A meditation on the Nativity, recorded in Durham Cathedral. Chorale prelude:
'Christum wir sollen loben schon'
(Bach: BWV 611)
From east to west, from shore to shore (EH 18) Hark the glad sound
(EH 6): Bethlehem down (Warlock)
See, see, the Word is incarnate (Gibbons) The maker of the sun and moon (EH 16)
Les Enfants de Dieu (La Nativite du Seigneur)
(Messiaen); Sing lullaby (Howells); Of the Father's heart begotten (EH 613) Videte miraculum (Tallis); Proverbs 8, w 22-31; Where is this stupendous stranger? (Christopher Smart)
The Babe whose birth embraues this morn (Richard Crashaw )
Said or sung (Farrer) To my unborn child (Anthony Thwaite)
Colossians 1, w 15-20
Master of the Choristers
JAMES LANCELOT
Organist IAN SHAW BBC Manchester