Catalogue
HAVPCD247 – An Advent Procession
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| Disk Title | An Advent Procession |
| ‘The people that walked in darkness’ | |
| Soloists | Stephen Disley (organ) |
| Choir | The Choir of Southwark Cathedral |
| Conductor | Peter Wright |
| Location | Southwark Cathedral, London |
| Date Recorded | January 2000 |
| Audio Tracks | 25 |
The great Christmas Carol Service has become so popular and widespread that it throws out a great blaze of light over the darkest weeks of the year that lead up to the celebration of the Incarnation. But amongst the festivity and joy it is easy to lose the darker message of those days: that Christ came into the world but the world did not receive him. There is an ambiguity in the season of Advent which is caught by the Authorized Version of St John’s Gospel: ‘and the light shineth in darkness and the darkness comprehended it not’. The Greek verb has two meanings: the darkness did not understand the light; but neither did it overcome it. The story of the waxing and waning of light finds its beginning in Advent, and in the Advent Procession which celebrates it.
| Trk. | Duration | Track Title | Composer |
| 1 | 02:27 | Hymn: Creator of the stars of night | Plainsong |
| 2 | 01:01 | Bidding prayer | |
| 3 | 02:48 | This is the truth sent from above | Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| 4 | 01:36 | Reading: Genesis 3, 8-15 | |
| 5 | 02:36 | Remember, O thou man | Thomas Ravenscroft |
| 6 | 03:54 | Chorale Prelude: Wachet auf, BWV 645 | J. S. Bach |
| 7 | 01:48 | Reading: Isaiah 45, 2-8 | |
| 8 | 01:35 | O nata lux de lumine | Thomas Tallis |
| 9 | 02:23 | I said to the man | Piers Maxim |
| 10 | 01:32 | Reading: Isaiah 9, 2-7 | |
| 11 | 02:19 | People, look East | French carol, arr. Harry Bramma |
| 12 | 01:54 | Hosanna to the Son of David | Thomas Weelkes |
| 13 | 01:43 | Reading: Luke 1, 26-34 | |
| 14 | 08:30 | Salutatio angelica | Philip Moore |
| 15 | 01:05 | Reading: Luke 1, 39-47 | |
| 16 | 00:45 | Advent antiphon: O Emmanuel | Chant |
| 17 | 03:56 | Magnificat in G | C. V. Stanford |
| 18 | 00:45 | Advent Antiphon: O Emmanuel | Chant |
| 19 | 01:01 | Reading: Luke 1, 57-61a | |
| 20 | 03:53 | This is the record of John | Orlando Gibbons |
| 21 | 00:48 | Advent Collect | |
| 22 | 00:26 | Blessing | |
| 23 | 02:12 | E’en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come | Paul Manz |
| 24 | 04:41 | Hymn: Lo, he comes with clouds descending | |
| 25 | 03:49 | Toccata-Prelude on ‘Vom Himmel hoch’ | Garth Edmundson |
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