The Collegiate Church of St Mary, Swansea

Music List

March 2024

 

Sunday 3rd March                The Third Sunday of Lent

11.00am Choral Eucharist                                       Hymns: 368, 321, 581, 455

John Ireland in C                                                                             Lent Prose

Thomas Attwood                  Teach me, O Lord, the way of thy statutes

 

4.00pm Choral Evensong 

Thomas Tallis Responses                          Hymns: 97, Lord, who in thy perfect wisdom (Blaenwern)

William Harris in A minor                                                                Psalms 11 & 12

Samuel Sebastian Wesley Arwain fi, Iôr, yn dy gyfiawnder

 

Tuesday 5th March              Non (5th century), Mother of David of Wales

5.30pm Evensong

Psalm 64                   Canticles Set A                    Hymn: Lord, who in thy perfect wisdom

 

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Sunday 10th March              Mothering Sunday (The Fourth Sunday of Lent)

11.00am Choral Eucharist

Peter Aston               Communion Order One                  Hymns: 362, 238, 241 (t.435), 505

Tomás Luis de Victoria       Ave Maria                                           Lent Prose

 

4.00pm Choral Evensong

John Sanders Responses                                                             Hymns: 243, 241 (t.435)

Thomas Tertius Noble in B minor                                                 Psalms 13 & 14

Antonio Lotti                         Ave Regina coelorum

Louis Marchand                   Dialogue en taillle

 

Tuesday 12th March

5.30pm Choral Evensong, sung by the Gentlemen of the Choir

Enrico Bossi             Ave Maria

Plainsong Responses                                                                    Psalm 80

J.H. Arnold                Tones & Fauxbourdons

Lorenzo Perosi                     Ave Maria                                          Hymn: 238

Marcel Dupré                        Chorale: Mein Seele erhebet den Herren

 

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Sunday 17th March            Passion Sunday (The Fifth Sunday of Lent)

11.00am Choral Eucharist

William Harris in F                                       Hymns: 122 (ii), 127 (i),119, 499 (omit *)

William Byrd              Ave verum corpus                            Lent Prose

 

6.00pm Stations of the Cross, at St Gabriel’s Church, Brynmill

Giovanni Grossi                   Agnus Dei

Jacob Arcadelt                      Ave Maria

Giovanni Croce                       O vos omnes

Edward Elgar                                    Ave verum corpus

 

Tuesday 19th March   Joseph of Nazareth

No Evensong today

 

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Sunday 24th March    PALM SUNDAY

10.50am Choral Eucharist, with Blessing of Palms & Procession

Hymns: 1st hymn printed in service booklet, 129, 112, 499(verses 1-7)

William Mathias in C                                                                                   Lent Prose

Arthur Hutchings                 Hosanna to the Son of David

 

4.00pm A Passiontide Liturgy of Reconciliation Hymns: 123, 385, 120, 127 (i)

F.A. Gore Ouseley               Is it nothing to you

John Hilton                           Lord, for thy tender mercy’s sake  

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart           Ave verum corpus

John Goss                             O Saviour of the world

 

 

TUESDAY IN HOLY WEEK 26th March

12.00pm Chrism Eucharist at Brecon Cathedral

5.30pm Choral Evensong – Upper Voices

Max Reger                             O Haupt voll Blut und Wundern

Harry Bramma Responses                                                                         Psalm 27

J. H. Arnold                           Plain Magnificat & Nunc dimittis

arr. William Reynolds                      Drop, drop slow tears                       Hymn 123

Johann Sebastian Bach    Herzlich thut mich verlangen, BWV 727

 

WEDNESDAY IN HOLY WEEK 27th March

11.30am Holy Eucharist

 

MAUNDY THURSDAY 28th March

7.00pm Mass of the Last Supper, with Foot Washing & Stripping of the Altar

Harold Darke in F                                                                            Hymns: 130, 322, 316

Plainsong                  Ubi caritas                                                     Ps 116, 1-2 & 11-16 (292)

Orlando Gibbons     Drop, drop slow tears

Thomas Tallis                       If ye love me                                                  Psalm 88 (Plainsong)

 

GOOD FRIDAY 29th March

2.00pm Liturgy of the Passion                                        Hymns: 123, 127, 557

Philip Marshall                     Litany                                                 Psalm 22, 1-21

Tomás Luis de Victoria       Popule meus

John Bull                               In the departure of the Lord

 

HOLY SATURDAY 30th March

7.00pm Easter Vigil – Gentlemen of the Choir

Plainsong                  Missa de Angelis                                          Hymns: 568, 138, 148

Plainsong                  Victimae Paschale

 

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SUNDAY 31st March  EASTER DAY

11.00am Choral Eucharist, Blessing of the Easter Garden & Baptism, with Chamber Orchestra

Charles Wood          This joyful Easter-tide          Hymns: 149 (pt.1 & Dox), 147, 160, 157

Franz Schubert                    Mass in G                                          Easter Anthems

Marco Antonio Ingegneri    Haec dies

Theodore Dubois                 Toccata in G

 

4.00pm Festal Choral Evensong

Barry Rose                            I am the first and the last                 Hymns: 154 (omit *), 162

Richard Ayleward Responses                                                       Palms 114 & 117

Charles Villiers Stanford in C

Samuel Sebastian Wesley Blessed be the God and Father

 

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Following Evensong on Easter Day St Mary's Choirs will be in recess until Sunday 14th April