The Choir of The Church of the Advent
Choral Music Season Archive 2007-08
 
28 September (Friday) -  6:30 PM The Feast of St. Michael and All Angels
Francis Jackson: Communion Service in G
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Venit Michael archangelus
Jakob Handl: Duo seraphim clamabant
 
30 September - The Eighteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Alonso Lobo: Missa “Petre ego pro te rogavi”
William Byrd: Sing joyfully
Thomas Tomkins: My shepherd is the living Lord
 
7 October - The Nineteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla: Missa “Ego flos campi”
Charles Villiers Stanford: For lo, I raise up that bitter and hasty nation, op. 145
Charles Villiers Stanford: Beati quorum via, op. 38, no. 3
 
14 October - The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost
Josquin Desprez: Missa “Hercules Dux Ferrariæ”
Edward C. Bairstow: Though I speak with the tongues of men
John Sheppard: I give you a new commandement
 
21 October - The Solemnity of St. Luke
Josef Rheinberger: Cantus Missæ in E-flat, op. 109
Anton Bruckner: Os justi meditabitur sapientiam, WAB 30
Melchior Vulpius: Jesus sprach zu dem Blinden
 
28 October - The Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa “Æterna Christi munera”
Heinrich Schütz: The Pharisee and the Publican
Thomas Weelkes: O how amiable
 
2 November (Friday) - 6:30 PM All Souls Day
Maurice Duruflé: Requiem, Op. 9
Gregorian chants
 
4 November - The Sunday in the Octave of All Saints
Christopher Tye: The Mass “Euge bone”
H. K. Andrews: Ah, see the fair chivalry come
Thomas Weelkes: O Lord, arise into thy resting place
 
11 November - The Twenty-Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Henri Sauguet: Petit Messe Pastorale
Kenneth Leighton: O sacrum convivium
J. F. Lallouette: O mysterium ineffabile
 
18 November - The Twenty-Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Harold E. Darke: Communion Service in E, “Collegium Regale”
Lee Hoiby: At the round earth’s imagined corners
Thomas Weelkes: Laboravi in gemitu meo
 
25 November - Christ the King
Francisco Guerrero: Missa “de la Batalla escoutez”
Benjamin Britten: A Hymn of St. Columba
Dr. Christopher Tye: Omnes gentes plaudite manibus
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Te Deum in G
 
2 December Advent Sunday — The Feast of Title and Dedication
Thomas Crecquillon: Missa “Domine Deus omnipotens”
Johannes Brahms: O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf, op. 74, no. 2
Johannes Brahms: Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen, op. 45, no. 4
 
2 December, 5:00 PM - A Service of Lessons and Carols for Advent Sunday
Matin Responsory ­ from G. P. da Palestrina
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree - Elizabeth Poston
Lord, grant grace ­ Orlando Gibbons
O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf, op. 74, no. 2 ­ Johannes Brahms
Out of your sleep, arise and wake ­ Richard Rodney Bennett
Seek him that maketh the seven stars ­ Jonathan Dove
A Child’s Prayer ­ James MacMillan
Canite tuba in Sion ­ Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
A spotless rose ­ Herbert Howells
Tota pulchra es Maria ­ Anton Bruckner
Vesper Responsory ­ from G. P. da Palestrina
 
9 December -  Second Sunday of Advent
Missa quinti toni super “Pilons pilons lorge” - Roland de Lassus
Rorate cæli desuper - William Byrd
Rorate cæli desuper - Francisco Guerrero
 
16 December -  Third Sunday of Advent (“Gaudete”)
Missa Brevis No. XI (Sancti Johannis Baptistæ) - Healey Willan
Canite tuba in Sion - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Rorate cæli desuper - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
 
23 December -  Fourth Sunday of Advent
Missa “Bel’ Amfitrit’ altera” - Roland de Lassus
Tota pulchra es, Maria, WAB 46 - Anton Bruckner
Ne timeas, Maria - Tomás Luis de Victoria
 
24 December (Monday) - Christmas Eve
c. 10:15 PM Choral Prelude
11:00 PM Solemn Procession and Midnight Mass
Missa “Papæ Marcelli” - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Hodie, Christus natus est - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
O magnum mysterium - Morten Lauridsen
 
30 December (Sunday) - First Sunday after Christmas
Choir excused
 
31 December (Monday) - New Year’s Eve
5:00 PM A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols for Christmastide
Gloria in excelsis Deo - Thomas Weelkes
Adam lay in bondage - Conrad Susa     
Balulalow - Nicholas Maw
Past three a clock - arr. Ian Humphris                 
A great and mighty wonder - Leo Sowerby        
There is no rose - Elizabeth Maconchy              
Magnificat - Giles Swayne            
O magnum mysterium - Morten Lauridsen        
Hodie, Christus natus est - Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
In dulci jubilo - arr. Robert Lucas de Pearsall                            
Sir Christémas - William Mathias
 
6 January  (Sunday) - The Epiphany
Tomás Luis de Victoria: Missa “O magnum mysterium”
William Byrd: O magnum mysterium & Beata virgo
Robert Lucas de Pearsall: In dulci jubilo
 
13 January - The First Sunday after the Epiphany: The Feast of the Baptism of our Lord
Francisco Guerrero: Missa “Simile est regnum coelorum”
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Sicut cervus & Sitivit anima mea
Peter Hallock: Jesus autem hodie (The Baptism of Christ)
 
20 January - The Second Sunday after the Epiphany (Septuagesima)
Thomas Crecquillon: Missa “D’ung petit mot”   
Herbert Howells: Behold, O God, our defender
Thomas Tallis: O sacrum convivium                                           
 
27 January - The Third Sunday after the Epiphany (Sexagesima)
Herbert Howells: The Office of the Holy Communion “Collegium Regale”
Johannes Brahms: Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, op 29, no 1
William Byrd: Surge illuminare Jerusalem
3 February - The Last Sunday after the Epiphany (Quinquagesima)
Leroy Kyrie - John Taverner
Missa “Sancti Wilhelmi Devotio” (“Small Devotion” Mass) - John Taverner
Seek him that maketh the seven stars - Jonathan Dove
In splendenti nube - Peter Phillips
 
6 February - Ash Wednesday (Wednesday, 6:30 pm - Solemn Mass)
Missa “L’hora passa es” - Ludovico Grossi da Viadana
Emendemus in melius - William Byrd
Hear my prayer - Henry Purcell
Miserere mei, Deus - Gregorio Allegri
 
10 February - The First Sunday in Lent
Kyrie “Omnipotens Pater” (Mode VIII)
Mass for Four Voices - Thomas Tallis
Sancte Deus, Sancte Fortis - Thomas Tallis
Salvator Mundi I - Thomas Tallis
 
17 February - The Second Sunday in Lent
Messe in G, op. 151, “Sanctæ Crucis" - Josef Rheinberger
Quomodo cantabimus, parts I & II - William Byrd
 
24 February - The Third Sunday in Lent
Kyrie “Cunctipotens genitor” - William Mundy
Missa “O Michæl” - John Taverner
Ave verum corpus - William Byrd
Lass dich nur nicht nichts dauren, op. 30 - Johannes Brahms
 
2 March - The Fourth Sunday in Lent ("Laetare")
Missa brevis, op. 57 - Lennox Berkeley
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace - Samuel Wesley
The Lord is my shepherd (Requiem) - Herbert Howells
 
9 March - The Fifth Sunday in Lent
Missa “Petre ego pro te rogavi” - Alonso Lobo
Salvator mundi (Requiem) - Herbert Howells
Vere languores nostros - Tomás Luis de Victoria
 
14 March, 7:00 pm - Friday - Devotional Program
Le chemin de la croix, Op. 29 by Marcel Dupré
Stephen Tharp, Organist
 
16 March - Palm Sunday - Liturgy of the Palms, Procession & Solemn Mass
Mass for Double Choir - Frank Martin
Hosanna to the Son of David - Thomas Weelkes
Christus factus est, WAB 11 - Anton Bruckner
Tristis est anima mea - Roland de Lassus
 
19 March, 7:00 PM - Wednesday in Holy Week - Tenebræ
Gregorian Chant
Vere languores nostros - Tomás Luis de Victoria
Tristis est anima mea - Roland de Lassus
Salvator mundi (Requiem) - Herbert Howells
 
20 March, 6:30 PM - Maundy Thursday - Solemn Mass, Mandatum and Watch before the Sacrament
Mass for Double Choir - Frank Martin
O sacrum convivium - Thomas Tallis
O salutaris hostia - Thomas Tallis
 
21 March, 6:30 PM - Good Friday - The Solemn Liturgy of the Passion, Veneration of the Cross & Mass of the Presanctified
Gregorian Chant
Reproaches - Tomás Luis de Victoria

Ecce, quomodo moritur justus - Jakob Handl

 
22 March, 6:30 PM - Holy Saturday- The Great Vigil and First Solemn Mass of Easter
Sicut cervus, part I - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Messe du Jubilé - Jean-Ives Daniel-Lesur
Hæc dies - William Byrd
Hæc dies - Giovanni Battista Nanino
 
23 March - Easter Sunday - Procession & Solemn Mass
Messe du Jubilé - Jean-Ives Daniel-Lesur
Hæc dies - William Byrd
Hæc dies - Giovanni Battista Nanino
 
30 March - The Second Sunday of Easter
Vidi aquam: setting by Tomás Luis de Victoria
Missa “Ego flos campi” - Juan Gutiérrez de Padilla
Quia vidisti me, Thoma? - Luca Marenzio
O sacrum convivium - Everett Titcomb
 
6 April - The Third Sunday of Easter
Vidi aquam: Mode VIII
Missa brevis, Op. 57 - Lennox Berkeley
Alleluia, cogneverunt discipuli - William Byrd
Maria Magdalene - Andrea Gabrieli
 
13 April - The Fourth Sunday of Easter
Vidi aquam: setting by Tomás Luis de Victoria
Missa Paschalis - Roland de Lassus
Surgens Jesus - Roland de Lassus
Surrexit pastor bonus - Roland de Lassus
 
20 April - The Fifth Sunday of Easter
Vidi aquam: Mode VIII
Missa brevis, Op. 50 - Kenneth Leighton
O Lord, arise into thy resting place - Thomas Weelkes
Behold, the tabernacle of God - Healey Willan
 
27 April - The Sixth Sunday of Easter (Rogation Sunday)
Vidi aquam: setting by Tomás Luis de Victoria
A Truro Eucharist - David Briggs
Nunc gaudeant - Frank Ferko
I see his blood upon the rose - Martin Near
Madrigal in the Garden: Le Chant des Oiseaux - Clement Janequin
 
1 May - Ascension Day (Thursday, 6:30 pm) - Sung by the Parish Choir
Missa l’hora passa es - Ludovico da Viadana
Lift up your heads - John Amner
King of glory - Harold Friedell
 
4 May - The Seventh Sunday of Easter
Vidi aquam: Mode VIII
Missa “Ascendens Christus” - Tomás Luis de Victoria
God is gone up - Gerald Finzi
A New Song - James Macmillan
 
11 May - The Feast of Pentecost (Whitsunday)
Mass in D Major, for chorus, soli and orchestra, op. 86 - Antonín Dvořák
Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes - Tomás Luis de Victoria
Confirma hoc, Deus - Roland de Lassus
 
18 May - Trinity Sunday
Mass for Four Voices - William Byrd
Te Deum Patrem ingenitum - Thomas Crecquillon
Let all mortal flesh keep silence - Edward C. Bairstow
Te Deum in F, op. 34 - Edward Elgar
 
22 May - The Feast of Corpus Christi (Thursday, 6:30 pm)
Kyrie (Mass for Three Voices) - William Byrd
Missa “O Michael” - John Taverner
Ave verum corpus - Colin Mawby
 
25 May - The Second Sunday after Pentecost
Missa “Bel’ Amfitrit’ altera” - Roland de Lassus
O for a closer walk with God, op. 113, no. 6 - Charles Villiers Stanford
O sacrum convivium - Brian Hoffman
 
30 May - Spring Concert (Friday, 8:00 pm)
The Choir of the Church of the Advent in concert:
“A New Song” featuring the complete “Mass for Double Choir” of Frank Martin
with works of Andrews, Ferko, Hoiby, MacMillan, Near and Swayne
 
1 June - Third Sunday after Pentecost
Missa “Æterna Christi munera” - G. P. da Palestrina
Let my complaint come before thee - Adrian Batten
I have longed for thy saving health - William Byrd
 
8 June - Fourth Sunday after Pentecost
Missa quinti toni super “Pilons pilons lorge” - Roland de Lassus
Teach me, O Lord - William Byrd
O Lord increase our faith - Henry Loosemore
 
15 June - Fifth Sunday after Pentecost
Communion Service in F - Herbert Whitton Sumsion
Flocks in pastures green abiding, BWV 208 - Johann Sebastian Bach
Ego sum panis vivus - William Byrd
 
22 June - Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
Missa brevis - G. P. da Palestrina
Ecce, ego mitto vos -Thomas Crecquillon
Dum lucem habeatis -Thomas Crecquillon
 
29 June - Seventh Sunday after Pentecost
Communion Service in E (Collegium Regale) - Harold E. Darke
How beauteous are their feet - Charles Villiers Stanford
Sacerdotes Domini - William Byrd
6 July - Eighth Sunday after Pentecost
Stephen Soph, Cantor
Lauter Wonne, lauter Freude from Harmonischer Gottesdiesnt - Georg Philipp Telemann
O Seelenparadies, from Cantata 172 - Johann Sebastian Bach
 
13 July - Ninth Sunday after Pentecost
Martin Near, Cantor
Qui sedes ad dexteram Patris from Gloria, RV 589 - Antonio Vivaldi
"Agnus Dei", from Mass in B minor, BWV 232 - Johann Sebastian Bach
 
20 July - Tenth Sunday after Pentecost
Jennifer Ashe, Cantor
Two songs: Hymn and Serenity - Charles Ives
Ich will dir mein Herze schenken, from St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 - Johann Sebastian Bach
 
27 July - Eleventh Sunday after Pentecost
Noël Bisson, Cantor
Magnificat - Randall Thompson
Flammande Rose, HWV 210 - George Frederick Handel
3 August - Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost
Jennifer Ashe & Martin Near, Cantors
O bone Jesu, O spes mea - Giovanni Felice Sances
Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritte from Cantata 78 - Johann Sebastian Bach
 
10 August - Thirteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Sudie Marcuse, Cantor
Missa Cellensis, Hob.XXII:8 ‘Mariazeller-Messe’, Gloria: II. Laudamus te - Franz Josef Haydn
Exsultate, jubilate, K 165 - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 
17 August - Fourteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Missa “Ave maris stella” - Tomás Luis de Victoria
O God, be merciful unto us - Dr. Christopher Tye
Almighty and everlasting God - Orlando Gibbons
 
24 August - Fifteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Missa de Sancto Albano (Communion Service in E-flat) - Healey Willan
Comfort, comfort ye my people - Claude Goudimel
Here, O my Lord, I see thee face to face - Percy Whitlock
 
31 August - Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost
Mass in C Major - Baldassare Galuppi
Nos autem gloriari oportet - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Ave verum corpus - Camille Saint-Saëns