100 Carols for Choirs

This selection of the 100 most popular carols and hymns for Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, and Easter, is ideal for sacred occasions, and includes accompanied and unaccompanied material.

Edited by David Willcocks, Former Kings College Chapel Director of Music, London; conductor Bach Choir, and John Rutter

Warlock: Adam lay ybounden
Ebeling: All my heart this night rejoices
Wishart: Alleluya, a new work is come on hand
Willcocks: Angels, from the realms of glory
Willcocks: Angelus ad virginem
Willcocks: As with gladness men of old
Maxwell Davies: Ave plena gracia
Kirkpatrick/Willcocks: Away in a manger
Mathias: A babe is born
Willcocks: Birthday Carol
Willcocks: The cherry tree carol
Rutter: Child in a manger
Willcocks: A child is born in Bethlehem
Rutter: Christmas night
Rutter: Coventry carol
Shaw: Coventry carol
Rutter: Cradle song
Tchaikovsky: The crown of roses
Willcocks: Deck the hall
Willcocks: Ding dong! merrily on high
Wood: Ding dong! merrily on high
Willcocks: The first Nowell
Willcocks: Gabriel to Mary came
Willcocks: Gabriel's message
Willcocks: God rest you merry, gentlemen
Willcocks: Good King Wenceslas
Praetorius: A great and mighty wonder
Wood: Hail! Blessed Virgin Mary
Mendelssohn/Willcocks: Hark! the herald-angels sing
Willcocks: He is born the divine Christ-child
Rutter: Here we come a-wassailing
Walford Davies: The holly and the ivy
Willcocks: Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber
Pettman: I saw a maiden
Rutter: I saw three ships
Willcocks: I saw three ships
Niles/Rutter: I wonder as I wander
Willcocks: Il est né le divin enfant
Pearsall: In Dulci Jubilo
Holst: In the bleak mid-winter
Darke: In the bleak mid-winter
Willcocks: Infant holy, infant lowly
Willcocks: The Infant King
Willcocks: It came upon the midnight clear
Rutter: Jesus child
Willcocks: Jesus Christ is risen today
Poston: Jesus Christ the apple tree
Pierpont/Willcocks: Jingle, bells
Mason/Rutter: Joy to the world
Cleobury: Joys seven
Wood: King Jesus hath a garden
Hopkins/Willcocks: Kings of Orient
Willcocks: Lo! he comes with clouds descending
Praetorius: Lo, how a Rose e'er blooming
Percival: Longfellow's carol
Carter/Willcocks: Lord of the Dance
Ballet/Shaw: Lute-book lullaby
Carter: A maiden most gentle
Rutter: Mary's Lullaby
Warrell: A merry Christmas
R. R. Terry: Myn lyking
Rutter: Nativity carol
Britten: A New Year carol
Wade/Willcocks: O come, all ye faithful
Willcocks: O come, o come, Emmanuel
J. S. Bach: O little one sweet
Vaughan Williams/Armstrong: O little town of Bethlehem
Walford Davies: O little town of Bethlehem
Rogers: O Queen of heaven
Willcocks: Of the Father's heart begotten
Wood: Once, as I remember
Gauntlett/Mann/Willcocks: Once in royal David's city
Rodney Bennett: Out of your sleep
Wood: Past three a clock
Holst: Personent hodie
Willcocks: Quelle est cette odeur agréable?
Rutter: Quem pastores laudavere
Rutter: Rise up, shepherd, and follow
Rutter: Sans Day Carol
Willcocks: See amid the winter's snow
Berlioz: The shepherds' farewell
Willcocks: Shepherds in the field abiding
Rutter: Shepherds left their flocks a-straying
Rutter: Shepherd's pipe carol
Gruber/Willcocks: Silent night
Holst: Sing aloud on this day!
Mathias: Sir Christèmas
Howells: A spotless Rose
Rutter: Star carol
Ledger: Still, still, still
Gruber/Willcocks: Stille Nacht
Willcocks: Sussex carol
Rutter: There is a flower
Stevens: There is no rose
Williamson: This Christmas night
Wood: This joyful Eastertide
Cornelius/Atkins: The three kings
Willcocks: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
Vaughan Williams: The truth from above
Rutter: The twelve days of Christmas
Willcocks: Unto us is born a son
Woodward: Up! good Christen folk, and listen
Wood: A virgin most pure
Vaughan Williams: Wassail song
Rutter: Wexford carol
Walton: What cheer?
Jacques: When Christ was born
Willcocks: Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing?
Willcocks: While shepherds watched their flocks
Gauntlett/Willcocks: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem