Music for Christmas Eve
Seeing Shepherds by Daniel Bonnell
And so we reach the final day of Advent. For today, New Pilgrim Path's sacred music advisor has chosen a beautiful meditation on Mary, the expectant mother and the Child about to be brought forth for our salvation.
The Virgin is with Child is by the American composer, Randal DeBruyn. This lovely piece is composed in the style of a Baroque aria, a solo voice accompanied by a guitar and a chorus singing the carol Es Ist Ein Ros’ as a counter subject. The soloist is Judith Meyersberg. What a glorious way to complete our Advent journey!
TEXT
The Virgin is with child, and she shall bear a Son, and she shall call him Emmanuel.
Isaiah had foretold it, this rose I have in mind,
With Mary we behold it, the Virgin Mother kind.
To show God’s love aright, she bore to us a Saviour
When half spent was the night.
The Virgin is with Child is by the American composer, Randal DeBruyn. This lovely piece is composed in the style of a Baroque aria, a solo voice accompanied by a guitar and a chorus singing the carol Es Ist Ein Ros’ as a counter subject. The soloist is Judith Meyersberg. What a glorious way to complete our Advent journey!
TEXT
The Virgin is with child, and she shall bear a Son, and she shall call him Emmanuel.
Isaiah had foretold it, this rose I have in mind,
With Mary we behold it, the Virgin Mother kind.
To show God’s love aright, she bore to us a Saviour
When half spent was the night.