A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

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A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols

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Dez. 25, 2022, 1:45 am

Sunday 25th December 2022 (starting this afternoon)
Time: 13:00 to 15:00 (2 hours long)

Christmas 2022.

A service of carols, hymns, and readings live from the candlelit Chapel of King's College, Cambridge. A new work has been commissioned for the Christmas Eve service every year since 1983 and for 2022, Matthew Martin has chosen to set the text of the famous medieval carol Angelus ad Virginem. Hymn: Once in Royal David's City (Irby, arr. Willcocks). Bidding Prayer (read by the Dean). Carol: Up! Good Christen Folk, and Listen (Piae Cantiones, harm. Woodward). First lesson: Genesis 3 vv. 8-19 (read by a chorister). Carol: The Truth from Above (Vaughan Williams, arr. Christopher Robinson). Carol: Adam lay ybounden (Warlock). Second lesson: Genesis 22 vv. 15-19 (read by a College student). Carol: Illuminare Jerusalem (Judith Weir). Third lesson: Isaiah 9 vv. 2, 6-7 (read by a member of College staff). Carol: O Little Town of Bethlehem (Walford Davies). Hymn: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (Noel, descant Scott). Fourth lesson: Isaiah 11 vv. 1-9 (read by the Master over the Choristers). Carol: Peace on Earth (Errollyn Wallen). Carol: Sans Day Carol (Trad. Cornish, arr. John Rutter). Fifth lesson: Luke 1 vv. 26-38 (read by a Fellow). Carol: An Old Carol (Quilter). Carol: Angelus ad Virginem (Matthew Martin) - 2022 Commission. Sixth lesson: Luke 2 vv. 1-7 (read by the Mayor of Cambridge). Hymn: Unto Us Is Born a Son (Puer nobis, arr. Willcocks). Carol: In the Bleak midwinter (Darke). Seventh lesson: Luke 2 vv. 8-20 (read by the Director of Music). Carol: The Shepherds' Cradle Song (Leuner, arr. Macpherson). Eighth lesson: Matthew 2 vv. 1-12 (read by the Vice-Provost). Carol: O magnum mysterium (Victoria). Carol: Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (Gardner). Ninth lesson: John 1 vv. 1-14 (read by the Provost). Hymn: O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles, arr. Willcocks). Collect and Blessing. Hymn: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Mendelssohn, arr. Ledger). Organ voluntaries: In dulci jubilo, BWV 719 (Bach). Prelude and Fugue in B, Op 7 No 1 (Dupré).

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