St John's College, Cambridge

A Service for Advent with Carols, live from the Chapel of St John’s College, Cambridge.

Introit: Drop down, ye heavens (Plainsong, arr. Lucy Walker) (first broadcast, commissioned by the Master and Fellows for the service)
Processional Hymn: O come, O come Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel, descant David Hill)
Bidding Prayer and Lord's Prayer
Carol: People, look east (Tranchell)

I The Message of Advent
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Sapientia and O Adonaï (Plainsong)
Carol: Adam lay ybounden (Ord)
First Lesson: Isaiah 11 vv1-5
Carol: Jesus Christ the Apple Tree (Poston)
Second Lesson: 1 Thessalonians 5 vv1-11
Carol: O thou, the central orb (Gibbons)

II The Word of God
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Radix Jesse and O Clavis David (Plainsong)
Third Lesson: Micah 4 vv1-4
Carol: And I saw the dead (Samuel Travis)
Fourth Lesson: Luke 4 vv14-21
Hymn: Come, thou long-expected Jesus (Cross of Jesus)

III The Prophetic Call
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Oriens and O Rex Gentium (Plainsong)
Fifth Lesson: Malachi 3 vv1-7
Carol: Vox clara ecce intonat (Gabriel Jackson)
Sixth Lesson: Matthew 3 vv1-11
Hymn: On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry (Winchester New, descant Christopher Robinson)

IV The God-Bearer
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Emmanuel and O Virgo Virginum (Plainsong)
Carol: A Hymn to the Virgin (Britten)
Seventh Lesson: Luke 1 vv39-49
Magnificat: St John’s Service (Laura Sheils)
Eighth Lesson: John 3 vv1-8
Carol: Out of your sleep (Richard Rodney Bennett)

Sentence and Christmas Collect
Carol: Verbum caro factum est (Wayne Marshall) (first broadcast, commissioned by the Master and Fellows for the service)
Hymn: Of the Father’s heart begotten (Divinum mysterium, arr. Willcocks)
The College Prayer and Blessing
Organ Voluntary: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 661 (Bach)

Christopher Gray (Director of Music)
Pascal Bachmann (Organ Scholar)
Sam Corkin (saxophone)
The Revd Canon Dr Victoria Johnson (Dean)
The Rev'd Graham Dunn (Chaplain)