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Monday 1 September 2008

Reality (unfortunately)

Of course, we're back. And this is what we've got. Oh dear.

0930 SUNG EUCHARIST [Order One]
NEH 188, 295, 182
Ps 52: 10-end,
Palestrina: Missa Assumpta est Maria
Mozart: Ave Verum
Preacher: The Dean
1100 MATTINS
Responses: Smith
Stanford in B flat
Pss. 112, 147
1530 EVENSONG
Responses: Clucas
NEH 180, 183, 185
Ps. 132
Howells: Gloucester Service
Grieg: Ave maris Stella

Tuesday 19 August 2008

THE FIRST SUNDAY AFTER TUNING

The latest offering to the (rather meagre) music list is from Mr Skygge. Jolly well done!

Celebrating that Holy Day when Reeds and other Temperamental Ranks are actually bearable. Also known as Drought Sunday
Voluntary: Frescobaldi: Toccata Nona.
Psalm 95 (Thomas Attwood Walmisley)
Hymns: "Love Has Come Again" (Crum/Noel nouvelet); "Joyful, Joyful We Adore Thee" (Beethoven/Hymn to Joy); "There's A Wideness in God's Mercy" (Calvin Hampton/St. Helena)
Anthem: "Thee, God..." (Ned Rorem--"Three Motets on Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins")Voluntary: "Voluntary in D Minor, op. 5, no. 8" (Stanley).
Of course, when the inevitable happens and the humidity explodes into rain, last-minute changes may be needed:
Hymn: "Low He Comes With Clouds Descending" (Charles Wesley)
Psalm: Psalm 65 (Walmisley)
Anthem: "Drop, Drop, Slow Tears" (Leighton).

Friday 25 July 2008

Lambeth Conference Valediction

Introit
Boyce: O where shall wisdom be found
Responses: Shepherd
Psalms: 27 – 29
Hymns: 455 tune 94, ‘Let me but feel’ tune NEH 320
Canticles
Moore: Canterbury Service
Anthem
Parry: There is an old belief
Voluntary: Mendelssohn War March of the Priests

Friday 27 June 2008

The Middle Sunday of Wimbledon

09.30 Eucharist
Introit: O Clap Your Hands (Vaughan-Williams)
Hymns AMNS 201, 523, 678
Darke in E
Anthem: Ave Maria (Parsons)
Voluntary: Flourish for an Occasion (Harris)

11.00 Mattins
Hymns AMNS 15, 30, 40, Deuce
Responses: Rose
Psalm: 48 (Goodenough)
Te Deum: Stanford in Bb
Jubilate: Chant (Alcock)
Anthem: Clouds and Darkness (Parry)
Voluntary: Hymn d'Action de Grace (Langlais)

3.30 Choral Evensong
Introit: Give me strength (Chilcott)
Responses: Guest
Hymns NEH 345 67, 129
Psalm: 121 (Jolly)
Gray in F minor
Anthem: This is the record of John (McEnroe)
Voluntary: Final (Symphonie III) Op 28, Vierne

Saturday 14 June 2008

The Feast of Judas Iscariot...

Being a little-known and under-celebrated festival in the Church's calendar, here provided with more-than-adequate music by FJL


THE FEAST OF JUDAS ISCARIOT
09.30 Eucharist
Joseph Fux: Missa in flagrante delicto
William Crotch: Lo star-led chiefs
Georg Muffat: Toccata in G [spot]

11.00 Matins
Responses: Osborne Peasgood
Samuel Scheidt: Jauchzet den Herrn
Bendictus (to chant: Quinney)
John Blow: Let thy hand be strengthened

3.00 Choral Evensong
Thomas Morley: Blow, shepherds, blow
Responses: Osborne Peasgood
Reginald Goss-Custard in E flat
Lars Klit ‘Out of the Deep’ (New Work)
Robert Fuchs ‘Variations and Fugue on an Original Theme’

Wednesday 11 June 2008

My turn...

THE FOURTH SUNDAY AFTER THE LORD'S TEST

09.30 Eucharist
Hymns AMNS 678, 301, 453,
Oldroyd: Mass of the Quiet Hour (so much better if one has a hangover)
Vaughan-Williams: O Taste and See (I know, but it's appropriate liturgically and we're still suffering a little after last night)
Voluntary: anything at all (we won't be listening - hair of the dog, and all that!)

11.00 Mattins
Hymns AMNS 192, 367 (we should know them well enough by now)
Responses: Tomkins
Stanford: Te Deum in C (we're feeling better now)
Malcolm Boyle: Thou, O God Art Praised in Sion (we're definitely feeling better)
Mulet: Carillon-Sortie

3.30 Choral Evensong
Hymns NEH 35, 678, 243
Responses: Leighton (lunchtime drinking gives us so much confidence)
Psalm 121 (Howells - who else?)
Walmisley in D minor (why not?)
Michael 'Ernie' Wise: The Ways of Zion do Mourn (just right after Sunday lunch, a big fat solo for a well-fed bass and a little reedy restoration waif completly drowned out by the noise)
Guilmant: March on a Theme by Handel (we'll certainly be listening to that!)

Monday 9 June 2008

June

THE THIRD SUNDAY AFTER TRINITY
09.30 Eucharist
Hymns AMNS 492, 438, 208, 357
Palestrina; Missa Papae Marcelli
Gibbons: Almighty and Everlasting God
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in G major

11.00 Mattins
Hymns AMNS 192, 367
Responses: Clucas
Elgar: Te Deum in F
McKie: We Wait for Thy Loving Kindness
Lefebure-Wely: Sortie in B flat

3.30 Choral Evensong
Hymns NEH 12, 93, 416
Responses: Morley
Psalm 41 (Ouseley, Flintoft)
Purcell in G minor
Purcell: Remember not, Lord
Wolstenholme: Minuet in the style of Handel