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Download Booklet ADVENT LIVE - Volume 2 o Deo gracias Benjamin Britten (1913-1976), [1.14] arr. Julius Harrison (1885-1963) 1 I am the day Jonathan Dove (b. 1959) [6.35] p Einklang Hugo Wolf (1860-1903) [1.59] 2 Bŏgŏroditsye Dyevo Arvo Pärt (b. 1935) [1.17] a Hymn – Lo! he comes with clouds descending Tune: Helmsley, Descant: [5.09] 3 A Spotless Rose Herbert Howells (1892-1983) [3.30] Christopher Robinson (b. 1936) * 4 A Prayer to St John the Baptist Cecilia McDowall (b. 1951) [4.08] s Chorale Prelude ‘Nun komm, Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) [3.11] 5 * Vox clara ecce intonat Gabriel Jackson (b. 1962) [4.53] der Heiden Heiland’, BWV 661 6 The last and greatest Herald * John McCabe (1939-2015) [5.49] Total timings: [62.59] 7 - 8 Antiphons – O Wisdom; O Adonai Traditional [1.48] * Commissioned for the College Choir 9 A tender shoot Otto Goldschmidt (1829-1907) [2.01] 0 Es ist ein Ros entsprungen Hugo Distler (1908-1942) [1.23] q Out of your sleep Anthony Milner (1925-2002) [2.49] w * An introduction to Hark, the glad sound Judith Bingham (b. 1952) THE CHOIR OF ST JOHN’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE Hymn – Hark, the glad sound Tune: Bristol [5.28] JAMES ANDERSON-BESANT ORGAN (2019) GLEN DEMPSEY ORGAN (2018) e There is no rose Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994) [1.52] TIMOTHY RAVALDE ORGAN (2008) ANNE DENHOLM HARP TRACK 19 r - t Antiphons – O Root of Jesse; O Key of David Traditional [1.49] JAKOB LINDBERG ARCHLUTE TRACK 16 IGNACIO MAÑÁ MESAS SOPRANO SAXOPHONE TRACKS 5 & 12 ANDREW NETHSINGHA DIRECTOR y Ach so laß von mir dich finden Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) [3.22] Each work was recorded live as part of the St John’s College Advent Service in the following years u E’en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come Paul Manz (1919-2009) [2.48] 2008 6 | 2018 2, 3, 4, 5, 13, 16, 17, 18, 20 | 2019 1, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 19, 21, 22 i The Linden Tree Carol Traditional, arr. Reginald Jacques (1894-1969) [1.53] www.signumrecords.com ADVENT What we find as the centuries develop this Deo gracias even suggests that it was worth Adam coming to birth that awakens and freshens tradition of Advent, is a deep sense of longing and Eve’s fall from grace, and all the ensuing the world. The traditional prayer Rejoice, O Just as the human heart has its seasons, so in the prayers and music. It becomes a season human hurt, if it means that God will now hold Virgin Mother reveals the joy that lies in the does the Church’s year. Each season has its in the vocative, calling out to God to come and his hand out to us again in Christ and draw us close desire for God to become incarnate amongst us. own memories and hopes, its own thematic save us from ourselves and our propensity to in a relationship renewed through forgiveness. Likewise, the evocation of light, at the edge inner life, focussed on specific scriptural texts, injure the world and each other. You can hear of dawn, is found in the Legend of St Christopher prayers, hymns and anthems. We are not exactly this restless longing to be made complete in The Sundays of Advent each concentrate on in I am the day where the monosyllabic sure when Advent was formalised in this way what are known as the ‘Great Os’, the Magnificat figures in the biblical narrative whose faithful repetition, like a hammer at a wall, of ‘I am the within the Church’s calendar, but it seems that antiphons for the last seven days of Advent, lives were energised by expectancy. The first day soon to be born’ celebrates Christ as the by at least the sixth century Christians were each beginning with the vocative particle ‘O’ two weeks study the Patriarchs and Prophets light breaking in and diminishing darkness. being asked to prepare for the celebration and invoking Christ, with various biblical of the Hebrew scriptures and the second are of Christ’s birth by a period of fasting and images, to come and make us whole again. At immersed in the lives of John the Baptist and Advent is an unapologetically poetic season penance with Christ’s adventus at its spiritual the heart of Advent is the belief that the human Mary, the mother of Christ. We can hear the of the Church. Its words struggle to contain core. It is a word meaning ‘arrival’ or ‘coming’ soul can only be healed from outside itself, by part John plays in pointing people to the something of the hope and reach of the and was originally used for a ceremony in being visited, loved and held. We are touched Christ who is on his way in A Prayer to St Christian faith that, at the same time, lives ancient Rome when the emperor was welcomed back into life, as it were, and so the season is John the Baptist in which he is addressed as with the confusions and distress of the world into a city after an acclaimed victory. inspirited with music and words that reach ‘desert-dweller, knowing the solitudes that lie and our trying to live a life of worth in it. out for that touch from the one who is believed beyond anxiety and doubt’. It is full of yearning, honest incompleteness and Advent eventually came to reflect on Christ’s to know us better than ourselves, our creator. self-scrutiny, seeing who we are and what we need. adventus in three ways. First, it looked forward The relationship between Mary and her child It observes, in the words of von Eichendorff’s to Christmas, to his birth in Bethlehem and As well as in the antiphons, you can hear both is often described with poetic metaphors Einklang the ‘misplaced industriousness, vanity, into human history. Secondly, it reflected on the hopeful urgency and attention that lie in the drawn from the natural budding world, with which bring nobody solace but distract the heart the transformations in a life or community Advent longing in Philip Doddridge’s Hark, the hints of Spring, in a spiritual season that is by day’. Set aside each year, it is a time when we when Christ is ‘born’ in the heart and mind glad Sound and Johann Helbig’s Ach so, a prayer kept through the darkest weeks of the year. The call out in the hope that the divine life might through a deepening trust in him. Lastly, it that we may both find and be found. It is elegant texts of A tender shoot, The Linden Tree, come and water a parched humanity. The glanced ahead to the day when Christ, in the there too in Charles Wesley’s popular hymn Lo! he Es ist ein Ros entsprungen and A Spotless Rose, poignancy of this desire makes Advent both a words of the fourth-century Nicene creed, comes, and in the much earlier hymn Vox clara (‘a and the beautiful There is no rose (whose Latin perennial and resonant season of the spirit. will ‘come again in glory to judge the living and ringing voice thunders out, rattling every dark words put together say ‘marvellous thing, of The Rev’d Canon Mark Oakley the dead, and his kingdom will have no end’. thing’). The extraordinary little medieval poem equal form, let us rejoice’) all reveal a tender Dean of St John’s College, Cambridge - 4 - - 5 - © Nic Marchant © Nic Marchant © Nic The Rev’d Canon Mark Oakley officiates at the 2019 Advent Carol Service The 2019 Advent Carol Service - 6 - - 7 - PROGRAMME NOTES was Artistic Director from 2001 to 2005), are traditions of the Russian Orthodox Church, the baritone’s words in a version for full choir. taken from the Legend of St Christopher and which Pärt joined in the early 1970s. However, Patrick Hadley, a fellow Cambridge composer, Approaching Wonder: Revelation Chapter 22. Rather than present the the setting is hardly typical of what has come described the final bars as ‘a stroke of genius’, Celebrating Advent texts sequentially, Dove combines fragments to be known as the Holy Minimalist School, adding ‘I should like, when my time comes, to through Music in a manner suggestive of mantras. The music, as it is unusually energetic, even driven. In the pass away with that magical cadence’. Many will like the words, is highly repetitive; indeed, latter stages music almost gives way to speech, doubtless have shared this thought. Advent is generally regarded as a time of waiting the anthem’s almost trance-like effect has led with rhythm the only functioning parameter. and preparation. It is also the period during some commentators to invoke the concept Cecilia McDowall’s A Prayer to St John which Christians, infused with a sense of quiet of minimalism, an approach that Dove has Herbert Howells’s setting of the anonymous the Baptist was written for the Choir of awe, look forward to the joys of Christmas. embraced in other works. fourteenth-century Marian text A Spotless St John’s and premiered at the 2018 Advent The librettist of Bach’s cantata Nun komm, Rose dates from 1919. It was one of three Carol Service. The work is based on a hymn, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 62, recognised Arvo Pärt’s Bŏgŏroditsye Dyevo also makes ‘carol-anthems’ which, together, represent the Ut queant laxis, that is traditionally ascribed to this, juxtaposing an opening chorus based on extensive use of repetition, despite being one composer’s first significant contribution to the eighth-century historian Paulus Diaconus the Lutheran chorale ‘Nun komm’ (Come of the shortest settings of the text better known sacred music.
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