XMAS Chœur mixte

This tender Advent carol sets an original text by Charles Bennett that creates a sense of anticipation for the arrival of Jesus. Underpinned by a gently rippling piano part throughout, the piece opens...

This gentle yet uplifting carol was first performed during the 2012 King's College, Cambridge Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. Rutter's gift for melody is in evidence throughout the work, with a s...

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...

The new organ accompaniment was transcribed by Peter Stevens for the King's College, Cambridge Nine Lessons and Carols service in 2007. The organ part is presented under Wilberg's original choral part...

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...

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...

Sarah Quartel brings a fresh take on a familiar fifteenth-century text in this enchanting carol. The dialogue between Mary and the infant Jesus is woven to a beguiling folk-like melody, in 6/8 metre,...

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 lilting 3/4 metre carries the listener through this familiar Christmas story, beautifully depicted in a text by the composer and expressed through artful word-painting. Christ our Emmanuel may be ac...

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 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...

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.