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Music

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from the Advent Meditations 2025

The most recent meditation is shown at the top of the list.
The music for each meditation is listed in the order used.

Monday 22 December

• The First Noel – Julia Stone
• Still, Still, Still – Brad Jacobsen, piano
• Make Me a Channel of Your Peace

Wednesday 17 December

• Max Richter:  All Human Beings
• Schubert:  Ave Maria
• Open My Heart – HARC
• O Holy Night – Cambridge Singers

Tuesday 16 December

• Stuart Earl:  Into the Sea
• Max Richter:  Love Song (After JE)
• Ave Maria Pietas – Andrea Bocelli & Aida Garifullina

Monday 15 December

• The First Nowell
• Bach:  Adagio Bach
• Carols of the Bells – Anke Arkesteyn, harp
• Have Thine Own Way Lord
• Annwvynn:  Mystical Otherworld – Anke Arkesteyn, harp

Saturday 13 December

• Glory Be to God on High
• Prelude – Bach BWV721
• Lift Up Your Heads, O Ye Gates
• In Stillness

Friday 12 December

• John Rutter:  Christmas Lullaby – City of London Sinfonia & Cambridge Singers
• Mendelssohn:  If With All Your Hearts – Ann Lapwood & Pembroke College Girls Choir

Thursday 11 December

• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Variations (12) on ‘Ah, vous dirai-je, Maman' in C major, K265 - Variation XI
• Karl Svoboda: Drei Nüsse für Aschenbrödel
• Cecilia McDowall: O Oriens
• Will Todd: My Lord has come
• Sally Beamish: In the stillness

Wednesday 10 December

• The First Noel
• You Raise Me Up
• Mary Did You Know?
• Spirit of the Living God, Fall Afresh On Me
• Galilean Boatsong – Colleen Corridan

Tuesday 9 December

• O Come O Come Emmanuel – The Piano Guys
• Christmas Carols
• Carol of the Bells
• Christmas Background Music

Monday 8 December

• While Shepherds Watched
• Away in a Manger
• Joy to the World
• Carol of the Bells
• Adam Cara
• Hallelujah

Saturday 6 December

• Bach – Keyboard Concerto No. 5 BWV 1056 II. Largo
• Burning Burning Brightly Burning – Salvation Army Brass
• Be Still for the Presence of the Lord
• A Little Prayer (Arr. for euphonium and brass band by Robert Childs)
• Benedictus – Jenkins K (brass band)

Friday 5 December

• Arvo Pärt: Spiegel im Spiegel – Leonhard Roczek, cello; Herbert Schuch, piano
• Lux Aurumque – Eric Whitacre, Eric Whitacre's Virtual Choir

Thursday 4 December

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Wednesday 3 December

• Mercy – Richter
• Pachelbel: Canon in D – piano – unknown artist
• O Come, O Come Emmanuel – piano – Chad Lawson
• With this Love – Peter Gabriel

Tuesday 2 December

• Carol of the Bells – Stephan Moccio
• O Come, O Come Emmanuel – The Piano Guys
• What Child is This – The Piano Guys 
• When a Child is Born – The Moody Blues

Monday 1 December

• Open My Heart
• Serenity
• The Spheres (Kyrie Eleison)

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