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CHORAL EVENSONG ADVANCE SCHEDULE
2009

Here are the services coming up in the next few months on Choral Evensong.

Weds 4th November - Salisbury Cathedral
(rpt. 8th November)

Introit: They that put their trust in the Lord (Robin Orr)
Responses: Radcliffe
Psalms: 22, 23 (Camidge, Walford Davies)
First Lesson: Wisdom 3 vv1-9
Office Hymn: He wants not friends that hath thy love (Bow Brickhill)
Canticles: Downing Service (Bob Chilcott)
Second Lesson: 1 Peter 1 vv3-9
Anthem: Into thy hands (Jonathan Dove)
Final Hymn: O Lord of life, where'er they be (Vulpius)
Organ Voluntary: Hymne aux Mémoires héroïques (Grunenwald)

Weds 11th November - Chichester Cathedral
(rpt. Sun 15th November)

Introit: Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts (Purcell)
Responses: Byrd
Office Hymn: O day of God, draw nigh (St Michael)
Psalms: 59, 60, 61 (Garrett, Crossthwaite, MacPherson, Armes, Wesley, Hylton-Stewart)
First Lesson: Micah 4 vv1-7
Canticles: Daniel Purcell in E minor
Second Lesson: Matthew 5 vv1-12
Anthem: Lord, let me know mine end (Greene)
Final Hymn: All my hope on God is founded (Michael)
Organ Voluntary: Master Tallis's Testament (Howells)

Weds 18th November - Chapel Royal, St James’s Palace
(rpt. Sun 22nd November)

Introit: Remember not, Lord, our offences (Purcell)
Responses: Tomkins
Psalms: 93, 94 (Monk, Turle)
First lesson: Daniel 9 vv1-19
Office Hymn: Creator of the earth and sky (Deus Creator)
Canticles: Purcell in G minor
Second lesson: Revelation 11 vv15-19
Anthem: Hymn to St Cecilia (Britten)
Final hymn: Praise the Lord (Treboeth)
Organ Voluntary: Praeludium in G minor BuxWV149 (Buxtehude)

Weds 25th November - Guildford Cathedral
(no repeat)

Introit: Alleluia, I heard a voice (Weelkes)
Responses: Rose
Psalms: 72, 93, 97 (Thalben Ball, Rose)
First Lesson: Isaiah 32 vv1-8
Office Hymn: All praise to Christ (Laus Christi)
Canticles: Short Service (Robin Orr)
Second Lesson: John 6 vv1-15
Anthem: Bless the Lord, O my soul (Jonathan Dove)
Final Hymn: Christ triumphant, ever reigning (Guiting Power)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in E flat major (Saint-Saëns)

Sun 29th November - Advent Carol Service from St John’s College, Cambridge
(no repeat)

Advent Prose: Laetentur caeli (Lassus)
Processional Hymn: O come, O come, Emmanuel (Veni Emmanuel) (descant: Hill)
Bidding Prayer
Carol: A tender shoot (Goldschmidt)

I The Message of Advent
Sentence and Collect Antiphons: O Sapientia and O Adonai
First lesson: Isaiah 11 vv1-5
Carol: Adam lay ibounden (Swayne) (commissioned for this service)
Second lesson: 1 Thessalonians 5 vv1-11
Motet: Vigilate (Byrd)

II The Word of God
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Radix Jesse and O Clavis David
Carol: Out of your sleep (Milner)
Third lesson: Micah 4 vv1-4
Carol: Telling (Finnissy)
Fourth lesson: Luke 4 vv14-21
Hymn: Come, thou long-expected Jesus (Cross of Jesus) (descant: Robinson)

III The Prophetic Call
Sentence and Collect
Antiphons: O Oriens and O Rex Gentium
Carol: This have I done for my true love (Holst)
Fifth lesson: Malachi 3 vv1-7
Carol: There is no rose (Joubert)
Sixth lesson: Matthew 3 vv1-11
Hymn: On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry (Winchester New) (descant: Robinson)

IV The Christ-Bearer
Sentence and Collect
Antiphon: O Emmanuel
Carol: Bogoróditse Djévo (Pärt)
Seventh lesson: Luke 1 vv39-49
Magnificat: Sumsion in G
Eighth lesson: John 3 vv1-8
Sentence and Christmas Collect
Carol: Benedicamus Domino (Warlock)
Hymn: Lo! He comes with clouds descending (Helmsley) (descant: Robinson)
College Prayer and Blessing
Organ Voluntary: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme J.S Bach (BWV 645)

Weds 2nd December - Rochester Cathedral
(rpt. Sun 6th December)

Introit: Blessing of the Light (Peter Moger)
Responses: Reading
Office Hymn: Come, thou long expected Jesus (Cross of Jesus)
Psalms: 12, 13, 14 (Flintoft, Naylor, Havergal, Goss)
First Lesson: Isaiah 65 v17 - 66 v2
Canticles: Second Service (Gibbons)
Second Lesson: Matthew 24 vv1-14
Anthem: O thou the central orb (Wood)
Final Hymn: Lo, he comes with clouds descending (Helmsley)
Organ Voluntary: Le Monde dans l'attente du Sauveur (Symphonie-Passion) (Dupré)

Weds 9th December - Sheffield Cathedral
(rpt. Sun 13th December)

Introit: Ave Maria (Elgar)
Responses: Barry Ferguson
Psalms: 47, 48, 49 (Turle, Hopkins, Walmisley)
First Lesson: Isaiah 47
Office Hymn: Creator of the stars of night (Conditor Alme)
Canticles (Arnold Bax)
Second Lesson: 1 Thessalonians 2 vv13-20
Anthem: Benedictus (Elgar)
Final Hymn: The Kingdom of God is justice and joy (Hanover)
Organ Voluntary: Fantasia on Hanover (Edwin Lemare)

Weds 16th December - All Saints’ Church, Swanton Morley, Norfolk with the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge 
(rpt. Sun 20th December)
Introit: Arise, shine (Ned Rorem)
Responses: Peter Still
Psalm: 25 (Henry Ainsworth)
First Lesson: Isaiah 51 vv1-8
Office Hymn: Hark the glad sound! (Bristol)
Canticles (Robert Nicholls)
Second Lesson: 2 Thessalonians 1
Spirituals: Ev'ry time I feel the Spirit; There is a balm in Gilead; Ain't that good news!; My Lord, what a morning; Ezekiel saw de wheel (arr. Henry Burleigh and William Dawson)
Final Hymn: Mine eyes have seen the glory (Battle Hymn of the Republic)
Organ Voluntary: Hymn (Flights of Fancy) (William Albright)

Weds 23rd December - St James's Church, Spanish Place, London with the Choir of The Queen’s College, Oxford (pre-rec: 10th December)
(rpt. Sun 27th December)

Versicle and Response: Deus in adjutorium (Padilla)
Rorate caeli desuper (Guerrero)
Psalms: 110, 147 - Dixit Dominus (Padilla), Lauda Jerusalem (Patiño)
First Lesson: Isaiah 55
Office Hymn: The Angel Gabriel (Basque trad., arr. Pettman)
Magnificat (Morales)
Second Lesson: Matthew 1 vv18-23
Nunc Dimittis (Coelho)
Homily: Prof. Christopher Rowland
Anthems: Ave Maria (de Cristo) 
             Pastores, si nos queréis (Guerrero) 
             O magnum mysterium (Victoria)
Alma redemptoris mater (Fernandez)
Verbum caro factum est (Lobo)
Organ Voluntary: Tiento y discurso de segundo tono (Correa de Araujo)

A FESTIVAL OF NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS
Thurs 24th December - 1502-1630 (Radio 4)
Fri 25th December - 1400-1540 (Radio 3)

Once in royal David’s city (arr. Cleobury)
Bidding Prayer read by the Acting Dean
Ding dong! merrily on high (arr. Wilberg)
First lesson: Genesis 3, vv 8-19  read by a Chorister
Jesus Christ the apple tree (Poston)
Adam lay ybounden (Ledger)
Second lesson: Genesis 22 vv 15-18 read by a Choral Scholar
In dulci jubilo (arr. de Pearsall)
One star, at last (Maxwell Davies)
Third lesson: Isaiah 9 vv 2, 6-7 read by a Representative of the Cambridge Churches
Sussex Carol (arr. Willcocks)
God rest you merry, gentlemen (arr. Willcocks)
Fourth lesson: Isaiah 11 vv 1-3a, 4a, 6-9  read by a Representative of the City of Cambridge
There is no rose (Mediaeval)
Det är en ros utsprungen (arr. Sandström)
Fifth lesson: Luke 1 vv 26-35, 38 read by a Representative of Eton College
Mary’s Magnificat (Carter)
Joys Seven (arr. Cleobury)
Sixth lesson: Luke 2 vv 1, 3-7 read by the Assistant Chaplain
Infant holy (arr. Willcocks)
Il est né (arr. Willcocks)
Seventh lesson: Luke 2 vv 8-16 read by the Director of Music
The Christ Child (Gabriel Jackson - first performance, commissioned by King’s College)
While shepherds watched (arr. Cleobury)
Eighth lesson: Matthew 2 vv 1-12 read by the Vice-Provost
In the bleak midwinter (Darke)
Personent hodie (arr. Holst)
Ninth lesson: John 1 vv 1-14 read by the Provost
O come, all ye faithful (arr. Willcocks)
Collect and Blessing
Hark! the herald angels sing (arr. Willcocks)
Organ voluntaries In dulci jubilo BWV 729 (Bach)
[Toccata-Gigue on the Sussex Carol (George Baker) - broadcast on Radio 3 only]

Weds 30th December - Eton College Chapel with the Rodolfus Choir
(rpt. Sun 3rd January)

Introit: Et incarnatus est (Mass in B minor) (Bach)
Responses: Reading
Psalms: 147, 148, 149, 150 (Stanford, Walmisley, Hanforth, Goodenough)
First Lesson: Isaiah 59 vv1-15a
Magnificat: Buxtehude
Second Lesson: John 1 vv19-28
Nunc Dimittis: Michael Praetorius
Anthem: Sanctus (Mass in B minor) (Bach)
Hymn: A great and mighty wonder (Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen)
Organ Voluntary: Chorale Prelude on 'Vater unser im Himmelreich', BWV682 (Bach)

2010

Weds 6th January - King’s College London
(rpt. Sun 10th January)

Introit: Omnes de Saba (Lassus)
Bidding Prayer
Verbum caro factum est (Philippe Rogier)
First Meditation (The Revd Professor Richard Burridge)
Reading: Isaiah 60 vv.1-6
Jubilate Deo (Giovanni Gabrieli)
Reading: Matthew 2 vv.1-12
Videntes stellam (Rogier)
Reading: Helena (Evelyn Waugh)
Second Meditation
Magnificat, verses alternating with 'Joseph lieber, Joseph mein' and 'In dulci jubilo' (Hieronymus Praetorius)
Prayers
Hymn: As with gladness, men of old (Dix)
Organ Voluntary: In dir ist Freude BWV 615 (Bach)

Weds 13th January - Derby Cathedral
(rpt. Sun 17th January)
Organ Prelude sur L'Introit de l'Epiphanie (Duruflé)
Introit: Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child (Leighton)
Responses: Stanley Vann
Office Hymn: O worship the Lord (Was lebet)
Psalms: 69, 70 (Battishill, Barnby)
First Lesson: Exodus 15 vv1-19
Canticles: Stanford in C
Second Lesson: Colossians 2 vv8-15
Anthem: The Three Kings (Jonathan Dove)
Final Hymn: Brightest and best (Liebster Immanuel)
Organ Postlude: Les Mages (Messiaen)

Weds 20th January - St Paul’s Cathedral
(rpt. Sun 24th January)

Weds 27th January - Wells Cathedral
(rpt. Sun 31st January)

Weds 3rd February - Durham Cathedral
(rpt. Sun 7th February)

Weds 10th February - Leeds Cathedral
(rpt. Sun 14th February)

Ash Weds 17th February - Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral
(rpt. Sun 21st February)

Weds 24th February - Peterborough Cathedral
(rpt. Sun 28th February)

Weds 3rd March - Wakefield Cathedral
(rpt. Sun 7th March)

Weds 10th March - King’s College, Cambridge
(rpt. Sun 14th March)

Weds 17th March - Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin
(rpt. Sun 21st March)

Weds 24th March - Ely Cathedral
(rpt. Sun 28th March)

Weds 31st March - Ripon Cathedral
(no repeat)

Easter Sun 4th April - York Minster
(no repeat)














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