December 24-25 and 28, 2014



Jacques Daret, The Nativity, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 1434-35
Click to go to the Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 21, 2014
La Nativité du Seigneur
4:00 pm Family Eucharist with Nativity Pageant
18h30 Eucharistie chantée
Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale
Prélude : Noël sur C'est le bon lever, Guy Morançon (né en 1927)
Ordinaire : Missa O magnum mysterium [Hill : YouTube], Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
Introït : Aube nouvelle, Johann Schop (1590-1667)
Motet : O magnum mysterium [texte] [Christophers : YouTube], Tomás Luis de Victoria
Postlude : Toccata sur Il est né, le divin Enfant [Locatelli: YouTube]
Denis Bédard (né en 1950)
Midnight Mass
11:00 pm Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers
Prelude: What child is this? [Kripfgans:YouTube], Richard Purvis (1913-94)
Setting: Missa Nativitatis, Patrick Wedd (b. 1948)


Introit: All my heart this night rejoices [text/Rutter: listen], Johann Ebeling (1620[37]-1666[76])
Motet: Wexford Carol [text] [YouTube], Trad. Irish, arr. John Rutter, (b. 1945)
Motet: What Child is this? [text] [YouTube], Traditional, arr. John Stainer (1840-1901)
Postlude:  From heaven high to earth I come [Lucas: YouTube], Garth Edmundson (1900-71)
Feast of the Nativity of the Lord
10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers
Prelude: Noël en récit et en taille sur la tierce du positif [Bardon: musicMe], Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772)
Setting: Missa Nativitatis, Patrick Wedd (b. 1948)


Introit: I saw three ships [text / listen], arr. William Llewellyn (b. 1925)
Motet: Wexford Carol [text] [YouTube], Trad. Irish, arr. John Rutter, (b. 1945)
Postlude:  Noël suisse [Bardon: musicMe], Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772) 
There is no evensong on Christmas afternoon.
First Sunday after Christmas [Choir Notes]
10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers Quartet
Prelude: In dulci jubilo, BWV 608 [Kibbie: listen; Koopman: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Setting: Missa Noe, Noe [YouTube], Jacob Arcadelt (1510-68)
Introit: Omnis Mundus Jocundetur [text] [YouTube], Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
Motet: O magnum Mysterium [text], [Gardiner: musicMe], William Byrd (1543-1623)
Postlude:  In dulci jubilo, BWV 729[Kibbie: listen], Johann Sebastian Bach
12h45 Eucharistie chantée
Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale
Prélude : In dulci jubilo, BWV 608 [Kibbie : écoutez ; Koopman : YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)


Ordinaire : Missa Noe, Noe [YouTube],Jacob Arcadelt (1510-68)
Introït : Omnis Mundus Jocundetur [texte] [YouTube], Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
Motet : O magnum Mysterium [texte], [Gardiner : musicMe], William Byrd (1543-1623)


Postlude : In dulci jubilo, BWV 729 [Kibbie: écoutez], Johann Sebastian Bach

There is no evensong this afternoon.