I | |
Christmas Comes Anew | Mark Allen Riese, 1990 |
II | |
The world languishes in sorrow and Mary learns that she is to bear a Savior: | |
Sicut cervus / Sitivit anima mea | Giovanni da Palestrina, 1581 |
Magnificat (The Song of Mary, Luke I, vs. 46-55) | Cristobal de Morales, 1545 |
III | |
The child is born in a humble stable: | |
O Magnum Mysterium | William Byrd, 1607 |
The First Mercy | Peter Warlock, 1927 |
O Gloriosa Domina | |
IV | |
While mother and child repose, angels bring the glad news to shepherds on the hillside, crying "Glory to God!" and all rejoice: | |
Our Blessed Lady's Lullaby | Christopher Chivers, 1988 |
Regem natum angelus annuntiavit pastoribus [The birth of the King is told by an angel to the shepherds] | Jacob Handl, 1586 |
Resonet in laudibus [With joyful voices let us sing] | Jacob Handl, 1586 |
V | |
Three wise men from the East seek the infant King to bring Him gifts; Herod rages in fear of the newborn's power: | |
Here Is the Little Door | Herbert Howells, 1918 |
Tribus Miraculis | Orlandus Lassus, 1568 |
Came He to a World Forlorn | John La Montaine, 1975 |
Intermission | |
VI | |
Ave Maria | Franz Biebl, 1964 |
VII | |
A Ceremony of Carols | Benjamin Britten, 1943 |
1. Hodie Christus natus est | |
2. Wolcum Yole! | |
3. There is no Rose of such vertu | |
4. That yonge child – Balulalow | |
5. As dew in Aprille | |
6. This little Babe | |
7. Interlude | |
8. In Freezing Winter Night | |
9. Adam lay i-bounden (Deo Gracias!) | |
10. Hodie Christus natus est | |
The AD HOC Singers | |||
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Louise Lee, Director | |||
Sopranos | Altos | Tenors | Basses |
Charlotte Bristow | Margaret Broughall | Ronald Boucher | Martin Bernstein |
Hellen Gelband | Robin Costanza | Brent Chivers | Michael Donaldson |
Norma Meyer | Carol Pierstorff | Tim Burr | Richard Gillam |
Debbie Pieper | Enid Rubenstein | Steve Thompson | |
Andrea Shotkin | Jon Westergaard | ||
Jane Thomas | |||
Joanne Vesper |
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