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May the season be kind and peaceful to you and yours.
Merry Christmas from Sweden.
Bleib bei uns,
denn es will Abend werden,
und der Tag hat sich geneiget
Abide with us,
for it is toward evening,
and the day has almost declined.
Clear in the darkness a light shines in Bethlehem:
Angels are singing, their sound fills the air.
Wise men have journeyed to greet their Messiah;
But only a mother and baby lie there.
‘Ave Maria, ave Maria’:
Hear the soft lullaby the angel hosts sing.
‘Ave Maria, ave Maria,
Maiden, and mother of Jesus our King’.
Where are his courtiers, and who are his people?
Why does he bear neither sceptre nor crown?
Shepherds his courtiers, the poor for his people,
With peace as his sceptre and love for his crown.
What though your treasures are not gold or incense?
Lay them before him with hearts full of love.
Praise to the Christ child, and praise to his mother
Who bore us a Saviour by grace from above.
Ave Maria Gratia plena
Maria Gratia plena
Maria Gratia plena
Ave, ave dominus
Dominus tecum
Benedicta tu in mulieribus
Et benedictus
Et benedictus fructus ventris
Ventris tui Jesus
Ave Maria
Ave Maria Mater dei
Ora pro nobis pecatoribus
Ora, ora pro nobis
Ora ora pro nobis pecatoribus
Nunc et in hora mortis
In hora mortis, mortis nostrae
In hora mortis nostrae
Ave Maria!
Rutter is just amazing. Singing this song this and next year. The B section is harder than it sounds to layer together properly, but when it comes together whew… it is heavenly. In this recording, the choir nails it solidly on the second iteration. What changed? My guess is they had the sweep of the music within them by the time Bx2 rolled around.
For our upcoming Remembrance Day concert. Impossibly beautiful and a honour to sing.
bleatmop
Mystro
Dead Wild Roses 
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