Saint Nicolas: A Cantata, op 42
Music by Benjamin Britten
Text by Eric Crozier
Boosey & Hawkes 16469, 1948

Overview of Cantata with audio files
Selected Text with audio files
Program Notes: I, II, III

Carol of Saint Nicholas
Medieval carol melody
Arranged by David Cox

Words adapted from a 15th century carol

St. Nicholas Day in the Morning
Two-part song, music by Easthope Martin, arranged by Henry Geehl, words by Helen Taylor
Copyright © 1938, Enoch & Sons Ltd, available from Music Sales Limited, Music Sales Group
This is the way it begins— 

Saint Nicholas comes in the wild winter weather,
(Heigh ho! the frost and the snow)
Holly and mistletoe shining together,
Never a rose on a tree.

Children come hither, we're all merry making,
Gifts from St. Nicholas here for the taking,
Oh, what a welcome has he,
Oh, what a welcome has he . . . .

Le Miracle de Saint Nicolas
Joseph-Guy Ropartz (1864-1955)
Choeur Régional Vittoria d'Ile de France
Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy
NAXOS CD 8.555656

The Nicolas legend in two parts with 16 tableaux

Sint-Nicolaas Cantate
Music by Bernard Zweers; Text by Al L. de Rop
CD 1999 SNG Nederland [private issue]

Fun orchestra and choir spectacular in operetta style

St Nicholas Mass / Missa Sancti Nicolai
Music by Modest Mussorgsky
Premiere Litanie a la Vierge d'Ostra Brama, Stanislaw Moniuszko
SHEET MUSIC: St Nicholas Mass: Missa Sancti Nicolai (C7709)
for mezzo-soprano and baritone soloists, semi-chorus of boys' or girls' voices, mixed chorus, and orchestra
arranged by Philip Lane, Oxford University Press, 1990

A hybrid mass arranged by Phillip Lane from opera choruses by Modest Mussorgsky

Triodion
Music by Arvo Pärt
Ode III Holy Nicholas, Pray unto God for Us
Elora Festival Singers
Recorded at St. John Chrysostom Church, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
Naxos 8.570239 (2006)

Ode III is a setting of the traditional Orthodox troparion to St. Nicholas. The troparion was chosen as the work was commissioned by Lancing College for the 150th anniversary of its founding; St. Nicholas is the patron saint of Lancing College and Benjamin Britten composed his cantata Saint Nicolas for the college centenary.

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