Music for December 2025

Sunday 7th December: ADVENT II

MASS:
Missa Prudentes virgines A. Lobo.
Vigilate Byrd.
Veni Domine Guerrero.

VESPERS:
Creator alme siderum Gregorian chant.
Magnificat Tone 8 à 4 Cima.
Confortamini et iam nolite timere Lassus.
Alma Redemptoris mater (à 8) Lassus.

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Monday 8th December: THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION (with cornetts and sackbuts)

MASS:
Prelude: Meine Seele erhebet den Herrn (648) Bach.
Missa pro victoria Victoria.
Alma Redemptoris mater (à 8) Victoria.
Beata es Virgo Maria G. Gabrieli.
Fugue on the Magnificat (733) Bach.

Sunday 14th December: ADVENT III (Gaudete)

MASS:
Prelude: Wachet auf (645) Bach.
Madrid Mass D. Scarlatti.
Gaudete et laetare Sweelinck.
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.
Ne timeas Maria Victoria.
Prelude: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (661) Bach.

Thursday 18th December: Christmas Carol Service and Benediction, 7.30p.m.
with the Choir of the London Oratory and the Oratory Junior Choir

Sunday 21st December: ADVENT IV

MASS:
Missa sexti toni Croce.
Ave Maria Gombert.
O viridissima virga Hildegard of Bingen.

VESPERS:
Creator alme siderum Gregorian chant.
Magnificat Tone 2 à 6 Bevan.
Veni, veni Emmanuel 15th cent. chant.

Wednesday 24th December: Midnight Mass of Christmas (with orchestra)
Carols for choir and congregation. Colloredo Mass (K. 337) Mozart.
For unto us (Messiah) Handel.
O magnum mysterium Palestrina.
Final (Symphony No. 1) Vierne.

Thursday 25th December: THE NATIVITY OF THE LORD

MASS:
Coronation Mass (K. 317) Mozart.
Hodie Christus natus est Sweelinck.
In dulci jubilo arr. Pearsall.
Prelude in G major (541) Bach.

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

Sunday 28th December: THE HOLY FAMILY

MASS:
Pastorale: Allemande (590) Bach.
Missa O magnum mysterium Victoria.
Pastores loquebantur Guerrero.
O magnum mysterium Victoria.
Noël: Quand Jésus naquit à Noël Balbastre.

VESPERS:
O lux beata Caelitum Gregorian chant.
Magnificat Tone 8 à 4 (1565) Lassus.
Resonet in laudibus arr. Handl.
Noël Suisse Daquin.