World Carols for Choirs (SSA)

29 carols for SSA accompanied and unaccompanied This upper-voice collection contains original pieces and arrangements from all over the world. In a huge array of styles, there's music here to suit all adult or youth upper-voice choirs. The volume includes carols by popular composers and little-known compositions. Each piece may be sung in its original language or in English, and pronunciation guides are provided for all non-English texts. A helpful introduction includes programme notes for all pieces. Accompaniments for some of the carols are available on hire.

Mesrob Mashtots: Looys parats (The light of glory) - Armenia; Stephen Leek: An Australian Christmas - Australia; Javier Busto (arr.): Oi Bethleem! (O Bethlehem!) - Basque Country, Spain; Kurt Bikkembergs: Omnes nu laet ons gode loven (Now Let Us All Praise God) - Belgium; Ernani Aguiar: Acalentando Jesus (Sleep, little Saviour) - Brazil; Eleanor Daley (arr.): The Huron Carol - Canada; Gilbert Patenaude (arr.): Notre divin Maitre (Our master, Lord Jesus) - Canada (Quebec); Juan Tony Guzman (arr.): Cantemos a Maria (Let us sing to Mary) - Dominican Republic; Mart Siimer (arr.): Nuud ole, Jeesus, kiidetud (Now blessed be thou, Christ Jesu) - Estonia; Pekka Kostiainen (arr.): On lapsi syntynyt meille (A Son to us is given) - Finland; Bruno Gousset (arr.): Vieux Noel pour les Tout-petits (Awake, awake!) - France; Karsten Gundermann (arr.): Nikolauslied (St Nicholas Song) - Germany; Miklos Kocsar: Pastoral (Angels Bright) - Hungary; Mist orkelsdottir: Jol (Who lies a-sleeping?) - Iceland; Seamas de Barra: Oigbhean a chanaim (I sing of a maiden) - Ireland; Rikuya Terashima: The Divine Image - Japan; Hyun Chul Lee: Ju nashuhtdah (Jesus is born) - Korea; Selga Mence (arr.): Sudrabina lietins lija (See the silver rain is falling) - Latvia; Jenny McLeod: Indigo I - New Zealand; Christian Onyeji: Amuworo ayi otu nwa (For unto us a child is born) - Nigeria; Ola Gjeilo: Det hev ei rose sprunge (A spotless rose) - Norway; Stanislaw Szczycinski: Tance-lamance w cudownej stajence (Joyous Dances) - Poland; Peter Louis van Dijk: Susa ninna - South Africa; Robert Sund: Ett Nyfott Barn (A Newborn Child) - Sweden; Carl Rutti (arr.): Auf, ihr Hirten, von dem Schlaf (Wake up shepherds from your sleep) - Switzerland; Bob Chilcott (arr.): Sussex Carol - UK; Libby Larsen (arr.): Jesus, Jesus, rest your head - USA; Rosephanye Powell: Who is the baby? - USA; Alberto Grau: Ananay, nanay (Christmas Carol) - Venezuela