ART SONGS
FOR CHRISTMAS

VOICE SPECIFIED

• H. Leslie Adams: Christmas Lullaby [high or medium voice, piano]


• H. Leslie Adams: Song to Baby Jesus (No. 12 from Daybirth) [high or medium voice, piano]


• Antonia Bembo: Per il Natala [soprano, 2 treble instruments, continuo]


• Philipp Friedrich Böddecker: Natus est Jesus [soprano, continuo]


• Johannes Brahms: Zwei Lieder, Op. 91 - No. 2, Geistliches Wiegenlied [alto, viola, piano]


• Benjamin Britten: Canticle IV (The Journey of the Magi), op. 86 (1971)


• John Cage: Songs for Contralto - No. 2, little Christmas tree


• Norman Dello Joio: A Christmas Carol [medium voice]


• John Densmore: Good Tidings of Great Joy [high voice]


• Emma Lou Diemer: Three Christmas Songs [medium-high voice] (1994)


• Gaetano Donizetti: Berceuse ("Questo mio figlio è un fiorellin d'amore") [high voice]


• Charles Gounod: Chantez Noel (1870) [duet for soprano and contralto]


• Hans Werner Henze: Heilige Nacht [medium voice, recorder] (1993)


• Alan Hovhaness: Christmas Song, Op. 34 (Watchman, tell us of the night) [soprano, organ]


• Paul Hindemith: Zwei Lieder für Alt und Klavier, (1917) - No. 2, Schlaflied


• Werner Josten: Weihnachten [high voice]


• Kjell Mørk Karlsen: Three Christmas Sequences from the Middle Ages, Op. 53 [soprano, flute, organ]


• John La Montaine: Songs of the Nativity, Op. 13a [medium voice]


• Rodney Lister: The Birth of Mary (2002) [soprano, string orchestra]


• Rodney Lister: Thou Mayde and Mooder (2002) [soprano, string orchestra]


• Rodney Lister: In the Sixth Month (2000) [soprano, string orchestra]


• Rodney Lister: Annunciation (2003) [soprano, string orchestra]


• Rodney Lister: Annunciation to Mary (2003) [soprano, string orchestra]


• Dan Locklair: Three Nativity Songs [soprano, string quartet]


• Thea Musgrave: A Song for Christmas [high voice]


• John Raynor: Bredon Hill [tenor]


• Hugo Wolf: Sechs Lieder fuer eine Frauenstimme - No. 5, Wiegenlied im Winter

VOICE UNSPECIFIED

• Adolphe Adam: Cantique de Noël


• Stephen Adams: The Star of Bethlehem


• H. Leslie Adams: Song of the Innkeeper's Children


• Malcolm Archer: Child in the Manger (arrangement)


• John Attey: Sweet was the song


• Frederick Ayres: Christmas Eve at Sea


• Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: Weinachtslied "Auf, schicke dich", Wq.194/5


• C.P.E. Bach: Weinachtslied "Dies ist der Tag, den Gott gemacht", from Wq. 194/43


• C.P.E. Bach: Weinachtslied, from Sturms Geistliche Gesänge II/5, H. 752/5, Wq. 198/5


• Ernst Bacon: Christmas Eve; Ancient Carol, from Songs of Tenderness


• Samuel Barber: Slumber Song of the Madonna


• Dennis Báthory-Kitsz: Let all mortal flesh keep silence [voice, organ]


• Garth Baxter: Little Lamb (No. 1 from Two Songs from the House of Bernarda Alba) [voice & guitar]


• Arnold Bax: A Christmas Carol


• Hanna Beekhuis: Kerstliederen - No. 1, Maria, die zoude naer Bethlehem gaen; No. 3, Een kindekyn is ons gheboren


• Andreas Berggreen: Et barn er født i Betlehem (1853)


• Luciano Berio: Folk Songs (1964) - No. 2, I wonder as I wander


• Arthur Bliss: A Christmas Carol


• Henriëtte Bosmans: Die heil'gen drei Könige aus Morgenland (1935)


• Johannes Brahms" Marienlieder, Op. 22 (1859) - No. 1, Der englische Gruss; Deutsche Volkslieder, WoO. 32 - No. 8, Der englische Gruss


• Benjamin Britten: The Birds; La Noël Pasée (French folk-song arrangement)


• Max Bruch: Nun wandre, Maria, Op. 71


• Francesca Caccini: O che nuovo stupor


• Ernest Chausson: Pour un arbre de Noël


• John Corigliano: The Cloisters, (1965-67) - No. 4, Christmas at the Cloisters


• Peter Cornelius: Weihnachtslieder, Op. 8


• Harold Darke: In the bleak midwinter


• Malcolm Davidson: A Christmas Carol (Being three stanzas from the poem entitled "Christmas Eve at Sea", stanzas 1, 2, 7)


• *Claude Debussy: Noël des enfants qui n'ont plus de maison


• Alphons Diepenbrock: Simeon's Lofzang (1912)


• Bernard van Dieren: Quaint Old Song for Christmas Time (with curious maudallations and queer melody)


• Gaetano Donizetti: Peace on Earth ("What means this glory round our feet")


• Thomas Frederick Dunhill: To the Queen of Heaven


• Gabriel Fauré: Noël d'enfants, Op. 43 No. 1


• G. Flügel: Nun wandre, Maria, Op. 43, No. 1


• Herbert Fryer: The Virgin's Cradle-Hymn


• Niels Gade: Barn Jesus i en krybbe lå


• Cecil Armstrong Gibbs: Mistletoe (1922)


• Cecil Armstrong Gibbs: The Oxen (1951)


• Charles Gounod: Nazareth; L'Ave Maria d'Enfant; Jésus à la Crèche


• Edvard Grieg: Ave Maris Stella, EG 150


• Franz Xavier Gruber: Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht


• Camargo Guarnieri: Musica e letra de Modinha (1968)


• Ivor Gurney: Carol of the Skiddaw Yowes


• Richard Hageman: Christmas Eve (1937)


• Michael Head: The Little Road to Bethlehem


• Paul Hindemith: Das Marienleben - No. 3, Mariä Verkündigung, No. 4, Mariä Heimsuchung, No. 5, Argwohn Josephs, No. 6, Verkündigung über den Hirten, No. 7, Geburt Christi, No. 8, Rast auf der Flucht in Ägypten


• Lee Hoiby: Christmas 1951


• A.M.A. Holmes: Noël d'Irlande; Noël


• Gustav Holst: Personet Hodie; In the bleak midwinter; Four Songs for Voice and Violin, Op. 35 - No. 1, Jesu sweet, now will I sing; No. 3 (or 4) - I sing of a maiden


• Alan Hovhaness: Christmas Song


• Herbert Howells: O my deir hert (Balulalow)


• Engelbert Humperdinck: An das Christkind; Der Stern von Bethlehem; Weihnachten


• William Yeates Hurlstone: Cradle Song


• John Ireland: Lowly, laid in a manger


• Charles Ives: A Christmas Carol; Watchman!


• Adolf Jensen: Nun wandre, Maria, Op. 64, No. 1


• John Joubert: South of the Line, Op. 109 - No. 5, A Christmas Ghost-Story


• Frederick Keel: When the herds were watching


• Oddvar S. Kvam: Christmas Song, Op. 22 No. 4


• Johan Kvandal: Three Christmas Psalms


• Peter Lange-Müller: Die heiligen drei Könige


• Henry Lawes: Hark, Shepherd Swains


• Samuel Liddle: Whence is that goodly fragrance


• Johann Karl Gottfried Loewe: Der Hirten Lied am Krippelein, Op. 22, Heft I, No. 3 (1828); Legende Op. 33 Heft 1 (1834) - No. 3, Das fremden Kindes heiliger Christ; Die Gottesmauer, Op. 140 (1868); Bethlehem (1829); Herodes' Klage um Marianne, op. 4 no. 1 (1823)


• Frank Martin: Trois Chants de Noël (1947)


• Victor Massé: Noël


• Jules Massenet: Poème d'hiver - No. 3, Noël; Noël des humbles; Noël des fleurs; Noël paien


• William Mathias: Ave Rex, Op. 45 - 1. Ave Rex; 2. Alleluya, a new work is come on hand; 3. There is no rose of such virtue; 4. Sir Christèmas


• John Mitchell: Three Sacred Songs on Poems of Josephine Royle, Op. 8 (1978) - The Christmas Star; La Corona, Op. 89 (1993) - No. 2, Salvation to All (Annunciation), No. 3, Immensity Cloistered (Nativity)


• John Musto: Christmas Carol (To Jesus on His Birthday) (No. 4 from Quiet Songs)


• Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen: Christmas Song


• Ernst Pepping: Haus- und Trostbuch, Heft II - No. 17, Epiphaniasfest


• Merle Petersen: Nativity Bell Song [handbells 3-5 octaves, flute]


• Willem Pijper: Noëls de France


• Daniel Pinkham: Carols and Cries, No. 1 - Yes, Indeed!


• *Francis Poulenc: Quatre Chansons pour Enfants, FP.75 - No. 1, Nous voulons une petite soeur


• Henry Purcell: Harmonia Sacra, Vol. II - The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation, Z.196


• Johann Vesque von Püttlingen: Heimkehr, No. 37, Op. 38 - No. 1, Die heiligen drei Könige (1851)


• Roger Quilter: An Old Carol; I sing of a maiden


• Maurice Ravel: Noël des jouëts


• John Raynor: Hans Andersen's Carol


• Max Reger: Schlichte Weisen, Op. 76 - No. 52, Mari&aum;; Wiegenlied; Zwölf geistliche Lieder, Op. 137 - No. 3, Uns is geboren ein Kindelein, No. 10, Christkindleins Wiegenlied; Fuenf neue Kinderlieder, Op. 142 - No. 3, Maria am Rosenstrauch


• Ottorino Resphighi: Sei Liriche, Seconda Serie - No. 3, Le repos en Egypte, No. 4, Noël Ancien


• Joaquín Rodrigo: Doce canciones españes (1952) - No. 11, San José y María


• Joaquín Rodrigo: Cantan por belén pastores; Tres Villancicos (1952) - No. 1, Pastorcito Santo, No. 2, Coplillas de Belén


• Ned Rorem: A Christmas Carol; An Angel Speaks to the Shepherds


• Anetta Rosser: The Oxen on Christmas Eve


• John Rutter: Wexford Carol


• Kurt Schindler: Canço de Nadal; El cant des aucells


• Othmar Schoeck: Der erste Tannenbaum, den ich gesehn (No. 12 from Lebendig begraben, Op. 40)


• Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart: Weihnachtslied der Hirten (1786)


• Marie-Joseph-Alexandre-Deodat de Severac : Chant de Noël


• Christian Sinding: Die heiligen drei Könige (1926)


• Charles Villiers Stanford: Fling out your windows wide


• George Stern: Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 1 - No. 10, Die heiligen drei Könige (1905)


• Richard Strauss: *Weihnachtsgefühl, WoO. 94 (1899); Sechs Lieder, Op. 56 - No. 6, Die Heiligen drei Könige aus Morgenland; Jugendlieder (1870) - Weihnachtslied


• *Karol Szymanowski: 20 Rymow Dziecie 'cych, Op. 49 - No. 5, Gwiazdka


• Pyotr Il'ich Tchaikovsky: Sixteen Songs for Children, Op. 54 - No. 5, Legenda


• Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, Baron Berners: Lieder-Album - No. 3, Weinachtslied


• Virgil Thomson: Praises and Prayers - No. 2, Sung by the Shepherds


• Eduaordo Toldrá: Seis canciones (1940-41) - No. 5, Cantarcillo


• Richard Trunk: Weinachtslieder, Op. 61 (1930)


• *Ralph Vaughan Williams: Wassail Song (arrangement)


• Peter Warlock: The First Mercy; Adam lay ybounden (1922-23); Balulalow (1922); Bethlehem Down; Where riches is everlastingly; Chanson du Jour de Noël (1925-6); Tyrley Tyrlow (1922-23)


• Hugo Wolf: Spanisches Liederbuch: Geistliche Lieder - No. 3, Nun wandre, Maria; No. 4, Die ihr schwebet, No. 5; Für mich, Kind nach Bethlehem; No. 6, Ach, des knaben Augen; No. 8, Ach, wie lang die Seele schlummert!; Mörike-Lieder - No. 23, Auf ein altes Bild; No. 25, Schlafendes Jesuskind; Goethe-Lieder - No. 19, Epiphanias


• Charles Wood: Mater Ora Filium