Lessons & Carols by Candlelight

The full service of Lessons & Carols by Candlelight from Wantage Parish Church on Sunday 18th December 2022. Music included: Once in Royal David's City - Words: CF Alexander Tune: Irby (HJ Gauntlett/ AH Mann) This is the truth sent from above - Trad: Herefordshire words & Tune collected by EM Leather. Arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams. Copyright: Stainer & Bell Ltd, CCLI Livence No. 2137451 Come all you worthy gentlemen - Trad: Somerset words & tune. Arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams O Little Town of Bethlehem - Words: Bishop Phillips Brooks. Tune: English trad., Arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams I Sing of a Mayden - Words: Anon 15th Century. Music: Bob Chilcott Long the night - Words: Alick Rowe. Trad. Ukrainian Melody, Arr. Roy Massey In the Bleak Midwinter - Words: Christina Rossetti. Tune: Cranham (Gustav Holst) While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night - Words: Nahum Tate. Tune: Winchester Old (Este's Psalter 1592) On Christmas Night All Christians Sing & God Bless The Ruler of This House - Trad. Sussex words & Tune. Arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams. Trad. English words & Herefordshire tune. Arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Words: Charles Wesley & other. Tune: Mendelssohn (Felx Mendelssohn-Bartholdy) O Come, All Ye Faithful - Words: F Oakley & others. Tune: Adeste Fidelis (Anon.) ___________________________ Wantage Parish Church Choir is an amateur choir performing music for the CofE Church of SS Peter and Paul, Wantage, Oxfordshire. Follow the choir to keep up to date with what we are doing on the links below Website: wantageparish.com/the-choir.html Instagram: @wantageparishchurchchoir Director of Music: Phil Johnson Organist: John Ridgway