Sunday 6th December 2015 – CHOIR

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2nd Sunday of Advent (C) Year of Luke

Baruch 5.1-9, Phil 1:3-6,8-11, Luke 3.1-6 –All mankind will see the salvation of God 

  • Mass setting: Mass XVIII (de Angelis)
  • Motet: This is the record of John (Orlando Gibbons) This is the record of John, when the Jews sent priests and Levites from Jerusalem to ask him, Who art thou? And he confessed and denied not, and said plainly, I am not the Christ. And they asked him, What art thou then? And he said, I am not. And he answered, No. Then said they unto him, What art thou? that we may give an answer unto them that sent us. What sayest thou of thyself? And he said, I am the voice of him that crieth in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord!
  • Hymns: Advent Prose (Rorate Caeli); TIS 266, Wake, awake for night is flying (Wachet auf); TIS 497 Let all mortal Flesh keep silence PICARDY
  • Organ Prelude: Behold a rose is blooming – Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
  • Organ Offertorium: From Heaven above to earth I come – Friedrich Zachau (1663-1712)
  • Organ Voluntary: Magnificat – Double Fugue No.8 on Tone VIII – Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706)

Organist: Bransby Byrne