Carols at Kings 2022-12-24

Hymn: Once in royal David’s City (Irby, arr. Willcocks) Bidding Prayer (read by the Dean) Carol: Up! Good Christen folk, and listen (Piae Cantiones, harm. Woodward) First lesson: Genesis 3 vv. 8-19 (read by a Chorister) Carol: The truth from above (Vaughan Williams, arr. Christopher Robinson) Carol: Adam lay ybounden (Warlock) Second lesson: Genesis 22 vv. 15-19 (read by a College student) Carol: Illuminare Jerusalem (Judith Weir) Third lesson: Isaiah 9 vv. 2, 6-7 (read by a member of College staff) Carol: O Little town of Bethlehem (Walford Davies) Hymn: It came upon the midnight clear (Noel, descant Scott) Fourth lesson: Isaiah 11 vv. 1-9 (read by the Master over the Choristers) Carol: Peace on Earth (Errollyn Wallen) Carol: Sans Day Carol (Trad. Cornish, arr. John Rutter) Fifth lesson: Luke 1 vv. 26-38 (read by a Fellow) Carol: An old carol (Quilter) Carol: Angelus ad Virginem (Matthew Martin) – 2022 Commission Sixth lesson: Luke 2 vv. 1-7 (read by the Mayor of Cambridge) Hymn: Unto us is born a Son (Puer nobis, arr. Willcocks) Carol: In the bleak midwinter (Darke) Seventh lesson: Luke 2 vv. 8-20 (read by the Director of Music) Carol: The Shepherds’ Cradle Song (Leuner, arr. Macpherson) Eighth lesson: Matthew 2 vv. 1-12 (read by the Vice-Provost) Carol: O magnum mysterium (Victoria) Carol: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (Gardner) Ninth lesson: John 1 vv. 1-14 (read by the Provost) Hymn: O come, all ye faithful (Adeste Fideles, arr. Willcocks) Collect and Blessing Hymn: Hark! the herald angels sing (Mendelssohn, arr. Ledger) Organ voluntaries: In dulci jubilo, BWV 719 (Bach) Prelude and Fugue in B major Op. 7 No. 1 (Dupré) Daniel Hyde (Director of Music) Paul Greally (Organ Scholar) The Revd Dr Stephen Cherry (Dean) The Revd Dr Mary Kells (Chaplain)