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CHURCH CHOIR MUSIC LIST 2025


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2025 Anthem Playlist on YouTube for rehearsing


































   


























































































2025

10.30am Parish Eucharist

6.00pm Choral Evensong

5 January

Anthem: Torches (Joubert)


12 January

ALL-AGE SERVICE

Responses: Smith

Canticles: Stanford in B flat

Anthem: O Lord give thy Holy Spirit (Tallis)

19 January

Anthem: From the rising of the sun (OUseley)


26 January

Anthem: Teach me O Lord (Attwood)


2 February

Candlemas

Anthem: Nunc dimittis in D major (Wood)


9 February

ALL-AGE SERVICE

Responses: Ayleward

Canticles: Brewer in E flat

Anthem: Lead me Lord (SS Wesley)

16 February

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


23 February

Anthem: An Irish Blessing (arr James E Moore)


2 March

Anthem: My eyes for beauty pine (Howells)


5 March

Ash Wednesday


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

9 March

ALL-AGE SERVICE

Responses: Smith

Canticles: Noble in B minor

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

16 March

Anthem: Ave verum (Pearsall)


23 March

Anthem: Call to remembrance (Farrant)


30 March

Mothering Sunday

BENEFICE SERVICE

IN ST MARY'S CHURCH HALL


6 April

Passion Sunday

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


13 April

Palm Sunday

ALL-AGE SERVICE


17 April

Maundy Thursday


7.00pm AGAPE SUPPER

Introit: Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake


18 April

Good Friday


2.00pm LITURGY

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

Were you there (Spiritual)

20 April

Easter Day

Anthem: O sing joyfully (Batten)


27 April

BENEFICE SERVICE


4 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)


1 June

Anthem: Come Holy Ghost (Attwood)


8 June

ALL-AGE SERVICE

4.30pm

Anthem: Veni creator spiritus (plainchant)

15 June

Anthem: Hymn to the Trinity (Tchaikovsky)


22 June

Anthem: From the rising of the sun (Ouseley)


29 June

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


06 July

Anthem: Brother James' Air (arr Bullard)


13 July

ALL-AGE SERVICE

Responses: Rose

Canticles: Ireland in F

Anthem: Ave verum (Pearsall)

20 July

Anthem: Call to remembrance (Farrant)


27 July

Anthem: Teach me, O Lord (Attwood)


03 August

Anthem: Ave verum corpus (Mozart)


10 August

ALL-AGE SERVICE

No choral evensong

17 August

Anthem: Ave Maria (Arcadelt)


24 August

Anthem: I give you a new commandment (Aston)


7 September 2025

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


14 September

COME AND SING

Requiem (Faure)

No choral evensong

21 September

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


28 September

Anthem: Thou knowest, Lord (Purcell)


5 October

Anthem: Thou visitest the earth (Greene)


12 October

ALL-AGE SERVICE

Responses: Smith

Canticles: Stanford in B flat

Anthem: Ave Maria (Arcadelt)

19 October

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


26 October

Anthem: My eyes for beauty pine (Howells)