NEWPORT CATHEDRAL CHOIR

Music List, February 2012

Responses: Donald Hunt, after S. S. Wesley


Wednesday 1st February


Bridget, Abbess

Eve of Candlemas

Sung Eucharist, 7.00 p.m. (boys’ voices)

Cathedral Eucharist 1

Gradual: Nunc dimittis (Plainsong)

Hymns: 156 (t. 288), 33 (vv 1, 4, 5, 7), 157

Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahim (616) - J. S. Bach

Friday 3rd February


The Saints, Martyrs and Misisonaries of Europe

Choral Evensong, 7.00 p.m.

Psalm: 18, vv. 1-15

Stanford in A

Verleih uns Frieden - Mendelssohn (b. 3.ii.1809)

Hymn: 492

Fuga (Sonata No. 6) - Mendelssohn

Sunday 5th February


Third Sunday before Lent;

Education Sunday

Family Eucharist, 10.30 a.m. (boys’ voices)

The Children’s Band - American trad, arr. Christopher Tambling

Hymns: 378, SWAMS 15, 364 (t. 408), SWAMS 23, 486

Introduction and Allegro in D - Bache


Choral Evensong, 6.30 p.m.

Psalm: 2

Wood in E flat (No. 2)

Save us, O Lord - Bairstow

Hymns: 436, 267, 426

Voluntary in D minor, Op. 7 No. 4 - Stanley

Responses: Humphrey Clucas


Wednesday 8th February

Choral Evensong, 7.00 p.m.

Psalm: 41

Canticles: Plainsong, Tones VIII.i and I.ii

Lead me, Lord - S. S. Wesley

Hymn: 417

Scherzo - Leighton

Friday 10th February

Choral Evensong, 7.00 p.m.

Psalm: 52

Brewer in E flat

The spirit of the Lord - Elgar

Hymn: 407

Prelude (Four short pieces) - Harris

Sunday 12th February


Second Sunday before Lent

Creation Sunday


Confirmation, 10.30 a.m.

Malcolm Archer: Missa Omnes Sancti

Hymns: 138, 339 (Gradual), 271, 420

Symphony No. 6 in G minor (3rd movt) - Widor


Evensong, 6.30 p.m. (sung by the St Woolos Singers)

Psalm: 67

Hymns: 265, 263 (vv. 1, 4, 7), 433

Responses: Byrd


Sunday 19th February


Sunday before Lent;

Transfiguration Sunday


Sung Eucharist, 10.30 a.m.

Paul Ritchie: St Woolos Service (Newport Cathedral commission 2011)

Gradual Psalm: 50, verses 1-6

O nata lux - Tallis

Hymns: 178, 410, 487

Fugue in F - Handel


Choral Evensong, 6.30 p.m.

Psalm: 27

Wood in F

For lo! I raise up - Stanford

Hymns: 394, 423, 474

Paraphrase sur un Laudate Dominum - Boëllmann

Responses: Stewart


Wednesday 22nd February


Ash Wednesday

Sung Eucharist, 7.00 p.m.

Missa St Crucis - Rheinberger

Gradual Psalm: 51, vv. 1-8

Hymns: 67, 305, 70 (I)

O Mensch, bewein’ dein’ Sünde groß (622) - J. S. Bach

Friday 24th February

Compline, 8.00 p.m. (men’s voices)

Nunc Dimittis - Tye

Hear the voice and prayer - Tallis

A verse to play after prayer - Anon

Sunday 26th February


Lent 1


Sung Eucharist, 10.30 a.m.

Viadana: Missa L’hora passa

Gradual Psalm: 25, vv. 1-10

Hymns: 357, 294, 393

Prelude in C minor (546a) - J. S. Bach


Choral Evensong, 6.30 p.m.

Psalm: 77

Noble in A minor

Geistliches Lied - Brahms

Hymns: 379 (t. 3i), 416 (ii), 73 (ii)

Fugue in C minor (546b) - J. S. Bach

Responses: Tomkins


Monday 27th February

Evensong, 7.00 p.m. (Cathedral Training Choir)

Wednesday 29th February

Choral Evensong, 7.00 p.m. (boys’ voices)

Psalm: 142 (RSCM 154)

Canticles: Plainsong Tones I.ii and II.i

Ex ore innocentium - Ireland

Hymn: 419

Trio in D minor - Krebs

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