Carols For Choirs 3: SATB: Vocal Score

For Advent Christmas & Epiphany for Mixed Voice Choirs-Noël! 3 is an exciting collection of Advent Christmas and Epiphany music for mixed-voice choirs from the easy to learn to the more challenging and unconventional. The contents range from the Baroque to the present: familiar settings of traditional and lesser-known carols through the ages to Howells Berkeley and Warlock and works by today's composers including Richard Rodney Bennett Paul Mealor John Tavener Francis Pott and Richard Allain. Mixed-voice choirs of all levels will enjoy these new arrangements of favourite carols as well as stimulating original works for the Christmas season.

John Tavener's Ex Maria Virgine is a sequence of Christmas carols their emphasis on the Nativity and the Virgin Mary. Scored for SATB unaccompanied or with Organ the collection isrepresentative of the broad range of Tavener's choral writing. These carols may be performed as the full sequence or as individual pieces: carols such as Ding! Dong! Merrily on High and Unto Us is Born aSon to familiar texts made novel and exciting or Rocking a simple four-part setting sure to become a favourite with choirs of any accomplishment.

5 Carols Nr. 4-This wonderful title includes five fantastic Christmas carols to add to your choirs festive repertoire. Includes There is No Rose Out of Your Sleep That Younge Child Sweet was the Song Susanni. Arranged for SATB includes Piano accompaniment for rehearsal.As one of Britain’s most respected and versatile musicians Bennett produced over two hundred works for the concert hall and fifty scores for film and television as well as having been a writer and performer of jazz songs for fifty years.Studies with Boulez in the 1950s immersed him in the techniques of the European avant-garde though he subsequently developed his owndistinctive dramato-abstract style. In recent years he adopted an increasingly tonal idiom. He was knighted for Services to Music in 1998.

Paul Mealor's I Pray for Treble Voices SATB Chorus and Piano. This is the Vocal Score for this sublime choral work written by the renowned Welsh composer whose works have reached No.1 in the UK Singles Chart as well as having been sung at the 2011 Royal Wedding. Featuring words and music composed by Paul Mealor this festive-themed carol is a beautiful work for choirs looking for a fresh addition to their Christmas repertoire. Including interpolations from favourite carols like 'Silent Night' and 'O Come All Ye Faithful' this truly has the makings of a modern classic.  Composed byMealor I Pray has a strong musical pedigree with the composer having written for the 2011 Royal Wedding and the Military Wives Choir whose rendition of 'Wherever You Are' shot to number one in the UK. This means he's no stranger to emotive works that capture the spirit of a nation combining poetic words with soaring melodies his songs are known to be some of the finest contemporary choral works around.

A re-issue of the most familiar opening number from Britten's majesterial early choral sequence of Christmas settings from ancient English carols. Within the grasp of all choirs of moderate accomplishment

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.

10 Carol arrangements for mixed voices-For SATB accompanied and unaccompanied This series brings together anthems and carols by some of Oxford's leading choral composers including John Rutter Bob Chilcott Andrew Carter Mack Wilberg and Alan Bullard. Together these collections offer a kaleidoscope of musical styles and texts including unique arrangements of popular classics alongside some of the composers' finest original works to date. Previously published under the title Gaudete! this collection of ten exciting carol arrangements has been re-covered to complement Bob Chilcott's first Christmas choral anthology Bob Chilcott Carols 1. From thesimple understated beauty of Away in a manger to the exuberant jazz waltz version of We wish you a merry Christmas this volume takes a fresh look at classics of the Christmas repertoire. 10 classic carols with a twist Arranged by leading choral composer Bob Chilcott Suitable for all mixed-voice choirs Includes Away in a manger and a jazz waltz version of We wish you a merry Christmas Accessible Piano accompaniments included

from Christmas Sequence op. 95-This carol was commissioned in 2002 by King’s College Cambridge for their famous service of Nine Lessons and Carols. It tells the start of the familiar Christmas story: Gabriel's Annunciation; praise to the Virgin before she too sings 'my soul doth magnify the Lord'; the shepherds a-watching their flocks by night; the angelic chorus in the sky; the fusion of celestial and earthy around the crib holding the baby who is also 'Lord of Time & Space'.   The text is from a variety of sources: anonymous carols of the 15th 16th & 17th centuries Edmund Bolton (1611 'Sweet music sweeter far...') the Gloria from the Mass and a couple of lines fromwell-loved Anglican hymns.   Selected for the Royal Philharmonic Society’s ‘Encore’ project this carol will offer some challenge to intermediate choirs but will add some originality to a carol service or Christmas concert.