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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...

A Light in the Stable tells the Christmas story through a blend of original settings and well-known carols, and is suitable for both concert and church choirs. This work is perfect for anyone looking...

This joyous yet reflective Christmas carol will appeal to both choir and audience. It is characterized by a soaring melody, an artful use of texture, and a gentle expressiveness, heightened by modal i...

Through luminous choral harmonies, images of a winter night, and echoes of scripture, Advent Moon evokes deep human longing and the promise of the coming of light. The delicate organ accompaniment and...

This engaging carol cantata combines several popular carols to create a performance full of Christmas spirit. Through creative re-harmonization, rhythmic variation, and imaginative linking passages, M...

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...

Archer's jubilant setting of a traditional Polish text (in translation) features changing metres, textural contrasts, and compelling shifts between major and minor. Strophic in form and with a catchy...

Composed in celebration of David Willcocks's 95th birthday, Jonathan Willcocks sets an uplifting traditional text from Cornwall, the county of his father's birth. Telling the story of the shepherds an...

This heart-warming setting of a familiar text includes all the hallmarks of a Bullard carol. Through subtle time-signature changes, a gentle modulation, elegant contrapuntal lines, and an uplifting fi...

This jubilant carol sets a fifteenth-century text that rejoices in the birth of the baby Jesus. Bednall's rhythmically exciting setting features frequently changing time signatures, with 7/8 passages...

This carol is a lilting and uplifting setting of a traditional text about the prophecy of Christ's birth, as received by Joseph from an angel. The accessible musical language, with interesting harmoni...

With "La Berceuse (French Lullaby)", Oxford University Press presents an enchanting choral work full of poetry and sonic elegance. Originally composed in 1975 by Barbara Bell, this charming carol has...

For SATB and organ or piano. Shepherds, guarding your flocks is an expressive setting of a carol by Canon Matthew Woodward. Bullard skilfully conveys the text's wondrous and exultant narrative in a se...

For SATB with keyboard. Setting a 15th century text, this popular carol on the birth of Jesus is flowing and expressive. It has been recorded by the Cambridge Singers (directed by John Rutter) on the...

For SATB (with divisions) and piano. This charming French carol (with E.C. Nunn's English translation) tells of the milkmaids Jeanette and Isabella, who run to tell the shepherds to come and see the b...

For SATB (with divisions) and organ, with optional congregation. Here John Rutter follows Vaughan Williams' precedent in setting this text from the 4th-century Orthodox liturgy of St James of Jerusale...

For SATB and piano/orchestra.

This joyful setting of the much-loved Christmas hymn is extracted from the Christmas collection Joy to the World. Leaving the first five verses in their familiar form, Rutter adds a spectacular descan...

We wish you a merry Christmas presents five secular carols and Christmas songs in distinctive mixed voice arrangements by John Rutter. Each of the pieces from this collection is available as an indivi...

In this highly original arrangement of the popular Christmas carol, dark and mysterious verses contrast with warm, joyful choruses. This setting can also be found in Rutter's Christmas collection Joy...

The Wild Wood Carol transports choirs and audiences alike into an enchanting, atmospheric world of sound. Published by the renowned Oxford University Press, this evocative work harmoniously combines t...

Commissioned by King's College, Cambridge, for the 2016 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, This Endernight is a tender, peaceful setting of well-known fifteenth-century words. The recurring melody h...

The choral writing in this energetic and joyful carol is rich with rhythmic character, while the organ part is typically virtuosic.

The Midnight of your Birth is a charming collection of five carols by Bob Chilcott for upper voices and piano. Equally suited to women's choirs and youth choirs, the carols range from unison ('The Bla...

Set to the traditional text 'A Virgin most pure', Malcolm Archer's sprightly Christmas carol successfully combines a memorable tune, attractive sequences, and playful exchanges between choir and organ...