December 24-25 and 28, 2014



Jacques Daret, The Nativity, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, 1434-35


Click to go to the Fourth Sunday of Advent, December 21, 2014


La Nativité du Seigneur
4:00 pm Family Eucharist with Nativity Pageant


18h30 Eucharistie chantée
Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale


Prélude : Noël sur C'est le bon lever, Guy Morançon (né en 1927)


Ordinaire : Missa O magnum mysterium [Hill : YouTube], Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)


Introït : Aube nouvelle, Johann Schop (1590-1667)


Motet : O magnum mysterium [texte] [Christophers : YouTube], Tomás Luis de Victoria


Postlude : Toccata sur Il est né, le divin Enfant [Locatelli: YouTube]
Denis Bédard (né en 1950)


Midnight Mass
11:00 pm Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers


Prelude: What child is this? [Kripfgans:YouTube], Richard Purvis (1913-94)
Setting: Missa Nativitatis, Patrick Wedd (b. 1948)


Introit: All my heart this night rejoices [text/Rutter: listen], Johann Ebeling (1620[37]-1666[76])


Motet: Wexford Carol [text] [YouTube], Trad. Irish, arr. John Rutter, (b. 1945)
Motet: What Child is this? [text] [YouTube], Traditional, arr. John Stainer (1840-1901)
Postlude:  From heaven high to earth I come [Lucas: YouTube], Garth Edmundson (1900-71)


Feast of the Nativity of the Lord
10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers


Prelude: Noël en récit et en taille sur la tierce du positif [Bardon: musicMe], Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772)
Setting: Missa Nativitatis, Patrick Wedd (b. 1948)


Introit: I saw three ships [text / listen], arr. William Llewellyn (b. 1925)
Motet: Wexford Carol [text] [YouTube], Trad. Irish, arr. John Rutter, (b. 1945)
Postlude:  Noël suisse [Bardon: musicMe], Louis-Claude Daquin (1694-1772) 


There is no evensong on Christmas afternoon.


First Sunday after Christmas [Choir Notes]
10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers Quartet


Prelude: In dulci jubilo, BWV 608 [Kibbie: listen; Koopman: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Setting: Missa Noe, Noe [YouTube], Jacob Arcadelt (1510-68)


Introit: Omnis Mundus Jocundetur [text] [YouTube], Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
Motet: O magnum Mysterium [text], [Gardiner: musicMe], William Byrd (1543-1623)
Postlude:  In dulci jubilo, BWV 729[Kibbie: listen], Johann Sebastian Bach


12h45 Eucharistie chantée
Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale


Prélude : In dulci jubilo, BWV 608 [Kibbie : écoutez ; Koopman : YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)


Ordinaire : Missa Noe, Noe [YouTube],Jacob Arcadelt (1510-68)


Introït : Omnis Mundus Jocundetur [texte] [YouTube], Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)


Motet : O magnum Mysterium [texte], [Gardiner : musicMe], William Byrd (1543-1623)


Postlude : In dulci jubilo, BWV 729 [Kibbie: écoutez], Johann Sebastian Bach

There is no evensong this afternoon.

December 21, 2014



In the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent by God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth [NRSV, Luke 1:26]


10:00 am Choral Eucharist
The Cathedral Singers
Fourth Sunday of Advent [Choir Notes]


Prelude: Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659 [Alain: YouTube; Kibbie: listen; Koopman:YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Setting: MissaDixit Maria[Herreweghe:YouTube], Hans Leo Hassler (1562-1612)


Introit: There is no rose of such virtue [text] [YouTube], John Joubert (b.1927)
Motet: Dixit Maria [text] [Colorado: listen; 6 videos: YouTube], Hans Leo Hassler
Postlude:  Nun Komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 661 [Kibbie: listen; Stockmeier: YouTube], Johann Sebastian Bach


12h45 Eucharistie chantée
Le Quatuor des chanteurs de la cathédrale


Prélude : Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BuxWV 211 [Foccroulle : musicMe], Dietrich Buxtehude (1637-1707)


Ordinaire : MissaDixit Maria [Herreweghe : YouTube], Hans Leo Hassler (1562-1612)


Introït : Sauveur, viens déchirer les cieux [texte], Deutsches Catholisches Gesangbuch, 1666


Motet : Dixit Maria [texte] [Colorado: écoutez ; 6 videos : YouTube], Hans Leo Hassler


Postlude : Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 599 [Kibbie : écoutez], Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)


4:00 pm Ceremony of Lessons and Carols [Click here]
The Cathedral Singers
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