The Collegiate Church of St Mary, Swansea
Music List
December 2024
Sunday
1st December Advent
Sunday
11.00am
Choral Eucharist
Johann
Sebastian Bach Wachet auf, ruftuns die
stimme Hymns: 24, 36 (t.391), 39, 31
Malcolm
Archer Advent
Wreath Prayers
John
Ireland in C Advent
Prose
Boris
Ord Adam
lay y-bounden
Johann
Gottfried Walther Gottes Sohn ist kommen
6.00pm
Advent Carol Service by Candlelight
Giovanni
Pierluigi da Palestrina Matin
& Vesper Responsories
Ralph
Vaughan Williams This is the truth
Thomas
Ravenscroft Remember, O
thou man
Otto
Goldschmidt A tender
shoot
arr.
Edgar Pettman Gabriel’s
Message
Percy
Buck The
Renunciation
Louis-Nicolas
Clérambault Caprice sur les grands
jeux
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Sunday
8th December The
Second Sunday of Advent
11.00am
Holy Eucharist (no Choir)
Dietrich
Buxtehude Nun komm,
der Heiden Heiland, BuxWV 211 Hymns:
26, 234, 34, 29
Heinrich Buttstedt Gottes Sohn ist kommen
4.00pm
Evening Prayer (said)
7.00pm
Handel’s Messiah at the Brangwyn Hall, St Mary’s Choir with the Gower Chorale
and the British Sinfonietta
Wednesday
11th December
6.30pm
Civic Carol Celebration
Simon
Mold Candlelight Carol
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Sunday
15th December The Third
Sunday of Advent
11.00am
Choral Eucharist Hymns:
27, 234, 37, 38
Johann Sebastian Bach Nun
komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 659
Malcolm Archer Advent
Wreath Prayers
Herbert Sumsion in F Advent
Prose
Ralph Vaughan Williams This
is the truth sent from above
C. Hubert H. Parry Chorale
Prelude on ‘Dundee’
4.00pm
Choral Evensong
Jeanne
Demessieux Rorate Caeli – Choral
orné
Thomas
Tallis Responses Hymns:
25, 27
Charles
Villiers Stanford in Bb Psalm
50, 1-6
Charles
Wood O thou the
central orb
George
Dyson Variations
on ‘Hark the glad sound!’
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Sunday
22nd December The
Fourth Sunday ofAdvent
11.00am
Choral Eucharist
Dietrich Buxtehude Mein Seele erhebt den Herren, BuxWV 204,1 Hymns: 35, 362, 58, 32, 63
Malcolm Archer Advent
Wreath Prayers
Harold
Darke in F Advent
Prose
Basque,
arr. Edgar Pettman Gabriel’s Message
Johann Sebastian Bach Lob sei demallmächtigen Gott, BWV 602
4.00pm
Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols
William
Reynolds The advent
of our King (first performance)
Boris
Ord Adam
lay ybounden
Glenn
L. Rudolph Veiled
in darkness
Basque,
arr. Edgar Pettman Gabriel’s Message
Gustav
Holst Lullay my liking
John
Hughes Sisialai’rawelfwyn
Malcolm
Archer Brightest
and best of the sons of morning
Johann Sebastian Bach In dulci
jubilo, BWV 729
Tuesday
24th December Christmas Eve
11.30pm Midnight Mass for the Nativity of Our Lord (Choral, with
Chamber Orchestra)
Georg Frederic Handel Overture
to Messiah
arr. Woodward Up!
Good Christen Folk, and listen Hymns:
56 (omit *), 69 (ii), 76, 64, 53
Joseph Haydn Missa
brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo
arr. Wood Ding, dong, merrily on high
Johann Sebastian Bach In dulci jubilo, BWV 729
Wednesday 25th December CHRISTMAS
DAY
10.00am Holy Eucharist, with Carols
Dom Clement Jacob Prélude sur
l’Introït pour la fête de la NativitéPuer natusest
Hymns: 48 (omit *), 45, 62 (omit 4 & 5), 67
Louis James Lefébure-Wély Sortie in Eb
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Sunday
29th December
11.00am
Holy Eucharist The First Sunday of Christmas
Hymns: 57, 56
(omit 4), 55, 63
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