Parish Church of Saint Thomas of Canterbury Brentwood

MUSIC LIST May 2007

6 SundayTHE FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
10.00amSUNG MASS
 Setting: Mass in G minor — Brian Lynn
 Gloria: John Merbecke
 Responsorial Psalm 148 — David Ogden
 Gospel Acclamation: Plainsong H
 Intercessions: Listen Lord — Iona
 Communion: The Call — Ralph Vaughan Williams
 Hymns: NEH 401 311 513 339
 Organ: Praeludium in G (BuxWV 147) — Dietrich Buxtehude
 
6.30pmCHORAL EVENSONG & BENEDICTION
 Responses: Richard Ayleward
 Psalm 98 — Henry Smart
 Canticles: Bryan Kelly in C
 Anthem: The strife is o’er — Henry Ley
 Hymns: NEH 106(219) 295
 O salutaris Hostia: NEH 269(i) Part 2
 Tantum ergo Sacramentum: NEH 268 Part 2
 Organ: Intrada — Grayston Ives

 
13 SundayTHE SIXTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
10.00amSUNG MASS
 Setting: The Brentwood Mass — David Rooke
 Responsorial Psalm 67 — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Vulpius F
 Communion: O sacrum convivium — Giovanni Croce
 Hymns: NEH 427 346 280 (vv 1 & 4) 475
 Organ: Fugue on BACH No. 6 — Robert Schumann
 
6.30pmSOLEMN EVENSONG (Eve of Saint Matthias, Apostle)
 Introit: Blessed are the pure in heart — Henry Walford Davies
 Responses: Humphrey Clucas
 Psalm 147 (vv 1-11)
 Canticles: Samuel Arnold in A
 Anthem: Holy is the true light — William Harris
 Hymns: NEH 214(i) 165(318) 381
 Amen: Martin Shaw
 Organ: Voluntary in A minor Op 6 No.2 — John Stanley

 
17 SundayASCENSION DAY
8.00pmSOLEMN MASS
 Setting: William Harris in F
 Responsorial Psalm 47 — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Salisbury Alleluia — Christopher Walker
 Offertory: Lift up your heads, O ye gates — William Mathias
 Communion: O Rex gloriae — Luca Marenzio
 Recessional Psalm 150 — George Talbot
 Hymns: NEH 130(i) (omit v 4 & 5) 443 134
 Organ: Fanfare — Kenneth Leighton

 
20 SundayTHE SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
10.00amSUNG MASS
(with the Orchestra of St Thomas*)
 Setting: Mass of Saint Thomas Becket — Martin Smith
 Responsorial Psalm 97 — David Rooke
 Gospel Acclamation: Celtic Alleluia — Fintan O'Carroll *
 Agnus Dei: CH Kitson in D minor
 Communion: Above all praise and all majesty — Felix Mendelssohn
 Hymns: NEH 345 'Sing of the Lord's goodness' * 'The Lord is alive' * 'Christ triumphant'
 Organ: Prelude and Fugue in C (BWV 545) — Johann Sebastian Bach
 
11.45amHOLY BAPTISM
 Hymn: CH 196 SS
 
6.30pmDEANERY CHOIRS FESTIVAL EVENSONG
at St Peter South Weald
 Introit: God is gone up — Arthur Hutchings
 Responses: Ferial
 Psalm 68 (vv 1-14, 19-20)
 Canticles: Charles Villiers Stanford in C
 Anthem: Lift up your heads, O ye gates — George Frederic Handel
 Hymns: NEH 134 373(Coe Fen) 352

 
25 Friday
1.00pmLUNCHTIME MUSIC
 Young Singers from the Performers’ College Corringham

 
27 SundayDAY OF PENTECOST
10.00amSOLEMN MASS
 Kyrie & Agnus Dei: Missa in simplicitate — Jean Langlais
 Gloria Sanctus & Benedictus: The English Mass — Leonard J White
 Responsorial Psalm 104 (selected verses) — David Rooke
 Sequence: Veni, Sancte Spiritus — Plainsong mode i
 Gospel Acclamation: Salisbury Alleluia — Christopher Walker
 Offertory: Holy Spirit, ever dwelling — Herbert Howells
 Communion: Listen sweet dove — Grayston Ives
 Hymns: NEH 137 431 'Holy Spirit, truth divine' 140
 Organ: Fanfare — William Mathias
 
6.30pmSOLEMN EVENSONG
 Introit: O Holy Spirit, Lord of grace — Christopher Tye
 Responses: Philip Radcliffe
 Psalm 33 (vv 1-12) — Kellow Pye
 Canticles: Carolus Andreas fauxbourdons
 Anthem: Come down O love divine — William Harris
 Hymns: NEH 138 367(ii) 342(178)
 Amen: Philip Radcliffe
 Organ: Choral Song — Samuel Sebastian Wesley

 

Services are sung by the Parish Choir unless otherwise stated

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