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Summary
Summary
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.
Author Notes
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 bornMathias |
A babe is born in BethlehemSchein |
A child this day is bornWillcocks |
All in the morningVaughan Williams |
Angel tidingsRutter |
Angelus ad VirginemWillcocks |
Bethlehem, of noblest citiesWillcocks |
Birthday carolWillcocks |
Boar's head carolWillcocks |
Child in a mangerRutter |
Christ was born on Christmas DayWillcocks |
Christe, redemptor omniumMonteverdi |
Christmas Oratorio (3 extracts)Bach |
Come all you worthy gentlemenCome, rock the cradle for him (from Psalteriolum Harmonicum)Willcocks |
The CradleWillcocks |
Cradle songRutter |
The crown of rosesTchaikovsky |
Deck the hallWillcocks |
Donkey carolRutter |
Earth has many a noble cityWillcocks |
Flemish carolRutter |
Gabriel's messageWillcocks |
Hark! the herald angels singMendelssohn |
He smiles within his cradleWillcocks |
Hush! my dear, lie still and slumberWillcocks |
I saw three shipsRutter |
Il est ne le divin enfantWillcocks |
In dulci jubiloRutter |
In the bleak mid-winterHolst |
Jesus ChildRutter |
King Herod and the cockWalton |
King Jesus hath a gardenRutter |
Kings of orientHopkins/Willcocks |
Lo! he comes with clouds descendingWillcocks |
O come, all ye faithfulWade |
O little town of BethlehemWalford Davies |
Omnis mundus jocundeturPraetorius |
Once, as I rememberWood |
Psallite unigenitoPraetorius |
Salve pueruleCharpentier |
Shepherds, in the field abidingWillcocks |
Silent nightGruber/Cashmore |
Sing we to this merry companyStevens |
Star carolRutter |
Sunny bankHurford |
SusanniRodney Bennett |
There is no roseBritten |
This joyful EastertideWood |
TrysteNoel Howells |
WexfordCarol Rutter |
What child is this?Willcocks |
What sweeter musicRodney Bennett |