The Choir of Swansea Minster

Music List, May 2025

Sunday 4^th May The Third Sunday of Easter

11.00am Choral Eucharist

Cyril Jenkins Dawn Hymns: 145, 158, 143 (i), 162

David Bednall St Martin’s Mass Psalm 30

Charles Wood This joyful Easter-tide

Johann Sebastian Bach Christ isterstanden, BWV 627/1

4.00pm Choral Evensong

Johann Sebastian Bach Fugue in G minor, BWV 578 Hymns: 158, 152

Philip Radcliffe Responses Psalm 86

Charles Villiers Stanford in C

Henry G Ley The strife is o’er the battle done

Healey Willan Chorale Prelude, ‘Gelobt sei Gott’

Tuesday 6^th May

5.15pm Evensong

Dietrich Buxtehude Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BuxWV 198 Psalm 71

Canticles Set A Hymn 150

Johann Sebastian Bach Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, BWV 626

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Sunday 11^th May The Fourth Sunday of Easter

11.00am Choral Eucharist

Grayston Ives Intrada Hymns: 537, 517, 324, 478

Herbert Sumsion in F Psalm 23

Joyce Eilers Go ye now in peace

Herbert Murrill Carillon

2.30pm Royal British Legion 80^th Anniversary Service for Victory in Europe Day

Hymns: 455, 355, 537

Tuesday 13^th May

5.15pm Choral Evensong for the Eve of Mathias, Apostle, sung by the Gentlemen of the Choir

Johann Kasper Ferdinand Fischer Christ isterstanden (Fughette)

Plainsong Responses

George Dyson in C minor Psalm 147, 1-12

William Reynolds Christ is the morning star Hymn 159

Samuel Scheidt Christ lag in Todesbanden

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Sunday 18^th May The Fifth Sunday of Easter

11.00am Choral Eucharist

Jean Langlais Prélude au Kyrie Hymns: 137, 305, 311, 380

James MacMillan St Anne’s Mass Psalm 148, 1-6

Richard Shephard A new commandment

Jean Langlais Fantaisie (Hommage à Frescobaldi)

4.00pm Choral Evensong

Bernardo Pasquini Toccata

Thomas Tallis Responses Hymns 151, 152

Herbert Brewer in D Psalm 98

Richard Shephard The Easter Song of Praise

Johann Sebastian Bach Christ isterstanden, BWV 627/2

Tuesday 20^th May

5.15pm Evening Prayer (said) Psalm 97

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Sunday 25^th May The Sixth Sunday of Easter: Rogation Sunday

11.00am Choral Eucharist

Johann Gottfried Walther Jesus, meineZuversicht Hymns: 250, 449, 482, 152

William Mathias Series 3 Communion Psalm 67

Thomas Mudd Let thy merciful ears

Johann Sebastian Bach Christ isterstanden, BWV 627/3

4.00pm Choral Evensong, sung by the Gentlemen of the Choir

Joseph Jongen Chant de Mai Hymns: 498, 150

Plainsong Responses Psalm 126

Edward C. Bairstow in Eb

Michael Haller Confitebor Domino

Johann Sebastian Bach Erstandenist der heil’ge Christ, BWV 628

Tuesday 27^th May Rogation Day

No Evensong - Half Term

Thursday 29^th May ASCENSION DAY

12.00noon Mass of the Ascension, sung by the Gentlemen of the Choir

Olivier Messiaen Majesté du Christ demandant sa gloire à son Père Hymns: 167, 172

Plainsong Missa de Angelis Psalm 47

Carlo Carturan Ascendit Deus

Johann Sebastian Bach Heut Triumphiret Gottes Sohn, BWV 630

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