Comfort at One

Celebrate the coming of the new year with a spirited performance by the Bishop’s Band in today’s installment of Comfort at One. In 2014, the Bishop’s Band presented Codex II, a concert dedicated to Martínez Compañón’s book, music from the late 18th-century from the Codex Trujillo del Perú.

Trinity’s early music Twelfth Night Festival was a highlight of New York’s holiday season for several years. Today we present Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 (parts five and six). These choruses, intimate arias, and colorful orchestrations depict the Christmas story as a drama to rival his monumental passions.

Happy Holidays! Today’s Comfort at One brings you a blast from the past: our 2017 Christmas Concert and Community Carol Sing, featuring Julian Wachner’s beloved arrangements of favorite Christmas tunes from The Snow Lay on the Ground.

Comfort at One continues with a 2019 Festival of Lessons and Carols for Advent. A cherished holiday tradition for congregations around the world, this service tells the Christmas story through readings and musical illuminations. 

Today for Comfort at One, we are featuring a clip from “the essential New York Messiah” (The New York Times): “For unto us a child is born.”

Today for Comfort at One, sing along from wherever you are with Trinity ensembles in this concert that has been a highlight of the holiday season. This Christmas extravaganza, the Community Carol Sing, features Downtown Voices, NOVUS NY, and the Trinity Youth Chorus.

Today, Comfort at One brings you Trinity ensembles, under the direction of Julian Wachner, performing parts one and three of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio.

Trinity’s Messiah is unique—presented in a sacred space, on historic instruments, with soloists chosen from the choir to best complement each aria, air, and recitative. Trinity presented one of the first performances in North America in 1770, and The Choir of Trinity Wall Street and Trinity Baroque Orchestra under the direction of Julian Wachner are widely regarded as some of the greatest interpreters of the work. 

For today’s Comfort at One, we give you one of the most dramatic movements of Messiah, “He was despised,” powerfully performed in this clip by Jonathan Woody of The Choir of Trinity Wall Street.

"Messiah Week" for Comfort at One continues as we feature another impressive choral movement featuring The Choir of Trinity Wall Street. We hope that you enjoy Trinity’s interpretation of “Purify” in a performance praised by The New York Times: “With the church’s choir and the Trinity Baroque Orchestra, Mr. Wachner provides gritty, gutsy, edge-of-the-seat performances.”