Gathered in this volume are some of the finest motets and related pieces for the season of Christmas. Christmas Motets provides a superb choice of pieces for all choirs looking for something new. John Rutter has prepared completely new editions of all the pre-twentieth-century works, going back to the earliest and most reliable manuscript or printed sources. There are new English singing translations, and playable keyboard reductions in every case.
Some items from this volume are available separately as leaflets in the Oxford Choral Classics Octavo series.

Contents:

Bruckner: Virga Jesse floruit
Byrd: O magnum mysterium and Beata virgo
Cui: Magnificat
Dering: Quem vidistis, pastores?
Flecha (attrib): Riu, riu, chiu
Handl: Omnes de Saba venient
Handl: Resonet in laudibus
Mendelssohn: Frohlocket, ihr Völker auf Erden
Mouton: Nesciens mater
Palestrina: Hodie Christus natus est
Philips: O beatum et sacrosanctum diem
Praetorius H.: In dulci jubilo
Praetorius M.: Quem pastores laudavere
Scheidt: In dulci jubilo
Sweelinck: Hodie Christus natus est
Victoria: O magnum mysterium