Weihnachtliche Melodien für alle!

First published in Carols for Choirs 5, this is a touching setting of the well-known fifteenth-century words. The contours of Stroope's melodic writing perfectly mirror the narrative from the manger s...

In The Three Kings Chilcott sets verses from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Christmas poem telling the story of the three kings' journey to Bethlehem. A sense of travel is created by the stately 6/8 tim...

This joyful take on the festive favourite would be the perfect ending to any Christmas concert. The choir grows from unison to eight parts, and a string of modulations keeps the audience on their toes...

This jovial carol uses a traditional text augmented with additional lyrics by David Warner, and Wilberg puts the melody through a wealth of festive musical treatments, including six-part voice divisio...

This jubilant carol sets a fifteenth-century text that rejoices in the birth of the baby Jesus. An ideal opener for any Christmas Carol concert, the work is featured on the Choir of Truro Cathedral's...

This jubilant arrangement of Deck the hall will be enjoyed by audiences and choirs alike. With a succession of exciting modulations and all the hallmarks of Wilberg's uplifting style, this piece will...

The choral writing in this energetic and joyful carol is rich with rhythmic character, while the organ part is typically virtuosic. Alleluya. A new work is come on hand is recorded on the Regent Recor...

A star as bright as day is a quirky and thoroughly enjoyable setting of a familiar Christmas text, in which Alan Bullard presents the nativity story through contrasting and varied musical passages, pr...

Written for the 2018 BBC Advent broadcast from St John's College, Cambridge, A Prayer to St John the Baptist sets an artfully crafted text that combines Guido d'Arezzo's Ut queant laxis (itself a Hymn...

Originally published in Carols for Choirs 2, Rutter's arrangement of this well-known carol is energetic and joyful. The memorable and buoyant melody is supported and driven by lively piano accompanime...

This sprightly setting of a sixteenth-century English text tells the tale of a jolly shepherd named Wat. With an upbeat triple metre and a joyful swing feel, this carol has imaginative, contrasting te...

This sprightly setting of a sixteenth-century English text tells the tale of a jolly shepherd named Wat. With an upbeat triple metre and a joyful swing feel, this carol has imaginative, contrasting te...

This movement from Make We Merry sets the words of the seventeenth-century Christmas text 'Sweet was the song' to a straightforward and lyrical solo line in the first soprano part, with an imitative s...

Written for the 2018 BBC Advent broadcast from St John's College, Cambridge, A Prayer to St John the Baptist sets an artfully crafted text that combines Guido d'Arezzo's Ut queant laxis (itself a Hymn...

This sprightly setting of a sixteenth-century English text tells the tale of a jolly shepherd named Wat. With an upbeat triple metre and a joyful swing feel, this carol has imaginative, contrasting te...

Ring the bells is a joyful setting of a text by Frances Crosby that celebrates the coming of Christmas. Written in a lively compound time, the carol explores one melodic refrain through numerous keys...

A lilting 3/4 metre carries the listener through this familiar Christmas story, beautifully depicted in a text by the composer. Rutter employs artful word-painting throughout, and the verse-refrain st...

A celebratory carol in a lilting 12/8 metre, Christmas Welcome sets a joyful fifteenth-century text by John the Blind Audelay. Whitbourn employs textural contrasts and call-and-response style pairings...

Setting his own text, Archer's new carol is specifically dedicated to Mary. 'Ave Maria's are interspersed between flowing melodies that rock gently in 3/4 time, while the central section offers brief...

This thought-provoking carol takes up the topical theme of the plight of refugees, drawing parallels with the stories and reception of Christ's birth. The text, by the composer, alludes to familiar li...

This is a delightful setting of the popular traditional carol. Key changes, well-crafted counter-melodies, and rhythmic variation build excitement throughout the piece, while the mimicking of bells in...

Higgins's arrangement of 'Away in a manger' is beautiful and delicate. The first verse is taken by unison voices; the second is a cappella, with an optional soloist or small group and sustained 'ooh's...

This effervescent setting of two texts by David Warner - one for Christmas, one for general worship - was included on the Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square's recent release, 'Tree of Lif...

This is a hauntingly beautiful, spiritual-style setting of a sixteenth-century text attributed to Thomas Ravenscroft. Also in the anthology Christmas Spirituals for Choirs.

This delightful new arrangement of the popular traditional carol is presented in both English and the original French. Murphy manipulates the melodic material cleverly, and a variety of textures, danc...