihnachtswunder wird in dieser sechsstimmigen Vertonung von Javier Busto kanonisch bestaunt. Der Sopran führt, die anderen Stimmen folgen mit keinem Versatz. Das dreistimmige Halleluja, das zunäc...

Dimitri Stepanowitsch Bortniansky (1751-1825) seems to have composed the majority of his liturgical works and most of his Sacred Concertos in the 1780s and 1790s, before he was appointed Kapellmeister...