MUSIC FOR MAY
Saturday 5th May
8pm: EVENING EUCHARIST WITH THE BISHOP OF READING (Men’s Choir)
Communion setting: Darke (in F)
Anthems: Ave Verum – Byrd
Laudate nomen – Tye
Set me as a seal upon thine heart – Walton
Organ Voluntary: Tuba Tune - Lang
Sunday 6th May
11am: PARISH EUCHARIST (Visiting Organist)
6.30pm: COMPLINE (Men’s Choir)
An ancient plainchant service for the ending of the day, Compline offers an opportunity for twenty-five minutes of peace amidst the bank holiday weekend.
Sunday 13th May
11am: PARISH EUCHARIST WITH CONFIRMATION
(Boys’, Girls’ & Men’s Choir)
Communion setting: Darke (in E)
Anthems: Be thou my vision – Chilcott
Blessed be the God and Father – Wesley
Come Holy Ghost – Attwood
Organ Voluntary: Toccata, Fuga & Chaconne – Buxtehude
Sunday 20th May (Sunday after Ascension)
11am: PARISH EUCHARIST (Girls’ Choir)
Anthems: The Lord ascendeth up on high – Praetorius
Panis Angelicus – Franck
You raise me up – Groban & Lovland
Listen – Aniceto Nazareth arr. Archer
Organ voluntary: Prelude in D minor – J.S.Bach
6.30pm: REJOICE IN THE LORD (Men & Boys’ Choir)
A thirty minute service of hymns, reading, choir anthems and prayers to mark Ascension.
Anthems: Ascension Carol – Dutch Traditional arr. Wood
O for the wings of a dove – Mendelssohn
Ascendens Christus (Christ is ascending) – Handel
Organ Voluntary: Concerto in G major, Mvt III – Vivaldi
Sunday 27th May (Pentecost)
11am: PARISH EUCHARIST (Solo Instrumentalists & Singers)
A thanksgiving for the gift of music with young people from Holy Trinity Church.
6.30pm: CHORAL EVENSONG FOR PENTECOST
(Men & Boys’ Choir)
A centuries-old service drawn almost entirely from the bible, Choral Evensong is one of England’s richest heritages and it costs nothing to experience it live.
Responses: Rose
Psalm: 104 v.24-33 (chant: Smart)
Canticles: Stanford (in Bb)
Anthems: Come Holy Ghost – Attwood
This little light of mine – Traditional arr. Johnson
Organ Voluntary: Fugue in Eb (St. Anne) – J.S. Bach