Advent Lessons and Carols | Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 5 pm

00:00 Opening Title (Silent)
04:51 First Organ Prelude (from Twelve Chorale Preludes by Jeanne Demessieux)
07:56 Second Organ Prelude ("Awake! the voice is calling us" by J.S. Bach)
12:11 Introit (Responsory for the First Sunday In Advent; music adapted from Pierluigi da Palestrina)
15:02 Procession hymn ("Come thou Redeemer of the earth"; Words: Saint Ambrose; Music: Michael Praetorius)
19:23: The Bidding and Lord's Prayer
22:14 The First Lesson: Isaiah 40: 1-11
24:27 Carol ("People Look East"; Words: Eleanor Farjeon; Music: Besancon Carol)
26:29 Hymn 67 ("Comfort ye my people"; Words, Johann Olearius, Music Claude Gudimel)
29:37 The Second Lesson: Micah 5: 2-5
30:45 Carol ("O Adonai"; Music: Roderick Williams; Soloists: Zoe Allen, Emerson Sieverts)
37:43 Hymn 56: ("O come O come Emmanuel")
44:11 The Third Lesson: Matthew 1:18-23
45:40 Carol: ("This is the truth sent from above"; Music: Ralph Vaughan Williams)
48:35 Hymn 66: ("Come thou long expected Jesus"; Words: Charles Wesley)
51:03 The Fourth Lesson: Luke 1:26-42
53:43 Carol ("Rejoice O Virgin, Theotokos"; Music: Sergei Rachmaninoff)
56:40 Hymn 265: ("The angel Gabriel from heaven came"; Basque carol)
1:00:10 The Fifth Lesson: Luke 3:7-18
1:02:47 Carol: ("Let the heavens rejoice"; Music: William Byrd)
1:06:17 Hymn 76: ("On Jordan's Bank, the Baptist's Cry"; Music: William Henry Monk)
1:09:13 The Sixth Lesson: Matthew 24:29-44
1:11:48 Carol: ("Blow out the trumpet in Sion"; Words: Joel 2:1; Music: Martin Person)
1:14:46 Hymn 59: ("Hark a thrilling voice is sounding"; Music: William Henry Monk)
1:17:29 Rector's Greeting (The Right Reverend Dean Wolfe)
1:21:21 Carol at the Offertory: ("And the glory of the Lord"; Music: G.F. Handel)
1:24:39 The Advent Collect
1:25:50 Hymn 57: ("Lo He comes with clouds descending"; Words: Charles Wesley)
1:30:42 Organ Postlude ("Carillon on Besancon: People Look East" by Rebecca Groom te Velde)

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