Monthly Music

This page provides details of music for the services listed. Not all services are open to the public: please find further details of which services are in-person or live-streamed only on our Services page here.

Music for Passiontide, Holy Week and Easter 2021

Thursday 25 March (Annunciation of our Lord to the Blessed Virgin Mary)
5.30 pm: Sung Eucharist (cantor)
Bednall – Mass for solo voice
Psalm 40, 6 – 13  

Sunday 28 March (Palm Sunday)
10.30 am: Sung Eucharist (cantor)
MacMillan – St Anne’s Service
Communion anthem – All glory, laud and honour
Psalm 31, 10 – 18

4 pm: Choral Evensong (cathedral choir)
Hunt – Responses
Psalm 69, 1 – 19
Francis Jackson in G
Weelkes – Hosanna to the son of David

Monday 29 March (Monday of Holy Week)
11 am: Chrism Mass
Davy – Plainsong Mass
Mendelssohn – I will sing of thy great mercies 

5.30 pm: Choral Evensong (cathedral choir)
Tomkins – Responses
Psalm 25
Byrd – Fauxboudon Service
Byrd – Civitas sancti

8 pm: Compline (three voices)

Tuesday 30 March (Tuesday of Holy Week)
5.30 pm: Choral Evensong (cathedral choir)
Tomkins – Responses
Psalm 55, 12 – 23
Woodside – Fauxbourdon Service
Stainer – God so loved the world  

8 pm: Compline (three voices)

Wednesday 31 March (Wednesday of Holy Week)
5.30 pm: Choral Evensong (cathedral choir)
Tomkins – Responses
Psalm 88
D. Purcell in E minor
Lotti - Crucifixus 

8 pm: Compline (three voices)

Thursday 1 April (Maundy Thursday)
8 pm: Sung Eucharist (three voices)
Lotti – Messa a tre voci
Caldara – Laboravi in gemitu meo
Psalm 116, 10 – end

Friday 2 April (Good Friday)
1.45 pm: Good Friday Liturgy (three voices)
Victoria – Passion according to St John
Soper – The Reproaches
Asola – Christus factus est
Tomkins – Out of the deep

Saturday 3 April (Easter Eve)
8 pm: Holy Saturday Eucharist (three voices)
Byrd – Mass for three voices
Morley – Haec dies 

Sunday 4 April (Easter Day)
10.30 am: Sung Eucharist (three voices)
Davy – Messe brève
Couperin – Christo resurgenti
Psalm 118, 14 – 24

4 pm: Choral Evensong (cathedral choir)
Gabriel Jackson - Responses
Psalm 66, 1 – 11
Howells – St Paul’s Service
Aston – Alleluya psallat