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.
April 2019
Music for the Paschal Triduum
18 Thursday
Maundy Thursday
19.00 Choral Eucharist with washing of feet and stripping of the Altar
MASS Byrd Mass for Four Voices
MOTET Ubi Caritas Durufle
19 Friday
Good Friday
10.30 The Good Friday Liturgy
AGNUS DEI Batten Short Service
MOTETS The Reproaches Victoria
Crux Fidelis John of Portugal
20 Saturday
Holy Saturday
20.00 The Easter Vigil
MASS Messe a Deux choeurs et Deux orgues Widor
VOLUNTARY Carillon de Westminster Vierne
21 Sunday
Easter Day
10.30 Festal Choral Eucharist
MASS Mozart Spatzenmesse
MOTET Since by man came death Handel
VOLUNTARY Widor Toccata from Symphonie V
May 2019
5 Sunday
10.30 Choral Eucharist
MASS Darke in E
MOTET This Joyful Eastertide Wood arr. Ledger
VOLUNTARY Allein Gott in der Hoh sei ehr BWV 663 Bach
12 Sunday
10.30 Choral Eucharist
MASS Darke in E
MOTET He shall feed his flock Handel
VOLUNTARY
19 Sunday
10.30 Choral Eucharist
MASS Mass of the Quiet Hour Oldroyd
MOTET Tantum Ergo Faure
VOLUNTARY Toccata Jongen
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.
