Sunday, January 29, 2012 - Epiphany 4

Organ Prelude: Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, my Joy) - Max Reger
Anthem:  God be in my head - Andrew Carter
Organ Postlude: Jesu, meine Freude (Jesus, my Joy) - J.S. Bach

Sunday, January 22, 2012 - Epiphany 3

Organ Prelude: Recit de nazard (from ‘Suite du deuxieme ton’) - Louis-Nicolas Clerambault
Nazard (from ‘Suite Francaise’) - Jean Langlais (played by Peter Dunphy)
Communion Motet:  Lord, for thy tender mercies’ sake - Richard Farrant
Organ Postlude: Basse et dessus de trompette - Louis-Nicolas Clerambault

Sunday, January 15, 2012 - Epiphany 2

Organ Prelude: Petit Canon - Nadia Boulanger
Anthem: O Holy City, seen of John  - Herbert Howells
Organ Postlude: Processional on ‘Sine nomine’ - David Cameron

Sunday, January 8, 2012 - Epiphany

LESSONS, READINGS AND CAROLS FOR EPIPHANY

Organ Prelude: Nun freut euch (Good Christians, One and All,  Rejoice) – J.S. Bach

Hymns:

• Entrance:  Of eternal love begotten, (Divinum mysterium)
• From east to west, from shore to shore (Puer nobis nascitur)
• What child is this, who, laid to rest (Greensleeves)  
• O come, all ye faithful,  (Adeste fidelis)
• Away in a manger, no crib for a bed (Cradle Song)
• Recessional: In the darkness shines the splendor (Irby)

Carols (sung by the choir)

• In the bleak midwinter  (Words: Christina Rosetti, Music: Harold Darke)
• When to the temple Mary went – Johann Eccard
• Nunc dimittis (from the Service in C) - Charles Villiers Stanford
• The Three Kings - Ross Hewitt (baritone) (Words: Peter Cornelius; Music: Peter Cornelius, arr. Ivor Atkins)

Organ Postlude:  Festival Voluntary - Flor Peeters

Sunday, January 1, 2012 - New Year's Day

10:00 am Choral Eucharist

•  Prelude: The Shepherds (The Nativity) - Olivier Messiaen 
• Setting: Sanctus, Benedictus, and Agnus Dei from The New Plainsong - David Hurd 
• Carol: “An Old French Carol” - arr. Samuel Liddle 
• Carol: “A Child is Born There” - Norman Nurmi 
• Music at Communion: Gesù Bambino - Pietro Yon 
• Postlude: Noel X - Louis-Claude Daquin