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Award-winning composer, arranger, pianist, and recording artist Mark Hayes has crafted an exquisite anthology of Christmas arrangements for solo voice, including traditional carols, art songs, masterworks, and spirituals. Reflecting the arranger's mastery of vocal accompaniment, the piano partners with the voice in true art song style. Available in medium high and medium low voicings, this collection also features accompaniment and full-performance recordings with Mark Hayes at the piano. Titles: Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella * Away in a Manger * Sing Joy! * Midnight Noel * Gesu Bambino * Silent Night * Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming * O Holy Night * The Coventry, Carol * Jesus, Oh What a Wonderful Child.

ISBN 9780193550599.

Originally published in Oxford Solo Songs: Sacred, this is an easy anthem with words and music by the composer, scored here for solo high voice and piano (which may be adapted for performance on the organ). Also available in versions for solo low voice and piano, unison (or two-part) with keyboard, upper voices with keyboard, SA and Men with piano or SATB unaccompanied or with keyboard.

ISBN 9780193550636.

A much-loved setting of the Aaronic Blessing (Numbers 6: 24), this simple but highly expressive work is at once tender and profound. It was composed for a memorial service for Edward T. Chapman, the Director of Music at Highgate School, where John Rutter was a pupil. It is arranged here for solo high voice and piano (which may be adapted for performance on the organ), originally published in Oxford Solo Songs: Sacred. Also available in versions for solo low. voice and piano, SATB and organ/strings, SAB and piano, and SA and piano/organ/strings.