Villancicos para coro mixto

Two traditional French carols, Berceuse de Noël ('Entre le boeuf et l'âne gris') and Nouvelle agréable ('Nouvelle agréable un Sauveur Enfant nous est né') arranged for unaccompanied mixed voice choir,...

This carol was commissioned by the John Lewis Partnership Music Society and first performed at their annual Service of Nine Lessons and Carols at Westminster Cathedral in December 2014, conducted by M...

These well-known words seem endlessly fruitful for the composer and conjure up such lovely images which strike each of us in our own way. For Paul Spicer it was the beauty of the language with its flo...

A contemporary arrangement of the Basque Christmas carol, The Angel Gabriel by Nicholas Maw (1935-2009) is one of four Christmas songs written by the composer in the 1960s. The familiar melody is trea...

The Minstrels was commissioned and performed by the BBC Singers in their Winter Solstice concert at St Paul's Church, Knightsbridge, London on 21 December 2016, which was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3...

This setting of a well-known Christmas text by Robert Herrick was commissioned in 2017 to mark the 50th anniversary of the University of Dundee and performed for the first time in the city's St Paul's...

Commissioned by the Anglo-Chinese Junior College Alumni Choir, Singapore, and first performed in December 2018, The Isaiah Carol uses text from the book of Isaiah which tells of the of the profound ch...

Composer's note: 'My approach to arranging this carol, as well as the other carols in Nordic Christmas, was to look at the text (originally in Danish by Nikolai Grundtvig, 1783-1872) and its backgroun...

Composer's note: 'There are already well-known settings of this text, most notably Bing Crosby's 1956 recording of Johnny Marks' interpretation; however, people (including Crosby) have tended to omit...

Composer's note: 'I was introduced to William Blake's poem The Lamb many years ago through John Tavener's famous setting and, when commissioned by York Minster to write a carol for their 2019 nine les...

Composer's note: 'The words of Edith Reed's translation of this traditional Polish poem wonderfully encapsulate the Christmas message. I love the way that the text captures the innocence and humblenes...

Composer's note: 'Walter De La Mare's poem Clouded with snow paints an atmospheric picture of late afternoon in winter and I was drawn to the image of a bleak yet beautiful landscape with the faint gl...

Each year the BBC Music Magazine commissions a brand-new Christmas Carol for their readers and, when Grace-Evangeline Mason was invited to compose the 2021 carol, she decided to write and set her own...

Ben Ponniah started singing at St Mary-le-Tower Church in 1990 when he was six years old. John Cooper was the Organist and Director of Music at the time, followed by Michael Nicholas. Seeing the star...

This carol is one of the pieces that were produced during a full weekend of group composition with Anna Lapwood and the Pembroke College Girls’ Choir, a process with which they had experimented previo...

Este villancico recoge los tres versos finales de la alegre versión de Sara Teasdale de la historia de la Natividad, en la que una hueste de ángeles llega al establo y anuncia el nacimiento con su ale...

La poetisa Wendy Cope evoca una conmovedora imagen de la Navidad en el hogar. Esta adaptación de su reconfortante poema traduce esta imaginería en un sonido coral navideño clásico: una melodía sencill...

El texto de este nuevo villancico, escrito por el compositor, conecta el milagro de la encarnación con la preciosidad del don de Dios de nuestro hogar terrenal: el "milagro que compartimos" es tanto e...

Uno de los textos navideños medievales menos conocidos, que comienza 'Als I lay on Yoolis Night, alone in my longing, me thought I saw a well fair sight, a may hiar child rokking', proporciona la letr...

Adaptación de un villancico anónimo en inglés antiguo ("Vimos la luz brillar desde lejos, en la mañana de Navidad"), subtitulado "de Melchor, Baltasar y Caspar, los Reyes Magos", The Golden Carol narr...

Una adaptación del texto latino de la gran antífona "O Sapientia" (Oh Sabiduría) para Adviento, encargada por la revista Choir & Organ en colaboración con el Coro del King's College de Londres y con e...

Compuesta por encargo de Jonathan Harris en 2024 para los Newport Pagnell Singers, la música de «Rejoice in the light» se le ocurrió al compositor Ben Ponniah en un sueño. Posee un carácter rudo y med...

«O Little One Sweet» fue un encargo de Simon Bell para el Coro de la Capilla de la escuela Dean Close y la Schola Cantorum de la Abadía de Tewkesbury. Cada estrofa del villancico se vuelve más animada...

Your choir will be captivated by this piece for a cappella mixed voices. The ranges are accessible and the harmonies create an air of hushed reverence. Simple and beautiful.

From Queen's College, Oxford, comes the ancient ritual and the rousing holiday song “The Boar's Head Carol,” where the highly decorated dishes of the Christmas feast were presented to the...