2022 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols: King's College Cambridge

 2022 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols: King's College Cambridge

Make sure to listen to this year Festival of Nine Lessons and carols from King's College, Cambridge. It will be available until January 23, 2023, on BBC Radio 4.

See below for the order of service:

Hymn: Once in royal David's City (Irby, arr. Willcocks)

Bidding Prayer (read by the Dean) 

Carol: Up! Good Christen folk, and listen (Piae Cantiones, harm. Woodward) 

First lesson: Genesis 3 vv. 8-19 (read by a Chorister) 

Carol: The truth from above (Vaughan Williams, arr. Christopher Robinson) 

Carol: Adam lay ybounden (Warlock) 

Second lesson: Genesis 22 vv. 15-19 (read by a College student) 

Carol: Illuminare Jerusalem (Judith Weir) 

Third lesson: Isaiah 9 vv. 2, 6-7 (read by a member of College staff) 

Carol: O Little town of Bethlehem (Walford Davies) 

Hymn: It came upon the midnight clear (Noel, descant Scott) Fourth lesson: Isaiah 11 vv. 1-9 (read by the Master over the Choristers) 

Carol: Peace on Earth (Errollyn Wallen) 

Carol: Sans Day Carol (Trad. Cornish, arr. John Rutter) 

Fifth lesson: Luke 1 vv. 26-38 (read by a Fellow) 

Carol: An old carol (Quilter) 

Carol: Angelus ad Virginem (Matthew Martin) – 2022 Commission Sixth lesson: Luke 2 vv. 1-7 (read by the Mayor of Cambridge) 

Hymn: Unto us is born a Son (Puer nobis, arr. Willcocks) Carol: In the bleak midwinter (Darke) Seventh lesson: Luke 2 vv. 8-20 (read by the Director of Music) 

Carol: The Shepherds’ Cradle Song (Leuner, arr. Macpherson) Eighth lesson: Matthew 2 vv. 1-12 (read by the Vice-Provost) 

Carol: O magnum mysterium (Victoria) Carol: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (Gardner) 

Ninth lesson: John 1 vv. 1-14 (read by the Provost) 

Hymn: O come, all ye faithful (Adeste Fideles, arr. Willcocks) Collect and Blessing 

Hymn: Hark! the herald angels sing (Mendelssohn, arr. Ledger) 

Organ voluntaries: In dulci jubilo, BWV 719 (Bach) Prelude and Fugue in B major Op. 7 No. 1 (Dupré)