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The Advent Carol Service

on BBC Radio 3

direct from the Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge
Advent Prose (Rorate Caeli - Mode 1)
Hymn: Lo! he comes (Helmsley)
First Lesson: Jeremiah
23. vv 1-6: HEAD CHORISTER When came in flesh the incarnate Word (arr Andrew Lumsden );
Balulalow (Peter Warlock ) Second Lesson: Romans
13, VV 8-14: UNDERGRADUATE Greawdwr nef a daear lawr; Pan fo'r stormydd garwa'n (Raymond Williams )
Come, thou Redeemer of the earth (Praetorius, arr Guest)
Third Lesson: Romans
15, VV 4-13: CHORAL STUDENT Psalm 119, vv 105-112 (Cooper); A Boy was born (Britten)
Fourth Lesson; Luke 4
VV 14-21: RESEARCH STUDENT Hymn: 0 come, 0 come
Emmanuel (translated by T. A. Lacey )
I sing of a maiden (Patrick Hadley)
Fifth Lesson: Isaiah 42, VV 1-9: A MEMBER OF THE COLLEGE STAFF
The hollv and the ivy (arr Waiford Davies)
Sixth Lesson: Isaiah 40, VV 1-9: A FELLOW
Hymn: Hail to the Lord's anointed (Criiger)
Adam lay ybounden
(Boris Ord); Ding dong! merrily on high (arr Charles Wood)
Seventh Lesson: John 3, VV 1-8: PRESIDENT OF THE
COLLEGE
Magnificat: Watson in E Eighth Lesson:
Philippians 4, vv 4-8, 19, 20: THE MASTER
Chorale: Break forth, 0 beauteous, heavenly light (harmonised Bach) Hymn: 0 little town of Bethlehem
Organist and Director of Music DR GEORGE GUEST Organ Student ANDREW LUMSDEN

Contributors

Unknown:
Andrew Lumsden
Unknown:
Peter Warlock
Unknown:
Raymond Williams
Translated By:
T. A. Lacey

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