Advent Carol Service: St John’s Cambridge 1982 (George Guest)

BBC safety tape of a live radio broadcast from the chapel of St John’s College Cambridge, 28 November 1982, with the chapel choir, directed by George Guest and accompanied by Andrew Lucas and Andrew Lumsden (organ scholars).

Advent Prose (“Rorate Caeli” Mode i)
Hymn: Hail to the Lord’s anointed (Johann Cruger)
First Lesson: Jeremiah 23, vv 1-6: THE HEAD CHORISTER
In noctis umbra desides (Kath Gesangbuch, 1608)
Adam lay ybounden (Peter Warlock)
Second Lesson: Romans 13, vv 8-14: AN UNDERGRADUATE
A spotless rose (Herbert Howells)
There is no rose (Gerald Hendrie)
Third Lesson: Romans 15, vv 4-13: A CHORAL STUDENT
Psalm 119, vv 138-144
The Lord at first (trad English)
Fourth Lesson: Luke 4, vv 14-21: A MEMBER OF THE COLLEGE STAFF
Hymn: Of the Father's heart begotten
Gabriel's Message (trad, arr Shaw)
Fifth Lesson: Isaiah 42, vv 1-9: A FELLOW
O Love, how deep (Rouen Antiphoner 1728)
Sixth Lesson: Isaiah 40, vv 1-9: THE SENIOR TUTOR
Hymn: O come, O come Emmanuel!
Seventh Lesson: John 3. VV 1-8: THE PRESIDENT OF THE COLLEGE
Magnificat in G (Herbert Howells)
Eighth Lesson: Philippians 4, vv 1, 4-8, 19, 20: THE MASTER
Chorale: Break forth, O beauteous (harmonised J S Bach)
The Angel Gabriel (Basque traditional)
If ye would hear (Dutch traditional)
Hymn: O come, all ye faithful (“Adeste fideles”)