Gregorian Chant/Xmas Mass
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1. First Mass for Christmas: Dominus Dixit Ad Me, Introit
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2. First Mass for Christmas: Kyrie IV
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3. First Mass for Christmas: Gloria IV
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4. First Mass for Christmas: Tecum Principium, Graduale
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5. First Mass for Christmas: Dominus Dixit Ad Me, Alleluia
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6. First Mass for Christmas: Laetentur Caeli, Offertorium
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7. First Mass for Christmas: Sanctus IV
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8. First Mass for Christmas: Agnus Dei IV
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9. First Mass for Christmas: In Splendoribus Sanctorum, Communion
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10. Third Mass for Christmas: Puer Natus Est Nobis, Introit
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11. Third Mass for Christmas: Viderunt Omnes, Gradule
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12. Third Mass for Christmas: Dies Sanctificatus, Alleluia
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13. Third Mass for Christmas: Tui Sunt Caeli, Offertorium
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14. Third Mass for Christmas: Viderunt Omnes Fines Terrae, Communion
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Gregorian Chant/Xmas Mass, Music, Gregorian Chant, Santo Domingo de Silos Abbey Monks' Choir, Choral, Christmas, Christmas / Chanukkah, Christmas Music, Classical, Western European Chant
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Gregorian Chant, Christmas Chants
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ASIN: B0000015HN
Release Date: 1994-11-08 |
Tracks:
- Antiphon: Judaea et Jerusalem
- Responsory: Salve Virginale Christi Jesu Palatium
- Antiphon: Completi Sunt Dies Mariae
- Responsory: Hodie Nobis De Caelo
- Reading: Genealogy According To Saint Matthew
- Responsory: Verbum Caro
- Introit: Dominus Dixit Ad Me
- Kyrie IV
- Offertory: Laetentur Caeli
- Agnus Dei IV
- Communion: In Splendoribus
- Hymn: A Solis Ortus Cardine
- Introit: Puer Natus Est Nobis
- Kyrie XI
- Gloria XI
- Gradual: Viderunt Omnes Fines Terrae
- Alleluia: Dies Sanctificatus
- Offertory: Tui Sunt Caeli
- Sanctus XI
- Agnus Dei XI
- Communion: Viderunt Omnes Fines Terrae
- Antiphon: Natus Est Nobis Hodie Salvator
- Alma Redemptoris Mater
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- A warm, joyful baroque Christmas celebration
- An excellent performance
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A Baroque Christmas
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ASIN: B000005J0W
Release Date: 1992-08-25 |
Tracks:
- A Minuit Fut Fait Un Reveil
- Noels Pour Les Instruments: Noels Pour Les Instruments: Joseph est Bien Marie
- Noels Pour Les Instruments: Or Nous Dites Marie
- Noels Pour Les Instruments: Une Jeune Pucelle
- Noels Pour Les Instruments: Vous Qui Desirez Sans Fin
- Noels Pour Les Instruments: Ou S'en Vont Ces Gais Bergers
- Hodie Christus Natus Est
- Nun Jauchzet Mit Hellem Ton
- Laudate Dominum - Claudio Monteverdi
- Non Recedet Laus Tuus
- Salve Regina - Claudio Monteverdi
- The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation - Henry Purcell
- Messe De Minuit Sur Des Airs De Noel: Messe De Minuit Sur Des Airs De Noel: Kyrie
- Messe De Minuit Sur Des Airs De Noel: Gloria
- Messe De Minuit Sur Des Airs De Noel: Credo
- Messe De Minuit Sur Des Airs De Noel: Offertoire
- Messe De Minuit Sur Des Airs De Noel: Snactus
- Messe De Minuit Sur Des Airs De Noel: Agnus Dei
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A warm, joyful baroque Christmas celebration.......2004-12-07
The beautiful, varied, and well-chosen repertoire on this disc will keep you returning to it season after season. We start with a 17th-cantury French NOEL, lovingly and simply rendered a cappella by Richard Duguay. There follow some more French carols in instrumental arrangements by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, two traditional plainchants, some sumptuous madrigal-style pieces by Schein and Monteverdi, Purcell's florid and expressive vocal monologue for the Virgin Mary, and finally the most substantial piece on the disc: Charpentier's Christmas Midnight Mass, a very interesting work based on French carol themes. The performances by the Boston camerata are warm and vibrant. This early baroque Christmas disc is a real winner.
An excellent performance.......2000-09-18
This cd is the Baroque equivalent of the Medieval and Renaissance Christmas albums of the Boston Camerata. It has the least varied repetoire, in part because of the Charpentier Mass - Messe de Minuit sur des Airs de Noel, a work well worth having in its entirety. There are two pieces that are chant and a marvelous piece from Germany in an Italian style - Nun Jauchzet mit Hellem Ton - to which the notes say there are two sets of words, the one recorded here in praise of the Christmas festival, the other celebrating the amorous delights of nymphs. With such a delightful piece of trivia, how could the cd fail?
While the Boston Camerata gives its normal skilled performance, they are not as spectacular as they are on earlier music. They still are among the better interpreters of Baroque music, but it is not their speciality.
This is an excellent Christmas cd worthy of being in any collection.
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Chants of Christmas
Manufacturer: Gloriae Dei Cantores
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ASIN: B000003XFC
Release Date: 1996-02-16 |
Tracks:
- Ad Missam in Vigilia: Introit: Hodie Scietis - Br. Nathanael Reese
- Ad Missam in Vigilia: Gradual: Hodie Scietis - Br. Tim Pehta
- Ad Missam in Vigilia: Alleluia: Crastina Die - Br. Tim Pehta
- Ad Missam in Vigilia: Offertory: Tollite Portas - David Haig
- Ad Missam in Vigilia: Communion: Revelabitur - Br. Peter Logan
- Ad Missam in Nocte: Introit: Dominus Dixit - Br. Peter Logan
- Ad Missam in Nocte: Gradual: Tecum Principium - Br. Nathanael Reese
- Ad Missam in Nocte: Alleluia: Dominus Dixit - Sr. Chris Helfrich
- Ad Missam in Nocte: Offertory: Laetentur Caeli - Sr. Alicia Mitman
- Ad Missam in Nocte: Communion: In Splendoribus - Luke Norman
- Ad Missam in Aurora: Introit: Lux Fulgebit - Sr. Lucia Smith
- Ad Missam in Aurora: Gradual: Benedictus Qui Venit - Sr. Chris Helfrich
- Ad Missam in Aurora: Alleluia: Dominus Regnavit - Sr. Chris Helfrich
- Ad Missam in Aurora: Offertory: Deus Enim Firmavit - Cynthia Ingwersen
- Ad Missam in Aurora: Communion: Exsulta Filia Sion - Sr. Sharon Hunter
- Ad Missam in Die: Introit: Puer Natus Est Nobias - Sr. Anne Furst
- Ad Missam in Die: Gradual: Viderunt Omnes - Br. Nathanael Reese
- Ad Missam in Die: Alleluia: Dies Sanctificatus - Sr. Anne Furst
- Ad Missam in Die: Offertory: Tui Sunt Caeli - Wayne Schuman
- Ad Missam in Die: Viderunt Omnes - Betsey Bott
- Antiphons To The Blessed Virgin Mary, Solemn Tones: Alma Redemptoris Mater - James Jordan
- Antiphons To The Blessed Virgin Mary, Solemn Tones: Ave Regina Caelorum - Br. Mark Bushnell
- Antiphons To The Blessed Virgin Mary, Solemn Tones: Regina Caeli - Sr. Alicia Mitman
- Antiphons To The Blessed Virgin Mary, Solemn Tones: Salve Regina - Kathy Schuman
- Antiphons To The Blessed Virgin Mary, Simple Tones: Alma Redemptoris Mater - Sr. Lucia Smith
- Antiphons To The Blessed Virgin Mary, Simple Tones: Ave Regina Caelorum - Sr. Sharon Hunter
- Antiphons To The Blessed Virgin Mary, Simple Tones: Regina Caeli - Sr. Sharon Hunter
- Antiphons To The Blessed Virgin Mary, Simple Tones: Salve Regina - Wayne Schuman
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The expectant Vigil Mass of Christmas is followed by the Midnight, Dawn, and Day Masses that celebrate the joy of the Incarnation. Antiphons to the Savior's Mother honor her humility and obedience to God.
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Gregorian Chant/Xmas Mass
Manufacturer: Polygram Records
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ASIN: B000006MBB
Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
Tracks:
- First Mass for Christmas: Dominus Dixit Ad Me, Introit
- First Mass for Christmas: Kyrie IV
- First Mass for Christmas: Gloria IV
- First Mass for Christmas: Tecum Principium, Graduale
- First Mass for Christmas: Dominus Dixit Ad Me, Alleluia
- First Mass for Christmas: Laetentur Caeli, Offertorium
- First Mass for Christmas: Sanctus IV
- First Mass for Christmas: Agnus Dei IV
- First Mass for Christmas: In Splendoribus Sanctorum, Communion
- Third Mass for Christmas: Puer Natus Est Nobis, Introit
- Third Mass for Christmas: Viderunt Omnes, Gradule
- Third Mass for Christmas: Dies Sanctificatus, Alleluia
- Third Mass for Christmas: Tui Sunt Caeli, Offertorium
- Third Mass for Christmas: Viderunt Omnes Fines Terrae, Communion
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- refreshingly traditional
- Beautiful
- This is excellent work
- My favorite Christmas album.
- This is an outstanding recording
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Noel, Noel!: Noels Francais/French Christmas Music (1200-1600)
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ASIN: B000000SCC
Release Date: 1991-09-13 |
Tracks:
- I - Midnight In Bethlehem: Oyez Seigneur comment parla (The Sybil's Prophecy)
- I - Midnight In Bethlehem: O oriens, splendor lucis aeternae
- I - Midnight In Bethlehem: Kyrie 'Le jour de Noel'
- II - Christmas Week In Beauvais: Lux Hodie - Orientis Partibus
- II - Christmas Week In Beauvais: Quem vidistis pastores
- II - Christmas Week In Beauvais: Magnum nomen domini
- II - Christmas Week In Beauvais: Lux optata claruit
- II - Christmas Week In Beauvais: Virgo gemma virginum
- II - Christmas Week In Beauvais: Quando decet honore
- III - To The Virgin: Ave regina celorum
- III - To The Virgin: In tua memoria
- III - To The Virgin: Magnificat
- IV - Noel, Noel: Noe, Noe
- IV - Noel, Noel: Noe, noe, magnificus est rex pacificus
- V - A Renaissance Bouquet Of Carol And Dances: Conditor en francais
- V - A Renaissance Bouquet Of Carol And Dances: Chantons Noel, menons joyeuse vie
- V - A Renaissance Bouquet Of Carol And Dances: Bransle de Bourgogne
- V - A Renaissance Bouquet Of Carol And Dances: Or vous tremoussez, pasteurs de Judee
- V - A Renaissance Bouquet Of Carol And Dances: Et d'ou venez-vous, Madame Lucette?
- V - A Renaissance Bouquet Of Carol And Dances: Bransle de Bourgogne - Bransle double
- V - A Renaissance Bouquet Of Carol And Dances: Disons nau a pleine teste
- V - A Renaissance Bouquet Of Carol And Dances: Ronde And Saltarello
- V - A Renaissance Bouquet Of Carol And Dances: Nouvelles, nouvelles
- V - A Renaissance Bouquet Of Carol And Dances: Pres Bethleem dans une estable
- V - A Renaissance Bouquet Of Carol And Dances: Sur le mont de Sion
- V - A Renaissance Bouquet Of Carol And Dances: Dona nobis pacem (From The 'Missa sur le Point d'Avignon')
- V - A Renaissance Bouquet Of Carol And Dances: O l'heureuse journee
- V - A Renaissance Bouquet Of Carol And Dances: Bransle de Champagne
- V - A Renaissance Bouquet Of Carol And Dances: Venez ouyr la trompette
- V - A Renaissance Bouquet Of Carol And Dances: Bransle de Champagne (Reprise)
Customer Reviews:
refreshingly traditional.......2006-11-10
If you are as tired as I am of canned Christmas muzak, you will find this to be refreshing, beautiful, and uplifting for the season of Christ's birth.
Beautiful.......2001-12-22
I was looking for something different from all the popular American Chirstmas music that has been re-done so many times. Here is a collection that satisfied me, and will delight both Franco-phones and Anglo-phones (English speakers) Some of the pieces are very chant like, but others are lively songs with lots of energy. Especially notable are tracks # 18, Or vous trémoussez, pasteurs de Judée, # 13, Noe, Noe, and my personal favorite, # 27, O l'heureuse journée. You likely will not recognize any of the tunes, so it may take a bit for this album to sound like Christmas, but it quickly did for me. The ancient instruments employed also give the music a unique sound that is really neat. This is a CD worth purchasing
This is excellent work.......1999-11-19
I am a musician and a medieval history buff, and first heard the Beauvais segments of this recording over the car radio, as I parked intending to do some Christmas shopping. I could not leave the car until the last note was sung and immediately began a search for the recording. The music is so...right, like a little time trip, haunting, triggering the imagination.
My favorite Christmas album........1999-09-04
Beautifully clear voices mix with period instruments and voices of character to present a lively, touching, and thoroughly enjoyable mix of music of centuries past.
This is an outstanding recording.......1998-12-26
Joel Cohen and the boston Camerata have recorded an outstanding collection of French Christmas carols.
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- a voice teacher and early music fan
- Very enjoyable recording of the music McCreesh does best
- Christmas Eve in San Marco, Venice
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Venetian Christmas
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ASIN: B00005ONMM
Release Date: 2001-10-09 |
Tracks:
- Intonazione Dell'undecimo Tono, C 249
- Audite Principes A 16, C 123: Coro I/Coro II/Coro III
- Introitus
- Kyrie
- Gloria
- Oratio
- Prophetia
- Epistola
- Canzon Noni Toni A 12, C 183
- Evangelium
- Credo
- Intonazione Del Settimo Tono, C 245
- Salvator Noster A 15, C 80: Coro I/Coro II/Coro III
- Praefatio
- Sanctus
- Toccata
- O Jesu Mi Dulcissime A 8, C56: Coro I/Coro II
- Pater Noster
- Agnus Dei
- Canzon Duodecimi Toni (No.3) A 10, C179: Coro I/Coro II
- Postcommunio - Benedictio
- Quem Vidistis Pastores, After C 77: Coro I/Coro II/Coro III
Customer Reviews:
a voice teacher and early music fan.......2006-11-27
For the Doge and the Venetian nobility, Christmas Eve began with a series of attendances in the Basilica that were celebrated with great ceremony. Two hours before sunset, the Doge and the privileged political advisers came to San Marco, where they heard Vespers celebrated by a large group of musicians, vocal and instrumental; the musical settings were in 8,10,12 and 16 parts. As soon as Matins concluded, about 2 hours after Sunset, the first Mass of Christmas began. As it began, the Doge ,resplendent in the insignia of his office, left his throne, and accompanied by the papal Legate, knelt on the first step in front of the High Altar to respond to the Legate's Confession. This distinctly Venetian symbiosis of religion and politics is epitomized in the first motet 'Audite principes'. Gabrieli's musical style in this motet makes use of a declamatory solo voice with supporting instruments, soon combining in an eloquent 16 part Tutti
Cypriano de Rore's setting of the Mass Ordinary is a parody of Josquin's famous 6-part motet'Praeter rerum serium',which celebrates the miracle of the birth of God in human form by the untainted Virgin Mother. To Josquin's 6-part texture Rore adds a seventh part. The result reflects Rore's command of traditional compositional techniques.
There is a great deal of clarifying information in the accompanying materials with the CD; it would be well for the listener to read it, as it is not particularly lengthy and easily comprehended.
Paul McCreesh is one of the most talented directors in the field of early music ,and along with his Gabrielli Consort & Players , has gained an international reputation. One of the things he has done that has gained him critical acclaim ,is to recreate spectacular historic events, such as this CD "First Mass of Christmas in St. Mark's".
This is truly a fine recording, and the first time I HEARD it, I simply listened and it was so beautiful!!Then, finally, I read about it,and it became even more meaningful. The singing is exquisitely etheral; perfect diction-perfect balance -chock full of emotional content. The accompanying instruments are played skillfully and provide not only accompaniments, but inspiring solo passages.
All you early music lovers, don't miss this one!!!!
Very enjoyable recording of the music McCreesh does best.......2006-08-14
An excellent CD of Venetian Christmas music. The Missa "Præter rerum serium" by Cipriano de Rore is excellent. The works of Gabrieli are good, too. Nice to have new recordings of Salvator noster and Audite principes!
The use of tenor cornetts on this recording was a highlight for me. I bought one a few years ago, and it is nice to hear them so well played here.
The arrangement of Quem vidistis pastores is interesting. Hugh Keyte has certainly filled the score out. However, I have never found the score as it stands inadequate.
Anyway, a wonderful Christmas album and one to enjoy all year round.
Christmas Eve in San Marco, Venice.......2005-10-12
On the scale of favorite music for the Christmas Season for this listener it is often a toss up among Britten's 'A Ceremony of Carols', carols form the Kings College Chapel, and music composed for the midnight mass on Christmas Eve. This recording by the Gabrieli Consort and Players conducted by Paul McCreesh is about as authentic as they come. The works are by Giovanni Gabrieli and Cipriano de Rore (with one organ Toccata improvised after Girolamo Frescobaldi by Timothy Roberts) but the majority of the music is Gregorian Chant. The listener is transported to the vast spaces of San Marco which not only adds a holy resonance to the chants but also provides the perfect response time and setting for the polyphony of the Gabrieli works.
Performed on ancient instruments and organ, the recording captures all the mystery and candlelit hush of the period. The singing by the Gabrieli Singers is exceptionally fine. There may be more interesting works by Gabrieli on other recordings, but for creating a Venetian Christmas Eve Mass mood, few other recordings can top this one. Highly Recommended. Grady Harp, October 05
Better than gold..........2004-02-07
Don't listen to the music experts and their hair-splitting arguments: as a lover of Renaissance music I can tell you that this more than 80 minutes long recording by an all-male choir is simply wonderful and gives you the best of Western sacred music: virile Gregorian chant, exuberant but still deeply religious Late Medieval polyphony a la Desprez by Cipriano Rore and Italian Baroque by Giovanni Gabrieli, which is more mundane in tone but nevertheless very beautiful.
There is a striking but beautiful contrast between the low, almost cavernous plainchant resonating under the church vaults-the performance was recorded in a Northumbrian priory-and the high triumphant tones of the Renaissance contrapuntal pieces in which male altos play a prominent role. Short but gorgeous instrumental pieces alternate with chant and psalmody.
Psalmody? Yes, contrary to most Mass cds, this one contains not only the usual sequence of Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus and Agnus but also all the Latin readings sung on a very simple melody (the text and the translation are available in the accompanyng booklet, thank God!): the Epistle, the Gospel, the Eucharist prayers, etc.
The psalmody, specially the rather long Gospel reading, may sound monotonous at first but you will quickly get used to it and it will provide a welcome interlude during which your ears can take a rest and recover from the all powerful, almost overwhelming stimuli of polyphonic chant.
The reconstruction does not omit any detail: at the sacred moment of consecration, for example, when the priest invokes in a low voice the power of the Holy Spirit to come on the bread and wine, you hear the tremedously stirring sound of cathedral bells accompanied by the organ.
The traditional Mass chants by Rore with high-pitched countertenors (male altos) are stunningly beautiful and are the highlight of this cd. They are imitations (parodies) of Desprez's style but this does not mean that they are inferior in quality. If anything, they are more brilliant since they feature seven voices, instead of just six. The Sanctus is simply not of this world! If you like Desprez and Ockeghem, you will be thrilled by Rore.
The whole atmosphere of the performance is one of dignified exultation, as befits a real liturgy... Not a single atom of gloominess as one reviewer below said but if you are looking for ligt music you will not find it here. This is San Marco and majesty is the key note.
I cannot imagine a better cd in this kind of music.
Tarnished gold.......2003-01-24
I find myself agreeing more or less with the last reviwer regarding this CD. There has been a tendency with the Gabrieli Singers towards a certain roughness and lack of "line", which is again demonstrated on this recording. The first couple of recordings of Venetian liturgy were superb (Venetian Coronation and Venetian Easter Mass), but I wonder if they are becoming complacent.
As mentioned before, there is a lack of real "atmosphere" which marks those two aforementioned earlier discs as outstanding (and which also makes their Prateorius and Sheppard recordings stand out).
Obviously this group are still at the very top of the league when it comes to this repertoire, but the fact that we know what they can do when at their very best means only 4/5 for this release.
Interesting, awesome even, but strangely uncaptivating.
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Gregorian Advent & Christmas
Chloral Ensemble of the Order of the Frati Minori of Busto Arsizio
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Unknown but so beautiful.......2007-06-06
This CD, previously totally unknown to me, was discovered by chance at a local antique mall in an obvious estate sale. A risky purchase, brought on by the wonderful titles presented, was more than worthy of the tiny sum paid. The chant is loud, strong, clear and inspiring...frankly superior to other well known chant issues. Recommend Highly, if you can find it after this review.
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Gregorian Chant - Christmas Mass
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Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
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- Third Christmas Mass: Introit: Puer natus est nobis
- Third Christmas Mass: Kyrie altissime
- Third Christmas Mass: Gloria II
- Third Christmas Mass: Collect: Concede quaesumus
- Third Christmas Mass: Epistle: Multifariam
- Third Christmas Mass: Gradual: Viderunt omnes
- Third Christmas Mass: Alleluia: Dies sanctificatus
- Third Christmas Mass: Gospel: In principio
- Third Christmas Mass: Credo I
- Third Christmas Mass: Offertory: Tui sunt caeli
- Third Christmas Mass: Secret: Oblata, Domine
- Third Christmas Mass: Preface: Quia per incarnati
- Third Christmas Mass: Sanctus III
- Third Christmas Mass: Doxology: Per quem haec
- Third Christmas Mass: Lord's Prayer: Pater noster
- Third Christmas Mass: Pax Domini
- Third Christmas Mass: Agnus Dei
- Third Christmas Mass: Communion: Viderunt omnes
- Third Christmas Mass: Postcommunion: Praesta quaesumus
- Third Christmas Mass: Ite, missa est
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