Advent Carols

[Guest]

I'm new to this so please be gentle.
But what is your favourite Advent carol?
Everybody has a Christmas favourite. But what would you like to hear next Sunday at a parish church or cathedral near you?

[antongould]

Welcome to you
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
was always my favourite at School all those years ago.

[secret squirrel]

Lo! he comes...

More of a hymn and a dead cert to boot, but it it the one.

Otherwise Schonberg's Friede auf Erden, but that's me being ponsy!

ss

[Tevot]

Yes...I agree with secret squirrel about "Lo! he comes" ...and I'm looking forward to hearing the St John's College Advent Service broadcast from Sunday...


Other advent "carols" - 'oh come oh come Emmanuel' ...and I must admit to having a soft spot for "es ist ein Ros' entsprungen..."

[Mary Chambers]

Howells, A Spotless Rose. It sends shivers down my spine - if sung well.

[Don Basilio]

Creator of the stars of night is the Advent evening office hymn, and I love singing it every evening. Es ist ein ros is surely a Christmas piece? (In Advent it won't have sprungen yet, would it?)

[DracoM]

Advent Carols

Service of Carols for Advent
The Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge

Order of Service:

Service of Carols for Advent
The Chapel of St John's College, Cambridge

Order of Service:

Carol: Adam lay ybounden (M. Martin)
Processional Hymn: O come, O come, Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel) (descant: Hill)
Bidding Prayer
Carol: The Apple Tree (Poston)

I The Message of Advent
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Sapientia and O Adonai
First lesson: Isaiah 11: 1-5
Carol: Out of your sleep (R.R. Bennett)
Second lesson: 1 Thessalonians 5: 1-11
Motet: Nox praecessit (Sven-Erik Bäck)

II The Word of God
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Radix Jesse and O Clavis David
Motet: Laetentur coeli (Byrd)
Third lesson: Micah 4: 1-4
Carol: The Call (Panufnik) 1st performance
Fourth lesson: Luke 4: 14-21
Hymn: Come, thou long-expected Jesus (Cross of Jesus) (descant: Robinson)

III The Prophetic Call
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Oriens and O Rex Gentium
Carol: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (arr. Willcocks)
Fifth lesson: Malachi 3:1-7
Anthem: This is the record of John (Gibbons)
Sixth lesson: Matthew 3:1-11
Hymn: On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry (Winchester New) (descant: Robinson)

IV The Christ-Bearer
Sentence and Collect
Antiphon: O Emmanuel
Motet: Bogoroditsye Dyevo (Rachmaninoff)
Seventh lesson: Luke 1: 39-49
Carol: Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen (arr. Praetorius and Cashmore)
Magnificat: Murrill in E
Eighth lesson: John 3: 1-8
Sentence and Christmas Collect
Carol: Make we joy (Robinson)
Hymn: Lo! He comes with clouds descending (Helmsley) (descant: Robinson)
College Prayer and Blessing

Organ Voluntary: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645 (J. S. Bach)

Senior Organ Student: John Challenger
Director of Music: Andrew Nethsingha

[DracoM]

Help!
The rest of the Advent Carols Order of Service didn't come out!!
What did I do wrong?

[french frank]

You did nothing wrong - it was probably a bug which omits everything with an accent, plus everything that follows. For the present remove accents. We're working on a fix

Good thing is you can edit and copy it back in!

[I've now posted a sticky thread about it on the Announcements board.]

[mangerton]

This is the record of John - Gibbons

[jean]

Some of the Advent hymns mentioned here are versions of the plainsong 'O' antiphons, which have embedded themselves in the Advent service we get from John's every year (the rest of which will be there when DracoM posts the full versionof the Order of Service!)

I love them.

[Finzi4ever]

'Lo he comes' is bound to be popular in Japan, Iceland etc with all that "deeply whaling" sorry!

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

O Come, O Come Emmanuel, as arranged by Andrew Carter. The final verse has a quite incredible multivoice descant.

[secret squirrel]

Deepsea whaling. Surely?!

ss

[verismissimo]

Such a wonderful celebration. Maybe my favourite service of the year.

My favourites? As others - O come, O come... and Lo! he comes...