Music for Christmas 2007

Music for the Midnight Mass of Christmas (Missale Romanum of 1970, 12:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Es is ein’ Ros’ entsprungen (Johannes Brahms, 1833-1897)
Prelude: Desseins éternels (from La Nativité du Seigneur) (Olivier Messiaen, 1908-1992)
Missa de Angelis (Vatican Gradual, Mass VIII)
Introit: Dominus dixit (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn: Adeste Fideles (arr. David Willcocks, b.1919)
Alleluia: Dominus dixit (plainsong, mode viii)
Communion: In splendoribus sanctorum (plainsong, mode vi)
Hymn at the Communion: Silent Night (Stille nacht)
Postlude: In dulci jubilo, BWV 729 (Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750)

Music for the Mass of Christmas Day (Missale Romanum of 1962, 9:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Improvisation on the Introit Puer natus est
Mass for Three Voices (William Byrd, c.1543-1623)
Gregorian Mass of Christmas Day: Puer natus est
Motet at the Offertory: Hodie apparuit (Orlando di Lasso, c.1532-1594)
Motet at the Communion: Personent hodie (Lainie Fefferman, b.1982)
Postlude: In dulci jubilo, BWV 729 (Bach)

Music for the Mass of Christmas Day (Missale Romanum of 1970, 11:00 a.m.)
Prelude: Puer natus in Bethlehem, BWV 603 (Bach)
Missa Octavi Toni (Orlando di Lasso)
Introit: Puer natus est (plainsong, mode vii)
Hymn: Adeste Fideles (arr. David Willcocks)
Alleluia: Dies sanctificatus (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Good Christian Men, Rejoice (In dulci jubilo)
Communion: Viderunt omnes (plainsong, mode i)
Hymn at the Communion: In the Bleak Midwinter (Gustav Holst, 1874-1934)
Hymn at the Communion: Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming (Es is ein’ Ros’ entsprungen)
Postlude: In dulci jubilo, BWV 729 (Bach)

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