Parish Church of Saint Thomas of Canterbury Brentwood

MUSIC LIST November 2007

2 FridayALL SOULS’ DAY
8.00pmSOLEMN REQUIEM MASS
(Becket Singers)
 Introit: Requiem aeternam — Plainsong mode vi
 Setting: Charles Wood in the Phrygian mode
 Responsorial Psalm 42 — Bob Hurd
 Gospel Acclamation: Gregory Murray
 During Cross Laying: Give rest, O Christ (Russian Kontakion) — Kiev melody
 During Communion: Justorum animae — Charles Villiers Stanford
 Hymns: NEH 208 462 112

 
4 SundayALL SAINTS’ SUNDAY
10.00amSOLEMN MASS
 Setting: Mass in G minor — Brian Lynn
 Gloria: Mass of Saint Thomas Becket — Martin Smith
 Responsorial Psalm 149 — Alan Rees
 Gospel Acclamation: Salisbury Alleluia — Christopher Walker
 Offertory: Blessed are the pure in heart — Henry Walford Davies
 Communion: Holy is the true light — William Harris
 Recessional Psalm 150 — George Talbot
 Hymns: NEH 197 225(i) 230(ii) 478
 Organ: Prelude and Fugue in D minor (BWV 554) — Johann Sebastian Bach
 
6.30pmSOLEMN EVENSONG & BENEDICTION
 Introit: Blessed are the pure in heart — Henry Walford Davies
 Responses: Thomas Tomkins
 Psalm 148 (HG)
 Canticles: Heathcote Statham in E minor
 Anthem: O quam gloriosum — Tomás Luis de Victoria
 Hymns: NEH 196(214i) 381
   O salutaris Hostia: NEH 269(i) Part 2
   Tantum ergo Sacramentum: NEH 268 Part 2
 Organ: Festival Voluntary — Flor Peeters

 
11 SundayTHIRD SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT
(Remembrance Sunday)
9.45amSUNG MASS
 Kyrie: Missa de angelis fauxbourdons — Claudio Casciolini
 Setting: The English Mass — Leonard J White
 Responsorial Psalm 17 (vv 1-8) — Richard Lloyd
 Gospel Acclamation: Plainsong — G
 Communion: Oculi omnium — Charles Wood
 Hymns: NEH 436 396 276(ii) 114
 Organ: Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 — Edward Elgar
 
11.20amCIVIC SERVICE OF REMEMBRANCE
 Intercessions: Dona nobis pacem — Iona
 Anthem: I give to you a new commandment — Peter Nardone
 Hymns: NEH 488 I vow to thee my country 354 O valiant hearts 489
 Organ: War March of the Priests — Felix Mendelssohn
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG
(Girls’ Choir)
 Responses: Ferial
 Psalm 90 (vv 1-12)
 Canticles: Berkshire Service — Malcolm Archer
 Anthem: I give you a new commandment — Peter Aston
 Hymns: NEH 242 366 483
 Organ: Minuet (Overture to ‘Berenice’) — George Frederic Handel

 
18 SundaySECOND SUNDAY BEFORE ADVENT
10.00amADMISSION OF CHORISTER & SUNG MASS
(with the Orchestra of St Thomas*)
 Setting: A New People’s Mass — Gregory Murray
 Responsorial Psalm 98 — Gregory Murray (NEH 535)
 Gospel Acclamation: Saint Thomas Alleluia — David Rooke*
 Intercessions: Through our lives and by our prayers — Iona
 Communion: O sacrum convivium — Tomás Luis de Victoria
 Hymns: NEH 408(i) Lord of the years* Make me a channel* 475
 Organ: Fête — Anthony Foster
 
11.45amHOLY BAPTISM
 Hymn: CH 260
 
6.30pmSOLEMN EVENSONG
(with the Brentwood Cathedral Choir)
 Introit: Locus iste — Anton Bruckner
 Responses: William Smith
 Psalm 97 — Percy Buck
 Magnificat: Sydney Nicholson in D flat
 Nunc Dimittis: Collegium Regale — Herbert Howells
 Anthem: Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks — Herbert Howells
 Hymns: NEH 426 360 466
 Organ: Processional — William Mathias

 
25 SundayTHE FEAST OF CHRIST THE KING
10.00amSOLEMN MASS & HOLY BAPTISM
 Kyrie: Lux et origo — Plainsong
  Gloria: Coventry
 Gloria — Peter Jones
 Responsorial Psalm 46 — Andrew Wright
 Gospel Acclamation: Celtic Alleluia — Fintan O’Carroll
 Offertory: Above all praise and all majesty — Felix Mendelssohn
 Sanctus: Charles Villiers Stanford in B flat
 Benedictus & Agnus Dei: Charles Villiers Stanford in F
 Communion: Let all mortal flesh keep silence — Edward Bairstow
 Hymns: NEH 332(omit*) 443 Hail Redeemer Christ triumphant
 Organ: Toccata in Seven — John Rutter
 
6.30pmSOLEMN EVENSONG
 Introit: O come ye servants of the Lord — Christopher Tye
 Responses: Philip Radcliffe
 Psalm 72 (vv 1-7)
 Canticles: Herbert Sumsion in G
 Anthem: Let all the world in every corner sing — Ralph Vaughan Williams
 Hymns: NEH 335 388(i) 134
 Amen: Philip Radcliffe
 Organ: Chorale Improvisation on 'Nun Danket alle Gott' — 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'