December 2009 Choral Repertoire

Sunday, December 6th: The Second Sunday of Advent

9:30 - Cathedral Girls Choir & Schola Cantorum
HYMNS: 76, 65
Canticle 16 – Antiphon by Alistair Nelson/Chant by Richard Woodward
Anthem: Healey Willan – Rejoice Greatly
Motet: Barry Rose – People, Look East
Agnus Dei: Grayston Ives – Communion Service

11:15 (Rite I) - The Cathedral Choir of Men & Boys
HYMNS: 76, 75, 65
Canticle 16 – Anglican Chant by Richard Woodward
Anthem: Orlando Gibbons – This is the record of John
Richard Shephard - Never weather-beaten sail
Mass: Herbert Howells – Missa Collegium Regale

Choral Evensong for Advent
HYMNS: 64, 72
Introit: Palestrina – Matin Responsory
Psalm 115 – chant by Patrick Wedd
Preces & Responses: Richard Shephard
Mag & Nunc: Charles Stanford in C
Anthem: Andrew Carter – The Morning Star

Sunday, December 13th: The Third Sunday of Advent

9:30 – The Cathedral Girl’s Choir
HYMNS: When the King shall come again, 59
Canticle 9 – Antiphon by Larry Tremsky/chant by Ivor Atkins
Anthem: Craig Phillips – There’s a voice in the wilderness
Motet: Barry Rose – Come, thou Redeemer of the earth
Agnus Dei: L. White – Mass in E flat

11:15 (Rite II) – The Cathedral Choir of Men & Boys
HYMNS: 59, 67, 66
Canticle 9 - Anglican Chant by Thomas Tompkins
Anthem: Charles Wood – O Thou, the central Orb
Mass: Joseph Haydn – Missa Brevis Sancti Johannis de Deo

Sunday, December 20th: The Fourth Sunday of Advent

9:30 - Cathedral Girls Choir & Schola Cantorum
HYMNS: 56, 438
Psalm 80 / Antiphon and chant by Alistair Nelson
Anthem: Basque Carol – Gabriel’s Message
Motet: Simon Lindley – Ave Maria
Agnus Dei: John Bell

11:15 (Rite I) - The Cathedral Choir of Men & Boys
HYMNS: 56, 60, 438
Psalm 80 / Anglican Chant by Ivor Atkins
Anthem: Herbert Howells – A spotless Rose
Motet: Anon – There is no Rose
Mass: Harold Darke – Mass in a

Lessons & Carols for Christmas
HYMNS: 102, 81, 78, 105, 104, 87
David Willcocks – Ding dong, merrily on high
Boris Ord – Aday lay ybounden
Herbert Howells – A Spotless Rose
Franz Biebl – Ave Maria
John Rutter – Dormi Jesu
Grayston Ives – A Child is Born
Gerald Hendrie – Sweet was the song
French tune, arr. A.E. Baker – Whence is that goodly fragrance flowing?
Conrad Susa – The Shepherd’s Sing

Thursday, December 24th: Christmas Eve

Solemn Eucharist at 8:30 & 11:00 PM
-8:30 – The Cathedral Choir of Men & Girls with the Schola Cantorum
-11:00 – The Cathedral Choir of Men & Boys

Prelude Carols beginning at 8:00 & 10:30
David Willcocks – Sussex Carol
Gerald Hendrie – Sweet was the song (8:30)
Paul Edwards – No small wonder (11:00)
John Joubert – Torches
David Willcocks – Good King Wenceslaus
John Rutter – Candlelight Carol

HYMNS: 102, 96, 83, 82, 109, 111, 87
Psalm 96 /Anglican Chant by Alistair Nelson
Anthem: John Rutter – Shepherd’s Pipe Carol
Motet: Harold Darke – In the bleak mid-winter
Mass: George Malcolm – Missa ad Praesepe

There are NO Choral Services on the Sunday following Christmas

*most supplemental hymnody taken from “Common Praise”, the hymnal of the Anglican Church of Canada.