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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.
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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
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