Christmas Choral - Traditional English Carols & Hymns - part 2

Advent Lessons & Carols 2019

Tenebrae es un coro de cámara profesional, fundado y dirigido por Nigel Short. A menudo, por medio  de la realización con las velas, el coro crea un ambiente de reflexión espiritual y musical, donde se entremezclan el canto medieval y renacentista con obras de arte contemporáneo. El equipo cuidadosamente seleccionado de cantantes utiliza la atmósfera y la acústica del edificio para permitir a la audiencia  experimentar el poder y la intimidad de la voz humana en su mejor momento.

Los cantantes se han extraído de destacados antecedentes musicales – King’s College de Cambridge, la Abadía de Westminster y la catedral, la Catedral de San Pablo, La Royal Opera House Covent Garden y la Ópera Nacional de Inglés – para crear una mezcla única vocal con una extraordinaria gama de potencia vocal y color. Nace del deseo Nigel Short reunir a lo que él más amaba en su propia carrera como cantante, el sonido apasionado de los grandes coros de la Catedral y la precisión de conjuntos como The King’s Singers – para crear un nuevo tipo de agrupación coral.

The Lamb - John Tavener   Tenebrae Choir

Carols from King's College, Cambridge - 25 of the Most Popular Carols

Adam Lay Ybounden

Blue Spell is an concept album that carries with it the true meaning of magic: consciousness transcendence 

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Blue Spell é um album conceitual que carrega consigo o verdadeiro significado de magia: transcendência de consciência.


01 - Witchcraft 
02 - Labirinjito
03 - Blue Spell 
04 - Can I Change My Mind 
05 - Jesus bleibet meine Freude (J. S. Bach) 
06 - Sorcery Drops 
07 - Magic Hymn 
08 - So Far Away From Nothing 
09 - Meditation 
10 - Silent Night (Franz Xaver Gruber)
11 - Enlightenment

Silent Night (Franz Xaver Gruber)

Hymn-God rest you merry gentlemen -- arr David Willcocks (1919-2015) / The Choir and Congregation of The Church of The Advent / Jeremy Bruns, organist /

1 God rest you merry, gentlemen,
let nothing you dismay,
remember Christ our Savior
was born on Christmas Day
To save us all from Satan's pow'r
when we were gone astray.
O tidings of comfort and joy, 
comfort and joy;
O tidings of comfort and joy.

2 From God our heav'nly Father
a blessed angel came
and unto certain shepherds
brought tidings of the same;
how that in Bethlehem was born
the son of God by name.
O tidings of comfort and joy, 
comfort and joy;
O tidings of comfort and joy.

3 "Fear not," then said the angel,
"Let nothing you affright;
this day is born a Savior
of a pure virgin bright,
to free all those who trust in Him
from Satan's pow'r and might."
O tidings of comfort and joy, 
comfort and joy;
O tidings of comfort and joy.

4 Now to the Lord sing praises
all you within this place,
and with true love and brotherhood
each other new embrace;
this holy tide of Christmas
all other doth deface.
O tidings of comfort and joy, 
comfort and joy;
O tidings of comfort and joy. 

(English traditional, 18th century)

2018.12.31 Xmas L&C

Hymn-God rest you merry gentlemen / arr Willcocks

Blow out the trumpet -- Martin Peerson (c1572–c1650) / The Advent Choir / Mark Dwyer, conductor / Jeremy Bruns, organ /

Blow out the trumpet in Sion, and sound the alarum in my holy mountaine. Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble; for the day of the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand. And sound the alarum in my holy mountaine. (Joel 2:1)

2019.11.17 Proper 28 C

Peerson-Blow out the trumpet / The Advent Choir

A Hymn to the Virgin -- Benjamin Britten (1913–1976) / The Advent Choir / Jeremy Bruns, conductor /

Of one that is so fair and bright, velut maris stella,  [like a star of the sea] Brighter than the day is light, parens et puella.  [mother and maiden] I cry to thee, thou see to me, Lady, pray thy Son for me, Tam pia,  [thou Holy One] That I may come to thee. Maria!  [Mary]
All this world was forlorn Eva peccatrice,  [through Eve, the sinner] Till our Lord was yborn de te genetrice.  [of thee, the mother] With ‘Ave’ it went away darkest night, and comes the day salutis;  [of salvation] The well springeth out of thee virtutis.  [of virtue]
Lady, ﬂower of everything, rosa sine spina,  [rose without a thorn] Thou bare Jesu, heaven’s King, gratia divina:  [by divine grace] Of all that bear’st the prize, Lady, queen of paradise, Electa:  [chosen one] Maid mild, mother es effecta.  [thou art proved]
(Anonymous, c1300)

2019.12.01 Advent Lessons & Carols

Britten-A Hymn to the Virgin / The Advent Choir

The Cherubikon, op 41, no 6 -- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840–1893) / The Advent Choir / Mark Dwyer / conductor

Izhe kheruvimï tayno obrazuyushche, i zhivotvoryashchey Troytsye trisvyatuyu pyesn pripyevayushche; vsyakoye nïnye zhityeskoye otlozhim popyecheniye. Yako da Tsarya vsyekh podïmyem, Angelski,inyevidimo dorinosimachinmi, Alliluia, alleluia, alleluia!
Let us, who mystically represent the Cherubim and sing the thrice-holy hymn to the life-giving Trinity, lay aside all worldly cares: that we may receive the King of All, invisibly escorted by the angelic hosts, Alleluia, alleluia, alleluia!

(Οἱ τὰ Χερουβεὶμ μυστικῶς εἰκονίζοντες, from The Liturgy of St John Chrysostom)

Tchaikovsky-The Cherubic Hymn, op 41, no 6 / The Advent Choir

Adam lay ybounden -- Howard While Skempton (born 1947) / The Advent Choir / Mark Dwyer, conductor

Adam lay ybounden, bounden in a bond: four thousand winter thoght he not too long. And all was for an appil, an appil that he took, as clerkes finden wreten in their book.
Ne hadde the appil taken ben, ne hadde never our Lady a ben heavene quene. Blessed be the time that appil taken was: therefore we may singen: Deo gracias. [Thanks be to God]

(London: British Library Sloan MS 2593, 15th cent)

Skempton-Adam lay y-bounden / The Advent Choir

E’en So Lord Jesus, Quickly Come -- Paul Otto Manz (1919–2009) / The Advent Choir / Jeremy Bruns, conductor / 

Peace be to you and grace from him who freed us from our sins, who loved us all and shed his blood that we might saved be. 

Sing holy, holy, to our Lord, the Lord, Almighty God, who was and is and is to come; sing holy, holy, Lord! 

Rejoice in heaven, all ye that dwell therein, rejoice on earth, ye saints below, for Christ is coming, is coming soon, for Christ is coming soon! 

E’en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come, and night shall be no more; they need no light nor lamp nor sun, for Christ will be their All! 

[text adapted by Ruth Manz (1919–2008) from Revelation 22]

Manz-E'en So, Lord Jesus, Quickly Come / The Advent Choir

Matin Responsory -- adapted from a Nunc dimittis of G. P. da Palestrina (1525–1594) / The Advent Choir / Mark Dwyer, conductor / Jeremy Bruns, organ / Francesco Logozzo, Henry Clapp, Laura Ziegler & Agnes Coakley Cox, soloists /

Cantor: I look from afar:
Gentleman: And lo, I see the power of God coming, 
and a cloud covering the whole earth.
Cantor: Go ye out to meet him and say:
Choir: Tell us, art thou he that should come to reign over thy people Israel?
Soprano: High and low, rich and poor, one with another,
Choir: Go ye out to meet him and say:
Soprano: Hear, O thou shepherd of Israel, thou that leadest Joseph like a sheep.
Choir: Tell us, art thou he that should come?
High Voices: 	Stir up thy strength, O Lord, and come
Choir: to reign over thy people Israel.
Cantor: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost.
Choir: I look from afar: and lo, I see the power of God coming, 
and a cloud covering the whole earth.
Low Voices: Go ye out to meet him and say:
Choir: Tell us, art thou he that should come to reign over thy people Israel?

(Aspiciens a longe, First Responsory at Matins of Advent Sunday)

1 Come, thou Redeemer of the earth,
And manifest thy virgin-birth:
Let every age adoring fall,
Such birth befits the God of all.

2 Begotten of no human will,
But of the Spirit, thou art still
The Word of God, in flesh arrayed,
The Saviour, now to man displayed.

3 The virgin womb that burden gained
With virgin honour all unstained,
The banners there of virtue glow,
God in his temple dwells below.

4 Forth from that chamber goeth he,
That royal home of purity,
A giant in twofold substance one,
Rejoicing now his course to run.

5 From God the Father he proceeds,
To God the Father back he speeds,
Runs out his course to death and hell,
Returns on God’s high throne to dwell.

6 O equal to thy Father, thou!
Gird on thy fleshly mantle now,
The weakness of our mortal state
With deathless might invigorate.

7 Thy cradle here shall glitter bright,
And darkness glow with new-born light,
No more shall night extinguish day,
Where love's bright beams their power display.

8 All laud to God the Father be,
All praise, eternal Son, to Thee;
All glory, as is ever meet,
To God the Holy Paraclete.

(Veni Redemptor gentium, Ambrose of Milan: tr John Mason Neale)

Palestrina-Matin Responsory & Hymn-Puer Nobis / The Advent Choir

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Britten-A Hymn to the Virgin / The Advent Choir

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