Table of Contents:
  • Once in royal David's city (processional hymn) / H.J. Gauntlett
  • Bidding prayer/The Lord's prayer/Blessing
  • If ye would hear the angels sing / P. Tranchell
  • First lesson : Genesis 3
  • Remember, O thou man / T. Ravenscroft
  • Adam lay ybounden / B. Ord
  • Second lesson : Genesis 22
  • Angels from the realms of glory / French traditional ; arr. P.S. Ledger
  • Canticum Beatae Mariae Virginis seu Magnificat (Hamburg, 1602) : In dulci jubilo / H. Praetorius
  • Third lesson : Isaiah 9
  • Nowell sing ye now / medieval ; ed. J. Stevens
  • Unto us is born a Son / Piae Cantiones ; arr. D.V. Willcocks
  • Fourth lesson : Isaiah 11
  • The Lamb / J. Tavener
  • A spotless rose / H. Howells
  • Fifth lesson : St. Luke 1
  • I sing of a maiden / L. Berkeley
  • Mary / D. Muldowney
  • Sixth lesson : St. Luke 2
  • Wither's rocking hymn / R. Vaughan Williams
  • What sweeter music / J. Rutter
  • Seventh lesson : St. Luke 2
  • Infant holy, infant lowly / Polish traditional ; arr. S.J. Cleobury
  • God rest ye merry gentlemen / English traditional ; arr. D.V. Willcocks
  • Eighth lesson : St. Matthew 2
  • Illuminare Jerusalem / J. Weir
  • Glory, alleluia to the Christ Child! / A. Bullard
  • Ninth lesson : St. John 1
  • O come, all ye faithful / J.F. Wade ; arr. S.J. Cleobury
  • Prayer & blessing
  • Hark! the herald-angels sing / F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
  • In dulci jubilo : BWV 729 / J.S. Bach.