Sunday 5 May, 11.00am. Choral Matins | 6th Sunday of Easter

Introit

O Lord, make thy servant Charles our King – William Byrd (c.1540-1623)

Responses

William Byrd (c.1540-1623) 

Psalm

Cantate Domino – Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

Canticle

Venite

Hymns

At the name of Jesus 

 

We have a gospel to proclaim

 

I danced in the morning

Anthem

My beloved spake – Patrick Hadley (1899-1973)

March

On Parade (Quick March of the Royal Logistics Corps)

Voluntary

Exultemus (Seven Sketches) – Percy Whitlock (1903-1946)

Sunday 12 May, 11.00am. Choral Matins | Sunday after Ascension Day

Introit

Coelos ascendit hodie, Op. 38, No.2 – Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)

Responses

William Smith (1603-1645)

Psalm

1

Canticle

Jubilate (Second Service) – Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

Hymns

Hail the day that sees him rise

 

The head that once was crowned with thorns 

 

Crown him with many crowns

Anthem

O Clap your Hands – Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)

March

Blue Bonnets over the Border (Quick March of King’s Own Scottish Borderers)

Voluntary

Postlude on a Theme of Orlando Gibbons, Op. 105, No.2 – Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924)

Sunday 19 May, 11.00am. Choral Matins  | Pentecost; London Festival of Contemporary Church Music

Introit

The Call – Gail Randall (b. 1955)

Responses

Ben Parry (b. 1965)

Psalm

104.24-end

Canticle

Jubilate Deo – Matthew Martin (b. 1976)

Hymns

O Thou who camest from above

 

Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round 

 

Come down, O Love divine 

Anthem

Come, Holy Ghost – Jonathan Harvey (1939-2012)

March

Wings (Quick March of the Royal Engineers)

Voluntary

Triptych – Errollyn Wallen (b. 1958)

Sunday 26 May, 11.00am. Choral Eucharist  | Trinity Sunday

Introit

Libera nos I – John Sheppard (c.1515-1558)

Processional Hymn

Holy, holy, holy! Lord God Almighty!

Mass setting

Mass for Four Voices – William Byrd (c.1540-1623)

Gradual hymn

Bright the vision that delighted 

Offertory Hymn

Father, Lord of all creation

Communion

Great Lord of Lords – Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625) 

Recessional hymn

Thou, whose almighty word 

Voluntary

Fugue in E flat major “St. Anne”, BWV 552 – J. S. Bach (1685-1750)

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