A Service for Advent with Carols - St John's College Choir Cambridge/Andrew Nethsingha ~ music goyang

A Service for Advent with Carols

Choir of St John's College, Cambridge

Glen Dempsey, organ

Ignacio Mañá Mesas, saxophone (22)
Jakob Lindberg, lute (13)

DIR.: ANDREW NETHSINGHA

rec: Nov 25, 2018, Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge

lossless (flac)

source: BBC Radio 3 (digital radio)

recorded with harddisc recorder Dec 2, 2018

A Service for Advent with Carols is part of a long tradition, and is broadcast every year by BBC Radio 3 on the first Sunday of Advent. It is a mixture of music and spoken text in a fixed order. I have kept the service in the form it has been performed.

(01) Carol: Adam lay ybounden (Ord) [01'20"]
(02) Processional Hymn: O come, O come, Emmanuel! (Veni Emmanuel)

(descant: David Hill) [04'20"]
(03) Bidding Prayer [02'31"]
(04) Carol: E'en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come (Paul Manz) [02'54"]

I The Message of Advent
(05) Sentence and Collect [00'59"]
(06) Antiphons: O Sapientia - O Adonai (plainchant) [01'57"]
(07) First lesson: Isaiah 11 vv.1-5 [01'07"]
(08) Carol: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (James Burton) [04'43"]
(09) Second lesson: 1 Thessalonians 5 vv.1-11 [01'55"]
(10) Sacred Song: Einklang (Hugo Wolf) [02'03"]

II The Word of God
(11) Sentence and Collect [00'53"]
(12) Antiphons: O Radix Jesse - O Clavis David 01'52"]
(13) Aria: Ach, so lass von mir dich finden (TWV 1,1657a) (Telemann) [03'27"]
(14) Third lesson: Micah 4 vv.1-4 [01'33"]
(15) Carol: The Linden Tree Carol (Trad, arr. Reginald Jacques) [01'55"]
(16) Fourth lesson: Luke 4 vv.14-21 [01'32"]
(17) Hymn: Come, thou long-expected Jesus (Cross of Jesus)

(descant: Christopher Robinson) [02'10"]

III The Prophetic Call
(18) Sentence and Collect [01'00"]
(19) Antiphons: O Oriens - O Rex Gentium [01'56"]
(20) Carol: A Prayer to St John the Baptist (Cecilia McDowall) [04'19"]
(21) Fifth lesson: Malachi 3 vv.1-7 [02'07"]
(22) Carol: Vox clara ecce intonat (Gabriel Jackson) [04'55"]
(23) Sixth lesson: Matthew 3 vv.1-11 [02'09"]
(24) Hymn: On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry (Winchester New)

(descant: Christopher Robinson) [02'19"]

IV The God-Bearer
(25) Sentence and Collect [00'55"]
(26) Antiphon: O Emmanuel [00'55"]
(27) Carol: There is no rose (Elizabeth Maconchy) [01'52"]
(28) Seventh lesson: Luke 1 vv.39-49 [01'44"]
(29) Carol: Bogoroditse Dyevo (Arvo Pärt) [01'17"]
(30) Carol: A Spotless Rose (Herbert Howells) [03'34"]
(31) Magnificat: Watson in E (Sidney Watson) [03'32"]
(32) Eighth lesson: John 3 vv.1-8 [01'44"]
(33) Sentence and Christmas Collect [01'01"]
(34) Carol: Noe, noe (David Bednall) [03'06"]
(35) Hymn: Lo! he comes with clouds descending (Helmsley)

(descant: Christopher Robinson) [05'24"]
(36) College Prayer and Blessing [00'56"]
(37) Organ Voluntary: Chorale Prelude on 'Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland'

(BWV 661) (JS Bach) [03'06"]

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