(For background and commentary on most of these texts, see the collection Sing Peace, Sing Gift of Peace in the beginning of the file.)
SLOVAK
* See also the file Five Slovak Carols (Alexander Moyzes settings; CPH 1980)
** See also the file Bethlehem Carols published by Villa Sacred Heart in 1967
*** See also the file Four Slovak Carols (Schalk settings) CPH 1976
SOURCES: Slovak Carols and Hymns
A Cuckoo Flew Out of the Wood
Ascending, Christ Returns to God
Christians, Gather Round **, ***
Christians, Let Us Remember
Come in Holy Awe and Truth
Come Now, Shepherds, Quickly Come **
Dear Father God, We Rise to Say
Dear Little Jesus, We Come to Thy Bed **
Glory Be to You, O Father
God, My Lord, My Strength
Greet Now the Swiftly Changing Year
Hear Me, O My Precious Love
Heaven’s Dawn Is Breaking Brightly **, ***
Here We Kneel at Your Feet
How Lovely and How Pleasant
Let Our Gladness Banish Sadness * **
Lo, What a Wonder
Look! Judah’s Lion Wins the Strife
Make Songs of Joy
Oh, What Tidings Bright *
Out to the Hills **
Rise Up, Bethl’em Shepherds, Rise **
Shepherds All, Come *
Shepherds of Bethlehem ***
Slumber, Lovely Baby *
Tell Us, Shepherds, Why So Joyful **, ***
Wake to the Wonder *
Wake Up, Brother, Listen
While Mary Rocks Her Child to Rest **
Your Heart, O God, Is Grieved
GERMAN
A Dove Flew Down from Heaven
All Glory, Praise, and Blessing
All Who Crave a Greater Measure
Break Forth in Praise to God
Bach’s Christmas Oratorio Chorales
Dearest Lord Jesus, Why Are You Delaying
Delicate Child of Royal Line
For Your Mercy I Implore You
Hear Me, Help Me, Gracious Savior
If God Is Absent, All the Cost
In Bethlehem a Wonder
Lord, We Hold Your Goodness Precious
Now Shine, Bright Glow of Majesty
Now to This Babe So Tender
O Father, Send the Spirit Down
O Joyous Christmas Night
Since You Are Risen from the Dead
Sleep, My Little One
Sleep Softly, Softly, Beautiful Jesus
Sleep Well, Dear Heavenly Boy
The Rescue We Were Waiting For
Three Angels Are Singing
Up, O Shepherds
Wake, Shepherds, Awake
What Love, Lord Jesus, That You Go
World, for All Your Gain and Pleasure
HUNGARIAN
Lutheran World Federation correspondence re: Laudamus
Blessed Be the Precious Baby
From the Shadow of My Pain
Who’s That Sitting on the Ground?
HISPANIC
Breath of the Living God
Come, Shepherds, Come
On a Lonely Field
Sweetest Song of This Bright Season
The King the Wise Men Found
LATIN
Hail the Savior’s Very Body
CZECH
Christ, the Model of the Meek
Come Rejoicing, Praises Voicing
Faithful Christians, One and All
God Almighty, Lord Most Holy
How Shall We Thank You, Christ, Our Lord?
Let Us Sing With Heart and Voice
Now Go to Sleep
Out of the Forest a Cuckoo Flew
Rock-a-Bye, My Dear Little Boy
This Glorious Easter Festival
PORTUGUESE
As Out of the Stem the Branch Grows
Hymn of the Night
Proclaim to the Captives
OTHER
My Maker’s Praises (Gerhardt Commemoration)
Since You Are Risen (Bach cantata chorus)
Seven Christmas Carols (Hermann Schroeder settings for CPH in 1971, 1973)
Three Translations from the Slovak (for Cresset magazine)
World, for All Your Gain and Pleasure (for CPH choral collection)