Nicholas Bataille and Hennequin de Bruges, New Jerusalem from the Apocalypse Tapestry, Angers, c.1570In those days Judah will be saved and Jerusalem will live in safety [NRSV, Jeremiah 33:16].
The First Sunday of Advent [Comments]
The First Sunday of Advent [Comments]
10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers
Prelude: Variations “Veni Emmanuel” [Holman: listen], Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006)
Introit: Jesus comes [text], Donald James
The Cathedral Singers
Prelude: Variations “Veni Emmanuel” [Holman: listen], Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006)
Introit: Jesus comes [text], Donald James
Motet: Never weather-beaten sail [text], Richard Shephard (b. 1949)
Postlude: Rhapsody “Lo, he comes,” William Lloyd Webber (1914-82)
Postlude: Rhapsody “Lo, he comes,” William Lloyd Webber (1914-82)
4:00 pm A Procession with Lessons and Carols for Advent
The Cathedral Choirs with Diocesan Choristers
Preludes: Variations “Veni Emmanuel” [Holman: listen], Daniel Pinkham (1923-2006)
“A Lovely Rose is Blooming” [Rübsam: listen], Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) [BNQ]
Responsory: I look from afar [text], Patrick Wedd (b.1948) [BNQ]
Antiphon: O Emmanuel [text/listen]
Carol: Never weather-beatan sail [text], Richard Shephard (b. 1949)
Antiphon: O Radix Jesse [text/listen]
Carols: Lo, how a rose e’er blooming [text] [Cambridge Singers: listen], Michael Praetorius (1571-1621) [BNQ], arr. Phil Mattson
Jesus Christ the apple tree [text], Somerset folk song
Antiphon: O Sapientia [text/listen]
Carol: Wachet auf! ruft uns die Stimme [Thomas: text/listen], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Antiphon: O Virgo virginum [text]
Antiphon: O Oriens [text/listen]
Carol: People, look east [text] [listen], French traditional, arr. Martin Shaw (1875-1958)[BNQ]
Antiphon: O Rex Gentium [text/listen]
Carol: Christ is the world’s true light [text], Walter Kendall Stanton (1891-1978)
Postlude: Helmsley (Lo, he comes with clouds descending) from Six Fantasies on Hymn Tunes, Op. 72, Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)
