The Collegiate and Parish Church of St Mary, Swansea
Choir Music List: April 2006

Sunday 2nd April                                   Passion Sunday

9.30am Sung Eucharist                             CP 499 (omit *), 322, 122 (ii)                                 Ps 119, 9-16 (298)

Missa de Angelis                                      Plainsong

Tantum ergo                                            Déodat de Séverac

Voluntary: Fantasia in G minor                               Johann Sebastian Bach

 

6.00pm Choral Evensong                         CP 110, 120, 127                                                    Plainsong Responses

Richard Farrant in A minor                                                                                                      Ps 34 (97)

Call to remembrance                                               Richard Farrant

 

Tuesday 4th April

6.30pm BBC Wales Radio Recording

 

Sunday 9th April                                    Palm Sunday

10.00am Matins with Blessing of Palms and Procession (St Matthew’s) CP 380 (omit *), 129                Ven (22), Ben (101)

11.00am Sung Eucharist (St Mary’s)        CP pr128, 122, 499 (vv.1-7)

Missa de Angelis                                      Plainsong

Ingrediente Domino                                 George Malcolm

Voluntary: Epilogue on ‘St Theodulph’   Healey Willan

 

6.00pm Evensong (Alternative Order)     CP 118, 101, 475 (omit *), 112 (omit 4)                                Ps 69, 1-18 (172)

Hail gladdening light                                               John Stainer

Is it nothing to you?                                 Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley

 

Tuesday 11th April                                                 Tuesday in Holy Week                                         Plainsong Responses

5.30pm Evensong (Boys’ Choir)                              CP 123, 122 (ii)                                                       Ps 27

 

Thursday 13th April                                               Maundy Thursday

7.30pm Choral Eucharist with Foot Washing and Stripping of the Altar CP pr309, 316 (part 1), 316 (part 2)      

Ubi caritas et amor                                  Plainsong                                                                                 Ps 116, 12-19 (292)

Missa Brevis                                             Antonio Lotti

If ye love me                                            Thomas Tallis                                                          Ps 88 (plainsong)

 

Friday 14th April                                    Good Friday

12noon Stations of the Cross (no choir) 1.00pm Meditation (no choir) CP 127, 120, 123

 

2.00pm The Liturgy of the Passion         CP 108, 127, HON 446 (pt2)

God so loved the world                            John Stainer

Crucifixus                                                 Antonio Lotti

Reproaches                                              Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

 

Saturday 15th April                                               Easter Eve

7.30pm Easter Vigil                                 CP 149 (part 1)                                                       Pss 42, 3-6 (119); 117 (GJ Elvey);

Te deum in Bb                                         Charles Villiers Stanford                                           122 (106); 139, 6-11 (Sinclair)

 

Sunday 16th April                                  Easter Day

10.00am Festal Eucharist                         CP pr147, 162, 138, r160                                        Easter Anthems (Middleton)

Harold Darke in F                   

This Joyful Eastertide                                               Charles Wood

Voluntary: Allegro assai vivace (from Sonata No.1) Felix Mendelssohn

 

1.30pm Wedding (with choir)

 

6.00pm Festal Evensong                          CP 154 (omit *), 147, 162                                      Bernard Rose Responses

I am the first and the last                         Barry Rose                                                               Pss 114 (286); 117 (GJ Elvey)

Collegium Regale                                    Herbert Howells

Blessed be the God and Father                                Samuel Sebastian Wesley

 

Tuesday 18th April                                 Tuesday in Easter Week

7.30pm Concert of Easter Music by The John S. Davies Singers

 

Sunday 23rd April                                  Second Sunday of Easter (Low Sunday)

8.00am Broadcast on BBC Radio Wales of Celebration from St Mary’s

9.30am Family Eucharist (no choir)         CP 147, 136 (omit v.6), 468, 612

6.00pm Evening Prayer (said)

 

Sunday 30th April                                  Third Sunday of Easter (Eve of Philip & James, Apostles)

9.30am Sung Eucharist                             CP 152, 155, 137                                                    Ps 4 (28)

Short Service                                            Adrian Batten

Now shall the praises of the Lord be sung                 Orlando Gibbons

Voluntary:                Fantasia                                 Benjamin Cosyn

 

1.00pm Wedding (with choir)

 

6.00pm Benefice Service (no choir)

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