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5:00 pm - Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols
Cathedral Choir
| Prelude | Louis Claude D'Aquin
(1694-1772) |
Noel sur les jeux d'anches |
| Prelude | Johann Sebastian Bach
(1685-1750) |
Chorale Prelude on "In Dulci Jubilo" |
| Prelude | Johann Sebastian Bach | Chorale Prelude on "O Hail This Brightest Day Of Days" |
| Hymn | tune: Irby | #102 "Once in royal David's city"
Rebecca Andrews, soprano |
| Carol | har George Ratcliffe Woodward
(1848-1934) |
Up! good
Christen folk, and listen
(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 Isaiah in exile foresees the coming of the glory of the Lord |
| Carol | arr R L Pearsall | In dulci jubilo
(Carols for Choirs 1, Oxford) |
| Lesson | Isaiah 9:2,6,7 | Christ's birth and kingdom are foretold by Isaiah |
| Carol | William Walton | Make
we joy now in this fest
(Oxford) |
| Hymn | tune: Forest Green | #78 "O little town of Bethlehem" |
| Lesson | Isaiah 11:2,4,6-9 | The peace that Christ will bring is foretold |
| Carol | Martin Peerson
(1580?-1650?) |
Upon
my lap my Sov'rign sits
(EC Schirmer 1608) |
| Lesson | Luke 1:26-35,38 | The angel Gabriel announces to the Blessed Virgin Mary that she will bear the Son of the Most High |
| Carol | Bryan Kelly | There
is no rose of such virtue
(Encore) |
| Hymn | tune: God Rest You Merry | #105 "God rest you merry, gentlemen" |
| Lesson | Luke 2:1-7 | St. Luke tells of the birth of the Messiah in Bethlehem |
| Carol | arr Simon Preston | I saw three ships |
| Lesson | Luke 2:8-16 | Angels proclaim the Messiah's birth; the shepherds go to the manger |
| Carol | William Mathias | Bell Carol
(Oxford) Tony Steve, percussion |
| 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 | Peter Cornelius | The Three Kings
(arr Ivor Atkins)
(Carols for Choirs 1, Oxford) A Keith Spense, baritone |
| Lesson | John 1:1-14 | St. John unfolds the great mystery of the Incarnation |
| Carol | Morten Lauridsen | O Magnum Mysterium |
| 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 | Marcel Dupré | Excerpt
from "Variations Sur un Noel"
1) Fugato - non troppo vivace - presto |
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