Music and Readings for Advent and Christmas
Sunday, 11 December 2016
| Cathedral Choir & Notability | O Magnum Mysterium (Morten Lauridsen) |
| All | Come, thou long-expected Jesus |
| Notability | Lully, Lulla, Lullay (Philip Stopford) |
| All | The angel Gabriel |
| Cathedral Choir | O Nata Lux (Thomas Tallis) O Radiant Dawn (James Macmillan) |
| Notability | The Little Drummer Boy (K K Davis, arr. McCarthy) Angels’ Carol (John Rutter) |
| Cathedral Choir | Myn Liking (R.R. Terry) |
| All | Once in royal David’s city |
| Anthony Hunt (organ) | Chorale Fantasia on Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (Dieterich Buxtehude) |
| Notability | O Holy Night (Adolphe Adam, arr. Rutter) |
| Cathedral Choir & Notability | In Dulci Jubilo (arr. R.L. Pearsall) |
| Cathedral Choir | Gaudete (15th c.) |
| All | O Come, all ye faithful |
| All | O Come, O come Emmanuel |
| Anthony Hunt | Vom Himmel Hoch (J.S. Bach) |
As last year, I tried to find the right balance between Advent and Christmas music, interspersed with readings, brief addresses from representatives of our two charities (Caritas Diocese of Salford and Salford Loaves and Fishes), and prayers led by Bishop John. Fourteen years after the first one, I’m still not sure whether this annual celebration (in which we have been joined each time by the excellent Notability) is mainly a service or mainly a concert. But someone in the congregation/audience said tonight’s was the best ever.
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