Welcome to our online Advent Calendar. Throughout Advent we will be sharing music, reflections, and poetry every day on our Facebook and YouTube pages.
December 13th
December 12th
December 11th
December 10th
December 9th
December 8th
December 7th
December 6th
December 5th
Today we take you on a tour of our Song School, and take a closer look at Phoebe Anna Traquair’s murals:
December 4th
Today our Lay Clerks are singing Thomas Tallis “Audivi Vocem”
I heard a voice coming from heaven:
Store up oil in your vessels,
Until the bridegroom cometh.
A cry goes up at midnight:
Behold, the bridegroom cometh.
December 3rd
Today our Assistant Organist, Adam Wilson, plays Jeanne Demesseux’s Rorate Caeli
December 2nd
Today’s video comes from St Mary’s Music School, this is Katie (P7) playing ‘Concerto’ by O’Carolan.
December 1st
Today our Chaplain, Andy Philip, reads Malcolm Guite’s ‘O Rex Gentium’, from ‘The Great O Antiphons in Sounding the Seasons’
30th November
O Antiphons Procession. This first video is of our Lay Clerks singing the O Antiphons. The lay clerks recorded them in different parts of the Cathedral, with each Antiphon gradually getting louder as we process through the building: