BBC Songs of Praise - Advent from Cambridge

BBC Songs of Praise - December 6 2009
Pam Rhodes introduces a feast of seasonal music from Cambridge, during the university's 800th anniversary year, featuring college choirs and special guests, The King's Singers, who set the scene for Christmas with seasonal music through the ages.

The King’s Singers
In Dulci Jubilo
Music: Traditional C13th German Arranger: J S Bach 2000, Novello & Company Limited

St John’s College Choir & organist John Challenger & conductor Andrew Nethsingha
Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus
Music: John Stainer (1840-1901) Tune: Cross of Jesus Words: Charles Wesley (1707-88) From SOP Hymnbook #30 Pg56 Oxford University Press, BBC Books 1997 ISBN 0 19 147325-1 this compilation © Oxford University Press 1997

Congregation of Gt St Mary’s the University Church & organist Sam Hayes & conductor John Rutter
Tell Out, My Soul
Music: Walter Greatorex (1877-1949) Tune: Woodlands Words: Timothy Dudley-Smith (b1926) based on the Magnificat From SOP Hymnbook #39 Pg68/9 Oxford University Press, BBC Books 1997 ISBN 0 19 147325-1 this compilation © Oxford University Press 1997

The King’s Singers
Noel Nouvelet
Music & Words: Traditional French carol Arranger: Philip Lawson K S Music Co Ltd

Congregation of Gt St Mary’s the University Church & organist Sam Hayes & conductor John Rutter
On Jordan's Bank
Music: First appeared in Este’s Psalter, 1592 Tune: Winchester Old, tune is from The English Hymnal Words: Charles Coffin (1676-1749) From SOP Hymnbook #36 Pg64 Oxford University Press, BBC Books 1997 ISBN 0 19 147325-1 this compilation © Oxford University Press 1997

The King’s Singers
This Is The Truth Sent From Above
Music: English Traditional Words: Traditional Arranger: R Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) 1919 Stainer & Bell Ltd

Easter from King's 2016

In a tradition dating from 2004 the renown King's College Choir presents Easter from Kings, Passiontide to Easter Day for 2016 from the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge.

See also - Easter from King's from previous years:

• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011

Easter from King's - Choir of King's College, Cambridge

Choir of King's College Cambridge - Easter from King's: Passiontide to Easter Day

• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011

Blessed be that Maid Mary

Blessed be that maid Marie;
Born he was of her body;
Very God ere time began,
Born in time the Son of Man.
Eya! Ihesus hodie
Natus est de Virgine.

In a manger of an ass
Jesu lay and lullèd was;
Born to die upon the Tree
Pro pecante homine.
Eya! Ihesus hodie
Natus est de Virgine.

Seet and blissful was the song
Chanted of the angel throng;
'Peace on earth, alleluya!
In excelsis gloria.'
Eya! Ihesus hodie
Natus est de Virgine.

Fare three kings from far-off land,
Incense, gold, and myrrh in hand;
In Bethlem the Babe they see,
Stelle ducti lumine.
Eya! Ihesus hodie
Natus est de Virgine.

Make we merry on this fest,
In quo Christus natus est;
On this Child I pray you call,
To assoil and save us all.
Eya! Ihesus hodie
Natus est de Virgine.

Text: 15th century English Carol from MS. Sloan 2593, fol. 51, v0
Tune: arr. Stephen Cleobury

Alle Jahre wieder (Germany)

Alle Jahre wieder
kommt das Christuskind
auf die Erde nieder,
wo wir Menschen sind.

Kehrt mit seinem Segen
ein in jedes Haus,
geht auf allen Wegen
mit uns ein und aus.

Steht auch mir zur Seite
still und unerkannt,
daß es treu mich leite
an der lieben Hand.

Sagt den Menschen allen,
daß ein Vater ist,
dem sie wohlgefallen,
der sie nicht vergisst.

Words: Wilhelm Hey (1837)
Music: Christian Heinrich Rinck (1846)

Coventry Carol (England)

VERSION I:






VERSION II: KENNETH LEIGHTON







Lully, lullay, Thou little tiny Child,
Bye, bye, lully, lullay.
Lullay, thou little tiny Child,
Bye, bye, lully, lullay.

O sisters too, how may we do,
For to preserve this day
This poor youngling for whom we do sing
Bye, bye, lully, lullay.

Herod, the king, in his raging,
Charged he hath this day
His men of might, in his own sight,
All children young to slay.

That woe is me, poor Child for Thee!
And ever mourn and sigh,
For thy parting neither say nor sing,
Bye, bye, lully, lullay.

Words: Robert Croo (1534)
Music: Anonymous (16th century)

2015 Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols (Live Recording) from King's College, Cambridge

Live Sound Recording from BBC Radio of the 2015 Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols, sung by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge at 3:00pm, 24 December 2015.



Link: Program Booklet for the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols 2015 (PDF)

See also: the live voice recordings of the "Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols" at 3:00 pm every Christmas Eve:

• Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols 2014 (live)
• Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols 2013 (live)
• Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols 1954 (live)

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

• Carols from King's 2015
• Carols from King's 2014
• Carols from King's 2013
• Carols from King's 2012
• Carols from King's 2011
• Carols from King's 2010
• Carols from King's 2003
• Carols from King's 2000
• Carols from King's 1996
• Carols from King's 1992

RELATED: 60 Years of Carols from King's 2014 (BBC Documentary)

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