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Music List


Choir Music – Autumn 2024

 

Date Anthem/Motet  Composer Mass Cond/Org
Sunday 8 September Communion:  The Lamb  Tavener Rawsthorne OG
Sunday 15 September Communion:  Now the green blade riseth  Mudd  Merbecke LB
Sunday 22 September Anthem:  Lord, for they tender mercies’ sake
Communion:   Lead me, Lord
Farrant
Wesley
Merbecke LB
Sunday 29 September Anthem:  O Sing Joyfully Batten Merbecke LB
Sunday 6 October
(Harvest Festival)
Anthem: Thou Visitest the Earth
Communion: Give Almes of Thy Goods
Greene
Tye
Merbecke LB
CHOIR PRACTICE ON THURSDAY 10 OCTOBER 7pm
Sunday 13 October Communion: Ave Verum Byrd Rawsthorne OG
Sunday 20 October Anthem:  O Come ye Servants of the Lord Tye Merbecke LB
Sunday 27 October Gradual:  Exultate justi  Bruckner Merbecke OG
Sunday 3 November
(All Saints)
Anthem:     O quam gloriosum
Communion:  Sicut Cervus
Victoria
Palestrina
Merbecke OG
  Commemoration of the Faithful Departed 4.00pm. rehearsal 3.15pm
(All Souls) Introit:  Missa di Requiem
Anthem:  In Paradisum (Requiem)   
Plainchant
Faure
  OG
Sunday 10 November
Remembrance Sunday
At the War Memorial:
Rehearsal at 10:00AM for 10.45am service
In War, Resolution
For the Fallen

Malcolm Archer
Douglas Guest
 
OG
Sunday 17 November Communion:  Ubi Caritas Durufle Merbecke LB
Sunday 24 November Anthem:  Mine Eyes for Beauty Pine Howells Merbecke LB
Sunday 1 December
   
ADVENT SUNDAY
Advent Wreath 1
Anthem:  Remember O Thou Man

Archer
Ravenscroft
Merbecke LB
(4pm, 3pm rehearsal) ADVENT CAROLS
Introit:  Evening Responsory
Remember O Thou Man
Adam lay Ybounden
A maiden most gentle
A great and mighty wonder 

Palestrina/Cleobury
Ravenscroft
Ord
arr. Carter
Praetorius
  LB/OG
THURSDAY 5 DECEMBER CHOIR PRACTICE 7PM
Friday 6 December
(Jesus Hospital Carols)
Adam lay Ybounden  Ord   LB
Sunday 8 December Advent Wreath 2
Anthem:  A maiden most gentle
Archer
arr. Carter
Rawsthorne OG
  COMMUNITY CAROL CONCERT
Community choir/church choir and friends
     
THURSDAY 12 DECEMBER CHOIR PRACTICE 7PM
Sunday 15 December Advent Wreath 3
Anthem:  A great and mighty wonder
Archer
Praetorius
Merbecke  LB
Sunday 22 December  Advent Wreath 4
Anthem:    Adam lay YBounden
Archer
Ord
Merbecke LB
  CHRISTMAS CAROLS
Myn Lykyng
Peace on Earth
Away in a Manger
Candlelight Carol
Dancing Day

R R Terry
Wallen
arr Willcocks
Rutter
Gardner
  LB/OG
Tuesday 24 December
(11.30pm, 10.30 rehearsal)
MIDNIGHT MASS
Introit:   Hodie Christus Natus Est   
Anthem:   Away in a Manger
Communion:    Peace on Earth 

Britten
arr Willcocks
Wallen
Rawsthorne LB/OG
Wednesday  25 December CRISTMAS DAY
Introit:   Hodie Christus Natus Est
Anthem:   Ding dong Merrily on High

Britten
Trad arr Willcocks
Merbecke LB

Choir resumes on FRIDAY 3 JANUARY at 7pm


Choir Music – Summer 2024

 

Date Anthem/Motet  Composer Mass Cond/Org
Sunday 21 April Communion:  The Lamb  Tavener Merbecke LB
Sunday 28 April Communion:  Now the green blade riseth  Trad arr. Lindley  Merbecke LB
Sunday 5 May Gradual:  Perspice, Christicola
Communion:  If ye love me
10th century anon
Tallis
Merbecke LB
Thursday 9 May 
(Ascension Day)
Introit: Viri Galilei
Gradual: Lift up your heads
Plainchant
Amner
Merbecke LB
Sunday 12 May Gradual:  Lift up your heads
Communion:  O God the King of Glory
Amner
Purcell
Rawsthorne OG
CHOIR REHEARSAL ON THURSDAY 16 MAY AT 7PM INSTEAD OF FRIDAY 17 
Sunday 19 May
(Pentecost)
Gradual: Alleluia I heard a Voice Weelkes Merbecke LB
Sunday 26 May
(Trinity)
Introit:  Laus Trinitate  
Gradual:  Mine eyes for beauty pine
Communion:  Hymn to the Trinity
Hildegarde of Bingen
Howells
Tchaikovsky
Merbecke LB
Sunday 2 June Gradual:  Exultate justi  Viadana Merbecke OG
Sunday 9 June  Gradual:  O Sing Joyfully Batten Merbecke OG
Sunday 16 June   Communion:  Cantique de Jean Racine Faure Merbecke LB
Sunday 23 June Gradual:  Rejoice in the Lord always
Communion:  Oculi omnium
Anon
Wood
Merbecke LB
Sunday 30 June Communion:  Prayer for the Healing of the Sick Tavener Merbecke LB
CHOIR REHEARSAL ON THURSDAY 4 JULY AT 7PM INSTEAD OF FRIDAY 5
Sunday 7 July Gradual: Lord for thy tender mercy’s sake
Communion:  Geistliches Lied
Farrant
Brahms
Merbecke LB
Sunday 14 July Gradual:  Give us the wings of Faith
Communion:  Ubi caritas
Bullock
Gjeilo
Rawsthorne OG

REHEARSALS WILL RESTART ON FRIDAY 6 SEPTEMBER!

 


Choir Music – Spring 2024

 

Date Anthem/Motet  Composer Mass Cond/Org
Sunday 7 January Communion: The Three Kings  Cornelius Merbecke LB
Sunday 14 January Anthem: The Lamb
Communion: God be in my head
Tavener
Howells
Merbecke OG
Sunday 21 January Anthem: O Sing Joyfully
Communion: Sicut Cervus
Batten
Palestrina
Merbecke LB
Sunday 28 January Anthem: When to the temple Mary went Eccard Merbecke LB
Sunday 4 Feburary Anthem: Cantate Domino
Communion: Holy is the True Light
Hassler
Harris
Merbecke LB
Sunday 11 Feburary Anthem: O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht
Communion: Jesu, the very thought of thee
JS Bach
Bairstow
Merbecke OG
Wednesday 14 Feburary
(Ash Wednesday)
Introit: Lent Prose trad
Intercessions: The Litany
Communion: Miserere Mei
Scott
Marshall
 
Byrd: Agnes
Merbecke
Merbecke
LB
Sunday 18 Feburary Anthem: Miserere Mei   Byrd: Merbecke LB
Sunday 25 Feburary Anthem: Call to Remembrance
Communion: My Sinful Soul
Farrant
Trad/T Henley
Byrd: Kyrie
Merbecke
LB
Sunday 3 March Communion: Lord, let me know mine end Greene Byrd: Sanctus
Merbecke
LB
Sunday 10 March
(Mothering Sunday)
Anthem: A Hymn to the Virgin
 
Glading
 
Byrd: Agnus
Merbecke
OG
Sunday 17 March
(Passion Sunday)
Anthem: Christus Factus Est
Communion: Were you there?
Bruckner
Trad/Chilcott
Byrd: Kyrie/
Merbecke
LB
Sunday 24 March
(Palm Sunday)
Introit: Hosanna to the Son of David
Communion: Puer Hebraeorum
Plainchant
Victoria
Byrd: Sanctus/
Merbecke
LB
Thursday 28 March
(Maundy Thursday)
(7pm for 8pm)
Introit: Ubi Caritas
Anthem: An Upper Room
Psalm 22
Duruflé
Glading
Merbecke OG
Friday 29 March
(Good Friday)
Were you there?
The Lamentations
Trad/Chilcott
Bairstow
Byrd (complete) LB
Sunday 31 Match
(Easter)
Introit: This Joyful Eastertide 
Anthem: The Heavens are Telling
trad arr Ledger
Haydn
Rawsthorne LB/OG


REHEARSALS WILL CONTINUE FOR CONCERT ON APR 7 AND THEN RESTART ON FRIDAY 19 APRIL

 

 

 

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