Sunday, February 22, 2015

LENT 2 - 1 March 2015

  • Organ: Voluntary in F minor (first movement) – Maurice Greene
  • Opening Hymn 546 “God moves in a mysterious way”
  • Service Music: A New Plainsong – David Hurd
  • Psalm 22: 22-26 - Praise the Lord you that fear him
  • Gospel Acclamation
  • Offertory Hymn 375 “At the Name of Jesus”
  • Anthem: Lord, let me know mine end – Maurice Greene
  • During Communion: The Lenten Prose
  • Concluding Hymn 347 “The God of Abraham praise”
  • Organ: Voluntary in F minor (second movement) – Maurice Greene

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Music Notes

Born in London, the son of a clergyman, Maurice Greene was a choirboy at St Paul's Cathedral, and later became organist there. Greene went on to the position of organist at the Chapel Royal; in 1730 he became Professor of Music at Cambridge University, and in 1735 he was appointed Master of the King's Musick.

His compositions are largely in the Georgian style, particularly the longer anthems such as his acknowledged masterpiece which we'll hear this morning, “Lord, Let Me Know Mine End”. In this anthem. Greene sets a text full of pathos with a moving duet in the middle of the work. For the text of his work, Greene chose parts of the 39th Psalm, in which David meditates on man's frailty, and applies for pardon and deliverance by considering that there is really no solid satisfaction to be had in this world. That if it offers nothing but vanity, may God deliver us from seeking our part of it, and that we are comforted by the fact that we have a God we can go to, who welcomes us, and in whom we can trust.



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Sunday, February 15, 2015

LENT 1 - February 22, 2015

  • Organ: Introit (from ‘Messe Basse’) – Louis Vierne 
  • Opening Hymn  175 “Forty days and forty nights”
  • Service Music: A New Plainsong – David Hurd
  • Trisagion 
  • Psalm 25: 1-4 (Tone I.4) To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul
  • Gospel Acclamation:
    We do not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. 
  • Offertory Hymn 330 O praise ye the Lord
  • Anthem: Teach me, O Lord – Thomas Attwood
  • Communion Hymn  633 Lord Christ, we praise your sacrifice
  • Concluding Hymn 170 The glory of these forty days
  • Organ: Prelude Lent – Alphonse Schmitt
Music Notes

British composer Thomas Attwood was the son of a musician in the royal band, and in 1783 he was sent to study in Naples and Vienna at the expense of the Prince of Wales, who had been favourably impressed by his skill at the harpsichord. In Vienna, he became a favorite pupil of Mozart. In 1796 he was appointed organist of St. Paul's Cathedral, and in the same year he was made composer to the Chapel Royal. In 1838, as Attwood was composing an anthem for the coronation of Queen Victoria, he died, and he is appropriately buried in St. Paul's Cathedral, in a crypt under the pipe organ.
Louis Vierne (1870-1937) and Alphonse Schmitt (1875-1912) were contempories in Paris, where Vierne presided over the organ at Notre Dame Cathedral and Schmitt at St. Philippe de Roule.

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Ash Wednesday - February 18, 2015

  • Opening Hymn  175 “Forty days and forty nights”
  • Service Music: A New Plainsong – David Hurd
  • Trisagion 
  • Psalm 103: 8-11, 17,18 - The Lord is full of compassion and mercy
  • Gospel Acclamation:
    A pure heart create for me, O God, and give me again the joy of your help 
  • Offertory Hymn 614 “Forgive our sins as we forgive”
  • Communion Hymn 511 “Lord Jesus think on me”
  • Communion Motet: Lord, for thy tender mercies’ sake – Richard Farrant
  • Concluding Hymn 345 “King of glory, King of peace”
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Sunday, February 8, 2015

The Last Sunday of Epiphany (Transfiguration) - February 15, 2015

  • Organ: Lento – Frank Bridge
  • Opening Hymn 337 “God, your glorious presence”
  • Service Music: John Merbecke
  • Psalm 50: 1-6 The Lord the God of gods has spoken:
  • Gospel Alleluia: This is my Son my Chosen: listen to him! 
  • Offertory Hymn 387 “All praise to thee”
  • Communion Hymn “We have come at Christ’s own bidding”
  • Communion Motet: O nata lux (O Light of Light) – Thomas Tallis
  • Concluding Hymn 374 “Alleluia! Sing to Jesus”
  • Organ: Menuetto – John Ireland

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