The Collegiate Church of St Mary, Swansea

Music List

November 2024

 

Sunday 3rd November      The First Sunday of the Kingdom

11.00am Choral Eucharist for All Saints

Johann Jakob Froberger          Toccata X in F, FbWV 310                               Hymns: 230, 216, 232, 227

David Bednall                          St Martin’s Mass                                             Psalm 24, 1-6

John Goss                                These are they which follow the Lamb

Marcel Dupré                         Toccata: Placare Christe servulis

 

4.00pm A Service of Music, Meditation & Readings for All Souls

William Croft                          Burial Sentences                                             Hymns: 594, 22

 

Tuesday 5th November    Cybi (6th Century), Abbot

5.15pm Evensong                                                                                    

Johann Sebastian Bach           Wenn wir in höchstenNöthen sein, BWV 641 Psalm 100

Canticles Set D                                                                                                            Hymn 567

Johann Sebastian Bach           Wernur den lieben Gott lässtwalten, BWV 642

 

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Sunday 10th November - Remembrance Sunday 

10.55am Choral Eucharist, with Act of Remembrance               

Charles Wood             Andante, from ALittle Organ Book                             Hymns: 537, 358, 368, 356

William Croft              I am the resurrection and the life

Harold Darke in F                                                                                            Ps 62, 5-12

William Croft              I know that my redeemer liveth

William Walton           Prelude – The ‘Spitfire’

 

2.30pm Annual Civic Service of Remembrance                              Hymns: 413, 537, 482

Peter Aston                 So they gave their bodies                                           Ps 121 (Walford Davies)

Kyiv melody                 Contakion for the dead

Henry Purcell              Thou knowest, Lord

William Croft              I heard a voice from heaven

C. Hubert H. Parry      Chorale Prelude on ‘St Ann’s’

 

Tuesday 12th November             Tysilio (6th Century), Abbot

5.15pm Choral Evensong, sung by the Gentlemen of the Choir

Johann Sebastian Bach           Alle Menschen müssensterbem, BWV 643

Plainsong Responses                                                                                       Psalm 40

Peter Conibear in Bb

John Barnard                           Day was theirs                                                            Hymn 216

Johann Sebastian Bach           Ach wienichtig, ach wieflüchtig, BWV 644

 

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Sunday 17th November   The Third Sunday of the Kingdom

11.00 Choral Eucharist

Ralph Vaughan Williams        Prelude on ‘Rhosymedre’                               Hymns: 2, 607, 278, 547

John Richards in E minor                                                                                Psalm 16

Alun Hoddinott                        Holy, holy, holy

William Mathias                     Toccata giocosa

 

No Choral Evensong today due to road closures and Christmas Parade

 

Tuesday 19th November Elizabeth of Hungary (1231), Princess of Thuringia & Philanthropist

5.15pm Evensong

Johann Sebastian Bach           Liebster Jesu, wirsindhier, BWV 731              Psalm 67

Canticles Set A                                                                                                            Hymn 581

Flor Peeters                             Postludium

           

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Sunday 24th November               Christ the King

11.00am Choral Eucharist

Grayston Ives                          Intrada                                                                        Hymns: 166, 612, 555, 398

Sydney Nicholson                    Missa Sancti Magni                                        Psalm 93

Henry Purcell                          O God, the King of glory

Johann Sebastian Bach           Heut Triumphiret Gottes Sohn, BWV 630

 

4.00pm Choral Evensong

Olivier Messiaen         Majesté du Christ demandant sa gloire à son Père (L’Ascension)    

John Sanders Responses                                                                                 Hymns: 172, 372

Charles Wood in D                                                                                          Psalm 72, 1-7

Philip Moore                           The song of Christ’s glory

Johann Sebastian Bach           Fantasia in G minor, BWV 542

 

Tuesday 26th November

5.15pm Choral Evensong, sung by the Gentlemen of the Choir

Charles Villiers Stanford         Andante tranquillo, Set 1, Op. 101                 Psalm 101

J.H. Arnold                               A Plain Magnificat & Nunc dimittis                Hymn 608

Ludwig van Beethoven            The heavens declare the creator’s glory       

Charles Villiers Stanford         Allegro non troppo, Set 1, Op. 101

 

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