The Collegiate and Parish Church of St Mary, Swansea

Choir Music List: December 2005

Thursday 1^st December

7.30pm Choir Concert: Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem and Continental Choral Classics

Sunday 4^th December Advent 2

9.30am Family Eucharist CP 31, 93, 380 (omit *), 29

A New English Folk Mass

Zion hears the watchmen’s voices Johann Sebastian Bach

Voluntary: Fanfare Kenneth Leighton

6.00pm Choral Evensong CP 25, 38, 37 Ps 80 (139)

Let my prayer John Blow Thomas Tallis Responses

Henry Purcell in G minor

Rejoice in the Lord alway Henry Purcell

Tuesday 6^th December Nicholas, Bishop Ps 22

5.30pm Evensong (Boys’ voices) CP 25, 26 Plainsong Responses

Sunday 11^th December Advent 3

9.30am Sung Eucharist CP 34, 29, 27 Ps 126 (339)

Missa de Angelis Plainsong

The Renunciation Percy C. Buck

Voluntary: Durch Adams Fall Johann Sebastian Bach

6.00pm Choral Evensong CP 234, 34, 26 Ps 68, 1-8 (264)

Lord, we beseech thee Adrian Batten Richard Ayleward Responses

The First Service Thomas Weelkes

This is the record of John Orlando Gibbons

Tuesday 13^th December Lucy, Martyr Ps 36

5.30pm Evensong (Boys’ Voices) CP 25, 32 Plainsong Responses

Sunday 18^th December Advent 4, O Adonai!

9.30am Sung Eucharist CP 32, 31, 35 Mag (211)

Missa de Angelis Plainsong

Ave Maria Tomás Luis de Victoria

Voluntary: Grand Jeu Pierre du Mage

6.00pm Compline CP 25, 32 Ps 31, 1-6

Alma redemptoris mater Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Wednesday 21^st December O Dayspring!

7.30pm The City Carol Service

Bell Carol Eric H. Thiman

The Lord at first did Adam make English traditional carol, arr. David Willcocks

I wonder as I wander Carl Rütti

Joys Seven Stephen Cleobury

Watts’s Cradle Song Bryan Kelly

Mary’s Lullaby John Rutter

Sir Christemas William Mathias

Voluntary: Final, from Symphonie No1 Louis Vierne

Sunday 25^th December The Nativity of Our Lord

10.00am Sung Eucharist CP pr62 (omit 4), 67, 64, r53 Ps 96 (239)

Harold Darke in F

Today is born Emmanuel Michael Praetorius

Voluntary: In dulci jubilo Johann Sebastian Bach

[No evening service at St Mary’s]

Vicar of St Mary’s & Team Rector of the Central Swansea Team Ministry: The Revd Andrew Vessey

Director of Music: Dr William Reynolds, BMus MA PhD LRSM LTCL ARCO