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. A more detailed music list, containing the hymns and psalms, is also listed in the rear pages of The Oystercatcher every month – click here.
December 2018
2 Sunday
Advent Sunday
10.30 Choral Eucharist
MASS Terry in C
MOTET The Advent Prose
VOLUNTARY Bach Prelude and Fugue in C minor BWV 546
13.00 Organ Recital by PETER WAKEFORD
Music for Advent by Bach, Howells, Leighton and Dupre
15.30 Advent Carol Service
9 Sunday
Advent II
10.30 Choral Eucharist
MASS Terry in C
MOTET This is the record of John Gibbons
VOLUNTARY Gibbons Fantasia in Four Parts
16 Sunday
Advent III
10.30 Choral Eucharist
MASS Terry in C
MOTET Long ago, prophets knew arr. Archer
VOLUNTARY Franck Choral No.2 in B minor
23 Sunday
Advent IV
10.30 Choral Eucharist
MASS Darke in F
MOTET Alma redemptoris mater Palestrina
VOLUNTARY Buxtehude Magnificat Primi Toni BuxWV 204
15.30 Christmas Carol Service
24 Monday
Christmas Eve
23.00 Choral Eucharist
MASS Darke in F
MOTET Nativity Carol Rutter
VOLUNTARY Mulet Carillon-Sortie
25 Tuesday
Christmas Day
10.30 Sung Eucharist
MASS Macmillan St Anne’s Mass
30 Sunday
Christmas I
10.30 Sung Eucharist
MASS Macmillan St Anne’s Mass
MOTET Love came down at Christmas Morris
VOLUNTARY Daquin Noel X – Grand Jeu et Duo
January 2019
6 Sunday
The Epiphany
10.30 Choral Eucharist
MASS Ives Salisbury Service
MOTET Caldecote Eastern Monarchs
VOLUNTARY Bach In dir ist Freude BWV 615
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.
