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V. 1. Soprano -- V. 2. Alto -- V. 3. Tenor -- V. 4. Bass. |
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V. 1 (Soprano). Pentecost Cantata. My heart ever faithful / Johann Sebastian Bach -- My Spirit was in heaviness. Sighing, weeping, sorrow, need / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Engedi. Praise ye Jehovah's goodness / Ludwig van Beethoven -- St. Peter. I mourn as a dove / Sir Julius Benedict -- Destruction of Jerusalem. Thou sittest on thy judgement-seat / Martin Blumner -- Eli. I will extol Thee, o Lord! / Michael Andrew Angus Costa -- St. John's Eve. Say, what dost thou bear in the secret deep? / Frederic Hymen Cowen -- The Holy City. These are they, which came out of great tribulation / Alfred R. Gaul -- The Ten Virgins. Sun of my soul, thou Saviour dear / Alfred R. Gaul -- The Messiah. Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion! ; How beautiful are the feet of them ; Come unto him, all ye that labor ; I know that my Redeemer liveth / George Frideric Handel -- Alexander Balus. Subtle love, with fancy viewing / George Frideric Handel -- Hercules. My father! Ah! methinks I see / George Frideric Handel -- Jephtha. Farewell, ye limpid springs and floods / George Frideric Handel -- Joshua. Oh! had I Jubal's lyre / George Frideric Handel -- Judas Maccabaeus. Pious orgies, pious airs / George Frideric Handel -- Ode on St. Cecilia's Day. The soft complaining flute / George Frideric Handel -- Samson. Let the bright seraphim / George Frideric Handel -- Susanna. Beneath the cypress' gloomy shade / George Frideric Handel -- The Creation. With verdure clad the fields appear ; On mighty pens uplifted soars / Joseph Haydn -- The Seasons. O how pleasing to the senses / Joseph Haydn -- Saul. They fled, the gloomy powers / Ferdinand Hiller -- Moses. How beautiful are thy dwellings, o Lord / Samuel de Lange -- Mary Magdalen. 'Twas even here those words were spoken / Jude Massenet -- Elijah. Hear ye, Israel! Hear what the Lord speaketh / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- St. Paul. Jerusalem! Jerusalem! Thou that killest the prophets / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- The Seven Last Words. Thousands of sins oppress me / Saverio Mercadante -- Abraham. I will extol thee, my God / Bernhard Molique -- Judith. I will sing unto the Lord a new song / C. Hubert H. Parry -- The Resurrection of Lazarus. Thou, to Whom Galilee kneeleth / Raoul Pugno -- Jephtha and his Daughter. Why art thou cast down, o my soul? / Carl Martin Reinthaler -- Paradise Lost. Tho' all triumphant the heav'nly powers / Anton Rubinstein -- Calvary. When this scene of trouble closes / Louis Spohr -- The Golden Legend. My Redeemer and my Lord / Sir Arthur Sullivan -- The Light of the World. Lord, why hidest thou thy face? / Sir Arthur Sullivan -- Harvest Cantata. Then does mem'ry turn to days ; Once more we see the good by God provided / Carl Maria von Weber. |
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V. 2 (Alto). Christmas Oratorio. Prepare thyself, Zion ; Slumber, beloved and take thy repose / Johann Sebastian Bach -- St. Cecilia. Father, whose blessing we entreat / Sir Julius Benedict -- St. Peter. O thou afflicted / Sir Julius Benedict -- The Woman of Samaria. O Lord, thou hast searched me out / William Sterndale Bennett -- The Fall of Jerusalem. Thine, o Saviour, is love unending / Martin Blumner -- Eli. Lord, from my bed again I rise; This night I lift my heart to thee / Michael Costa -- Ruth. Like as a father pitieth his children / Frederic Hymen Cowen -- St. Ludmilla. Thy leading would I had not followed / Antonín Dvořák -- Christmas Eve. O, with pure devotion ; When onward I am gazing / N.W. Gade -- The Holy City. Eye hath not seen / Alfred R. Gaul -- Ruth. O gracious Lord, cast down thine eyes / Alfred R. Gaul -- The Ten Virgins. Thou art the guide of our youth / Alfred R. Gaul -- Athalia. O Lord, whom we adore / George Frideric Handel -- Deborah. In the battle, fame pursuing / George Frideric Handel -- Hercules. The smiling hours, a joyful train / George Frideric Handel -- Israel in Egypt. Thou shalt bring them in / George Frideric Handel -- Joshua. Awful, pleasing being, say ; Heroes, when with glory burning / George Frideric Handel -- Judas Maccabaeus. Father of heav'n! From thy eternal throne / George Frideric Handel -- The Messiah. O thou that tellest good tidings to Zion ; He was despised and rejected / George Frideric Handel -- Samson. Return, O God of hosts / George Frideric Handel -- Saul. O Lord, whose mercies numberless / George Frideric Handel -- Solomon. What tho' I trace each herb and flower / George Frideric Handel -- Susanna. When first I saw my lovely maid / George Frideric Handel -- Theodora. Lord, to thee, each night and day / George Frideric Handel -- Christus. He was oppress'd and afflicted / Friedrich Kiel -- The Star of Bethlehem. For my soul is athirst for God ; Turn again to thy rest / Friedrich Kiel -- The Rose of Sharon. Gladness is taken away / Alexander Campbell Mackenzie -- The Miracle of Nain. One would say, he reposes / Henri Maréchal -- Elijah. O rest in the Lord / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- St. Paul. But the Lord is mindful of his own / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- Judith. The Lord is long-suffering and merciful / C. Hubert H. Parry -- The World's End. Great and wonderful are all thy works ; Behold, the house of God is with men / Joachim Raff -- Jeptha. The Lord will not be ever wroth / Carl Martin Reinthaler -- Christmas Oratorio. Patiently have I waited for the Lord / Camille Saint-Saëns -- The heavens Declare. Thou, o Lord, art my protector / Camille Saint-Saëns -- The Light of the World. The Lord is risen / Sir Arthur Sullivan -- The Prodigal Son. Love not the world / Sir Arthur Sullivan -- Constantin. Lord, for whom my soul is burning / Georg Vierling -- Gethsemane. As thou wilt, Father / Charles Lee Williams. |
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V. 3 (Tenor). Christmas Oratorio. Ye foes of man, your might is shaken / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Rebekah. The soft southern breeze plays around / Joseph Barnby -- Engedi. Oh, my heart is sore within me / Ludwig van Beethoven -- St. Cecilia. A wondrous change my spirit doth surprise / Sir Julius Benedict -- The Woman of Samaria. His salvation is nigh them that fear him / William Sterndale Bennett -- Ruth. How excellent is thy loving-kindness / Frederic Hymen Cowen -- Seed-time and Harvest. Seek ye first the kingdom of God / Myles Birket Foster -- The Holy City. My soul is athirst for God ; To the Lord our God belong mercies / Alfred R. Gaul -- The Ten Virgins. Ascribe unto the Lord worship and power / Alfred R. Gaul -- Tobias. Father, thine arms about me throw! / Charles Gounod -- Athalia. Gentle airs, melodious strains / George Frideric Handel -- Hercules. From celestial seats descending / George Frideric Handel -- Jephtha. Waft her, angels, thro' the skies / George Frideric Handel -- Judas Maccabaeus. Sound an alarm! / George Frideric Handel -- The Messiah. Ev'ry valley shall be exalted ; Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron / George Frideric Handel -- Occasional Oratorio. Jehovah! To my words give ear / George Frideric Handel -- Samson. Total eclipse! No sun, no moon ; Why does the God of Israel sleep? / George Frideric Handel -- Susanna. Ye verdant hills, ye balmy vales / George Frideric Handel -- The Creation. In native worth and honour clad / Joseph Haydn -- The Seasons. The trav'ler stands perplex'd / Joseph Haydn -- Destruction of Jerusalem. Yes, thou wilt yet remember / Ferdinand Hiller -- Elijah. If with all your hearts ye truly seek me ; Then shall the righteous shine forth / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- Hymn of Praise. He counteth all your sorrows / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- St. Paul. Be thou faithful unto death / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- The Seven Last Words. When to the lily fair / Saverio Mercadante -- Abraham. Pour out thy heart before the Lord / Bernhard Molique -- Judith. I will bear the indignation of God / C Hubert H. Parry -- Resurrection of Lazarus. Thy name I praise, o God / Raoul Pugno -- Jeptha. Lovely and sweet as the rose in the vale / Carl Martin Reinthaler -- The Fall of Babylon. Remember, Lord, what thou hast laid upon us / Louis Spohr -- The Crucifixion. King ever-glorious / John Stainer -- The Daughter of Jairus. My hope is in the everlasting / John Stainer -- The Light of the World. Refrain thy voice from weeping / Sir Arthur Sullivan -- The Prodigal Son. Come, ye children, and hearken unto me / Sir Arthur Sullivan -- Harvest Cantata. Happy nation, still receiving / Carl Maria von Weber. |
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V. 4 (Bass). Christmas Oratorio. O Lord, my darken'd heart enlighten / Johann Sebastian Bach -- Rebekah. The daughters of the city / Joseph Barnby -- St. Peter. How great, o Lord, is thy goodness / Sir Julius Benedict -- The Fall of Jerusalem. Despoiled is thy crown of honor / Martin Blumner -- The Seven Last Words. God, my fater / Théodore Dubois -- St. Ludmilla. Give ear, ye people! / Antonín Dvořák -- Ruth. Glory be to thee, o Lord / Alfred R. Gaul -- Deborah. Tears, such as tender fathers shed / George Frideric Handel -- Judas Maccabaeus. Arm, ye brave! / George Frideric Handel -- The Messiah. But who may abide ; The people that walked in darkness ; Why do the nations ; The trumpet shall sound / George Frideric Handel -- Occasional Oratorio. His scepter is the rod of righteousness / George Frideric Handel -- The Passion. My Father, look upon my anguish / George Frideric Handel -- Samson. Honor and arms / George Frideric Handel -- The Creation. Rolling in foaming billows ; Now heav'n in fullest glory / Joseph Haydn -- The Seasons. With joy th' impatient husbandman ; Behold, along the dewy grass / Joseph Haydn -- The Destruction of Jerusalem. Jeremiah's lament / Ferdinand Hiller -- Saul. Obedience 'tis, the Lord of hosts demandeth / Ferdinand Hiller -- The Burial of Christ. Holy one, dying for mortals / August Klughardt -- Moses. God is eternal / Samuel de Lange -- The Rose of Sharon. The wilderness shall be / Alexander Campbell Mackenzie -- The Nativity. O my home / Henri Maréchal -- Mary Magdalen. The days are all sunshine / Jules Massenet -- Elijah. Lord God of Abraham ; Is not his word like a fire? It is enough / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- St. Paul. Consume them all ; O God, have mercy ; For know ye not / Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- Abraham. Lead me, o Lord / Bernhard Molique -- The World's End. Lord, hear my voice / Joachim Raff -- Paradise Lost. Wake, ye spirits / Anton Rubinstein -- Calvary. Tears of sorrow / Louis Spohr -- The Light of the World. Daughters of Jerusalem / Sir Arthur Sullivan. |
| General note | Accompaniment arranged for piano. |
| Language | Words in English. |
| LCCN | 02016957 |
| Publisher number | 15794 G. Schirmer (v. 1) |
| Publisher number | 15891 G. Schirmer (v. 2) |
| Publisher number | 15830 G. Schirmer (v. 3) |
| Publisher number | 15941 G. Schirmer (v. 4) |
