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
July 2023
9 July, 2023 The Fifth Sunday after Trinity

3.30pm Choral Evensong
Introit Oculi omnium - Charles Wood (1866 – 1926)
Responses William Byrd (c.1539 – 1623)
Canticles Richard Farrant (d. 1581)
Anthem Almighty and everlasting God - Orlando Gibbons (1583 – 1625)

16 July, 2023 The Sixth Sunday after Trinity

3.30pm Choral Evensong

Introit God is our hope and strength – J S Bach (1685 – 1750)
Responses William Smith (1603 – 1645)
Canticles Short Service - Orlando Gibbons (1583 – 1625)
Anthem Behold the tabernacle of God - William H. Harris (1883 – 1973)

23 July, 2023 The Seventh Sunday after Trinity

3.30pm Choral Evensong

Introit Christus factus est – Anton Bruckner (1824 – 1896)
Responses William Byrd (c.1539 – 1623)
Canticles Short Service, Thomas Weelkes (1573 – 1623)
Anthem God so loved the world – John Stainer (1840 – 1901)

30 July, 2023 The Eighth Sunday after Trinity

3.30pm Choral Evensong

Introit O taste and see, R. Vaughan-Williams (1872 – 1958)
Responses William Byrd (c.1539 – 1623)
Canticles Short Service, Orlando Gibbons (1583 – 1625)
Anthem O sacrum convivium – William Byrd (c.1539 – 1623)

June 2023
Sunday 4 June 2023        Trinity Sunday

10.30 Choral Eucharist

Mass – Missa Brevis – Kenneth Leighton (1929 – 1988)
Anthem – Benedicta sit Sancta Trinitas - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (c.1525–1594)

Sunday 11 June 2023      Trinity 1

10.30 Choral Eucharist 

Mass – Missa Brevis – Grayston Ives (b. 1948)
Anthem – Almighty and everlasting God – Orlando Gibbons (1583 – 1625)

15.30 Choral Evensong

Introit – O most merciful – Charles Wood (1866 – 1926)
Preces and Responses – William Byrd (c. 1540-1623)
Psalm - 41
Canticles – Short Service – Orlando Gibbons (1583 – 1625)
Anthem – If ye love me – Thomas Tallis (c.1505 1585)

Sunday 25 June 2023     Trinity 3

15.00 Choral Eucharist and Ordination

Mass - Missa brevis – Andrea Gabrieli (1532/3–1585)
Anthem - Listen sweet dove - Grayston Ives (b. 1957)

May 2023
7 May - The Fifth Sunday of Easter

10.30 Choral Eucharist with University Sermon

Mass - Missa Panis quem ego dabo - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina        (c. 1525 –1594)
Anthem – Zadock the Priest – Henry Lawes (d.1662) Composed for the Coronation of Charles II

14 May - The Sixth Sunday of Easter

10.30am Choral Eucharist

Mass – Missa Dum complerentur - Tomás Luis de Victoria (c.1548 - 1611)
Anthem – Non vos relinquam Orphanos - William Byrd (c.1540 – 1623)

3.30pm Choral Evensong

Introit – God is our hope and strength – J. S. Bach (1685 – 1750)
Preces and Responses – Thomas Tomkins (1572 – 1656)
Psalm – 87, 36, 5-10 
Canticles - Short Evening Service – Thomas Weelkes (c.1576 -  1623)
Anthem – O pray for the peace of Jerusalem – Thomas Tomkins

21 May - The Seventh Sunday of Eucharist

10.30 Choral Eucharist with University Sermon

Mass – Missa O rex gloriæ  - Alonso Lobo (c.1555-1617)
Anthem – Ascendens Christus in altum - Tomás Luis de Victoria  (c.1548-1611)

3.30pm Choral Evensong

Introit – O Christ, who art the light and Day – Robert Whyte (c.1538 – 1574)
Preces and Responses - William Smith (c.1603 –1645)
Psalm – 47 
Canticles – Plainsong with Fauxbourdons – Francis Jackson (1917 – 2022)
Anthem – The Lord goes up – Malcolm Archer (b. 1952)

28 May - Pentecost

10.30 Choral Eucharist with Confirmation

Mass – Missa brevis – Andrea Gabrieli (1532/3–1585)
Anthem – Hodie completi sunt - Andrea Gabrieli (1532/3–1585)

15.30 Choral Evensong

Introit – Song 23: To the Holy Spirit – Orlando Gibbons (1583 – 1625)
Preces and Responses - William Smith (c.1603 –1645)
Psalm – 67, 133
Canticles – Short Service -  Orlando Gibbons (1583 – 1625)
Anthem – Listen sweet dove - Grayston Ives (b. 1957)

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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