ORISON: "Creator of the stars of night" (Conditor alme siderum, plainsong, Mode IV)

PSALM: 122 (plainsong)

HYMN: "Comfort, comfort ye my people" (Louis Bourgeois, 1551)

NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Dana Marsh [1983])

ANTHEM: "De caelo veniet" (Jakob Handl (Gallus) [1550 - 1591])

ORISON: "O heavenly Word, eternal Light" (Verbum supernumprodiens, plainsong, Mode 2, Nevvers MS, 13^th century)

PSALM: 24 (Peter Hallock)

HYMN: "Hark! a thrilling voice is sounding" (tune: Merton, William Henry Monk [1823 - 1889])

NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong setting)

ANTHEM: "Audivi media nocte" (Matins respond with polyphony by Thomas Tallis, [ca. 1505 - 1585])

ORISON: "Come, thou long expected Jesus" (tune: Stuttgart [1715]; adapted and harmonized by William Henry Havergal [1793 - 1870])

PSALM: 34 (plainsong)

HYMN: "Ye who claim the faith of Jesus" (Den des Vaters Sinn geboren, melody from Hundert Arien [1694]; harmonized by Conrad Kocher [1786 - 1872])

NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by John Holmes)

ANTHEM: "Ave Regina caelorum" (Leonel Power [?1370/85-1445])

ORISON: "O come, O come Emmanuel" (Veni, veni Emmanuel. plainsong, Mode I, 15^th century)

PSALM: 97 (Peter Hallock)

HYMN: "Of the Father's love begotten" (Divinum mysterium, Sanctus trope, 11^th century)

NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Lodovico Grossi da Viadana)

ANTHEMS: 1) "O magnum mysterium" (Gerald Near [b. 1942]);
                  2) "Lullay, my liking" (Peter Hallock, 1984 [b. 1924])

ORISON: "O Saviour of our fallen race" (Christe, Redemptor omnium, plainsong, Mode I)

PSALM: 98 (Peter Hallock)

HYMN: "In the bleak mid-winter" (Gustav Holst [1874 - 1934])

NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Jeff Junkinsmith)

ANTHEMS: 1) "Natus est nobis Deus" (Jakob Handl (Gallus) [1550 - 1591]);
                  2) The Coventry Carol (Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors, 15^th century; arr. Martin Shaw)