Choirs love Christmas. The pleasure of revisiting the familiar and exploring the new is something singers enjoy year after year. This superb new collection of 42 carols by 26 composers has been specially compiled to appeal to church and school choirs of all kinds. Choirs and those who listen to them will love the 30 new carols in a wide range of tempos and styles (from plainsong to funk), as well as twelve arrangements of well-known favourites. At least six of the settings can be sung unaccompanied, for the more reflective moments as well as the allimportant impromptu carol singing. The best-selling first volume of RSCM Anthems for SAMen, published in 2018, continues to give choirs plenty to get their teeth into with many pieces that can be learned quickly and performed over and over again. This book continues that spirit – 3 part settings that are straightforward but innovative, pleasing to sing, have inspiring texts, and are flexible enough so they can be sung by choirs of all shapes and sizes. The accompaniment parts are not complicated and can be played on an organ or piano. These wonderful carol settings will form part of your carol services for years to come. CONTENTS 1 Advent Responsory Sarah Macdonald 2 All my heart this night rejoices Philip Wilby 3 And Jesus was his name Thomas Hewitt Jones 4 The Angel Gabriel Esther Bersweden 5 Away in a manger Toby Young 6 A babe is born all of a may Amy Summers 7 Break forth, O beauteous heavenly light Ghislaine Reece-Trapp 8 Bring a torch, Jeannette, Isabella Alexander Campkin 9 Carol of the crib Joanna Forbes L’Estrange 10 Child in a stable Philip Moore 11 Christ is come David Ogden 12 Christmas lullaby Thomas Hewitt Jones 13 Come to Bethlem Meirion Wynn Jones 14 Coventry Carol David Ogden 15 Dans cette étable Piers Maxim 16 A day of glory! David Ogden 17 Dost thou in a manger lie Richard Shephard 18 Eastern monarchs, sages three Ian Carpenter 19 The first tree in the greenwood Alexander L’Estrange 20 Gaudete Barbara Rusbridge 21 Have we a place? Meirion Wynn Jones 22 The Holly and the Ivy David Ogden 23 Holy Child, how still you lie David Halls 24 I wonder as I wander Timothy Noon 25 Infant holy Philip Moore 26 The Infant King (Sing lullaby) Sarah Macdonald 27 The Infant King (Sing lullaby) Timothy Noon 28 Isaiah’s Prophecy Alexander L’Estrange 29 Lift your heart David Halls 30 Love came down at Christmas David Ogden 31 Lullaby of Jesus Grayston Ives 32 Noël Nouvelet Geoff Weaver 33 On Christmas Day in the morning Gareth Treseder 34 Rejoice and be merry Timothy Parsons 35 See, to us a child is born Piers Maxim 36 Shepherds are kneeling Peter Nardone 37 Shepherds! Awaken from your sleep Ian Carpenter 38 Silent Night Amy Summers 39 Song of the shepherds Joanna Forbes L’Estrange 40 Sweet was the song the Virgin sang Stuart Beer 41 There is no Rose of such virtue Huw Morgan 42 When God at first created man Geoff Weaver