Parish Church of Saint Thomas of Canterbury Brentwood

MUSIC LIST April 2006

2 SundayTHE FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT
10.00amSUNG MASS
 Kyrie: The Brentwood Mass — David Rooke
 Responsorial Psalm 51 — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Praise to you O Christ — David Rooke
 Sanctus & Benedictus: Eucharistic Acclamations 2 — Paul Inwood
 Agnus Dei: Missa in Simplicitate — Jean Langlais
 Communion: Out of the deep — Thomas Tomkins
 Hymns: 'Lift high the cross' NEH 83 84 95
 Organ: Plein Jeu and Duo — Louis Nicolas Clérambault
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG
 Responses: Thomas Morley
 Psalm 34 (vv 1-10)
 Canticles: Daniel Purcell in E minor
 Anthem: Adoramus te, Christi — Orlande de Lassus
 Hymns: NEH 79 (omit v 3 & 4) 90 (omit *) 89(i)
 Amen: Sydney Nicholson
 Organ: Chorale Prelude on 'O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden' — Carl Adolf Lorenz

 
9 SundayPALM SUNDAY
10.00amPALM SUNDAY CEREMONIES & SOLEMN MASS
 Responsorial Psalm 31 (v 9-16) — Alan Rees
 Gospel Acclamation: Praise to you O Christ — David Rooke
 Offertory: O bone Jesu — Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
 Sanctus & Benedictus: Eucharistic Acclamations 2 — Paul Inwood
 Agnus Dei: Sam Adams
 Communion: Crown of roses — Peter Tchaikovsky
 Hymns: NEH 508 509 510 511: 86(omit *) 82 92
 
6.30pmSOLEMN EVENSONG & STATIONS OF THE CROSS
 Introit: Drop, drop slow tears — Orlando Gibbons
 Responses: Plainsong
 Psalm 69 (vv 1-18) — Plainsong
 Canticles: Carolus Andreas fauxbourdons
 Anthem: O vos omnes — Tomas Luis da Vittoria
 During Stations of the Cross: Adoremus te Domine — Taizé
 Hymns: NEH 79(128ii) (omit v 3 & 4) 439(ii) 94
 Amen: John Hilton

 
12 WednesdayWEDNESDAY IN HOLY WEEK
9.30pmSUNG COMPLINE
(Sung by Men's voices)
 Responses, Psalm 4 & Nunc Dimittis — Plainsong
 Office Hymn: 241(ii)

 
13 ThursdayMAUNDY THURSDAY
8.00pmSOLEMN MASS OF THE LAST SUPPER
 Kyrie: Missa orbis factor
 Responsorial Psalm 116 — Gregory Murray
 Gospel Acclamation: David Rooke
 During feet washing: Ubi caritas et amor — Maurice Duruflé
 Offertory: Soul of Jesu, make me whole — Richard Greening
 Sanctus, Benedictus & Agnus Dei: Mass of the Quiet Hour — George Oldroyd
 Communion: Ave verum corpus William Byrd
 Hymns: 'The glory of the cross' 'Redeemer Lord, your praise we sing'
          'Kneels at the feet' 'Servant King' 'An upper room'
 During Procession: NEH 268
 During Stripping of the Altar: Psalm 22 — Plainsong tone ii

 
14 ThursdayGOOD FRIDAY
9.30amSTATIONS OF THE CROSS
(Sung by the Girl's Choir)
 Anthems: Christ has no body now but yours — David Ogden
          When I survey the wondrous cross — Malcolm Archer
 Hymns: 'Love is his word' 'Lord of the dance'
 
2.00pmLITURGY OF THE PASSION
(Sung by the Becket Singers)
 Responsorial Psalm 22 (selected verses) — David Rooke
 Acclamation: Christus factus est pro nobis — Felice Anerio
 Passion Response: Damion Lundy
 Veneration of the Cross:Reproaches — Tomas Luis da Vittoria
Crucifixus — Antonio Lotti
 Agnus Dei: Collegium Regale — Herbert Howells
 Communion: God so loved the world — John Stainer
 Hymns: NEH 86(omit *) 92 95

 
15 SaturdayHOLY SATURDAY
8.00pmPASCHAL VIGIL & FIRST MASS OF EASTER
 Responsorial Psalms — Gregory Murray
 Gloria: A New People's Mass — Gregory Murray
 Responsorial Psalm 118 — Noel Rawsthorne
 Litany of the Saints — James Walsh
 Offertory: Surrexit Christus Alleluia — Taizé
 Sanctus Benedictus & Agnus Dei: Festive Eucharist — Noel Rawsthorne
 Communion: Christ the Lord is risen again — Anthony Foster
 Hymns: NEH 124 113 120(HFT95)
 Organ: Paraphrase on 'Maccabaeus' — Alexandre Guilmant

 
16 SundayEASTER DAY
10.00amSOLEMN MASS AND HOLY BAPTISM
 Introit: This joyful Eastertide — Dutch Carol arr Charles Wood
 Kyrie: Missa Brevis in G (K 140) — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 Gloria: Mass of Saint Thomas — David Thorne
 Responsorial Psalm 118 — Gregory Murray (NEH 539)
 Gospel Acclamation: Salisbury Alleluia — Christopher Walker
 Offertory: Jubilate Deo — Michael Praetorius
 Sanctus Benedictus & Agnus Dei: Harold Darke in F
 Communion: Joy is come — Andrew Carter
 Hymns: NEH 110 118 119 296(i) 117
 Organ: Festival Toccata — Percy Fletcher
 
6.30pmSOLEMN EVENSONG
 Introit: This joyful Eastertide — Dutch Carol arr Charles Wood
 Responses: David Rooke
 Psalms 114 117 — Peter Hurford
 Canticles: Charles Villiers Stanford in B flat
 Anthem: Blessed be the God and Father — Samuel Sebastian Wesley
 Hymns: NEH 101(i) omit*vv 106(219) 105(ii)
 Amen: John Sanders
 Organ: Choral Song — Samuel Sebastian Wesley

 
23 SundayTHE SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER
10.00amSOLEMN MASS
 Setting: The English Mass Leonard J White
 Responsorial Psalm 133 — Nicholas Rayner
 Gospel Acclamation: Saint Thomas Alleluia — David Rooke
 Intercessions: Listen Lord — Iona
 Communion: Easter Greeting — Martin How
 Hymns: NEH 104 113 123 486
 Organ: Introduction and March — William Walton
 
11.45amHOLY BAPTISM
 Hymn CH 184
 
6.30pmSOLEMN EVENSONG for Saint George, Martyr, Patron of England
 Introit: O praise God in his holiness — John Weldon
 Responses: Ferial
 Psalm 111
 Canticles: Collegium Regale — Herbert Howells
 Anthem: Give us the wings of faith — Ernest Bullock
 Hymns: NEH 217 162 120(HFT95)
 Amen: — Martin Shaw
 Organ: Cantilene from Trois pieces Op 29 — Gabriel Pierné

 
28 Friday
1.00pmLUNCHTIME MUSIC
Coggeshall Baroque Trio

 
30 SundayTHE THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER
10.00amSOLEMN MASS
(with the Orchestra of St Thomas)
 Kyrie & Gloria: Mass of Saint Thomas Becket — Martin Smith
 Responsorial Psalm 4 — Colin Mawby
 Gospel Acclamation: Saint Thomas Alleluia — David Rooke
 Sanctus & Benedictus: Coventry Acclamations — Paul Inwood
 Agnus Dei: Frederick Wadely in G
 Communion: Most glorious Lord of life — William Harris
 Hymns: NEH 103 'The Lord is alive' 'Be still' 112
 Organ: Crown Imperial March — William Walton
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG
 Responses: Richard Ayleward
 Psalm 142
 Canticles: Herbert Sumsion in G
 Anthem: Cantate Domino — Guiseppe Ottavio Pitoni
 Hymns: NEH 101(ii) omit*vv 391 117
 Amen: Richard Ayleward
 Organ: Aria — Noel Rawsthorne

 

Services are sung by the Parish Choir unless otherwise stated

Music is a very important part of the life and worship at St Thomas'