9:00 Music Schedule, Michaelmas 2023–Ash Wednesday 2024
See also 11:00am Music Schedule
24 September – Pentecost XVII
Sidney Schofield Campbell: Praise to God in the highest
Hans Leo Haßler: Cantate Domino à 4
29 September – Michaelmas – Brass Ensemble
Friday, 6:30pm, Gala Reception follows
Alec Wyton: Communion Service “Short Festival Setting,” for chorus, organ & brass quartet
William H. Harris: Faire is the heaven
Richard Dering: Duo Seraphim clamabant
1 October – Pentecost XVIII
Felice Anerio: Christus factus est
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana: Adoramus te, Christe
8 October – Pentecost XIX
William Byrd: Cibavit eos exadipe
William Byrd: Venite, comedite
13 October – The Order of St John & The Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Solemn Evensong
Friday, 6:00pm
Richard Ayleward: Responses
H. David Hogan: Mount St Alban Service
William Mundy: O Lord, the maker of all thing
H. Balfour Gardiner: Evening Hymn
15 October – Pentecost XX
Anonymous: Rejoice in the Lord alway
Flor Peeters: Ave verum corpus, op 63, no 1
Solemn Evensong & Benediction
4:30pm Organ Prelude Recital by Richard Clark, The Cathedral of the Holy Cross
5:00pm Evensong & Benediction
6:00pm Wine & Cheese Reception
Richard Ayleward: Responses
William Walton: Chichester Service
Alexander L’Estrange: Oculi omnium
William Walton: A Litany
T. Frederick H. Candlyn: O salutaris Hostia in A
22 October – Pentecost XXI
Altos, Tenors & Basses
William H. Harris: Vox Ultima Crucis
William Byrd: Lord, hear my prayer
29 October – Pentecost XXII
William Byrd: Teach me, O Lord
Thomas Matthews: God be in my head
2 November – All Souls Day – Orchestra
Thursday, 6:30pm
Maurice Duruflé: Requiem, op 9
Gregorian chant
5 November – Sunday in the Octave of All Saints
Tomás Luis de Victoria: O quam gloriosum
Stephen Paulus: The Road Home
12 November – Remembrance Sunday Requiem
Felice Anerio: Requiem æternam
C. Hubert H. Parry: Crossing the bar
John Goss: These are they that follow the Lamb
Gregorian chant
16 November – Anglo-Catholic Conference: North African Roots
Solemn Evensong & Benediction (Margaret of Scotland)
Thursday, 6:30pm
Philip Radcliffe: Responses
Giles Swayne: Magnificat I
Charles Wood: Nunc dimittis for Westminster Cathedral
Thomas Matthews: God be in my head
Charles Villiers Stanford: Beati quorum via, op 38, no 3
17 November – Anglo-Catholic Conference: North African Roots
Solemn Mass (Hugh of Lincoln)
Friday, 6:30pm
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Missa “O quam gloriosum”
William Byrd: Vigilate, vigilate
Anton Bruckner: Os justi meditabitur sapientiam, WAB 30
19 November – Pentecost XXV
Adrian Batten: Let my complaint come before thee
Giovanni Croce: O sacrum convivium
Evensong & Benediction
4:30pm Organ Prelude Recital by L. Graham Schultz, S Stephen’s Church, Providence
5:00pm Evensong & Benediction
6:00pm Wine & Cheese Reception
Philip Radcliffe: Responses
A. Herbert Brewer: Evening Service in D Major
Thomas Campion: Never weather-beaten sail
Maurice Greene: Lord let my know mine end
T. Frederick H. Candlyn: O salutaris Hostia in A
26 November – Christ the King
C. Armstrong Gibbs: Thee will I love my God and King
Adrian Batten: O sing joyfully
3 December – The First Sunday of Advent – The Feast of Title & Dedication
Charles Villiers Stanford: Pray that Jerusalem may have peace
Anton Bruckner: Locus iste a Deo factus est, WAB 23
Advent Lessons & Carols
4:30pm Organ Prelude Recital by Diane Meredith Belcher, International Concert Organist
5:00pm Lessons & Carols
Gala Reception to follow
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Matin & Vesper Responsories
Benjamin Britten: A Hymn of St. Columba
arr Ralph Vaughan Williams: The Truth from Above
Larry Palmer: In the year that King Uzziah died
William Byrd: Vigilate, vigilate
Johannes Brahms: O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf, op 74, no 2
John Taverner: Ave Maria
arr David Willcocks: Gabriel’s Message
Jeremy Filsell: Tomorrow shall be my dancing day
10 December – Advent II
Claude Goudimel: Comfort, comfort ye my people
Gustav Holst: Jesu, Thou the Virgin-Born, op 20b, no 3
17 December – Advent III (“Gaudete”)
Christmas Pageant by the Church School
24 December – Advent IV
Low Mass, 8:00am; Sung Mass & Hymns, 10:00am
Healey Willan: Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena
to be sung by the congregation
24 December – Christmas Eve, Family Mass
Sunday, 4:30pm
Gregor Aichinger: Noe, noe, noe
arr Ralph Vaughan Williams: On Christmas night
24 December – Christmas Eve, Midnight Mass
Sunday, 10:00pm, Prelude by The Advent Choir c 9:15pm
George Malcolm: Missa ad Præsepe
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Gaudete omnes et lætamini
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Hodie Christus natus est
31 December – Christmas I
Low Mass, 8:00am; Sung Mass & Hymns, 10:00am
Healey Willan: Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena
to be sung by the congregation
New Year’s Eve
A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols by Candlelight
Sunday, 5:00pm
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Hodie Christus natus est
George Guest: The Lord at first did Adam make
Kenneth Leighton: Lully, lullay, thou little tiny child, op 25b
Rodney Lister: Let us go now (world premiere)
arr Andrew Carter: I wonder as I wander
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Gaudete omnes et lætamini
Felix Mendelssohn: Ave Maria, op 23, no 2
Francis Poulenc: Quem vidistis pastores op 152, no 2
arr Robert de Pearsall: In dulci jubilo
Cecilia McDowall: Gaude et lætare
Eric H. Thiman: Brightest and best
5 January – Vigil of The Epiphany
Friday, 6:30pm
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Missa “O magnum mysterium”
Eric H. Thiman: Brightest and best
Gustav Holst: Jesu, Thou the Virgin-Born, op 20b, no 3
7 January – The Baptism of Our Lord
Sopranos & Altos
Johannes Ockeghem: Sicut cervus desiderat
Peter Hurford: Litany to the Holy Spirit
14 January – Epiphany II
arr Martin Baker: Christus vincit, Christus regnat
William H. Harris: The Holy Eucharist (Him, holy)
21 January – Epiphany III
Francisco Guerrero: Sicut cervus desiderat
William Byrd: I have longed for thy saving health
Solemn Evensong & Benediction
4:30pm Organ Prelude Recital by Alastair Stout
5:00pm Evensong & Benediction
6:00pm Wine & Cheese Reception
William Smith of Durham: Responses
Nicolas Gombert: Magnificat octavi toni
Cristóbal de Morales: Nunc dimittis octavi toni
William Byrd: I have longed for thy saving health
Anton Bruckner: Os justi meditabitur, WAB 30
Gioacchino Rossini: O salutaris Hostia
George Henschel: Tantum ergo sacramentum
27 January – Annual Mass of the Society of King Charles the Martyr
Saturday, 11:00am
Claudio Monteverdi: Missa “In illo tempore” à 4
Sebastián de Vivanco: Hic est vere martyr
Tomás Luis de Victoria: O quam gloriosum
28 January – The Fourth Sunday after the Epiphany
Choir Excused
4 February – The Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple (“Candlemas”)
John Taverner: Ave Maria
William Byrd: Senex puerum portabat
11 February – The Last Sunday after the Epiphany
Charles Wood: O thou, the central orb
Ralph Vaughan Williams: The New Commonwealth
14 February – Ash Wednesday
Wednesday, 6:30pm
Plainsong: Missa de Angelis (Mass VIII)
William Byrd: Ne irascaris, Domine
William Byrd: Civitas sancti tui
Gregorio Allegri: Miserere mei, Deus