Parish Church of Saint Thomas of Canterbury Brentwood

MUSIC LIST April 2011

 
3 SundayTHE FOURTH SUNDAY OF LENT (Mothering Sunday)
 
10.00amSUNG FAMILY MASS
 Penitential Rite: The Brentwood Mass — David Rooke (No. 2)
 Responsorial Psalm 34 (selected vv) — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Praise to you O Christ — David Rooke C
 Intercessions: Through our lives and by our prayers — Iona
 Offertory: The Lent Prose — Plainsong mode v (v 4)
 Sanctus & Benedictus: Eucharistic Acclamations 2 — Paul Inwood
 Agnus Dei: Jesus, Lamb of God — Bernadette Farrell
 Communion: The Lord bless you and keep you — John Rutter
 Hymns: NEH 338(Camberwell) omit v 2 307(CH294ii) 161(385)
 'O God in heaven'(Sussex Carol) NEP 636
 Organ: Pasticcio — Jean Langlais (SS)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG & BENEDICTION
 Responses: Thomas Morley
 Psalm 31 (v 1-8)
 Magnificat: Berkshire Service — Malcolm Archer
 Nunc Dimittis: Brian Lynn for men's voices
 Anthem: In pace — William Blitheman
 Hymns: NEH 59(ii) 77
 O salutaris Hostia: NEH 269(i) Part 2
 Tantum ergo Sacramentum: NEH 268 Part 2
 Organ: Postlude on a ground — Herbert Murrill (DR)

 
10 SundayTHE FIFTH SUNDAY OF LENT
 
10.00amSUNG MASS (Girls' Choir & Men)
 Penitential Rite: The Brentwood Mass — David Rooke (No. 2)
 Responsorial Psalm 130 — Gregory Murray
 Gospel Acclamation: Praise to you O Christ — David Rooke D
 Offertory: The Lent Prose — Plainsong mode v (v 5)
 Sanctus & Benedictus: Eucharistic Acclamations 2 — Paul Inwood
 Agnus Dei: Peter Aston in F
 Communion: O Lord increase our faith — Henry Loosemore
 Hymns: 'Lift high the cross' NEH 83 95 79(128ii) (omit vv 3 & 4)
 Organ: Adagio — Samuel Barber (DR)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG & STATIONS OF THE CROSS
 Introit: Adoremus te, Christi — Orlande de Lassus
 Responses: William Byrd
 Psalm 30
 Canticles: Thomas Tomkins fauxbourdons tone vi
 Anthem: Crux Christi — David Rooke
 During Stations of the Cross: Jesus, remember me — Taizé
 Hymns: NEH 86 (omit*) 404 (omit *) 84
 Amen: William Byrd
 Organ: Prelude — William Harris (GF)

 
17 SundayPALM SUNDAY
 
10.00amPALM SUNDAY CEREMONIES & SOLEMN MASS
 Blessing of Palms: Hosanna filio David — Tomás Luis da Vittoria
 Responsorial Psalm 31 (v 9-16) — Alan Rees
 Gospel Acclamation: Praise to you O Christ — David Rooke
 Offertory: O bone Jesu — Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
 Sanctus & Benedictus: Eucharistic Acclamations 2 — Paul Inwood
 Agnus Dei: Missa de angelis — Plainsong
 Communion: Crown of Roses — Peter Tchaikovsky
 Hymns: NEH 509 510 511: 273 89(i) 92
 
6.30pmSOLEMN EVENSONG
 Introit: The royal banners forward go — Plainsong mode i
 Responses: Plainsong
 Psalm 80 — Plainsong tone iv
 Canticles: Second Service — William Byrd
 Anthem: O vos omnes — Tomás Luis da Vittoria
 Hymns: NEH 439 (257) 379 485
 Amen: John Hilton

 
20 WednesdayWEDNESDAY IN HOLY WEEK
 
9.30pmSUNG COMPLINE (Men’s voices)
 Responses, Psalm 4 & Nunc Dimittis — Plainsong
 Office Hymn: 241(ii)

 
21 ThursdayMAUNDY THURSDAY
 
8.00pmSOLEMN MASS OF THE LAST SUPPER (Parish Choir)
 Setting: Mass of Saint Thomas Becket — Martin Smith
 Responsorial Psalm 116 — Gregory Murray
 Gospel Acclamation: David Rooke
 During feet washing: Ubi caritas et amor — Maurice Duruflé
 Offertory: If ye love me, keep my commandments — Thomas Tallis
 Communion: Ave verum corpus — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 Hymns: The glory of the cross Kneels at the feet of his friends
 Servant King An upper room
 During Procession: NEH 268
 During Stripping of the Altar: Psalm 22 — Plainsong tone ii

 
22 FridayGOOD FRIDAY
 
9.30amSTATIONS OF THE CROSS (Girls' Choir)
 Anthems: Soul of Christ, sanctify me — Sydney Nicholson
 My God, why have you forsaken me? — Christopher Walker
 Hymns: Love is his word, Lord of the dance
 
2.00pmLITURGY OF THE PASSION (Becket Singers)
 Responsorial Psalm 22 (selected verses) — David Rooke
 Acclamation: Christus factus est pro nobis — Felice Anerio
 Veneration of the Cross: Reproaches — Tomás Luis da Vittoria
 Praise to thee Lord Jesus — Heinrich Schütz
 Agnus Dei: Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici — Edmund Rubbra
 Communion: God so loved the world — John Stainer
 Hymns: NEH 90(omit *) 92 95

 
23 SaturdayHOLY SATURDAY
 
8.00pmPASCHAL VIGIL & FIRST MASS OF EASTER (Parish Choir)
 Responsorial Psalms — Gregory Murray
 Gloria: A New People's Mass — Gregory Murray
 Responsorial Psalm 118 — Noel Rawsthorne
 Vidi aquam — Plainsong mode viii
 Offertory: Surrexit Christus Alleluia — Taizé
 Sanctus Benedictus & Agnus Dei: Festive Eucharist — Noel Rawsthorne
 Communion: Christ the Lord is risen again — Anthony Foster
 Hymns: NEH 124 120 (HFT95)
 Organ: Carillon — Herbert Murrill (DR)

 
24 SundayEASTER DAY
 
10.00amSOLEMN MASS (Great Choir)
 Kyrie: Missa Brevis in G (K 140) — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 Gloria: Coventry Gloria — Peter Jones
 Responsorial Psalm 118 — Gregory Murray (NEH 539)
 Sequence: Victimæ paschali laudes — Plainsong mode i
 Gospel Acclamation: Salisbury Alleluia — Christopher Walker
 Offertory: This joyful Eastertide — Dutch Carol arr Charles Wood
 Sanctus Benedictus & Agnus Dei: Missa Brevis — Brian Lynn
 Communion: Out of the stillness — Richard Shephard
 Hymns: 'Light’s glittering morn' NEH 110 107 117
 Organ: Allegro Marziale — Frank Bridge (SS)
 
6.30pmSOLEMN EVENSONG & BENEDICTION (Parish Choir)
 Introit: This joyful Eastertide — Dutch Carol arr Charles Wood
 Responses: Philip Radcliffe
 Psalms 114 117 — Peter Hurford
 Canticles: Charles Wood in D
 Anthem: Sing choirs of heaven — Richard Shephard
 Hymns: NEH 101(ii) omit*vv 105(ii)
 O salutaris Hostia: NEH 269(i) Part 2
 Tantum ergo Sacramentum: NEH 268 Part 2
 Organ: Flourish on 'Würtemburg' — Desmond Ratcliffe (DR)

Services are sung by the Parish Choir unless otherwise stated

Music is a very important part of the life and worship at St Thomas'