Organ Recital
Friday 13 December, 12.30 pm
Part of the Ilkley Arts Festival
Scenes and Antiphons op 80
(February – July 2000)
Christopher Rathbone
Scenes and Antiphons for Advent,
Christmas and Epiphany
Antiphon 1 – O Sapientia
Scene 1 - A voice crying in the wilderness
Antiphon 2 - O Adonaï
Scene 2 – The Annunciation
Antiphon 3 – O Radix Jesse
Scene 3 – Shepherds go to the Stable
Antiphon 4 – O Clavis David
Scene 4 – Angels
Antiphon 5 – O Oriens
Scene 5 – The Word made flesh
Antiphon 6 – O Rex gentium
Scene 6 – Magi follow the star
Antiphon 7 – O Emmanuel
Scene no 7 – King Herod and the Holy Innocents
Scene no 8 – The Peace of the Christ child (Pax Christi, Pax Mundi)
Antiphon 8 - O Virgo virginum