A Meditation on Christ's Nativity
An archive service from 2008 of music and readings offering a meditation on Christ's Nativity, with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge.
An archive service from 2008 of music and readings offering a meditation on Christ's Nativity, with the Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Music was the (then) first broadcast performance of 'Ex Maria Virgine' - a sequence of Christmas carols by John Tavener completed on Christmas Day 2005.
John Tavener: Ex Maria Virgine
(Verbum caro; Nowell! Nowell! Out of your sleep; Remember O thou man; Sweet was the song; Ave rex angelorum; There is no rose; Ding dong! merrily on high; Rocking; Unto us is born a Son)
Director of Music: Timothy Brown
Organist: Simon Thomas Jacobs.
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- Sun 28 Dec 2008 16:00麻豆社 Radio 3
- Boxing Day 2012 15:30麻豆社 Radio 3
- Sun 30 Dec 2012 16:00麻豆社 Radio 3
- Wed 21 Dec 2016 15:30麻豆社 Radio 3
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