Festival of Lessons and Carols on Sunday 19 December in Chester cathedral.
Led by the Cathedral Clergy
The Very Revd Dr Tim Stratford Dean of Chester
The Rt Revd Julie Conalty Bishop of Birkenhead
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Sung by the Chester Cathedral Lay clerks and the Cathedral choristers
Director of Music: Philip Rushforth
Acting Assistant Director of Music: Alex Palotai
Carols:
Once in royal David's city
Ding! dong! Merrily on high: arr. John Bawden
O come, all ye faithful
There is no rose of such virtue: John Joubert (1927 - 2019)
The Road to Bethlehem: Astor Piazzolla (1921 - 92)
The Angel Gabriel from heaven came
In the bleak mid-winter
What child is this: arr. Thomas Hewittt Jones (born 1984)
What cheer? Good cheer! William Walton (1902 - 83)
It came upon the midnight clear
On Christmas night all Christians sing
The holly and the ivy: arr H Walford Davies
Sir Christemas: William Mathias
The first Nowell the angel did say
Hark, the herald-angels sing
Readings:
Isaiah 9: 2, 6 - 7
Isaiah 11: 1 - 4, 6 - 9
Luke 1: 26 - 35, 38
Luke 2: 1 - 7
Luke 2: 8 - 16
Matthew 2: 1 - 12
John 1: 1 - 14
Organ
before the service
Alex Palotai, Acting Assistant Director of Music, plays
In dulci jubilo BWV 729
Wir Christenleut haben jetzund Freud BWV 710
Es ist en Ros' entsprungen
Voluntary: Final (Symphonie I) Louis Vierne (1870-1937)
