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CHURCH CHOIR MUSIC 2006

2006

10.45 Parish Eucharist

 

6.00 Choral Evensong

 
 

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January 1

 

Grand Choeur in A - Salome

 

 

January 6

Feast of the Epiphany

Setting: Liverpool Service (Rawsthorne)

 

 

 

January 8

Anthem: From the rising of the sun (Ouseley)

Postlude on Dix W H Harris

 

 

January 15

FAMILY EUCHARIST

Sortie in E Flat Lefebvre-Wely

Introit: Arise, shine (from Palestrina)

Responses: Phillipson-Masters

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Stanford in C

Anthem: Say where is he born (Mendelssohn)

Fugue from Prelude & Fugue in G minor Op 8 - Dupre

January 22

Anthem: O Lord increase our faith (Loosemore)

Prelude on Crofts 136th C H H Parry

 

 

January 29

Anthem: When to the temple (Eccard)

Epistle Sonata Mozart

   

February 5

Anthem: The secret of Christ (Shephard)

Fantasia in F minor Mozart

   

February 12

Anthem: Theres a wideness (Bevan)

Giant Fugue in D minor Bach

   

February 19

Anthem: God be in my head (Rutter)

Postlude in D Healey Willan

Introit: Let my prayer (Blow)

Responses: Sanders

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Sumsion in A

Anthem: The eyes of all wait (Harris)

Fugue in G minor Bach

February 26

FAMILY EUCHARIST

Festal flourish Gordon Jacob

   

March 1

Ash Wednesday

 

 

7.30pm CHORAL EUCHARIST WITH ASHING

Litany: Marshall

Anthem: Lord for thy tender mercys sake (Farrant)

 

March 5

Anthem: Lent Prose (anon)

5 part Fantasia in C minor Bach

 
   

March 12

Anthem: Civitas sancti tui (Byrd)

Fantasia (from Fantasia & Fugue) in G minor Bach

   

March 19

Anthem: Wash me throughly (Wesley)

Fugue from Great Prelude & Fugue in C minor Bach

 

 

March 26

Mothering Sunday

 

FAMILY EUCHARIST

Toccata and Fugue in D minor Bach

 

 

April 2

Passion Sunday

Choruses from Messiah (Handel)

Prelude (from Prelude and Fugue) in F minor - Bach

   

April 9

Palm Sunday

Opening: Feast of Palms (Bullard)

Anthem: O Saviour of the World (Goss)

Chorale Prelude Valet will ich der leben (in B flat) - Bach

   

April 14

Good Friday

    2pm Holy Hour  

April 16

Easter Day

Anthem: This joyful Eastertide (Charles Wood)

Final from 1st Symphony Vierne

Responses: Phillipson-Masters

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Brewer in D

Anthem: Come ye Faithful (Thatcher)

Allegro (1st movement) from 6th Symphony Widor

April 23

Anthem: Sing, choirs of heaven (Shephard)

Intro and Toccata on Easter hymn Choveaux

   

April 30

Anthem: God so loved the world (Goss)

Toccata from Sonata 14 Rheinberger

   

May 7

Opening: Ave verum corpus (Mozart)

Anthem: Jesu, joy of mans desiring (Bach)

Toccata from 5th Symphony Widor

 

 

May 14

Anthem: I give you a new commandment (Aston)

Introduction and Allegro in A minor John Stanley

   

May 21

FAMILY EUCHARIST

Finale from Symphony 6 Widor

   

May 25

Ascension Day

 

 

7.30pm

Missa Brevis in G (Mozart K 49)

Anthem: Coelos ascendit hodie (Stanford)

 
1st movement from Symphony 2 Vierne

May 28

 

Grand Choeur in B flat - Dubois

   

June 4

Pentecost:

Anthem: Holy Spirit, truth divine (Carter)

 
 

Introit: If ye love me (Tallis)

Responses: Statham

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Noble in B minor

Anthem: Though I speak with the tongues of men (Bairstow)

 

June 11

Anthem: Hymn to the Trinity (Tchaikovsky)

     

June 18

FAMILY EUCHARIST

 

Introit: O Holy Spirit, Lord of grace (Tye)

Responses: William Smith

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Sumsion in G

Anthem: The secret of Christ Shephard

 
 

June 25

Anthem: Jesu, the very thought of thee (Bairstow)

     

July 2

Anthem: How beautiful upon the mountains (Stainer)

     

July 9

Opening: They that go down to the sea (Sumsion)

Anthem: O for a closer walk (Stanford)

     

July 16

FAMILY EUCHARIST

     

July 23

Anthem: Loving shepherd (Ledger)

     

July 30

Anthem: Lord, I trust thee (Handel)

     

August 6

       

August 13

       

August 20

FAMILY EUCHARIST

     

August 27

       

September 3

Anthem: O Lord my God Wesley

     

September 10

Anthem: Ave Maria (Elgar)

     

September 17

FAMILY EUCHARIST

 

Introit: Teach me thy way (Fox)

Responses: Phillipson-Masters

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Carter (Southwell Service)

Anthem: Christe adoramus te (Monteverdi)

 

September 24

Anthem: Christus factus est (Anerio)

     

October 1

Anthem: Fear not, O land (W H Harris)

 

Introit Laudate Dominum (Clifford Harker)

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Stanford in B flat

Responses: Sumsion

Anthem: Let all the world (Vaughan Williams)

 

October 8

Anthem: Ubi caritas (Durufle)

     

October 15

FAMILY EUCHARIST

 

2.30pm CIVIC SERVICE

Faith, hope and love arr David Ogden (Pachelbel Canon)

 

October 22

Anthem: I give to you a new commandment Nardone

     

October 29

PARISH WEEKEND

     

November 1

All Saints Day

   

7.30 pm CHORAL EUCHARIST

Gounod Messe solennelle

Anthem: O king all glorious (Healey Willan)

 

November 5

Anthem: Holy is the true light (W H Harris)

     

November 12

Anthem: So they gave their bodies (Aston)

     

November 19

FAMILY EUCHARIST

 

Introit: O praise the Lord (Batten)

Responses: Martin Neary

Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Watson in E

Anthem: And I saw a new heaven (Bainton)

 

November 26

Christ the King

Anthem: King of all ages Paul Isom

 

 

 

December 3

Advent Sunday

Anthem:

 

ADVENT SERVICE OF LIGHT

including:

I look from afar (Palestrina)

Never weather-beatedn sail (Shephard)

Creator of the stars of night

Prayer for the blessing of light

E'en so, Lord Jesus, quickly come

Tomorrow go ye forth (Palestrina)

 

December 10

Anthem: How beautiful upon the mountains (Stainer)  

 

 

December 17

Anthem: This is the truth sent from above

 

SERVICE OF NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS

including:

A tender shoot (Bartholomew)

Angelus ad virginem (arr Carter)

O holy night (Adam)

What sweeter music (Rutter)

On this day earth shall ring (Hylton Stewart)

Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (Gardner)

No small wonder (Edwards)

 
December 24 Anthem: Ave Maria (Arcadelt)   MIDNIGHT EUCHARIST  

December 25

Christmas Day

   

 

 
December 31