Music for Christmas Eve, 24 December 2013

Tuesday, 24 December 2013, 4:00 p.m.
Music for the Vigil Mass of Christmas
(Missale Romanum of 2002)
Prelude: Sonata II in D dorian (C 139) (Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, 1644-1704)
Prelude: Stella splendens (Llibre Vermell de Montserrat, XIV C.)
Hymn at the Procession: O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles, arr. David Willcocks)
Introit: Hodie scietis (plainsong, mode vi)
Mass of the Sacred Heart (Richard Rice, b.1962)
Offertory: Tollite portas (plainsong, mode ii)
Hymn at the Offertory: Joy to the World (Antioch)
Communion: Revelabitur (plainsong, mode i)
Carol at the Communion: Adam lay ybounden (Boris Ord, 1897-1961)
Carol at the Communion: Nowell Sing We (anon. English, XV C.)
Hymn at the Retiring Procession: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Mendelssohn, arr. Willcocks)
Postlude: Sonata Secunda (Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, c.1623-1680)

Brendan Ratchford, violin

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