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5:00 pm - Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Cathedral Choir
Prelude | Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750) |
Pastorale on "From Heaven High The Angel Came" |
Prelude | Johann Pachelbel
(1653-1704) |
Trio on "From Heaven High The Angel Came" |
Prelude | Sigfreid Karg-Elert | Improvisation on "From Heaven High The Angel Came" |
Prelude | Johann Sebastian Bach | Chorale
Prelude on
"O Hail This Brightest Day Of Days" |
Hymn | tune: Irby | #102 "Once in royal David's city"
Nancy Barry, soprano |
Carol | arr Charles Wood
(1866-1926) |
Ding dong! Merrily on high
(Carols for Choirs 1, Oxford) |
Lesson | Genesis 3:8-15 | God announces in the Garden of Eden that the seed of woman shall bruise the serpent's head |
Carol | Boris Ord | Adam lay ybounden
(Carols for Choirs 2, Oxford) |
Lesson | Isaiah 60:1-6,19 | The prophet in exile foresees the coming of the glory of the Lord |
Carol | arr David Willcocks | Sussex Carol
(Carols for Choirs 1, Oxford) |
Lesson | Isaiah 9:2,6,7 | Christ's birth and kingdom are foretold by Isaiah |
Carol | arr Reginald Jacques | The holly and
the ivy
(Carols for Choirs I, Oxford) |
Hymn | tune: The First Nowell | #109 "The first nowell" |
Lesson | Isaiah 11:2,4,6-9 | The peace that Christ will bring is foreshown |
Carol | arr R L Pearsall | In dulci jubilo
(Carols for Choirs 1, Oxford) |
Lesson | Luke 1:26-35,38 | The angel Gabriel salutes the Blessed Virgin Mary |
Carol | Richard R Terry | Myn Lyking
(Carols for Choirs 2, Oxford) |
Hymn | tune: God Rest You Merry | #105 "God rest you merry, gentlemen" |
Lesson | Luke 2:1-7 | St. Luke tells of the birth of Jesus |
Carol | Henry Walford Davies
(1869-1941) |
O little
town of Bethlehem
(Carols for Choirs 3, Oxford) |
Lesson | Luke 2:8-16 | The Shepherds go to the manger |
Carol | Gustave Theodore Holst
(1874-1934) |
In the bleak
mid-winter
(Carols for Choirs 3, Oxford) |
Carol | Peter Hurford | Sunny bank
(Carols for Choirs 3, Oxford) |
Hymn | tune: Winchester Old | #94 "While shepherds watched their flocks" |
Lesson | Matthew 2:1-11 | The Wise Men are led by the star of Jesus |
Carol | William Walton | All this time
(Carols for Choirs 2, Oxford) |
Carol | William Mathias | A babe is born
(Carols for Choirs 3, Oxford) |
Lesson | John 1:1-14 | St. John unfolds the great mystery of the Incarnation |
Hymn | tune: Adeste Fidelis | #83 "O come, all ye faithful" |
Hymn | tune: Mendelssohn | #87 "Hark! the herald angels sing" |
Postlude | Marcel Dupré
(1886-1971) |
Chorale Prelude on "In Dulci Jubilo" |
Postlude | Johann Pachelbel | Fugue on "From Heaven High The Angel Came" |
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