Choir Recordings

From the Eucharist for the Seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost

Cantors: Meron PItcher and Vicky Hayward

I thought this lovely piece deserved a separate recording

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If you weren’t at the Nine Lessons and Carols service last night, this is what you missed…….

Despite the difficulties, this service is going full steam ahead. Our extended choir has been working hard and here are some of the fine sounds you will hear.

Well worth telling all your neighbours that this is again an occasion not to be missed!!

 

A babe is born I wyss – Bainton

 

Hymn – Once in royal David’s city

 

Adam lay ybounden – Warlock

 

Gabriel’s message – Willcocks

 

Balulalow – Brumby

 

Ding dong merrily on high – Arr. Wood

 

Hymn – O little town of Bethlehem

 

Dixit Maria – Hassler

 

Hush my dear – Archer

 

A maiden most gentle – Carter

 

Hymn – O come all ye faithful

 

Hymn – Hark the Herald Angels sing

 

[Improvisation]

Hallelujah! sing to Jesus,
his the sceptre, His the throne;
hallelujah! His the triumph,
his the victory alone.
hark, the songs of peaceful Sion
thunder like a mighty flood:
‘Jesus out of every nation
Hath redeemed us by His blood.’

Hallelujah! not as orphans
are we left in sorrow now;
hallelujah! He is near us,
faith believes, nor questions how.
though the clouds from sight received Him
when the forty days were o’er,
shall our hearts forget His promise,
‘I am with you evermore’?

Hallelujah! bread of heaven,
and on earth our food, our stay;
hallelujah! here the sinful
flee to you from day to day.
intercessor, friend of sinners,
earth’s redeemer pleads for me,
where the songs of all the sinless
sweep across the crystal sea.

Halleluia! King eternal,
you the Lord of lords we own;
halleluia! Born of Mary,
earth your footstool, heaven your throne:
you within the veil have entered,
robed in flesh, our great high priest;
you on earth both priest and victim
in the eucharistic feast.

[Improvisation]

Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness;
bow down before him, his glory proclaim;
gold of obedience, and incense of lowliness,
bring, and adore him: the Lord is his name.

Low at his feet lay thy burden of carefulness:
high on his heart he will bear it for thee,
comfort thy sorrows, and answer thy prayerfulness,
guiding thy steps as may best for thee be.

Fear not to enter his courts in the slenderness
of the poor wealth thou wouldst reckon as thine:
truth in its beauty, and love in its tenderness,
these are the offerings to lay on his shrine.

These, though we bring them in trembling and fearfulness,
he will accept for the name that is dear;
mornings of joy give for evenings of tearfulness,
trust for our trembling and hope for our fear.

Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness;
bow down before him, his glory proclaim;
gold of obedience, and incense of lowliness,
bring, and adore him: the Lord is his name.

Hide not thou thy face from us, O Lord,
and cast not off thy servant in thy displeasure;
for we confess our sins unto thee
and hide not our unrighteousness.
For thy mercy’s sake,
deliver us from all our sins.

Lord, for thy tender mercy’s sake
Lay not our sins to our charge,
But forgive that is past,
And give us grace to amend our sinful lives:
To decline from sin and incline to virtue,
That we may walk in a perfect heart,
Before thee now and evermore.

Strengthen for service, Lord, the hands
that holy things have taken;
let ears that now have heard your songs
to clamour never waken.

Lord, may the tongues which ‘Holy’ sang
keep free from all deceiving;
the eyes which saw your love be bright,
your blessèd hope perceiving.

The feet that tread the holy courts
from your light do not banish;
the bodies by your Body fed
with your new life replenish.