2 December: Advent Sunday
Sung Eucharist, 10am (Girls’ Choir)
Mathias in C
Mawby: Behold, the Lord will come
Advent Procession, 6.30pm
Palestrina: I looked from afar
Praetorius: Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen (arr. Cashmore)
Anon: Rejoice in the Lord alway
The Advent Prose
Bairstow: Let all mortal flesh keep silence
McKie: We wait for Thy loving kindness
9 December: Second Sunday in Advent
Sung Eucharist, 10am
Viadana: Missa l’hora passa
Franck: Panis angelicus
Choral Evensong, 6.30pm
Wood: O Thou, the central orb
16 December: Third Sunday in Advent
Sung Eucharist, 10am
Darke in E
Stainer: How beautiful upon the mountains
Bach: Prelude in E flat
Evensong, 6.30pm
Bairstow: Let all mortal flesh keep silence
Mendelssohn: Sonata VI
19 December
Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, 6.30pm
Ledger: Adam lay ybounden
Howells: A spotless rose
Edwards: Small wonder the star
Handl: Ecce concipies
Darke: In the bleak midwinter
Bach: In dulci jubilo, BWV 729
Vierne: Finale (Symphonie No. 1)
23 December: Fourth Sunday in Advent
Sung Eucharist, 10am (Girls’ Choir)
Sumsion in F
Mozart: Ave verum corpus
Bach: Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn, BWV 733
Choral Evensong, 6.30pm
Rudolph: Veiled in darkness
Bach: Wachet auf, ruf’ uns die Stimme, BWV 645
24 December: Christmas Eve
Midnight Eucharist, 11.45pm
Wood in the Phrygian mode
Praetorius, arr. Cashmore: Es ist en Ros’ entsprungen
Bach: O little one sweet
arr. Willcocks: Infant holy
Vaughan Williams: The blessed son of God
Grüber, arr. Williams: Silent Night
Dupré: Variations sur un Noël
25 December: Christmas Day
Sung Eucharist, 10am (Abbey Choir plus Abbey Girls’ Choir)
How in D
Edwards: Small wonder the star
Cooke: O men from the fields
Handl: Ecce concipies
Darke: In the bleak midwinter
Widor: Toccata (Symphonie No. 5, Op. 42)
30 December: First Sunday after Christmas
Eucharist, 10am
Evensong, 6.30pm
Congregational service with Christmas carols; the Choir is on holiday