A special treat: This podcast episode features many of the carols and organ preludes from Ascension’s worship services via Zoom on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and the First Sunday of Christmas. They were recorded by Dr. Dennis Keene and the (socially distanced) Ascension Choir in the chancel and nave of the church building itself and feature the Manton Memorial Organ.
(At an hour and 20 minutes, in stereo, the file is over 120MB in size, so if your connection is slow please be patient as it downloads.)
Music for Christmastide 2020 - The Church of the Ascension Choir; Dr. Dennis Keene
| Organ – Gloria in Excelsis Deo | François Couperin |
| O Come, All Ye Faithful | (Adeste fideles) |
| The Snow Lay on the Ground | arr. Charles Winfred Douglas |
| It Came Upon the Midnight Clear | Edmund Sears |
| Infant Holy, Infant Lowly | arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Good King Wenceslas | arr. Reginald Jacques |
| In the Bleak Midwinter | (Cranham) |
| The Angel Gabriel from Heaven Came | (Gabriel’s Message) |
| What Child Is This, Who, Laid To Rest | (Greensleeves) |
| Gesu Bambino | Pietro Yon |
| Organ – Excerpt from Pastorale | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Lo, how a Rose E’er Blooming | (Es ist ein Ros) |
| Go Tell It on the Mountain | (Go Tell It on the Mountain) |
| O Little Town of Bethlehem | arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| Organ – From Heaven High to Earth I Come | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Joy to the World! The Lord Is Come | (Antioch) |
| On Christmas Night | arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams |
| God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen | arr. David Willcocks |
| Sweet Little Jesus Boy (Sung by Barbara Rearick) |
Robert MacGimsey |
| Away in a Manger | arr. David Willcocks |
| Organ – Praise God, Christians, Altogether | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light | Johann Sebastian Bach |
| Angels We Have Heard on High | (Gloria) |
| Good Christian Friends, Rejoice | (In Dulci Jubilo) |
| Silent Night, Holy Night | (Stille Nacht) |
| Of the Father’s Love Begotten | (Divinum Mysterium) |
| Hark! the Herald Angels Sing | (Mendelssohn) |
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