Parish Church of Saint Thomas of Canterbury Brentwood

MUSIC LIST January 2011

 
2 SundayTHE SECOND SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS
 
10.00amSUNG MASS & HOLY BAPTISM
 Setting: Mass of Saint Thomas Becket — Martin Smith
 Responsorial Psalm 147 (vv 13-end) — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Gregory Murray C
 Communion: A New Year Carol — Benjamin Britten
 Hymns: NEH 33(omit v 2, 3 & 6) 25 295 'Lord for the years'
 Organ: Good Christian men rejoice — Michael Higgins (SS)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG & BENEDICTION
 Responses: Ferial
 Psalm 135 (vv 1-14)
 Magnificat: Song of Mary — Richard Shephard
 Nunc Dimittis: Song of Simeon — Richard Shephard
 Anthem: No small wonder — Paul Edwards
 Hymns: NEH 20(19ii) 307(CH294(ii))
 O salutaris Hostia: NEH 269(i) Part 2
 Tantum ergo Sacramentum: NEH 268 Part 2
 Organ: Variations on ‘In dulci jubilo’ — Jacques Berthier (DR)

 
6 ThursdayTHE EPIPHANY OF OUR LORD
 
8.00pmSOLEMN MASS
 Setting: Harold Darke in F
 Responsorial Psalm 72 (vv 1-6) — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Salisbury Alleluia — Christopher Walker
 Offertory: Arise shine for your light has come — Herbert Sumsion
 Communion: The three kings — Peter Cornelius
 Hymns: NEH 50(338) (omit vv 4 & 5) 52 47
 Organ: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern — EF Richter (SS)

 
9 SundayTHE BAPTISM OF CHRIST
 
10.00amSOLEMN MASS (Girls’ Choir & Men)
 Kyrie & Gloria: The Brentwood Mass — David Rooke
 Responsorial Psalm 29 — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Laurence Bevenot A
 Offertory: Spirit of the living God — Paul Leddington Wright
 Sanctus Benedictus & Agnus Dei: Mass of the Quiet hour — George Oldroyd
 Communion: O for a closer walk with God — Charles Villiers Stanford
 Hymns: NEH 55 58(128ii) 287 376
 Organ: Fugue sur le trompette — François Couperin (LC)
 
6.30pmSOLEMN EVENSONG
 Introit: O Holy Spirit, Lord of grace — Christopher Tye
 Responses: Richard Ayleward
 Psalm 46
 Canticles: Fourth Service — Adrian Batten
 Anthem: Tribus miraculis — Luca Marenzio
 Hymns: NEH 46(i) 49(ii) 425
 Amen: Orlando Gibbons
 Organ: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern — Georg Phillipp Telemann (SS)

 
16 SundayTHE SECOND SUNDAY OF EPIPHANY
 
10.00amSUNG MASS
 Setting: Mass in G minor — Brian Lynn
 Gloria: Anglican Folk Mass — Martin Shaw
 Responsorial Psalm 40 (vv 1-12) — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Vulpius E
 Communion: The Lamb — John Tavener
 Hymns: NEH 56 (omit v 4) 57 308 393
 Organ: Prelude and Fugue in B flat major (BWV 560) — Johann Sebastian Bach (SS)
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG
 Responses: John Sanders
 Psalm 96
 Canticles: George Dyson in D
 Anthem: There shall a star from Jacob come forth — Felix Mendelssohn
 Hymns: NEH 48 424 246(ii)
 Amen: Martin Shaw
 Organ: Voluntary in D — George Dyson (DR)

 
23 SundayTHE THIRD SUNDAY OF EPIPHANY
 
10.00amSUNG MASS
 Kyrie: Lux et origo — Plainsong
 Gloria: Coventry Gloria — Peter Jones
 Responsorial Psalm 27 — Paul Inwood/David O’Neale
 Gospel Acclamation: Saint Thomas Alleluia A — David Rooke
 Intercessions: Listen Lord — Iona
 Offertory: In a world where people walk in darkness — John Harper
 Sanctus Benedictus & Agnus Dei: John Ireland in C
 Communion: Here O my Lord I see thee face to face — Percy Whitlock
 Hymns: NEH 484 353 282 361(322)
 Organ: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba — George Frederic Handel (SS) +
 +=sponsored voluntary by Hilary Bishop
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG
 Responses: Bernard Rose
 Psalm 33 (vv 1-12) — Kellow Pye
 Canticles: Charles Villiers Stanford in B flat
 Anthem: O be joyful in the Lord — Benjamin Britten
 Hymns: NEH 54(i) 481(462) 482
 Amen: Sydney Nicholson
 Organ: Processional — Grayston Ives (DR)

 
30 SundayTHE FOURTH SUNDAY OF EPIPHANY (Education Sunday)
 
10.00amSUNG MASS (with the Choir of St Thomas' Junior School)
 Kyrie & Gloria: Mass of Saint Thomas — David Thorne
 Gospel Acclamation: Celtic Alleluia — Fintan O'Carroll
 Sanctus Benedictus & Agnus Dei: Israeli Mass — Anthony Hampson
 Communion: Dear God, we thank you for the gift of music — David Rooke A Gaelic Blessing — John Rutter
 Hymns: Special order of service
 Organ: Springtanz (from Terpsichore) — Michael Praetorius (DR)
 
4.00pmCOVENANT RENEWAL SERVICE in Brentwood RC Cathedral
 (sung by the combined Girls’ Choirs of St Thomas’ & Brentwood Cathedral)
 Special order of service

Services are sung by the Parish Choir unless otherwise stated

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