Our Advent carol service used the O Antiphons and I was assigned O Clavis David, which posed the question of how to pronounce ‘sceptrum’. I decided on ‘ske-‘ with a rather soft k sound, which according to the rules is wrong, but as I found St John’s Cambridge doing something similar I’m in good company.
There were some pieces I hadn’t sung before such as Judith Weir’s setting of part of the Advent Prose, George Guest’s of When came in flesh and Shephard’s Advent Carol. More familiar fare were Jesus Christ the Apple Tree and And I saw a new Heaven, the latter piece now seeming to have shed its jinx for me.