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 Ma^itre (Our master, Lord Jesus) - Canada (Quebec); Juan Tony Guzm'an (arr.): Cantemos a Mar?a (Let us sing to Mary) - Dominican Republic; Mart Siimer (arr.): N"u"ud 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 No"el pour les Tout-petits (Awake, awake!) - France; Karsten Gundermann (arr.): Nikolauslied (St Nicholas Song) - Germany; Mikl'os Kocs'ar: Pastoral (Angels Bright) - Hungary; Mist orkelsd'ottir: J'ol (Who lies a-sleeping?) - Iceland; S'eamas 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 Nyf"ott Barn (A Newborn Child) - Sweden; Carl R?tti (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

Susan Knight is Founder and Artistic Director of the Newfoundland Symphony Youth Choir and Festival 500. She is active as a guest conductor, adjudicator, lecturer, keynote speaker, and advocate, and has served in executive position within provincial and national music and educational organizations. Bob Chilcott has become one of the world's most widely performed composers and arrangers of choral music. His compositional output reflects his wide taste in music styles and his commitment to writing music that is both singable and communicative. He has been involved in choral music most of his life he was a chorister and then a choral scholar in the choir of King's College, Cambridge, and was a member of the British vocal group The King's Singers for whom he made a number of popular arrangements of well-known songs from all genres. As well as being a full-time composer he is also a highly acclaimed choral conductor. He has been privileged to conduct many choirs all over the world. He is Principal Guest Conductor of The BBC Singers and in 2019 he was appointed Principal Conductor of Birmingham University Singers. His music has been widely recorded by many choirs and groups including The King's Singers, Tenebrae, and The BBC Singers.