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David Farquhar  

A Christmas with Carols

Duration: 31' 00" Year: 1994, r. 1996
for SATB choir and narrator and orchestra

  • Instrumentation
    1100;0000; perc: tubular bells; strings. Narrator may be a separate speaker or from the choir. Bells may be able to be played by choir member as required only in final movement.
  • Programme Note

    This celebratory work for choir and orchestra consisting of three Christmas ‘scenes’ brings together arrangements of 15th, 16th and 17th century carols with some of the well-known traditional carols. The audience can be invited to join in with a carols in each section including O Little Town of Bethlehem, The First Nowell and O Come All Ye Faithful.

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Geoffrey Hinds  

After Midnight

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1997, r. 1998
for SATB choir and organ

David Gordon  

Away in a Manger

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1995
For unison choir and piano or organ; violin, oboe or other C instrument.

Helen Caskie  

Before the Paling of the Stars

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1995
for SATB choir with organ

Helen Caskie  

Before the Paling of the Stars

Duration: 03' 00" Year: 1995
for SSAB choir and organ

Cheryl Camm  

Cantate Domino

 Year: 1999
for SSAATTBB choir

Bruce Baker  

Carol of the Festival Tree

 Year: 1993
for SAB or SATB and organ

  • Programme Note

    This carol was intended to capture something of the Christmas festival as it is experienced by most New Zealanders. The first verse sets the scene in the beaches which begin to attract more and more people as the school holidays end and the warm weather arrives. The second verse describes something of the hectic shopping spree that precedes the giving of Christmas presents. The last verse relates the festival to its origins in the birth of Jesus. In a land of many trees and forests, an important feature of the celebration of Christmas has been the provision and decoration of the Christmas tree. The Pohutukawa tree flowers in December, and is sometimes referred to as “the Christmas tree”. The last verse of the carol includes a reference to the tree that must have yielded its boughs for the cross on which the Christmas child was ultimately to perish. There are several versions of the carol; CA30 for SATB and organ, through-composed. CA30a for easy SATB (all verses to the same music) with optional organ/piano/guitar. CA30b for unison voices with simple piano or guitar accompaniment.

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Cheryl Camm  

Hodie Christus Natus Est

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1994
Christmas anthem for SATB chorus and SSAA semi-chorus

Clare Maclean  

Leise rieselt der Schnee: An Austrian Carol (Softly falls the Snow)

Duration: 02' 00" Year: 1997
arrangement of a traditional Austrian carol for unaccompanied choir (SATB)

  • Programme Note

    Leise rieselt der Schnee uses as a starting point the Austrian carol of that name. The piece is a kind of homage to Austrian folk music, which is so pure in its simplest forms, and which has had such a wide influence through the music of classical composers. I have also used other music which is still sung in the alps, as well as some ‘jodlers’ of my own: the plainchant, Christ ist erstanden, Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen by Isaac, Verlassen bin i, in Alpine dialect, and the Andachtsjodler, which is traditionally sung at Christmas. I also used a few bars of Mozart’s clarinet quintet, which is very like the Andachtsjodler, because the spirit of Alpine folk music is very much alive in his music.

    Leise rieselt der Schnee was written for the Sydney University Musical Society.

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Clare Maclean  

Leise rieselt der Schnee (Softly falls the Snow)

Duration: 05' 00" Year: 1996
carol for unaccompanied choir (SSAATBarB)

  • Programme Note

    Leise rieselt der Schnee uses as a starting point the Austrian carol of that name. The piece is a kind of homage to Austrian folk music, which is so pure in its simplest forms, and which has had such a wide influence through the music of classical composers. I have also used other music which is still sung in the alps, as well as some ‘jodlers’ of my own: the plainchant, Christ ist erstanden, Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen by Isaac, Verlassen bin i, in Alpine dialect, and the Andachtsjodler, which is traditionally sung at Christmas. I also used a few bars of Mozart’s clarinet quintet, which is very like the Andachtsjodler, because the spirit of Alpine folk music is very much alive in his music.

    Leise rieselt der Schnee was written for the Sydney University Musical Society.

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