News November, 2023

30 November 2023

Sacred music:

• Juan de Araujo: Ay Andar
• Juan de Araujo: Los coflades de la estleya
• Juan de Araujo: Dixit Dominus
• Rodrigo de Ceballos: O virgo benedicta
• Gaspar Fernández: Xicochi conetzintle
• Francisco Guerrero: Hoy, Joseph
• Francisco Guerrero: Ibant Magi
• Francisco Guerrero: Niño Dios d’amor herido
• Francisco Guerrero: Vamos al portal
• Juan Guitierrez de Padilla: Christus natus est
• Juan Guitierrez de Padilla: Ioseph fili David à 8
• Cristóbal de Morales: Sancta et immaculata virginitas
• Diego Joseph de Salazar: Salga el torillo hosquillo
• Juan Garcia de Zéspedes: Convidando esta la noche
• Juan Garcia de Zéspedes: Convidando esta la noche (Stable Press)
• Domenico Zipoli: Beatus vir
• Veinticinco de diciembre (Spanish traditional)

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29 November 2023

Sacred music:

• Maurice Duruflé: Notre Père (arr. SAB Morten Schuldt-Jensen)
• Maurice Duruflé: Tantum ergo (arr. SAB Morten Schuldt-Jensen)
• Maurice Duruflé: Tu es Petrus (arr. SAB Morten Schuldt-Jensen)
• Maurice Duruflé: Ubi caritas et amor (arr. SAB Morten Schuldt-Jensen)
• Gabriel Fauré: Requiem (ed. Desmond Ratcliffe arr. SAB Morten Schuldt-Jensen)

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28 November 2023

Christmas music:

• We wish you a merry Christmas (arr. Ralph Allwood)

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27 November 2023

Christmas music:

• The cherry tree carol (arr. Martin Shaw)
• There is no rose, by Benedict Preece

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26 November 2023

Christmas music:

• A spotless rose, by Becky McGlade
• What can I give him? (SAB), by Mark Hayes

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25 November 2023

Sacred music:

• Gabriel Jackson: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Truro Service)
• Stephanie Jackson: Ave verum corpus

Christmas music:

• Away in a manger, by William J. Kirkpatrick (ed. Andrew Sims)
• The Christmas song, by Mel Tormé and Robert Wells (arr. SATB Audrey Snyder)
• Do you hear what I hear? by Noel Regney and Gloria Shayne (arr. TTBB Harry Simeone)
• Good Christians all, rejoice (arr. John Stainer)
• Joy to the world, by George Frideric Handel (arr. TTBB Denys Hood)
• Mistletoe and wind, by Jeremy Paul, Leslie Stewart and Keith Strachan (arr. TTBB Alan Simmons)
• O holy night, by Adolphe Adam (arr. TTBB Andrew Hawryluk)
• Rockin’ around the Christmas tree, by Johnny Marks (arr. SATB Kirby Shaw)
• See amid the winter’s snow, by John Goss (arr. John Stainer)
• Silent night, by Franz Gruber (arr. TTBB G.L. Cox)

Secular music:

• An American trilogy (arr. TTBB Alwyn Humphreys)
• And so it goes, by Billy Joel (arr. TTBB Kirby Shaw)
• Stout-hearted men, by Sigmund Romberg (arr. TTBB Walter Scotson)
• The white rose (arr. TTBB Jack Haigh)

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23 November 2023

Christmas music:

• Christmas pudding, by Jonathan Willcocks
• The hills are bare at Bethlehem, by William Walker, Southern Harmony, 1835 (arr. Ralph Johnson)

Sacred music:

• This we know, by Ron Jeffers

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22 November 2023

Sacred music:

• Albert Alcaraz: L’aguirlando

Christmas music:

• Jingle bells, by James Pierpont (arr. SATB Jack Gold and Marty Paich, adapted Mark Hayes)

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21 November 2023

Sacred music:

• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Lift up your heads
• Leo Sowerby: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in D
• John E. West: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis for boys’ voices in G
• Healey Willan: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in B flat
• Charles Wood: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in A minor for double choir
• Charles Wood: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in C
• Charles Wood: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in C minor
• Charles Wood: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in E minor
• Charles Wood: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in G for double choir
• Charles Wood: Magnificat and Nunc dimittis in Piae Cantiones

Christmas music:

• The Polar express Holiday medley, by Glen Ballard and Alan Silvestri (arr. SATB Audrey Snyder)
• What child is this? by Philip Moore

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20 November 2023

Sacred music:

• Leonardo Ciampa: The incarnation

Christmas music:

• Christmas spiritual medley (arr. Joseph Jennings)
• In the blead mid-winter, by Nigel Hayward
• Joy to the world, by George Frideric Handel (arr. Paul Halley)

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19 November 2023

Christmas music:

• Christ’s nativity (SSA), by Malcolm Archer
• Scots nativity (SAB), by Alan Bullard
• Silent night, by Franz Gruber (arr. Laura Jēkabsone)
• Sweeter still, by Eric William Barnum
• There is no rose, by Philip W.J. Stopford
• This endris night (SATB), by Sarah Quartel
• We wish you a merry Christmas (arr. Andrew Sims)

Secular music:

• Until love is spoken, by Karen Marrolli

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18 November 2023

Sacred music:

• St Luke Passion, BWV. 246 Anon (misattributed to Johann Sebastian Bach)

Christmas music:

• Flaming seraphs: Stratton traditional carol, Melody by W. Cowling, Bolingey
• I saw three ships (arr. Philip W.J. Stopford)
• Lute book lullaby, by Richard Allain
• The time of snow, by Bob Chilcott

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17 November 2023

Christmas music:

• Adam lay ybounden, by Carson P. Cooman
• Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, by Michael Praetorius (ed. Georg L. Sothilander)
• Kling Glöckchen, kling, by Karl Enslin (arr. Jürgen Knuth)
• Leise rieselt der Schnee (arr. Jürgen Knuth)
• O Tannenbaum (arr. Jürgen Knuth)

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13 November 2023

Christmas music:

• Hanukkah suite, by Clifton J. Noble Jr
• There is no rose, by Richard Rodney Bennett

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11 November 2023

Sacred music:

• Roxanna Panufnik: The gift of music

• Now let me fly (arr. SSAA Stacey V. Gibbs)

Christmas music:

• Mozart’s fa-la-la, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (arr. SATB Philip Kern)

Secular music:

• The gift to sing (SSAA), by Marianne Forman
• Panta rhei – All things are in flux, by Jim Papoulis (arr. 4-part treble Francisco J. Núñez)
• They may tell you (SSAA), by Andrea Ramsey

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9 November 2023

Christmas music:

• Born to save (arr. Ian Brentnall)
• The oxen, by Marjorie Hess

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8 November 2023

Sacred music:

• Alec Roth: Night prayer / Nachtgebet

• Plottyu zasnuv, Galician chant (SSA; or, TTB ed. Martin Dietze)

Christmas music:

• Duan nollag (arr. Alan Cutts)
• Silent night, by Franz Gruber (arr. Dan Forrest)
• We three kings, by Howard Rees

Secular music:

• Mon coeur se recommande à vous, Anon (ed. Robert Houllamere)
• Mon coeur se recommande à vous, Anon (ed. Anthony G. Petti)

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7 November 2023

Sacred music:

• Thomas Weelkes: O vos omnes

Christmas music:

• I wonder as I wander (arr. Jonathan Rathbone)
• We wish you a merry Christmas (arr. Jonathan Rathbone)
• While shepherds watched their flocks by night (Tune: Lyngham), by Thomas Jarman (ed. Peter Chubb)

Secular music:

• We shepherds sing, by Thomas Weelkes

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6 November 2023

Secular music:

• I’m a believer, by Neil Diamond (arr. SAB Mark Brymer)

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5 November 2023

Sacred music:

• William Byrd: O quam suavis est
• Healey Willan: Sing to the Lord of Harvest

• Eternal father, strong to save, by John B. Dykes (arr. TTBB John van Gulik)

Christmas music:

• Angelus ad virginem, by Matthew Martin
• Caroling, caroling, by Alfred Burt
• Good King Wenceslas (arr. Alice Parker and Robert Shaw)
• Personent hodie (arr. Alice Parker)
• Sleep my little one (arr. John Leavitt)
• We’ll dress the house, by Alfred Burt

Secular music:

• Harvester’s song, by Jean Berger

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4 November 2023

Sacred music:

• Richard Ewer: Beati omnes
• Debbie Wiseman: Alleluia (O sing praises)

Christmas music:

• O holy night, Adolphe Adam (arr. TTB Linda Chapman and Bonnie Heidenreich)

Secular music:

• Calm and tranquil lie the sheepfolds, by Johann Sebastian Bach (arr. SATB Stanley Roper)

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3 November 2023

Sacred music:

• Thomas Weelkes: Christ rising again (arr. Peter James)

Christmas music:

• Infant holy, infant lowly (arr. SSA John Rutter)
• Noel nouvelet (arr. Jonathan Merrett)

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2 November 2023

Christmas music:

• The Advent candle, by Bob Chilcott
• Children go where I send thee (arr. Daryl Runswick)
• Dance and sing – Il est né (arr. Ryan Murphy)
• Infant holy, by Malcom Archer
• Lullaby of the Christ-child (arr. Richard L. Phelps)
• Pretty home (arr. Daryl Runswick)
• Steal away / Poor little Jesus (arr. Daryl Runswick)
• Sussex carol (arr. Jonathan Rathbone)
• We three kings of Orient are, by John Henry Hopkins (arr. SATB Jonathan Rathbone 2010)

Secular music:

• Death hath deprived me, by Thomas Weelkes
• To shorten winter’s sadness, by Thomas Weelkes

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