Choral Music List

The choir’s repertoire is both wide and varied performing music from the fourteenth century to the present day, and it is adventurous in its programming, balancing new and unfamiliar works with the traditional cathedral repertory.

Music for Upcoming Services
April 2023
6 April - Maundy Thursday

20.00 Eucharist of the Last Supper

Mass – Missa brevis - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525 –1594)
Ubi caritas – Grayston Ives (b. 1957)
Anthem – Verily I say unto you – Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 – 1585)
Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae (1:1-5) – Orlande de Lassus (c.1530/32 – 1594)

7 April -  Good Friday

12.00 Seven Last Words Reflections

Lamentationes Jeremiae Prophetae (1:6) Orlande de Lassus (1532 – 1594)
Vere languores – Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
O vos omnes – Giovanni Croce (1557-1607)

14.00 The Good Friday Liturgy

Psalm 22 – Plainchant
Passion – Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
Ecce quomodo moritur - Jacob Handl (1550-1591)

9 April -  Easter Sunday

10.30 Choral Eucharist

Mass – Missa Ego flos campi – Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla (ca. 1590 –1664)
Anthem – Pascha nostrum - William Byrd (c.1540-1623)
Hallelujah Chorus – George Frederick Handel (1685 – 1759)

15.30 Easter Carol Service

Ye choirs of New Jerusalem – Edwards C. Bairstow (1874 – 1946)
Blessed be the God and Father – Samuel S. Wesley (1810 – 1876)
Athens – Piae Cantiones (arr. Geoffrey Shaw)

16 April -  The Second Sunday of Easter

10.30 Choral Eucharist

Mass – Mass – Missa Inviolata - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525 - 1594)
Anthem – Mitte manum tuam - Heinrich Isaac (c 1450 – 1517)

15.30 Choral Evensong

Introit - Ego sum pastor bonus - Giovanni Bonaventura Matucci (1712–1777)
Preces and Responses - William Smith (c.1603 –1645)
Psalm – 30, 1-5 
Canticles – Short Service -  Orlando Gibbons (1583 – 1625)
Anthem – O Lord Increase my Faith -  Gibbons

23 April -  The Third Sunday of Easter

10.30 Choral Eucharist

Mass – Mass – Missa Inter vestibulum - Francisco Guerrero (1528-1599)
Anthem – Ego sum panis vivus - William Byrd (c. 1540-1623)

15.30 Choral Evensong

Introit – Verily I say unto you - Thomas Tallis (c. 1505 – 1585)
Preces and Responses - William Byrd (c. 1540-1623)
Psalm – 48
Canticles - Short Evening Service – Thomas Weelkes (c.1576 -  1623)
Anthem – O Lord, the maker – William Mundy (c. 1530 – 1591)

30 April -  The Fourth Sunday of Easter

10.30 Choral Eucharist

Mass – 
Anthem – I sat down under his shadow – Sir Edward Cuthbert 
Bairstow (1874 –  1946)

15.30 Choral Evensong

Introit – Cantate Domino - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni (1657–1743)
Preces and Responses - William Byrd (c. 1540-1623)
Psalm – 29, 1-10 
Canticles - Evening Service – Richard Farrant (d. 1580)
Anthem - If ye love me - Thomas Tallis

 

March 2023
5 March - The Second Sunday of Lent

10.30 Choral Eucharist with Baptism

Mass – Missa Emendemus in melius - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c. 1525 – 1594)
Anthem – Emendemus in melius, - William Byrd (c.1539 – 1623)

21 March - Commemoration of the Martyrdom of Thomas Cranmer

11.30 Choral Mattins

Psalm – 105 vv1-15
Canticles – Te Deum in C, Charles Villiers Stanford (1852 – 1924) Anthem – Rejoice in the Lord always – Anon (C.16)

26 March  - The Fifth Sunday of Lent (Passion Sunday)

15.30 Choral Evensong

Introit – Oculi omnium - Charles Wood (1866 – 1926)
Preces and Responses – William Byrd (c.1539 – 1623)
Psalm - 30
Canticles – The Third Service - William Byrd (c.1539 – 1623)
Anthem – First antiphon - Kyrylo Stetsenko (1882 – 1922)

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