Music at St Mary’s Church, Thornbury




Choir Music List 2025

Live streaming and recordings of services at St Mary’s, Thornbury are on this YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNkUbB6tYzHdbDPJFSkdaZA


2026 Anthem Playlist on YouTube for rehearsing:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsnbLbF20cQQTs5BbJ0aM_-UDz5Je421z



 

 

 

2025

10.30am Parish Eucharist

6.00pm Choral Evensong

05-Jan

Anthem: Torches (Joubert)

 

12-Jan

ALL-AGE SERVICE

Responses: Smith

 

 

Canticles: Stanford in B flat

 

 

Anthem: O Lord give thy Holy Spirit (Tallis)

19-Jan

Anthem: From the rising of the sun (OUseley)

 

26-Jan

Anthem: Teach me O Lord (Attwood)

 

02-Feb

Anthem: Nunc dimittis in D major (Wood)

 

Candlemas

 

 

09-Feb

ALL-AGE SERVICE

Responses: Ayleward

 

 

Canticles: Brewer in E flat

 

 

Anthem: Lead me Lord (SS Wesley)

16-Feb

Anthem: Blessed are the pure in heart (Walford Davies)

 

23-Feb

Anthem: An Irish Blessing (arr James E Moore)

 

02-Mar

Anthem: My eyes for beauty pine (Howells)

 

05-Mar

 

Anthem: Lord, for thy tender mercies  sake (Farrant)

Ash Wednesday

 

 

09-Mar

ALL-AGE SERVICE

Responses: Smith

 

 

Canticles: Noble in B minor

 

 

Anthem: Drop, drop slow tears (Gibbons, arr Bullard)

16-Mar

Anthem: Ave verum (Pearsall)

 

23-Mar

Anthem: Call to remembrance (Farrant)

 

30-Mar

BENEFICE SERVICE

 

Mothering Sunday

IN ST MARY S CHURCH HALL

 

06-Apr

Anthem: My song is love unknown (Ireland, arr. Robinson)

 

Passion Sunday

 

 

13-Apr

ALL-AGE SERVICE

 

Palm Sunday

 

 

17-Apr

 

7.00pm AGAPE SUPPER

Maundy Thursday

 

Introit: Lord, for thy tender mercy s sake

18-Apr

 

2.00pm LITURGY

Good Friday

 

Anthem: Crux fidelis (attrib. John IV of Portugal)

 

 

Were you there (Spiritual)

20-Apr

Anthem: O sing joyfully (Batten)

 

Easter Day

 

 

27-Apr

BENEFICE SERVICE

 

04-May

Anthem: Lead me, Lord (Wesley)

 

11-May

ALL-AGE SERVICE

Responses: Rose

 

 

Canticles: Wood in D

 

 

Anthem: The Lord s my shepherd (arr. Bullard)

18-May

Anthem: Though I speak with the tongues of men (Bairstow)

 

25-May

Anthem: If ye love me (Tallis)

 

01-Jun

Anthem: Come Holy Ghost (Attwood)

 

08-Jun

ALL-AGE SERVICE

4.30pm

 

 

Anthem: Veni creator spiritus (plainchant)

15-Jun

Anthem: Hymn to the Trinity (Tchaikovsky)

 

22-Jun

Anthem: From the rising of the sun (Ouseley)

 

29-Jun

Anthem: O for a closer walk with God (Stanford)

 

06-Jul

Anthem: Brother James  Air (arr Bullard)

 

13-Jul

ALL-AGE SERVICE

Responses: Rose

 

 

Canticles: Ireland in F

 

 

Anthem: Ave verum (Pearsall)

20-Jul

Anthem: Call to remembrance (Farrant)

 

27-Jul

Anthem: Teach me, O Lord (Attwood)

 

03-Aug

Anthem: Ave verum corpus (Mozart)

 

10-Aug

ALL-AGE SERVICE

No choral evensong

17-Aug

Anthem: Ave Maria (Arcadelt)

 

24-Aug

Anthem: I give you a new commandment (Aston)

 

07-Sep

Anthem: Jesu, joy of man s desiring (JS Bach)

 

14-Sep

COME AND SING

No choral evensong

 

Requiem (Faure)

 

21-Sep

Anthem: There s a wideness in God s mercy (Bevan)

 

28-Sep

Anthem: Thou knowest, Lord (Purcell)

 

05-Oct

Anthem: Thou visitest the earth (Greene)

 

12-Oct

ALL-AGE SERVICE

Responses: Smith

 

 

Canticles: Stanford in B flat

 

 

Anthem: Ave Maria (Arcadelt)

19-Oct

Anthem: Oh for a closer walk with God (Stanford)

 

26-Oct

Anthem: My eyes for beauty pine (Howells)

 

02-Nov

Anthem: Agnus Dei (Fauré Requiem)

ALL SOULS  MASS FOR THE DEPARTED

 

 

Requiem (Duruflé)

09-Nov

CIVIC SERVICE

SUNG EUCHARIST AT ST ARILDA S

Remembrance Sunday

Anthem: A new Commandment

Anthem: Call to remembrance (Farrant)

 

Anthem: Thou wilt keep him (Wesley)

 

16-Nov

Anthem: The Call (Vaughan Williams)

 

23-Nov

Anthem: Ave verum (Mozart)

 

30-Nov

Anthem: Adam lay ybounden (Ord)

ADVENT SERVICE OF LIGHT

Advent Sunday

 

 

07-Dec

Anthem: Adam lay ybounden (Ord)

 

14-Dec

ALL AGE SERVICE

 

21-Dec

Anthem: Myne liking (arr Terry)

SERVICE OF LESSONS AND CAROLS

 

 

Anthems: O radiant dawn (Macmillan)

 

 

Come ye gentles, hear the story (Bairstow)

 

 

Oh little one sweet (JS Bach)

 

 

I saw a maiden (arr Pettman)

 

 

Sir Christemas (Mathias)

24-Dec

Anthem: assortment of carols

 

25-Dec

NO CHOIR

 

Christmas Day

 

 

28-Dec

BENEFICE SERVICE - NO CHOIR

 

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