Essentially, this consists of some YouTube links to carols and music interspersed with the Nine Lessons as read by yours truly. Yes, there will be mistakes and blips on my part, for which I crave your and God's forgiveness. I hope they do not detract from an approximation to an experience of which I was once blessed to be part. The readings will only be available for the next 88 days, but the moment by then will surely have passed!
Please do click on the links in sequence to get the full intended affect. You might also like to listen by candlelight as well and, if you like, sing along with the carols. If you do find this in any way complementary to your experience of the season, please have a mince pie and a cup of mulled wine on my behalf after the benediction.
Hope this works!
Organ Prelude: Noel cette Journée - Jean-François Dandrieu.
Carol: Once in Royal David's City (605 in The English Hymnal)
Introduction and opening prayers.
The First Lesson
Adam Lay Ybounden - music by Boris Ord
The Second Lesson
Carol: Wake, O Wake! With tidings thrilling (12 in The English Hymnal)
The Third Lesson
The People that walked in Darkness from Handel's Messiah
The Fourth Lesson
Carol: O Little Town of Bethlehem (15 in the English Hymnal)
The Fifth Lesson
I sing of a Maiden that is makeless - music by Patrick Hadley
In the Bleak Midwinter - music by Harold Darke
This is the Truth sent from above - music by Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Seventh Lesson
Carol: A Great and Mighty Wonder (19 in the English Hymnal)
The Eighth Lesson
There shall a star from Jacob come forth - music by Felix Mendelssohn
The Ninth Lesson
In Dulci Jubilo - music by Robert Pearsall
Carol: Lo He comes with clouds descending (7 in the English Hymnal)
Collect and Benediction
Carol: O Come, O Come Emmanuel (8 in the English Hymnal)
Postlude: Toccata on Mendelssohn by David Wilcocks
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