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A Service for Advent with Carols

A Service for Advent with Carols, from the Chapel of St John’s College, Cambridge.

A Service for Advent with Carols, from the Chapel of St John’s College, Cambridge.

Introit: There is no rose (Gerald Hendrie)
Opening Sentence
Processional Hymn: Come thou redeemer of the earth (Puer nobis nascitur, descant Christopher Gray)
Bidding Prayer
Carol: Deus, Deus meus (Roxanna Panufnik)

I The Message of Advent
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Sapientia and O Adonaï
First Lesson: Mark 13 vv.32-36
Motet: Vigilate (Byrd)
Second Lesson: Isaiah 11 vv.1-5
Carol: A tender shoot (Kerensa Briggs)

II The Word of God
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Radix Jesse and O Clavis David
Third Lesson: Hebrews 4 vv.12-16
Carol: This is the truth (Trad., arr. Vaughan Williams and Christopher Robinson)
Fourth Lesson: Luke 4 vv. 14-21
Hymn: O come, O come Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel, descant David Hill)

III The Prophetic Call
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Oriens and O Rex Gentium
Fifth Lesson: Malachi 3 vv. 1-7
Motet: Fuit homo missus a Deo (Praetorius)
Sixth Lesson: Matthew 3 vv. 1-11
Hymn: On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry (Winchester New, descant Christopher Robinson)

IV The God-Bearer
Sentence and Collect
Antiphon: O Emmanuel
Anthem: Bogoroditse Dyevo (Rachmaninoff)
Seventh Lesson: Luke 1 vv. 26-38
Magnificat: The Truro Service (Russell Pascoe)
Eighth Lesson: The Annunciation (Edwin Muir)
Anthem: The Hidden Light (Joanna Marsh) – New commission

The Christmas Collect
Carol: Noel – Verbum caro factum est (Tamsin Jones)
Hymn: Of the Father’s heart begotten (Divinum mysterium, arr. Willcocks)
The College Prayer and The Blessing
Organ Voluntary: In dir ist Freude, BWV 615 (Bach)

Christopher Gray (Director of Music)
Alexander Robson (Herbert Howells Organ Scholar)
The Revd Canon Dr Mark Oakley (Dean)
The Revd Andrew Hammond (Chaplain)

Recorded 26 November.

1 hour, 28 minutes

Last on

Sun 3 Dec 2023 15:00

Music Played

  • Gerald Hendrie

    There Is No Rose

    Performer: Alexander Robson. Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Christopher Gray.
  • Roxanna Panufnik

    Deus, Deus meus

    Performer: Alexander Robson. Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Christopher Gray.
  • William Byrd

    Vigilate

    Performer: Alexander Robson. Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Christopher Gray.
  • Kerensa Briggs

    A Tender Shoot

    Performer: Alexander Robson. Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Christopher Gray.
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    This is the Truth

    Performer: Alexander Robson. Music Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams. Music Arranger: Christopher Robinson. Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Christopher Gray.
  • Hieronymus Praetorius

    Fuit homo missus a Deo

    Performer: Alexander Robson. Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Christopher Gray.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Bogoroditse Dyevo

    Performer: Alexander Robson. Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Christopher Gray.
  • Russell Pascoe

    Canticles: The Truro Service (Magnificat)

    Performer: Alexander Robson. Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Christopher Gray.
  • Joanna Marsh

    The Hidden Light

    Performer: Alexander Robson. Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Christopher Gray.
  • Tamsin Jones

    Noel - Verbum caro factum est

    Performer: Alexander Robson. Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Christopher Gray.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    In dir ist Freude, BWV 615

    Performer: Alexander Robson.
  • César Franck

    Poco Allegretto (L'Organiste)

    Performer: Nicholas Danby.
    • The Organ: Cesar Franck: Nicholas Danby.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 10.

Order of Service

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Broadcast

  • Sun 3 Dec 2023 15:00