11:00 Music Schedule, Michaelmas 2023–Ash Wednesday 2024

See also 9:00 Music Schedule

All of the following services are at 11:00 AM on Sundays and are sung by The Choir of The Church of the Advent unless otherwise indicated.

24 September – Pentecost XVII
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Missa “Simile est regnum cœlorum”
Marcel Dupré: Laudate Dominum, op 9, no 4
Francisco Guerrero: Simile est regnum cœlorum

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
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa “Nigra sum”
Anton Bruckner: Christus factus est, WAB 11
Felice Anerio: Christus factus est

8 October – Pentecost XIX
Claudio Monteverdi: Messa a quattro voci da cappella (1650)
Heinrich Schütz: Ich bin ein rechter Weinstock, SWV 389
Heinrich Schütz: Jauchzet dem Herren, SWV 36

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
Roland de Lassus: Missa ad imitationem “Vinum Bonum”
William Byrd: Oculi omnium
Alexander L’Estrange: Oculi omnium

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 Byrd: Mass for Three Voices
Andrea Gabrieli: Te Deum Patrem ingenitum
Andrew Parnell: Oculi omnium

29 October – Pentecost XXII
Harold E. Darke: Communion Service in E (Collegium Regale)
Charles Villiers Stanford: Beati quorum via, op 38, no 3
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: Missa “O quam gloriosum”
Tomás Luis de Victoria: O quam gloriosum
Stephen Paulus: The Road Home

12 November – Remembrance Sunday Requiem
Frei Manuel Cardoso: Missa pro defunctis cum sex vocibus
Gregorian chant

16 November – Anglo-Catholic Conference: North African Roots
Solemn Evensong (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: A Short Communion Service
Maurice Greene: Lord let my know mine end
Adrian Batten: Let my complaint come before thee

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
David Briggs: Truro Eucharist
Benjamin Britten: A Hymn of St. Columba
Harold W. Friedell: King of glory, King of peace
Gregorian chant, Solemn Tone: Te Deum laudamus

3 December – The First Sunday of Advent – The Feast of Title & Dedication
Anonymous (c 1390): Kyrie “Orbis factor”
John Taverner: Missa “Gloria tibi Trinitas”
Johannes Brahms: O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf, op 74, no 2
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
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana: Missa “L’hora passa”
Claude Goudimel: Comfort, comfort ye my people
Gustav Holst: Jesu, Thou the Virgin-Born, op 20b, no 3

17 December – Advent III (“Gaudete”)
Flor Peeters: Missa in honorem Sancti Josephi, op 21
Hieronymus Prætorius: Ecce Dominus veniet
Flor Peeters: Ave verum corpus, op 63, no 1

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
Jean Langlais: Missa in simplicitate
Johannes Ockeghem: Sicut cervus desiderat
Peter Hurford: Litany to the Holy Spirit

14 January – Epiphany II
Lodovico Grossi da Viadana: Missa “L’hora passa”
Henry Purcell: O God, thou art my God
Edward C. Bairstow: Let all mortal flesh keep silence

21 January – Epiphany III
Claudio Monteverdi: Missa “In illo tempore” à 4
Francisco Guerrero: Sicut cervus desiderat
Gioacchino Rossini: O salutaris Hostia

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
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla: Missa “Ego flos campi”
Robert Parsons: Domine, quis habitabit
Felix Mendelssohn: Verleih’ uns Frieden gnädiglich

4 February – The Presentation of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Temple (“Candlemas”)
Rodney Lister: Kyrie “Gloria tibi Trinitas”
John Taverner: Missa “Gloria tibi Trinitas”
Charles Wood: Nunc dimittis for Westminster Cathedral
Edward Elgar: Light out of darkness, op 29, no 6
Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Hodie Beata Virgo Maria

11 February – The Last Sunday after the Epiphany
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Minor for soli & double chorus
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Antiphon (Five Mystical Songs)
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