Choral / Vocal Music
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• Saint Nicolas: A Cantata, op 42
Boosey & Hawkes 16469, 1948
Overview of Cantata with complete audio files
Selected Text with audio files
Complete Audio from London
Program Notes from six venuesBritten’s dramatic cantata is full of wonder. It even directly involves the participation of the audience!
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• The True Saint Nicolas
Starshine Music Ltd, 2018
Cantata for Children's Choir, SATB Choir & Piano
The 20 minute cantata presents the children's quest to discover the true identity of Santa Claus. The adults lead them through a series of tales about miraculous events attributed to Saint Nicolas. The children then recognize a link between the generosity of Santa Claus and the character of the true Saint Nicolas.Purchase from Starshine Music
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Apolytikion of Saint Nicholas
Chester Music, 1997
Scored for unaccompanied SATB chorus
Full performance about 1 1/2 minutes
Strict rule of faith, and image of meekness, of self-discipline a teacher,You revealed to your flock the things of truth:For this you acquired the highest humility, the richest poverty.Holy Father Nicholas, pray to Christ God to save our souls.Purchase from Music Room
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Nicholas, Holy Hierarch
Pilgrim Press, 1998
Anthem for SATB; text: Troparia and Kondakia
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Sancte, Sancte Nicolas
Marina Alexander, 2008, 2009
Latin text of “Sancte, Sancte Nicolas” from Lancing College, Sussex
For SATB chorus, with piano and optional string parts
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St. Nicholas Day in the Morning
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,
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Le Miracle de Saint Nicolas
MARCO POLO 8.223774 or NAXOS CD 8.555656,
Choeur Régional Vittoria d’Ile de France
Orchestre Symphonique et Lyrique de Nancy
The Nicolas legend in two parts with 16 tableaux -
Sint-Nicolaas Cantate
CD 1999 SNG Nederland [private issue],
Fun orchestra and choir spectacular in operetta style -
St Nicholas Mass / Missa Sancti Nicolai
SHEET MUSIC: St Nicholas Mass: Missa Sancti Nicolai (C7709)
Oxford University Press, 1990
Premiere Litanie a la Vierge d’Ostra Brama, Stanislaw Moniuszko
for mezzo-soprano and baritone soloists, semi-chorus of boys’ or girls’ voices, mixed chorus, and orchestra
A hybrid mass arranged by Phillip Lane from opera choruses by Modest Mussorgsky -
Triodion
Naxos 8.570239 (2006),
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
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. -
Myrizon: Storie del Santo Nicola
igressione Music DCTT73, 2017
Sebastiano Giotta, tenor; Vincenzo Cicchelli, piano, Antonio Minelli, narrator
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The St. Nicholas Waltz
John Fields Music Co. Ltd., London, 1953, 1953
Distributed by Allan & Co. Pty. Ltd., Australia
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St. Nicholas Song [English version]
Oxford University Press Digital, 2006
English adaptation of traditional German song, Lasst Uns Froh und Munter Sein, popular all over Germany
Sheet music for SSA
Available from J. W. Pepper and sheetmusicplus
