Description

Franz Beyer (1922-2018)

Holiest night

24 Christmas carols in four- to eight-part movements

With this collection we present you with a “delicacy” and a well-assorted “treasure trove” for the organization of Advent and Christmas celebrations and church services or simply for making music and singing together.

These four- to eight-part movements can be performed instrumentally in variable instrumental formations for strings and/or woodwinds and/or brass as well as trombone choir in Kuhlo notation (= score). The five- to eight-part arrangements can also be played in four parts in a separate movement. All the pieces are also suitable as accompaniments to the choral booklet published in parallel by Strube Verlag (VS 5053); the verse preludes and interludes are also marked in the parts.

All the songs were set in the style of their time of composition by Franz Beyer, editor of a version of the Mozart Requiem and numerous works of the Viennese Classical period which is now established worldwide, whereby the simplicity and clarity of the movements are based on historical models.

Contents:

1. As I watch over my sheep
2. On the mountain, there goes the wind
3. Ave Maria tender
4. The mirror of the Trinity
5. The holy three kings
6. Rejoice heaven
7. A ship is coming
8. Holiest night
9. In dulci jubilo
10. Queen in heaven
11. Let us cradle the little child
12. Dear nightingale wake up
13. Open the door
14. Mary went through a thorn forest
15. O thou merry one
16. O Savior, open the heavens
17. O Jesulein tender
18. O blessed night
19. Sing fresh and cheerful
20. Silent night
21. Quiet, quiet, quiet
22. And our dear women
23. Annunciation
24. Up from heaven, O angels come