Carols for Choirs 2

by David Willcocks, John Rutter

Overview

A second collection of 50 carols, mostly for SATB, some unaccompanied, and some having accompaniments for piano, organ, orchestra, or brass ensemble. Many of the carols are from traditional sources, rearranged, as well as carols written especially for this volume by composers including William Walton, Benjamin Britten, Richard Rodney Bennett, and William Mathias.
Instrumental material for most of the accompanied items is available on hire. Eight Carols for Brass for 5 and 8 part brass (to accompany carols from Carols for Choirs 1 and Carols for Choirs 2) are also on sale.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780193535657
Publisher:	Oxford University Press Music
Publication date:	02/01/1972
Series:	. . . for Choirs Collections
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	9.88(w) x 6.85(h) x 0.51(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 I wys, BaintonA child is born in Bethlehem, Scheidt/WillcocksAdam lay ybounden, OrdAll my heart this night rejoices, EbelingAll this time, WaltonThe angels and the shepherds, TrevorThe cherry tree carol, WillcocksCome leave your sheep, RutterCome, thou Redeemer of the earth, WillcocksDeck the hall, WillcocksDing dong! merrily on high, WillcocksDown in yon forest, RutterGabriel's message, WillcocksHail! Blessed Virgin Mary, WoodHark! the herald angels sing, MendelssohnHe is born the divine Christ child, RutterHere we come a-wassailing, RutterThe holly and the ivy, Walford DaviesHow far is it to Bethlehem?, WillcocksI saw a maiden, PettmanI sing of a maiden, HadleyIl est né le divin enfant, RutterThe Infant King, WillcocksIt came upon the midnight clear, Sullivan/WillcocksThe Lord at first did Adam make, WillcocksMasters in this hall, WillcocksMatin responsory, PalestrinaMyn lyking, TerryNativity carol, RutterA New Year carol, BrittenNoël nouvelet, RutterNowell, sing nowell, RutterO come, all ye faithful, WadeO come, O come, Emmanuel, WillcocksOf the father's heart begotten, WillcocksOnce in royal David's city, Gauntlett/Mann/WillcocksOut of your sleep, Rodney BennettPast three a clock, RutterPatapan, JacquesPersonent hodie, HolstQuelle est cette odeur agréable?, WillcocksQuem pastores laudavere, RutterQuittez, pasteurs, RutterResonemus laudibus, WillcocksSans day carol, RutterThe shepherds' cradle song, Leuner/MacphersonShepherds left their flocks a-straying, RutterShepherd's pipe carol, RutterSilent night, Gruber/WillcocksSir Christèmas, MathiasThere is no rose, StevensTomorrow shall be my dancing day, WillcocksThe truth from above, Vaughan WilliamsThe twelve days of Christmas, RutterWhile shepherds watched their flocks, WillcocksZion hears the watchmen's voices, Bach/Rutter