Carols for Choirs 3

by David Willcocks (Editor), John Rutter (Editor)

Overview

A third collection of 50 carols, mostly for SATB, some unaccompanied, and some having accompaniments for piano, organ, or orchestra. The carols reflect a diversity of styles and periods, while remaining within the capacity of an average group of amateur performers. Includes compositions and arrangements by Britten, Holst, Howells, Hurford, Vaughan Williams, and Walton.
Orchestral and brass accompaniments for many of the items are available on hire.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780193535701
Publisher:	Oxford University Press Music
Publication date:	10/05/1978
Series:	. . . for Choirs Collections
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	9.92(w) x 6.85(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

Born in 1919, David Willcocks began his musical career as a chorister at Westminster Abbey, later winning scholarships to Clifton College and King's College, Cambridge. Following war service, he was elected Fellow of King's College, and later became Organist of Salisbury and Worcester Cathedrals, conducting the Three Choirs Festival whilst at Worcester. Willcocks returned to King's College, Cambridge as Director of Music from 1957-1974, with the first collection of his arrangements in the Carols for Choirs series publishing in 1961. He was Director of Music at the Royal College of Music from 1974-1984, and was knighted in the Queen's Silver Jubilee Honours List in 1977. Willcocks also conducted The Bach Choir for 38 years, retiring in 1998. Sir David died in September 2015. John Rutter studied music at Clare College, Cambridge and first came to notice as a composer and arranger of Christmas carols and other choral pieces during those early years; today his compositions, including such concert-length works as Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, The Gift of Life, and Visions are performed around the world. John edits the Oxford Choral Classics series, and, with Sir David Willcocks, co-edited four volumes of Carols for Choirs. In 1983 he formed his own choir The Cambridge Singers, with whom he has made numerous recordings on the Collegium Records label, and he appears regularly in several countries as a guest conductor and choral ambassador. John holds a Lambeth Doctorate in Music, and was awarded a CBE for services to music in 2007.

Table of Contents

A babe is born, MathiasA babe is born in Bethlehem, ScheinA child this day is born, WillcocksAll in the morning, Vaughan WilliamsAngel tidings, RutterAngelus ad Virginem, WillcocksBethlehem, of noblest cities, WillcocksBirthday Carol, WillcocksBoar's head carol, WillcocksChild in a manger, RutterChrist was born on Christmas Day, WillcocksChriste, redemptor omnium, MonteverdiChristmas Oratorio (3 extracts), BachCome all you worthy gentlemen, WillcocksCome, rock the cradle for him (from Psalteriolum Harmonicum)The Cradle, WillcocksCradle song, RutterThe crown of roses, TchaikovskyDeck the hall, WillcocksDonkey carol, RutterEarth has many a noble city, WillcocksFlemish carol, RutterGabriel's message, WillcocksHark! the herald angels sing, MendelssohnHe smiles within his cradle, WillcocksHush! my dear, lie still and slumber, WillcocksI saw three ships, RutterIl est né le divin enfant, WillcocksIn dulci jubilo, RutterIn the bleak mid-winter, HolstJesus Child, RutterKing Herod and the cock, WaltonKing Jesus hath a garden, RutterKings of orient, Hopkins/WillcocksLo! he comes with clouds descending, WillcocksO come, all ye faithful, WadeO little town of Bethlehem, Walford DaviesOmnis mundus jocundetur, PraetoriusOnce, as I remember, WoodPsallite unigenito, PraetoriusSalve puerule, CharpentierShepherds, in the field abiding, WillcocksSilent night, Gruber/CashmoreSing we to this merry company, StevensStar carol, RutterSunny bank, HurfordSusanni, Rodney BennettThere is no rose, BrittenThis joyful Eastertide, WoodTryste Noel, HowellsWexford Carol, RutterWhat child is this?, WillcocksWhat sweeter music, Rodney Bennett