Music at St Mary’s Church, Thornbury




Choir Music List 2023

Live streaming and recordings of services at St Mary’s, Thornbury are on this YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNkUbB6tYzHdbDPJFSkdaZA


2026 Anthem Playlist on YouTube for rehearsing:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsnbLbF20cQQTs5BbJ0aM_-UDz5Je421z



 

 

 

2023

10.30am Parish Eucharist

6.00pm Choral Evensong

01-Jan

 

 

08-Jan

Anthem: Ave verum corpus (Mozart)

 

15-Jan

Anthem: Ave verum (Elgar)

 

22-Jan

Anthem: O for a closer walk with God (Stanford)

 

29-Jan

 

CANDLEMAS at St Arilda s

 

 

Anthem: Ave verum corpus (Mozart)

05-Feb

Anthem: Lead me, Lord (Wesley)

 

12-Feb

ALL AGE SERVICE

Responses: Smith

 

 

Canticles: Brewer in D

 

 

Anthem: O for a closer walk with God (Stanford)

19-Feb

Anthem: O nata lux (Tallis)

 

22-Feb

 

7.00pm

ASH WEDNESDAY

 

Anthem: Lord for thy tender mercy s sake (Farrant)

 

 

Anthem: Drop, drop slow tears (Gibbons)

26-Feb

Anthem: View me, Lord (Lloyd)

 

05-Mar

Anthem: If ye love me (Tallis)

 

12-Mar-23

ALL AGE SERVICE

Responses: Rose

 

 

Canticles: Noble in B minor

 

 

Anthem: Litany to the Holy Spirit (Hurford)

19-Mar-23

NO SERVICE AT ST MARY S

 

MOTHERING SUNDAY

 

 

26-Mar-23

Anthem: Ave verum (Elgar)

 

02-Apr

Anthem: Verily, verily I say unto you (Tallis)

 

PALM SUNDAY

 

 

04-Apr

 

7.00pm CHORAL SERVICE FOR HOLY WEEK

 

 

Verily, verily I say unto you (Tallis), The Reproaches (Sanders), If ye love me (Tallis)

06-Apr

 

6.30pm AGAPE SERVICE

MAUNDY THURSDAY

 

 

09-Apr

Anthem: O thou the central orb (Wood)

 

EASTER DAY

 

 

16-Apr

Anthem: The Call (Vaughan Williams)

 

23-Apr

Anthem:  My eyes for beauty pine (Howells)

 

30-Apr

Anthem: The Lord is my shepherd (Goodall)

 

07-May

Anthem: O taste and see (Vaughan Williams)

 

14-May

ALL AGE SERVICE

Responses: Ayleward

 

 

Canticles: Brewer in D

 

 

Anthem: Jesu the very thought of thee (Bairstow)

21-May

Anthem: If ye love me (Tallis)

 

28-May

Anthem: Litany to the Holy Spirit (Hurford)

 

04-Jun

Anthem: Holy, holy, holy (Tchaikovsky)

 

11-Jun

ALL AGE SERVICE

Responses: Ayleward

 

 

Canticles: Brewer in D

 

 

Anthem: Give us the wings of faith (Bullock)

18-Jun

Anthem: O for a closer walk with God (Stanford)

 

25-Jun

Anthem: The Call (Vaughan Williams)

 

01-Jul

 

ROCHESTER CATHEDRAL

CHOIR WEEKEND IN KENT

 

CHORAL EVENSONG

 

 

Responses: Ayleward

 

 

Canticles: Howells Collegium Regale

 

 

Anthem: Give us the wings of faith (Bullock)

02-Jul

GOODNESTONE CHURCH

 

 

MORNING SERVICE

 

 

Setting: Darke in F

 

 

Anthem: Cantique de Jean Racine (Faure)

 

09-Jul

ALL AGE SERVICE

Responses: Smith

 

 

Canticles: Walmisley in D minor

 

 

Anthem: Cantique de Jean Racine (Faure)

16-Jul

Anthem: Ave verum (Elgar)

 

23-Jul

Anthem: Like as the hart (Howells)

 

30-Jul

NO SERVICE

5.30pm Praise Service following Garden Party

 

 

Anthem: From the rising of the sun (Ouseley)

06-Aug

Anthem: If ye love me (Tallis)

 

13-Aug

ALL AGE SERVICE

No Choral Evensong

20-Aug

Anthem: Cantate Domino (Pitoni)

 

27-Aug

Anthem: Ave verum corpus (Mozart)

 

03-Sep

Anthem: Lord I trust thee (Handel)

 

10-Sep

ALL AGE SERVICE

Responses: Smith

 

 

Canticles: Brewer in E flat major

 

 

Anthem: Cantate Domino (Pitoni)

17-Sep

Anthem: There s a wideness in God s mercy (Bevan)

 

24-Sep

Anthem: Teach me, O Lord (Attwood)

 

01-Oct

Anthem: Lead me Lord (Wesley)

 

08-Oct

ALL AGE SERVICE

Responses: Ayleward

 

 

Canticles: Watson in E minor

 

 

Anthem: Thou visitest the earth (Greene)

15-Oct

Anthem: O for a closer walk with God (Stanford)

 

22-Oct

Anthem: O Lord, increase our faith (Loosemore)

 

29-Oct

BENEFICE BRING AND SHARE

 

02-Nov

 

7.00pm SUNG SERVICE

ALL SOULS  DAY

 

 

05-Nov

Anthem: Teach me, O Lord (Attwood)

 

ALL SAINTS  DAY

 

 

12-Nov

Anthem: Call to Remembrance (Farrant)

6.00pm SUNG EUCHARIST

REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY

 

Anthem: Call to Remembrance (Farrant)

19-Nov

Anthem: O taste and see (Vaughan Williams)

 

26-Nov

Anthem: Ave verum (Mozart)

 

CHRIST THE KING

 

 

03-Dec

NO SERVICE

ADVENT SERVICE OF LIGHT

 

 

Drop down ye heavens (Plainchant)

 

 

Adam lay ybounden (Ord)

 

 

This is the truth (Vaughan Williams)

 

 

Veni veni, Emmanuel (Plainchant)

 

 

Creator of the stars of night (Plainchant)

10-Dec-23

ALL AGE SERVICE

 

17-Dec-23

Anthem: This is the truth sent from above (Vaughan Williams)

LESSONS AND CAROLS

 

 

Tomorrow shall be my dancing day (Gardner)

 

 

I saw a maiden (arr Pettman)

 

 

Lully lulla (Anon)

 

 

Sir Christemas (Mathias)

24-Dec

Anthem: A great and mighty wonder (Praetorius)

MIDNIGHT MASS

 

 

Anthem: I saw a maiden (arr. Pettman) What child is this (Stainer)

25-Dec

No anthem

 

31-Dec

No anthem

 

 

 

 

2022

10.30am Parish Eucharist

6.00pm Choral Evensong

02-Jan

Anthem: Quem pastores

 

09-Jan

Anthem: In the bleak midwinter (Darke)

Introit: Epiphany Responsory

 

 

Responses: Phillipson-Masters

 

 

Canticles: Phillipson-Masters

 

 

Anthem: From the rising of the sun (Ouseley)

16-Jan

Anthem: Author of life divine (Archer)

 

23-Jan

Anthem: O sing joyfully (Batten)

 

30-Jan

 

Anthem: When to the temple Mary went (Eccard)

CANDLEMAS

 

 

06-Feb

Anthem: Blessed be God and Father (SS Wesley)

 

13-Feb

Anthem: Brother James  Air

Responses: Ayleward

 

 

Canticles: Stanford in C

 

 

Anthem: Almighty and Everlasting God (Gibbons)

20-Feb

Anthem: I give you a new commandment (Aston)

 

27-Feb

Anthem: Day by day (How)

 

02-Mar

 

Anthem: Drop, drop slow tears (Gibbons)

ASH WEDNESDAY

 

 

06-Mar

Anthem: Lead me Lord (SS Wesley)

 

13-Mar

Anthem: Panis angelicus (Franck)

Responses: Phillipson-Masters

 

 

Canticles: Stanford in Bb

 

 

Anthem: O Lord the Maker (Joubert)

20-Mar

Anthem: Lord for thy tender mercy s sake (Farrant)

 

27-Mar

Anthem: Cantate Domino (Pitoni)

 

03-Apr

Anthem: If ye love me (Tallis)

 

PASSION SUNDAY

 

 

10-Apr

Anthem: God so loved the World (Stainer)

ST ARILDA S

PALM SUNDAY

 

Responses: Phillipson-Masters

 

 

Canticles:  Short  Evening Service (Morley)

 

 

Anthem: God so loved the World (Stainer)

11-Apr

 

Anthems:

 

 

Crown of Roses (Tchaikovsky)

 

 

God so loved the World (Stainer)

 

 

Crux fidelis (John IV)

 

 

If ye love me (Tallis)

 

 

This joyful Eastertide (Wood)

 

 

Christe Redemptor (Monteverdi)

15-Apr

 

Anthem: Crown of Roses

GOOD FRIDAY

 

 

17-Apr

Out of Darkness, God has called us (Christopher Walker)

 

EASTER DAY

Anthem: This joyful Eastertide (Wood)

 

24-Apr

No anthem

 

01-May

Now the green blade riseth (French carol)

 

08-May

 

Responses: Phillipson-Masters

 

 

Canticles: Brewer in D

 

 

Anthem: The strife is o er (Ley)

15-May

Come, ye faithful (Thatcher)

 

22-May

Out of Darkness, God has called us (Christopher Walker)

 

 

O sing joyfully (Batten)

 

26-May

 

7.00pm

ASCENSION DAY

 

Anthem: God is gone up (Hutchings)

29-May

SHEPPERDINE

 

 

Outdoor Baptism

 

05-Jun

Civic Service

 

12-Jun

 

Responses: Ferial/MJF

 

 

Canticles: Stanford in C

 

 

Anthem: Hymn to the Trinity (Tchaikovsky)

19-Jun

Anthem: Let thy merciful ears (Mudd)

 

26-Jun

Anthem: Stanford in Bb Jubilate

 

03-Jul

Anthem: O Lord increase my faith (Loosemore)

 

10-Jul

Psalm 122

Responses: William Smith

 

 

Canticles: Morley Short Service

 

 

Anthem: Rejoice in the Lord alway (Anon)

17-Jul

Anthem: I give you a new Commandment (Aston)

 

24-Jul

Anthem: Teach me, O Lord (Attwood)

 

31-Jul

SONGS OF PRAISE

 

07-Aug

Anthem: None

 

14-Aug

Anthem: None

CONGREGATIONAL EVENSONG WITH CHOIR

 

 

Anthem: Day by day (Martin How)

21-Aug

Anthem: O come, ye servants of the Lord (Tye)

 

28-Aug

Anthem: If ye love me (Tallis)

 

04-Sep

Anthem: Rejoice in the Lord alway (anon)

 

11-Sep

Anthem: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace (Redman)

CONGREGATIONAL EVENSONG WITH CHOIR

(following the death of QEII)

 

Anthem: Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace (Redman)

 

 

Recessional: Close thine eyes (Plumstead)

18-Sep

Anthem: Thou knowest, Lord (Purcell)

 

25-Sep

Anthem: View me, Lord (Lloyd)

 

02-Oct

Anthem: O Lord, increase our faith (Loosemore)

 

09-Oct

10am HARVEST FESTIVAL

Responses: Smith

 

 

Canticles: hymns

 

 

Anthem: Thou visitest the earth (Greene)

16-Oct

Anthem: Ave verum (Mozart)

 

23-Oct

Anthem: There s a wideness in God s mercy (Bevan)

 

BIBLE SUNDAY

 

 

30-Oct

 

Benefice Service for ALL SOULS AND ALL SAINTS at Oldbury

 

 

Anthem: Oculi omnium (Wood)

06-Nov

Anthem: Deck thyself, my soul, with gladness (Crüger)

 

ALL SOULS  DAY

 

 

13-Nov

CIVIC SERVICE

REMEMBRANCE at Oldbury

REMEMBRANCE SUNDAY

 

Anthem: Call to remembrance (Farrant)

20-Nov

Anthem: Lead me, Lord (Wesley)

 

CHRIST THE KING

 

 

27-Nov

Anthem: Adam lay ybounden (Ord)

ADVENT CAROLS

ADVENT

 

Choir items:

 

 

Remember O thou man (Ravenscroft)

 

 

Creator of the stars of night (Plainchant)

04-Dec

Anthem: Remember, O thou man (Ravenscroft)

 

11-Dec

Anthem: My eyes for beauty pine (Howells)

 

18-Dec

Anthem: Myn lyking (Terry)

LESSONS & CAROLS

 

 

Communion Service: Harold Darke

 

 

Choir items:

 

 

Sans day carol

 

 

I saw a maiden

 

 

Torches

24-Dec

 

11.15pm with the Bishop

CHRISTMAS EVE

 

Anthems: I saw a maiden (arr Pettman), Sans day carol (Rutter)

25-Dec

Anthem:

 

CHRISTMAS DAY

 

 

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