Sunday 1st December: ADVENT I

MASS:
Missa In illo tempore (1610) Monteverdi.
Canite tuba in Sion Palestrina.
Ecce apparebit Dominus Vivanco.
Advent Prose: Rorate caeli Gregorian chant.

VESPERS:
Creator alme siderum Gregorian chant.
Magnificat Tone 8 à 5 Anon.
Veni Domine Croce. 

Sunday 8th December: ADVENT II

MASS:
Missa Dixit Joseph Lassus.
Vigilate Byrd.
Sive vigilem Mundy.

VESPERS:
Creator alme siderum Gregorian chant.
Magnificat Tone 8 à 4 Cima.
Laetentur caeli Handl.   

 

Monday 9th December: THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (with cornetts and sackbuts)

MASS:
Alma Redemptoris (Symphonie Mariale) Saint-Martin.
Missa Bel’ amfitrit Lassus.
Ave Maria à 8 Victoria.
Beata es virgo Maria G. Gabrieli.
Plein jeu & Fugue grave sur Ave Maris Stella Thomelin.

 

Sunday 16th December: ADVENT III (Gaudete)

MASS:
Prelude: Rorate caeli Demessieux.
Madrid Mass D. Scarlatti.
Gaudete omnes H. Praetorius.
Cogitavi dies antiquos Antonelli.
Prelude & Fugue in A major (536) Bach.          .

VESPERS & PROCESSION OF THE BVM:
Creator alme siderum M. Praetorius.
Magnificat Tone 8 à 5 Bevan.
Dixit Maria as angelus Hassler.
Marche du Veilleur de Nuit Bach/Widor.

                       

Thursday 19th December: Christmas Carol Service and Benediction, 7.30 p.m.
with the Choir of the London Oratory and the Oratory Junior Choir

 

Sunday 22nd December: ADVENT IV

MASS:
Missa Ave Maria Palestrina.
Ave Maria Palestrina.
Alma Redemptoris à 5 Victoria.       

VESPERS:
Creator alme siderum Gregorian chant.
Magnificat Tone 2 à 6 Bevan.
Modo veniet Dominator Philips.

 

Tuesday 24th December: Midnight Mass of Christmas (with orchestra)
Carols for choir and congregation. 
Missa Sancti Nicolai Haydn.
For unto us (Messiah) Handel.
O magnum mysterium G. Gabrieli.
Carillon-Sorti Mulet.

 

Wednesday 25th December: THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD

MASS:
Spatzenmesse K. 220 Mozart.
Hodie Christus natus est Sweelinck.
Tui sunt caeli Lassus.
Prelude in G major (541) Bach arr. Dupré.

BENEDICTION:
Quem pastores laudavere 14th cent. German. 
Alma Redemptoris mater Palestrina.
Personent hodie Piae Cantiones arr. Holst.
Fantasia: In dulci jubilo (729) Bach.

Sunday 29th December: THE HOLY FAMILY

MASS:
Prelude: Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungenBrahms.
Missa O magnum mysterium Victoria.
Quem vidistis pastores Victoria.
O magnum mysterium Victoria. 
Noël Suisse  Daquin.

VESPERS:
Jesu Redemptor omnium Gregorian chant.
Magnificat Tone 8 à 4 (1565) Lassus.
Puer natus in Bethlehem M. Praetorius.
Prelude: In dir ist Freude (615) Bach.