Christmas Songs for Mixed Choir

Ein Schlaflied für das Jesus-Kind und 'Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht' auf Ukrainisch, mit volkstümlichen Worten, 'als seien diese gerade eben auf den Lippen der Menschen von Heute erschienen' (V. Silves...

Ein Schlaflied für das Jesus-Kind und 'Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht' auf Ukrainisch, mit volkstümlichen Worten, 'als seien diese gerade eben auf den Lippen der Menschen von Heute erschienen' (V. Silves...

'Blessed be that Maid Marie' was premiered by the BBC Singers at St Giles' Cripplegate, and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 broadcast in December 2012.'Blessed be that Maid Marie' is essentially a traditiona...

Composer's note: 'My approach to arranging this carol, as well as the other carols in Nordic Christmas, was to look at the text (originally in Danish by Nikolai Grundtvig, 1783-1872) and its backgroun...

Composer's note: 'There are already well-known settings of this text, most notably Bing Crosby's 1956 recording of Johnny Marks' interpretation; however, people (including Crosby) have tended to omit...

Composer's note: 'The words of Edith Reed's translation of this traditional Polish poem wonderfully encapsulate the Christmas message. I love the way that the text captures the innocence and humblenes...

Composer's note: 'Walter De La Mare's poem Clouded with snow paints an atmospheric picture of late afternoon in winter and I was drawn to the image of a bleak yet beautiful landscape with the faint gl...

Rejoice! ist ein Weihnachtslied voller reiner und unbegrenzter Freude. Hier erschallen die Glocken mit Hilfe von scharf akzentuierten nachklingend Akkorden, und reichhaltig gearbeitete kontrapunktisch...

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...

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...

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...

Here are four classic Christmas carols skillfully arranged for the concert stage, worship anthems or caroling in your neighborhood. These are not set in a traditional hymn style but rather graced with...

The English late Romantic composer Maunder is still prominent in church music today, particularly through his cantatas, above all the Passion cantata "Olivet to Calvary". His Christmas cantata "Bethle...

No other Christmas carol has been as successful throughout the world as 'Silent Night'. It is not only sung in many languages of this world but has also inspired numerous composers to write arrangemen...

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...

'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...