and Epiphany for Mixed Voice Choirs-Noël! is an exciting Christmas collection for Mixed Voice Choirs selected and edited by David Hill. Featuring a beautiful selection of carols and festive pieces these traditional and modern pieces have been wonderfully arranged.    The contents range from the Renaissance to the present featuring some absolute Christmas sheet music favourites and some lesser-known pieces that will no doubt be a pleasant surprise for audiences. Numerous composers are represented in this here from the polyphony of Victoria and Byrd via Bach familiar settings of traditional and lesser known carols through the ages and works by today'scomposers including Richard Rodney Bennett Judith Bingham John Tavener and Judith Weir make Noël! one of the best choices for choirs for Christmas sheet music.Mixed voice choirs of all levels will find new arrangements of favourite carols here as well as stimulating works for the Christmas and Advent periods from the easy to learn to the more challenging and unconventional. Whichever your choir chooses to perform all are guaranteed to impress audiences with their distillation of the Christmas spirit into some incredible music.    For Christmas carol sheet music look no further than Noël! for Mixed Voice Choirs. This great selection will be a joy to perform and an even bigger joy for your audiences to hear. They're fun and at times challenging but the beauty of these anthems and carols will absolutely herald in the festive spirit for performers and listeners alike.

Alan Bullard's 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. Scored for SATB with Organ or Piano accompaniment this piece can also be performed with a small Orchestra or Chamber group and there are parts for optional Vocal solos. The familiar Gospel words (which may be spoken sung or replaced with other appropriate readings) are interspersed with a range of new material including the lively Glory to God; Sing Lullaby in which Mary foreshadows the events of Jesus' life; and the reflective A Light forToday an evocation of the Nativity tableau. The audience/congregation are encouraged to join in for some carols and choir and listeners will delight in the new settings of familiar words. A wonderful companion to Bullard's Advent celebration O Come Emmanuel this work is perfect for anyone looking for a new take on familiar Christmas words and melodies.

Par PITTS ANTONY. The Naxos Book of Carols is collection of both the very old and the very new. Commissioned by the leading international classical music label, Naxos, these twenty-four arrangements of traditional and original carols tell the Christmas story - from the hope of Advent and the message of the Angels, to the humble birth of the baby in Bethlehem and the coming of the King of kings. This collaboration between Naxos and Faber Music has brought this volume, containing all 24 carols in four narrative sequences, in new arrangements for SATB choir with minimum divisi. There is a good mix of accompanied and a capella (even the latter have optional accompaniments) and there is practical guidance on how the carols may be used by congregations, as well as choirs with varied resources. The original CD, performed by the award-winning choir Tonus Peregrinus and directed by the composer Antony Pitts, is included within the book making it incredible value for money. / Choral Music / Recueil / Voix Mixtes

Designed specially for schools without an SATB choir this collection contains 21 settings for unison and two-part voices. These arrangements all compatible with The Novello Book Of Carols are scored for tuned and untuned percussion two melody parts (each in C and B flat) guitar chords bass line and simplified piano. These carols provide the ideal opportunity of junior and middle school choirs to join adult choirs in performance whilst fulfilling the need for ensemble music throughout the year. Edited by William Llewellyn.

5 Songs For Upper Voices-This collection brings together five brand new carols by Bob Chilcott for upper Voices and Piano. Suitable for women's choirs or youth choirs the carols weave an imagery of birds and the natural world with the Christmas narrative setting texts by long-term collaborator Charles Bennett.

Designed specially for schools without an SATB choir this collection contains 21 settings for unison and two-part voices. These arrangements all compatible with The Novello Book Of Carols are scored for tuned and untuned percussion two melody parts (each in C and B flat) guitar chords bass line and simplified piano. These carols provide the ideal opportunity of junior and middle school choirs to join adult choirs in performance whilst fulfilling the need for ensemble music throughout the year. Edited by William Llewellyn.

Designed specially for schools without an SATB choir this collection contains 21 settings for unison and two-part voices. These arrangements all compatible with The Novello Book Of Carols are scored for tuned and untuned percussion two melody parts (each in C and B flat) guitar chords bass line and simplified piano. These carols provide the ideal opportunity of junior and middle school choirs to join adult choirs in performance whilst fulfilling the need for ensemble music throughout the year. Edited by William Llewellyn.

All the favourites in one book! Ideal for carol singers Choirs Organists and Pianists. Over thirty of the most popular Christmas carols arranged in four parts and with Keyboard accompaniment where appropriate.

These Christmas carols by Britten have become contemporary classics. The serene Sweet Was The Song contrasts with a moving lament on the hardships of Christmas  A Wealden Trio (both of which are unaccompanied but which have in this edition a piano reduction for rehearsal purposes)  and a memorable setting of Hardy's fine poem The Oxen (accompanied). The Choral Programme Series is now a well-esatablished programming tool for many choirs as it offers a wealth of fresh material from many eras and in many styles. 

Uses: Christmas Epiphany Holiday ConcertScripture: Luke 2:7; Micah 5:2A virtual potpourri of praise and celebration is found in this pleasing montage of Christmas classics. Sensitively presented forchoirs of any level and size this would be a quality selection for a Hanging of the Greens service or a Lessons and Carols program. Incorporates Sing We Now of Christmas Infant Holy Infant Lowly On This Day Earth ShallRing and He Is Born the Holy Child.

Carl Rütti (b. 1949) studied music at the Zürich Conservatoire. Studies in London with Kendall Taylor and Richard Latham kindled a fascination with English choral singing and inspired works for unaccompanied chorus. A steady output of mostly sacred choral music has followed including the large-scale Requiem (2007).Rütti's music blends the English choral tradition with other genres including jazz and the blues in rich colourful textures and has been performed all over the world. He has worked with notable choirs including in the UK The Bach Choir BBC Symphony Chorus Norwich Cathedral Choir and Cambridge Voices and in the USA the St Louis ChamberChorus. Many of his works have beenrecorded.He teaches piano at the Zürich Conservatoire gives concerts and recitals as a pianist and organist and is the organist of the local church in Oberägeri Zug.

There is no rose of such virtue is an anonymous mediaeval text, already well known through beautiful settings by Britten (in his Ceremony of Carols), John Joubert and others. The poem is 'macaronic' (it presents a verse in English, followed by a varying Latin refrain). This new version follows the illustrious examples above by remaining strophic and presenting broadly the same music in a succession of slightly different guises. The first verse is a straightforward four-part setting, the second gives the melody to the tenors and surrounds them with hushed, wordless writing for the other parts, and the third explores a freely canonic relationship between the tenor and soprano lines before carrying the previous verse-endings to a higher, more exalted pitch and mood. The fourth verse then expands its texture in a free climactic passage evoking the songs of praise sung by the angels. This subsides towards the final verse, where the texture of the music attenuates again to four parts, and canonic writing (based on the first four notes of the original melody) permeates all of them. This slightly extended statement leads to a hushed final cadence. Francis Pott (b. 1957) began musical life as a chorister at New College, Oxford. He held open music scholarships at Winchester College and at Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he studied composition with Robin Holloway and Hugh Wood while pursuing piano studies privately in London with the distinguished British artist, Hamish Milne. Throughout the 1990s Francis was John Bennett Lecturer in Music at St Hilda's College, Oxford, and a lay clerk in the Choir of Winchester Cathedral. In 2001 he became Head of London College of Music, University of West London, later leading research across the University's Faculty of Arts and acceding in 2007 to its first Chair in Composition. Francis Pott has become recognised particularly for his sacred choral and organ music. This has been performed in concert and on radio in over three dozen countries worldwide, published by four major UK houses and released extensively on CD. Winner of four national composition awards, in 1997 he received first prize in the piano solo section of the S. S. Prokofiev Composing Competition, Moscow. In 2006 and 2011 he was a nominated finalist in the BASCA/BBC Annual Composer Awards. In summer 2012 he was winner of the international composing competition of the Cheltenham Festival, which sought new piano variations on the arioso song Bist du bei mir, well known in the arrangement by J. S. Bach. Francis lives with his wife and two children on the outskirts of Winchester. An inspiring selection of new works from a range of contemporary composers, the Novello New Choral Series offers pieces for all types of choirs, including sacred and secular works from simple, four-part settings to more expansive, yet accessible, repertoire in an exciting variety of styles. / Choeur Mixte (SATB)

from Three Baltic Carols-A fun setting of a traditional Estonian carol this secular winter-themed song reflects on the joys of winter and skating in a gentle waltz feel. In Estonian with a pronunciation guide and a singing English translation this suits both beginning and more advanced mixed choirs with quick and easy preparation for both choir and accompanist. Duration: ca. 2:45 Performed by the California State University Long Beach Choir - Jonathan Talberg conductor