John Rutter wrote this great work for the 2012 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols held each Christmas Eve at King's College. This arrangement is written for combined concert band and chorus, but may be
John Rutter's Christmas Lullaby was commissioned by The Bach Choir in 1989 to celebrate the 70th birthday of their conductor, Sir David Willcocks. The choral parts are included in the score for
"Deck the Halls" (originally titled "Deck the Hall"), is a traditional Christmas, yuletide, and New Years' carol. The melody is Welsh dating back to the sixteenth century, and belongs to a winter carol,
The Latin text of this lullaby has been known and admired for centuries. John Rutter's choral setting has been arranged here for combined concert band and chorus but may be performed by concert band alone.
With words and music written by John Rutter, this is one of his earlier and frequently performed carols for Christmas. The beauty and simplicity lends itself to concert band instrumentation offering a