Autorentext

Jan Schumacher is a professor at Goethe University Frankfurt, where he also serves as the Director of Music. He is one of the vice-presidents of the International Federation for Choral Music, Artistic Director of the German National Choir Competition, and Artistic Director of the Frankfurter Singakademie. With his ensemble, Camerata Musica Limburg, he has performed at the IFCM World Symposium on Choral Music, the ACDA National Conference, and America Cantat. Jan has worked extensively as a conductor and guest teacher in conducting across Europe, Asia, South America, and the United States.

Klappentext

for SATB accompanied and unaccompanied
The volumes of Carols for Choirs have established themselves as the quintessential carol books for carol-singers around the world. Drawing from this rich resource, Weihnachts Carols for Choirs presents 50 favourite carols from across the series in German translation, enabling choirs to enjoy performing this classic repertoire in the German language.

Inhalt

• A Patre Unigenitus

• Ave maris stella

• Bevor das Lied verklang (Before the Song was Done)

• Christus Immanuel (Christ our Emmanuel)

• Coventry Carol

• Da draußen im Stalle (Away in a manger)

• Das Christkind (The Christ-child)

• Der ander'n Nacht (This endris night)

• Der Ilex und der Efeu (The holly and the ivy)

• Der Jungfrau Lied (The Virgin's Song)

• Der Ochse (The Oxen)

• Des Erlösers Geburt (The Savior's Birth)

• Ein Lied zu uns weht (There's a song in the air!)

• Freue dich, Welt (Joy to the world!)

• Gaudete

• Geheimnis der Dämmerung (The Unexpected Early Hour)

• Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ (The blessed son of God)

• Glocken, erklingt! (Ring out, ye bells!)

• Herbei, o ihr Gläubigen (O come, all ye faithful)

• Hört der Engel große Freud (Hark! the herald-angels sing)

• Ich sah drei Schiffe (I saw three ships)

• Im fernen Osten (Out of the orient crystal skies)

• In der stillen Nacht (On this Silent Night)

• In dulci jubilo

• Jingle, bells

• Keine Ros' von solcher Pracht (There is no rose)

• Kind in der Krippe (Child in a manger)

• Lang schon tönt das Lied (All this time)

• Maria durch ein' Dornwald Ging (And Mary walked amid the thorn)

• Marias Wiegenlied (Mary's Lullaby)

• Mein Gott ist da (My Lord has Come)

• O Bethlehem, du kleine Stadt (O little town of Bethlehem)

• O Jesulein süss (O little one sweet)

• O komm, o komm, Immanuel (O come, O come, Emmanuel)

• O seht Gottes Gabe für das Leben (A Present for the Future)

• Quem pastores laudavere

• Singet fröhlich alle Zeit (Ding dong! merrily on high)

• Stern aus dem Osten (Star of the East)

• Still, still, still

• Stille Nacht (Silent night)

• Stimmen im Nebel (Voices in the Mist)

• Straße der Zuflucht (Road to Refuge)

• The Boar's Head Carol

• Tief im trüben Winter (In the bleak mid-winter)

• Um Mitternacht im Sternenglanz (It came upon the midnight clear)

• Weihnachtliches Wiegenlied (Carol, with lullaby)

• Welch' Mut? (What cheer?)

• Welt so alt (Earth grown old)

• Wir singen dir, Jungfrau (A maiden most gentle)

• Wir wünschen euch frohe Weihnacht' (A merry Christmas)