Par VAUGHAN WILLIAMS RALPH. This Fantasia is founded on the following traditional English carols: The Truth Sent From Above (Herefordshire) words and tune; Come All You Worthy Gentlemen (Somerset) words and tune; On Christmas Night (Sussex) words and tune; There Is A Fountain (Herefordshire) tune only; together with fragments of other well-known carol tunes. The work is scored for ordinary full Or…

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 …

This interesting new take on the classic carol Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day by Swiss composer Carl Rütti formed one-third of a trio of carols that reinvigorated the old favourites with fresh and interesting musical elements. The Three Carols medley was initiated in 1996 with My Dancing Day?forming the Presto section. Carl Rütti's work blends the English choral tradition with other genres su…

The third of a trilogy of choral works A Year's Carols for SATB Choir and Organ commissioned by David Whitehead and the choir of St John's Cathedral Portsmouth. This is a vibrant setting of an English translation of traditional Flemish text.

Par HOLMAN P. / DRAGE S.. The popular seasonal music of the English Georgian parish church - often called gallery music - yielded a wonderfully rich harvest of hymns, carols and anthems. Drawn from a repertoire only recently rediscovered, these new editions offer a sparkling array of fresh, alternative Easter and passiontide music. / Niveau : Assez Facile / Date parution : 2000-10-05/ Recueil / …

Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day is an English carol usually attributed as 'traditional'; its first written appearance is in William B. Sandys' Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern of 1833. It is most well known in John Gardner's adaptation but numerous other composers have made original settings of it or arranged the traditional tune including Gustav Holst  Igor Stravinsky. The verses of the hym…

This accompanied anthem for SATB voices from classical composer Gustav Holst includes: A Babe Is Born; Now Let Us Sing; Jesu Thou the Virgin-born; The Saviour of the World Is Born.

Par ARMAN HOWARD. Howard Arman, director of the Bavarian Radio Choir, has been actively engaged with international Christmas carols through various Christmas-related CD productions of his choir in the past years. This has resulted in a number of original arrangements for four- to eight-part mixed choir a cappella, shedding new light on well-known classics such as O du fröhliche [O, you joyful], St…

Greg Gilpin has created a medley of familiar English carols that allows you to program best-loved melodies and leaves you time for other original or holiday favorites. This smart arrangement weaves the carols in a way that makesmusical sense and is easy to learn. A wonderful way to begin or end your holiday concert!

In this seventh volume of Warlock’s Choral works there is a mixture of work. The Full Heart sets poetry of Warlock’s friend Robert Nicholas and is written for eight-part Chorus with a Soprano solo. A Cornish Christmas Carol is one of two Cornish carols Warlock wrote. This one is for Chorus SATB with SA divisi and a solo Soprano moment toward the end. Corpus Christi written in 1919 requi…