Parish Church of Saint Thomas of Canterbury Brentwood

MUSIC LIST March 2008

2 SundayTHE FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT (Mothering Sunday)
10.00amSUNG MASS
(with the Orchestra of St Thomas*)
 Penitential Rite: The Brentwood Mass — David Rooke
 Sanctus & Benedictus: Mass of St Thomas Becket — Martin Smith*
 Gospel Acclamation: Praise to you O Christ — Bernadette Farrell*
 Sanctus & Benedictus: Mass of St Thomas Becket — Martin Smith*
 Memorial Acclamation: Eucharistic Acclamations 2 — Paul Inwood
 Agnus Dei: Messa a 4 voci — Giovanni Grossi
 Communion: The Lord bless you and keep you — John Rutter
 Hymns: 264(All things) Praise God praise his Son
 As the deer* O God in heaven
 Organ: Prelude & Fugue in E minor (BWV 533) — Johann Sebastian Bach (SS)
 
6.30pm CHORAL EVENSONG (Girls’ Choir & Men)
 Responses: Richard Ayleward
 Psalm 31 (vv 1-8)
 Canticles: Colin Ashworth in D
 Anthem: Call to remembrance — Richard Farrant
 Hymns: NEH 61 376 248(ii)
 Organ: Toccata in D minor — Georg Phillipp Telemann (MR)

 
9 Sunday THE FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT
10.00am SUNG MASS
 Penitential Rite: The Brentwood Mass — David Rooke
 Responsorial Psalm 130 — Gregory Murray
 Gospel Acclamation: Praise to you O Christ — David Rooke D
 Intercessions: O Lord hear my prayer — Taizé
 Sanctus & Benedictus: Eucharistic Acclamations 2 — Paul Inwood
 Agnus Dei: Jesus, Lamb of God — Bernadette Farrell
 Communion: Ave verum corpus — William Byrd
 Hymns: 'Lift high the cross' NEH 83 85 (Ave radix) 95
 Organ: Elegy in B flat — George Thalben Ball (DR)
 
6.30pm CHORAL EVENSONG
 Responses: Thomas Morley
 Psalm 30
 Magnificat: First Service — Philip Moore
 Nunc Dimittis: The Brentwood Service — David Rooke
 Anthem: O vos omnes — Tomas Luis da Vittoria
 Hymns: NEH 79 (128ii) omit vv 3 & 4 379 84
 Amen: Martin Shaw
 Organ: Menuet (Water Music Suite) — George Frederic Handel (SS)

 
16 Sunday PALM SUNDAY
9.15am PALM 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: Anglican Folk Mass — Martin Shaw
 Communion: Crown of Roses — Peter Tchaikovsky
 Hymns: NEH 508 509 510 511: 86(omit v 4, 6) 82 92
 
6.30pm SOLEMN EVENSONG & STATIONS OF THE CROSS
 Introit: Drop, drop slow tears — Orlando Gibbons
 Responses: Plainsong
 Psalm 80 — Plainsong
 Canticles: Daniel Purcell in E minor
 Anthem: Christus factus est pro nobis — Anton Bruckner
 During Stations of the Cross: Adoremus te Domine — Taizé
 Hymns: NEH 79 (omit vv 3 & 4 ) 90 (omit *) 94
 Amen: John Hilton

 
19 Wednesday WEDNESDAY IN HOLY WEEK
9.30pm SUNG COMPLINE (Men’s voices)
 Responses, Psalm 4 & Nunc Dimittis — Plainsong
 Office Hymn: 241(ii)

 
20 ThursdayMAUNDY THURSDAY
8.00pm SOLEMN MASS OF THE LAST SUPPER
 Setting: Herbert Sumsion in F
 Responsorial Psalm 116 — Gregory Murray
 Gospel Acclamation: David Rooke
 During feet washing: Ubi caritas et amor — Maurice Duruflé
 Offertory: Adoremus te Christe — Orlande de Lassus
 Communion: Panis angelicus — César Franck
 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

 
21 Friday GOOD FRIDAY
9.30am STATIONS OF THE CROSS (Girls' Choir)
 Anthems: My God, why have you forsaken me — Christopher Walker
 When I survey the wondrous cross — Malcolm Archer
 Hymns: Love is his word Lord of the dance
 
2.00pm LITURGY OF THE PASSION (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
 Crux fidelis — John IV of Portugal
 Agnus Dei: Collegium Regale — Herbert Howells
 Communion: God so loved the world — John Stainer
 Hymns: NEH 86(omit *) 92 95

 
22 Saturday HOLY SATURDAY
8.00pm PASCHAL 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: Canticle on 'St Fulbert' — Gordon Slater (DR)

 
23 Sunday EASTER DAY
10.00am SOLEMN MASS
 Kyrie: Missa Brevis in G (K 140) — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 Gloria: Mass of Saint Thomas — David Thorne
 Responsorial Psalm 118 — Gregory Murray (NEH 539)
 Sequence: Victimć paschali laudes — Plainsong mode i
 Gospel Acclamation: Salisbury Alleluia — Christopher Walker
 Offertory: Good Christian men, rejoice and sing — Barry Ferguson
 Sanctus: Charles Villiers Stanford in B flat
 Benedictus & Agnus Dei: Charles Villiers Stanford in F
 Communion: This joyful Eastertide — Dutch Carol arr Charles Wood
 Recessional Psalm 150 — George Talbot
 Hymns: NEH 110* 119 296(i) 117
 Organ: Paraphrase on 'Judas Maccabeus' — Alexandre Guilmant (SS)
 
6.30pm SOLEMN EVENSONG
 Introit: This joyful Eastertide — Dutch Carol arr Charles Wood
 Responses: Bernard Rose
 Psalms 114 117 — Peter Hurford
 Canticles: Herbert Brewer in D
 Anthem: Hallelujah (Messiah) — George Frederic Handel
 Hymns: NEH 101(ii) omit*vv 106(219) 105(ii)
 Amen: Sydney Nicholson
 Organ: Flourish on 'Würtemburg' — Desmond Ratcliffe (DR)

 
30 Sunday THE SECOND SUNDAY OF EASTER
10.00am SUNG MASS
 Setting: The English Mass — Leonard J White
 Responsorial Psalm 16 (Centre of my life) — Paul Inwood
 Gospel Acclamation: Vulpius E
 Communion: Out of the stillness — Richard Shephard
 Hymns: NEH 104 (omit *) 271 123 113
 Organ: Allegro Marziale — Frank Bridge (SS)
 
11.45amHOLY BAPTISM
 Hymn: CH 181 (SS)
 
6.30pm SOLEMN EVENSONG
(Eve of the Annunciation of our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary)
 Introit: The angel Gabriel from heaven came — Edgar Pettman
 Responses: Ferial
 Psalm 85
 Canticles: Samuel Sebastian Wesley in F
 Anthem: Shall we not love thee Mother dear — Simon Lole
 Hymns: NEH 1801(i) omit*vv 3 & 5 161(385) 186
 Amen: John Sanders
 Organ: Danse sur 'Ave Maris Stella' — Naji Hakim (DR)

Services are sung by the Parish Choir unless otherwise stated

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