This page contains information on music that has been sung recently, and a provisional list of the music that will be sung at St Bride’s. More information will be added to the page in due course. A more detailed music list, containing the hymns and psalms, is also listed in the rear pages of The Oystercatcher every month – click here.
As well as singing the Sunday morning Mass settings, Psalms (generally to Anglican chant) and motets, the choir of St Bride’s is one of very few choirs to sing the weekly Mass Propers for the Liturgical Year from the English Gradual (Introit, Gradual, Alleluia/Tract, Offertory and Communion). These are settings of the Psalms and other texts from the Scriptures, using beautiful plainsong. A cantor and the choir take turns to sing the various parts of the text, in a responsorial style. This runs as a thread through the Choral Eucharist every Sunday morning, and provides a meditative backdrop to our worship.
September
2 Sunday Trinity 14
10.30 Choral Eucharist
MASS Sumsion in F
MOTET Mozart Ave verum
VOLUNTARY Bach Prelude and Fugue in A minor BWV 543
9 Sunday Trinity 15
10.30 Choral Eucharist
MASS Sumsion in F
VOLUNTARY Alain Litanies
16 Sunday Trinity 16
10.30 Choral Eucharist
MASS Sumsion in F
MOTET Tallis If ye love me
15.30 Choral Evensong and Benediction
RESPONSES Byrd
CANTICLES Plainsong
ANTHEM Tallis If ye love me
23 Sunday Trinity 17
10.30 Choral Eucharist
MASS Harris in F
MOTET
VOLUNTARY Buxtehude Praeludium in G minor BuxWV 149
30 Sunday Trinity 18
10.30 Choral Eucharist
MASS Harris in F
MOTET Stanford Jubilate in B flat
VOLUNTARY Liszt Prelude and Fugue on BACH
October
7 Sunday Trinity 19
10.30 Choral Eucharist
MASS Wood in the Phrygian Mode
MOTET Elgar Ave Verum
VOLUNTARY Parry Elegy
14 Sunday Trinity 20
10.30 Choral Eucharist
MASS Ives Salisbury Service
MOTET Vaughan Williams O Taste and See
VOLUNTARY Bach Toccata in C BWV 564
NOVEMBER
4 Sunday All Saints
10.30 Choral Eucharist
MASS Sumsion in F
MOTET Bullock Give is the wings of faith
13.00 Organ Recital – Mark Browne (St Bride’s)
Howells Rhapsody III
Parry Chorale Prelude on “Eventide”
Bach O mensch, bewein BWV 622
Thalben-Ball Elegy
Elgar Solemn Prelude ‘For the fallen”
Durufle Fugue sur le nom d’Alain
11. Sunday
Remembrance Sunday
10.30 Choral Eucharist
MASS Sumsion in F
ANTHEM Guest For the Fallen
MOTET Faure Pie Jesu
VOLUNTARY Howells Sarabande in modo elegacio (1945)
18 Sunday
Trinity 25
10.30 Choral Eucharist
MASS Ireland in C
MOTET Howells Mine eyes for beauty pine
15.30 Choral Evensong and Benediction
RESPONSES Smith
CANTICLES Stanford in B flat
MOTET Howells Mine eyes for beauty pine
VOLUNTARY Howells Fugue, chorale and epilogue
