Parish Church of Saint Thomas of Canterbury Brentwood

MUSIC LIST January 2006

1 SundayTHE MOST HOLY NAME OF JESUS
10.00amSOLEMN MASSRCL 1059
 Setting: The English Mass — Leonard J White
 Responsorial Psalm 8 — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Plainsong G
 Offertory: Infant holy, Infant lowly — Polish Carol arr David Willcocks
 Communion: Jesu, dulcis memoria — Tomas Luis de Victoria
 Hymns: NEH 470 (omit vv 4&5) "Glory to God" 385 258
 Organ: Alla Marcia — Henry Coleman
 
6.30pmSOLEMN EVENSONG & BENEDICTION
 (Becket Consort of Voices)
 Introit: A New Year Carol — Benjamin Britten
 Responses: Richard Ayleward
 Psalm 115 — Sydney Nicholson
 Canticles: Thomas Morley fauxbourdons tones viii & v
 Anthem: Jesu, the very thought is sweet — Richard Shephard
 Hymns: NEH 374 40 O salutaris Hostia: NEH 269(i) Part 2 Tantum ergo Sacramentum: NEH 268 Part 2
 Organ: God rest you merry gentlemen — Wilbur Held

 
8 SundayTHE EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD
10.00amSOLEMN MASSRCL 38
 Setting: Festive Eucharist — Noel Rawsthorne
 Responsorial Psalm 72 (vv 1-6) — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Salisbury Alleluia — Christopher Walker
 Intercessions: O Lord hear my prayer — Taizé
 Offertory: Arise, shine for your light has come — Herbert Sumsion
 Communion: The three kings — Peter Cornelius
 Hymns: NEH 50(338) 52 292(i) 47
 Organ: Wie Schön leuchtet der Morgenstern — E F Richter
 
6.30pmSOLEMN EVENSONG
 Introit: Arise, shine for your light has come — Herbert Sumsion
 Responses: Bernard Rose
 Psalm 98 — Henry Smart
 Canticles: Charles Wood in D
 Anthem: From the rising of the sun — Frederick Arthur Gore-Ouseley
 Hymns: NEH 46(i) 49(ii) 57
 Amen: John Sanders
 Organ: Prelude — Gabriel Pierné

 
15 SundayTHE SECOND SUNDAY OF EPIPHANY
10.00am SOLEMN MASS RCL 465
 Setting: Herbert Sumsion in F
 Gloria: Mass of Saint Thomas Becket — Martin Smith
 Responsorial Psalm 139 (vv 1-9) — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Laurence Bevenot A
 Offertory Proper: O be joyful in God all ye lands — Plainsong tone ii
 Communion: The Lamb — John Tavener
 Hymns: NEH 56 200 294 486
 Organ: Ceremonial March — Herbert Sumsion
 
6.30pmEPIPHANY CAROL SERVICE
 (Girls' Choir & Men)
 Choir items: Brightest and best of the sons — Malcolm Archer
 Ecce advenit — William Byrd
 The Journey — Simon Lole
 Nunc Dimittis — Herbert Brewer in D
 Hymns: NEH 55 52 57 486
 Organ: Petit Pièce — Jean Langlais

 
22 SundayTHE THIRD SUNDAY OF EPIPHANY
10.00amSOLEMN MASSRCL 473
 Kyrie & Agnus Dei: Missa in Simplicitate — Jean Langlais
 Gloria Sanctus & Benedictus: Mass of Saint Thomas — David Thorne
 Responsorial Psalm 128 — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Laurence Bevenot B
 Offertory Proper: The right hand of the Lord — Plainsong tone ii
 Communion: Tribus miraculis — Luca Marenzio
 Hymns: NEH 55353 513 339
 Organ: Postlude — William Mathias
 
11.45am HOLY BAPTISM
 Hymn: CH 196DR
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG
 Responses: Thomas Morley
 Psalm 33 (vv 1-12) — Kellow Pye
 Canticles: George Dyson in D
 Anthem: There shall a star from Jacob come forth — Felix Mendelssohn
 Hymns: NEH 48 51 245
 Amen: Orlando Gibbons
 Organ: Wie Schone leuchtet der Morgenstern — Georg Phillipp Telemann

 
29 SundayTHE PRESENTATION OF CHRIST IN THE TEMPLE
 (Education Sunday)
10.00amSOLEMN MASS & CANDLEMAS CEREMONIESRCL 60
(with the Orchestra of St Thomas'+ and
 the Choir of St Thomas' Junior School*)
 Kyrie: A New People’s Mass — Gregory Murray
 Gloria: Lourdes — Jean-Paul Lécot
 Gradual: Make me a light — Philip Wilby*
 Gospel Acclamation: Celtic Alleluia — Fintan O'Carroll+
 Offertory: Nunc Dimittis - George Dyson in D
 Sanctus Benedictus & Agnus Dei: Israeli Mass — Anthony Hampson
 Communion: When to the temple Mary went — Johannes Eccard
 Hymns: NEH 33(omit *) "In his temple now behold him"+
 "Christ be our light" NEH 44(282)
 Organ: Prelude and Fugue in C minor — Johann Sebastian Bach
 
6.30pmSOLEMN EVENSONG
 Introit: In a world where people walk in darkness — John Harper
 Responses: David Rooke
 Psalm 122 — Sydney Nicholson fauxbourdons
 Canticles: Charles Villiers Stanford in G
 Anthem: O nata lux de lumine — Thomas Tallis
 Hymns: NEH 156(288) 157 466
 Organ: Chorale Improvisation on ‘Praise the Lord’ — Sigfrid Karg-Elert

Services are sung by the Parish Choir unless otherwise stated

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