Christe Salvator (Taizé)

See alternate lyrics to this song: Du bist Verzeihen

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Official Taizé Community Website

Wikipedia information on the Taizé Community
- in French
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Oculi nostri (Taizé)

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Official Taizé Community Website

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Gloria ... et in terra pax (Taizé)

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Official Taizé Community Website

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Atme in uns, Heiliger Geist (Taizé)

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Official Taizé Community Website

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Ubi caritas Deus ibi est (Taizé)

Magnificat 3 (Taizé)

Gloire à toi Seigneur / Litanies du Saint Nom de Jésus (Taizé)

Gloire à toi Seigneur / Litanies du Saint Nom de Jésus (Taizé)

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Official Taizé Community Website

Wikipedia information on the Taizé Community
- in French
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Brightest and Best of the Stars of the Morning

1. Hail the blest morn! See the great Mediator
down from the regions of glory descend.
Shepherds go worship the babe in the manger;
lo! for his guard the bright angels attend.

Refrain:

Brightest and best of the stars of the morning,
Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid;
Star of the East, the horizon adorning,
Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.

2 Cold on His cradle the dew-drops are shining,
Low lies His head with the beasts of the stall;
Angels adore Him in slumber reclining,
Maker and Monarch and Saviour of all.

3 Say, shall we yield Him, in costly devotion,
Odours of Edom, and offerings divine?
Gems of the mountain, and pearls of the ocean,
Myrrh from the forest, and gold from the mine?

4 Vainly we offer each ample oblation,
Vainly with gifts would His favour secure;
Richer by far is the heart's adoration,
Dearer to God are the prayers of the poor


5 Brightest and best of the sons of the morning,
Dawn on our darkness and lend us thine aid;
Star of the East, the horizon adorning,
Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.

Text: Reginald Heber (1811)
Tune: MORNING STAR

Go Now, You Are Sent Forth

1. Go now, you are sent forth
to live what you proclaim;
To show the world you follow Christ
in fact, not just in name.

2. Go now, you are sent forth
To walk this troubled earth,
To share your faith with all we meet
And prove your real worth.

3. Go now, you are sent forth
As God's ambassador;
By serving God in those we meet
We love God more and more.

4. Go now, you are sent forth
And Christ goes with you too.
Today you help God's kingdom come
In everything you do.

Composer: Leo Watt (1969)

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To Be Your Bread (David Haas)

Refrain: 

To be your bread now, be your wine now,
Lord, come and change us to be a sign of your love.
Blest and broken, poured and flowing,
gift that you gave us, to be your body once again.

1. We come to your table with our lives as they are.
Heal us Lord, for we are broken; make us one again.
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2. Lord, we stumble through the darkness of night.
Lead us, now, O Lord, we follow; bring us home to you.

3. Give us the bread and wine that bring us to life.
Feed us, and we'll never hunger, never thirst again.

Composer: David Haas (1982)

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Gather Your People (Bob Hurd)

Refrain

Gather your people, O Lord.
Gather your people, O Lord.
One bread, one body, one spirit of love.
Gather your people, O Lord.

1. Draw us forth to the table of life:
brothers and sisters,
each of us called to walk in your light.

2. We are parts of the body of Christ,
needing each other,
each of the gifts the Spirit provides.

3. No more harm on the mountain of God;
swords into plowshares.
Free us, O Lord, from hardness of heart.

4. Wash us, Lord, in the waters of life;
waters of mercy,
waters of hope that flow from your side.

Composer: Bob Hurd (1991)

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Advent Carol Service 2012 (Trinity College, Cambridge)

Featuring:

Prelude on Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen (Brahms)
The Advent Matins Responsory (Richard Marlow)
Creator of the stars of night (Plainsong)
Hymn: Of the Father's heart begotten (arr Willcocks)
Hymn: Come, thou Redeemer of the earth (arr Willcocks)
There is no rose (Anon arr Stevens)
Hymn: O come, O come, Emmanuel (arr Willcocks)
Salve Regina (Poulenc)
O Emmanuel (Ešenvalds)
Hymn: On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry (arr Ledger)
Wachet auf! (Nicolai arr Bach)
E'en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come (Paul Manz)
Hymn: Come, thou long-expected Jesus
Benedicamus Domino (Warlock)
Hymn: Lo, he comes with clouds descending
Puer natus est (Plainsong)
Brich an, o schönes Morgenlicht (Bach)
Organ voluntary: Dieu parmi nous (Messiaen)

Trinity College Choir
Conductor: Stephen Layton
Organ Scholars: Jeremy Cole and Eleanor Kornas

Advent Carol Service 2011 (Trinity College, Cambridge)

Featuring:

Prelude on Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen (Brahms)
The Advent Matins Responsory (Richard Marlow)
Creator of the stars of night (Plainsong)
Hymn: Of the Father's heart begotten (arr Willcocks)
Hymn: Come, thou Redeemer of the earth (arr Willcocks)
There is no rose (Anon arr Stevens)
Hymn: O come, O come, Emmanuel (arr Willcocks)
Bogoróditse Djévo (Part)
Ave Maria (Parsons)
Hymn: On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry (arr Ledger)
Wachet auf! (Nicolai arr Bach)
E'en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come (Paul Manz)
Hymn: Come, thou long-expected Jesus
Seek him that maketh the seven stars (Jonathan Dove)
Hymn: Lo, he comes with clouds descending
Puer natus est (Plainsong)
Brich an, o schönes Morgenlicht (Bach)
Organ voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in G, BWV 541 (Bach)

Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge
Conductor: Stephen Layton
Organ Scholars: Simon Bland and Jeremy Cole

Join in the Dance (Dan Shutte)

Refrain
Join in the dance of the earth's jubilation!
This is the feast of the love of God.
Shout from the heights to the ends of creation:
Jesus the Savior is risen from the grave!

1. Wake, O people; sleep no longer:
greet the breaking day!
Christ, Redeemer, Lamb and Lion,
turns the night away! (Refrain)

2. All creation, like a mother,
labors to give birth.
Soon the pain will be forgotten,
joy for all the earth! (Refrain)

3. Now our shame becomes our glory
on this holy tree.
Now the reign of death is ended;
now we are set free! (Refrain)

4. None on earth, no prince or power,
neither death nor life,
nothing now can ever part us
from the love of Christ! (Refrain)

5. Love's triumphant day of vict'ry
heaven opens wide.
On the tree of hope and glory
death itself has died! (Refrain)

6. Christ forever, Lord of ages,
Love beyond our dreams:
Christ, our hope of heaven's glory,
all that yet will be! (Refrain)

Composer: Dan Schutte (b. 1947)

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All Bells in Paradise (John Rutter)

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Deep in the cold of winter,
Darkness and silence were everywhere;
Softly and clearly, there came through the stillness
a wonderful sound to hear:
All bells in paradise I heard them ring,
Sounding in majesty the news that they bring;
All bells in paradise I heard them ring,
Welcoming our Saviour, born on earth a heavenly King.

All bells in paradise I heard them ring:
‘Glory to God on high’ the angel voices sing.

Lost in awe and wonder,
Doubting I asked what this sign might be:
Christ our Messiah revealed in a stable,
A marvellous sight to see.
All bells in paradise I heard them ring,
Sounding in majesty the news that they bring;
All bells in paradise I heard them ring,
Welcoming our Saviour, born on earth a heavenly King.

He comes down in peace, a child in humility,
The keys to his kingdom belong to the poor;
Before him shall kneel the kings with their treasures,
gold incense and myrrh.
All bells in paradise I heard them ring,
Sounding in majesty the news that they bring;
All bells in paradise I heard them ring,
Welcoming our Saviour, born on earth a heavenly King.

All bells in paradise I heard them ring:
‘Glory to God on high’ the angel voices sweetly sing.

This carol was commissioned for the Choir of King's College, Cambridge's 2012 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols. It is also featured in the Choir of King's College, Cambridge's recent CD release: Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols


Words and Music: John Rutter (2012)

2011 Carols from King's at King's College, Cambridge

The complete video recording of the carols sung at the recorded-for-TV version, Carols from King's at King's College, Cambridge.

This version is broadcast on BBC TV on Christmas Day. There are a few variations in the list of carols sung on this TV version and the live performance at 3:00 pm on Christmas Eve, 24 December 2011.

Hymn - Once in royal David's City

Carol - Sussex Carol (arr. David Willcocks)

Carol - In dulci jubilo (arr. R.L. Pearsall)

Carol - O little town of Bethlehem (Henry Walford Davies

Carol - Silent night (arr. Stephen Cleobury)

Carol - Angels from the realms of glory (arr. Reginald Jacques)

Carol - Blessed be that maid Mary (arr. Stephen Cleobury)

Hymn - While shepherds watched their flocks

Carol - The three kings (Peter Cornelius)

Carol - Coventry Carol (Medieval)

Carol - Bethlehem Down (Peter Warlock)

Hymn - The first nowell (arr. David Nowell)

Carol - I wonder as I wander (Carl Rutti)

Carol - Personent Hodie (arr. Gustav Holst)

Carol - O holy night (Adolphe Adam)

Hymn - Hark! The herald angels sing
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The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, directed by Stephen Cleobury
Organ Scholars: Ben San-Lau & Thomas Kimber

Link: 2011 Program Book (PDF)

See also: King's College, Cambridge's Carols from King's from previous years.

The Choir of King's College, Cambridge's recent CD release: Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols

2012 Carols from King's at King's College, Cambridge

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The complete video recording of the carols sung at the recorded-for-TV version, Carols from King's  at King's College, Cambridge.

 This version is broadcast on BBC TV on Christmas Day. There are a few variations in the list of carols sung on this TV version and the live performance at 3:00 pm on Christmas Eve, 24 December 2012.

Link: Program Book (PDF)

See also: King's College, Cambridge's Carols from King's from previous years.

The Choir of King's College, Cambridge's recent CD release: Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols