Christmas Songs for Mixed Choir

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...

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...

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...

Kim André Arnesen’s Nordic Christmas is a collection of seven carols originating from three Nordic countries: Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Written in honour of the 125th anniversary of Sons of Norway (...

Kim André Arnesen’s Nordic Christmas is a collection of seven carols originating from three Nordic countries: Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Written in honour of the 125th anniversary of Sons of Norway (...

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...

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...

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...

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...