Compline at St David's Episcopal, Austin, Texas

The Compline Choir of St. David's Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas welcomes all to come experience a beautiful half-hour of prayer, candlelight, and worship. The group, which consists of the finest singers in Austin, prepares and shares an ancient liturgy meant to end the day, honoring God and praying for His protection through the night. The group prays and sings the ancient prayers and responsories using Gregorian chant and Tudor motets. Please, join the choir at 8pm each Sunday in St Davids' historic sanctuary at 304 E Seventh St in Austin. See more about the music program at St Davids .

Meet the choir!

I record these sound files each Sunday evening that I sing with the Compline choir. Lately I am using a TASCAM DR-40 Linear PCM recorder, with the built-in mics. (Before March 2014, I used a MicroTrack 24/96 flash recorder, using the standard little "stereo mic" that comes with it.) I edit the sound file into separate pieces using Audacity, the free audio editor available on the Internet.

If your browser knows how to play mp3 files, you may just be able to click and play these files. Otherwise, you may have to right-click and "Save target as...", and specify a place on your local machine to write the mp3 file. Then you'd play it from there.

Also, if you are a member of the Yahoo group, here's a link so you can easily get to the St. David's Compline Choir complete music listings (created by Howard Burkett): the Yahoo group site.

I hope you enjoy the music!       - Susan Richter

The Weekly Listings (most recent first)

4/21/2019

Director: David Stevens
Cantor: Susan Richter
SATB: 2-2-2-2

• Orison: Robert Johnson — Dum transisset
• as the Psalm: William Konitzer — Christ is risen
• Hymn: plainsong — Jesus, redeemer of the world
• Nunc Dimittis: Gibbons — Lord God, you now have set your servant free
• Anthem: Orlando di Lassus — Surrexit pastor bonus
• A second anthem: William Byrd — Haec Dies

4/7/2019

Director: Beverly McCune
Cantor: Susan Richter
SATB: 2-1-1-1

• Orison: Henry Purcell — Thou knowest, Lord
• Psalm 145:1-7
• Hymn: plainsong — O Christ, you are both light and day
• Nunc Dimittis: Gibbons — Lord God, you now have set your servant free
• Anthem: Palestrina — Sicut cervus

Sunday, 12/16/2018

Director: David Stevens
Cantor: Joan Carlson
SATB: 2-1-2-2

• Orison: Thomas Tallis — Audivi vocem
• As the Psalm: Anon. 16th Century (the Mulliner Book) — Rejoice in the Lord alway
• Hymn: Hark! the glad sound (Bristol)
• Nunc Dimittis: plainsong Tone 2 (HPB) — O Sapientia
• Anthem: Heinrich Isaac — Ecce virgo concipies
• A second anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Alma redemptoris

Sunday, 08/19/2018

Director: David Stevens
Cantor: Joan Carlson

• Orison: Rivaflecha — Anima mea
• Psalm 77
• Hymn: plainsong — Te lucis
• Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Smith of Durham à 5/Robert Stone
• Nunc Dimittis: Victoria — Tone 3 alternatim
• Anthem: Hassler — Laetentur caeli
• A second anthem: Victoria — Ave Maria

Sunday, 08/12/2018

Director: David Stevens
Cantor: Barbara Manson
SATB: 4-3-2-2

• Orison: George Oldroyd — Prayer to Jesus
• As the Psalm and Hymn: Andrzej Hakenberger — Exsultate justi
• Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Byrd à 5/Robert Stone
• Nunc Dimittis: Gibbons — Lord God, you now have set your servant free
• Anthem: Giovanni Maria Nanino — Adoramus te
• A second anthem: William Byrd — Sing joyfully

Sunday, 08/05/2018

Director: David Stevens
Cantor: Susan Richter
SATB: 3-2-3-2

• Orison: Rheinberger — Abendlied
• Psalm 34:1-8
• Hymn: Fairest Lord Jesus
• Nunc Dimittis: Orlando Gibbons — Lord God, you now have set your servant free
• Anthem: Thomas Tallis — O nata lux
• A second anthem: John Weelkes — Gloria in excelsis

Sunday, 10/22/2017

(20th Sunday after Pentecost/after St Luke/Eve of St James of Jerusalem)
Conductor: David Stevens
Cantor: Wallace Harwood
SATB: 5-2-3-2

• Orison: Adrian Batten — When the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion
• Psalm 14
• Hymn: O gladsome Light (Cantique de Symeon)
• Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
• Anthem: Philippe Rogier — Recordatus est (à6)
• A second anthem: Leonhard Lechner — Novit Dominus (à6)

Sunday, 10/01/2017

Director: David Stevens
Cantor: Cristian Cantu
SATB: 4-2-4-2

• Orison: Orlando Gibbons — Almighty and everlasting God (Christe lux mundi)
• First part of the service
• Psalm 103
• Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis)
• Second part of the service
• Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Byrd à 5/Robert Stone
• Third part of the service
• Nunc Dimittis: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Tone 3 Alternatim/attr. Palestrina — Salva nos
• Anthem: Richard Dering — Factum est silentium (à6)
• A second anthem: Robert Parsons — Ave Maria
• Close of the service

Sunday, 09/24/2017

Director: Barbara Manson
Cantor: Susan Richter
SATB:

• Orison: William Mundy — O Lord, the maker of all thing
• Psalm 119:153-160
• Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tone)
• Nunc Dimittis: Tomás Luís de Victoria/School of Palestrina — Tone 3 alternatim/Salva nos
• Anthem: Orlando Gibbons — Almighty and everlasting God

Sunday, 09/10/2017

Director: David Stevens
Cantor: Saul San Juan
SATB: 4-2-2-4

• Orison: William Byrd — Prevent us, O Lord (à 5)
• As the Psalm: Palestrina — Sperant in te
• Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Byrd à 5/Robert Stone
• Nunc Dimittis: Gibbons — Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
• Anthem: Wm Byrd — Praise our Lord, all ye gentiles (à6)

Sunday, 09/03/2017

Director: Howard Burkett
Cantor: Susan Richter
SATB: 2-1-2-2

• Orison: Felice Anerio (attrib Palestrina) — Adoramus te, Christe
• first part of the service
• Psalm 119:161-168
• Hymn: Richard Lloyd — View me, Lord
• second part of the service
• Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
• Anthem: Josquin des Prez — Ave Maria
• close of the service

2017/03/26

Sunday the 26th
Director: David Stevens
Cantors: Will Konitzer, Joan Carlson
Other details unknown

• Orison: Cristobal Morales — Peccantem me quotidie
• first part of the service
• As the Psalm: Adrian Batten — When the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion
• Hymn: composer ?? In manus tuas
• second part of the service
• Nunc Dimittis: composer ?? Lord, now let Thy servant depart in peace
• Anthem: Thomas Weelkes — When David heard
• close of the service

2017/03/12

Details unknown

• Orison: Thomas Tallis — Purge me, O Lord
• Psalm 84
• Hymn: Thomas Tallis — Ferial Te lucis (à5)
• Nunc Dimittis: polyphonic, composer ??
• Anthem: Henry Purcell — Remember not all our offenses

2017/02/26

Details unknown

• Orison: plainsong — O wondrous sight, O vision fair
• Psalm 72
• Hymn: Thomas Tallis — O nata Lux (à 5)
• Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Byrd à 5/Robert Stone
• Nunc Dimittis: polyphonic, composer ??
• Anthem: Giovanni Maria Nanino — Adoramus te, Christe (à 5)
• A second anthem: G P da Palestrina — Ave Regina caelorum

2017/02/19

Details unknown

• Orison: Adrian Batten — Let my complaint come before thee, O Lord
• As the Psalm: Orlando Gibbons — O clap your hands together (à 8)
• Hymn: Anon. 16th Century (Wanley MSS) — O Lord, the maker of all thing
• Nunc Dimittis: polyphonic, composer ??
• Anthem: William Byrd — Ne irascaris/Civitas sancti tui

2017/02/05

Cantor/director: David Stevens
Other details unknown

• Orison: Jubilate Deo
• Psalm 12
• Hymn: plainsong — Jesus, Redeemer of the world
• Nunc Dimittis: polyphonic, composer ??
• Anthem: Arise, Lord

2017/01/29

Sunday the 29th (4th Sunday after the Epiphany)
Director: David Stevens
Cantor: Susan Richter
SATB: 4-2-3-2

• Orison: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Introitus (Missa pro Defunctis)
• Psalm 48
• Hymn: Plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Sarum Festal Te lucis)
• Kyrie: Kyrie eleison - polyphonic by someone
• Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
• Anthem: Roland de Lassus — Justorum animae (à5)
• A second anthem: George Oldroyd — Prayer to Jesus

2017/01/22

Sunday the 22nd (3rd Sunday after the Epiphany/after the Confession/before the Confession of St Paul)
Director/Cantor: David Stevens
SATB: 3-2-4-3

• Orison: Diego Ortiz — Janitor caeli
• At the Psalm and Hymn: William Byrd — Praise our Lord, all ye gentiles (à6)
• Lord's Prayer: Igor Stravinsky — Pater Noster
• Nunc Dimittis: Claude Goudimel — Cantique de Symeon
• Anthem: Hans Leo Hassler — Tu es Petrus

2017/01/08

Sunday the 8th (1st Sunday after the Epiphany/the Baptism of Jesus)
Director: David Stevens
Cantor: Susan Richter
SATB: 3-1-1-3

• Orison: When Jesus went to Jordan's stream (Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam)
• Psalm 89:19-29
• Hymn: Plainsong — Alleluia, song of gladness (Urbs beata Jerusalem)
• Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
• Anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Tribus miraculis
• A second anthem: Claudin de Sermisy — Benedic anima mea

2016/10/23

Sunday the 23rd (23rd Sunday after Pentecost/St James of Jerusalem)
Director: David Stevens
Cantor: Sawyer Sellars
SATB: 2-1-3-4

• Orison: Giovanni Croce — O sacrum convivium
• As the Psalm: William Byrd — Ne irascaris/Civitas sancti tui
• Hymn: Maurice Duruflé — Ubi caritas
• Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
• Anthem: Christopher Tye — Sing unto the Lord, ye that are his saints
• A second anthem: William Byrd — Ave verum Corpus

2016/02/21

Sunday the 21st (2nd Sunday in Lent/Reminiscere)
Director: David Stevens
Cantor: Susan Richter
SATB: 1-1-3-3

• Orison: William Byrd — Miserere mei, Deus (à5)
• At the Psalm: plainsong — A Lent Prose (Attende, Domine)
• Hymn: Lord, make us servants of your peace (DICKINSON COLLEGE)
• Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
• Anthem: William Byrd — Ne irascaris (à5) (Prima pars)
• A second anthem: William Byrd — Civitas sancti tui (à5) (Secunda pars)

2016/02/07

Sunday the 7th (Last Sunday after the Epiphany/Quinquagesima/Transfiguration Sunday/after Candlemas)
Director: David Stevens
Cantor: Barbara Manson
SATB: 2-2-3-2

• Orison: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Exultate Deo (à5)
• Psalm 149
• Hymn: plainsong — O wondrous type, O vision fair (Aeterne Rex altissime)
• Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
• Anthem: Peter Philips — In splendenti nube (à5)

2016/01/31

Sunday the 31st (4th Sunday after the Epiphany/Sexagesima/before Candlemas)
Director: Howard Burkett
Cantor: Bev McCune
SATB: 3-2-2-2

• Orison: Orlando Gibbons — Almighty and everlasting God (Christe lux mundi)
• Psalm 84
• Hymn: plainsong — Christ, mighty Savior, Light of all creation
• Nunc Dimittis: Cristobal de Morales, Tone 8 Alternatim/Antiphon Lumen ad revelationem
• Anthem: William Byrd — Senex puerum portabat
• A second anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Alma Redemptoris Mater

2016/01/03

Sunday the 3rd (2nd Sunday in Christmastide)
Director: David Stevens
Cantor: Barbara Manson
SATB: 2-3-2-3

• Orison: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Dies sanctificatus
• Psalm 145:1-13
• Hymn: arr. Benjamin Britten — The Holly and the Ivy
• Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana, Tone 5 in falsobordone/Antiphon Verbum caro
• Anthem: Hans Leo Hassler — Verbum caro (à6)

2015/12/20

Sunday the 20th (4th Sunday of Advent/eve of St Thomas)
Director: David Stevens
Cantor: Bev McCune
SATB: 2-3-3-2

• Orison: Jacob Handl — Ecce concipies
• Psalm 122
• Hymn: Cornelius Verdonck — Ave gratia plena
• Nunc Dimittis: Roland de Lassus, Tone 5 in falsobordone, à5/Antiphon O Oriens
• Anthem: Cristobal de Morales — Veni, Domine (à5)

2015/11/29

Sunday the 29th (1st Sunday of Advent)
Director: David Stevens
Cantor: Wallace Harwood
SATB: 1-1-1-2

• Orison: Finn Viderø — O Love of whom is truth and light
• As the Psalm: John Amner — O God my King
• Hymn: plainsong — Creator of the stars of night (Conditor alme siderum)
• Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: Thomas Tomkins/Robert Stone
• Nunc Dimittis: Thomas Tallis, The Short (Dorian) Service
• Anthem: Francisco Guerrero — Rorate caeli

2015/11/15

Sunday the 15th (25th Sunday after Pentecost)
Director: David Stevens
Cantor: Neil Burgess
SATB: 2-5-2-2

• Orison: Anon. 16th Cent. (Peterhouse Partbooks) — This is the day which the Lord hath made
• As the Psalm: Jean Conseil — Auxilium meum
• Hymn: Thomas Tallis — Ferial Te lucis (à5)
• Nunc Dimittis: William Mundy, to Mr Parsons' Service of Five Parts
• Anthem: Thomas Tallis — O sacrum convivium (à5)

2015/11/01

Sunday the 1st (All Saints' Day/23rd Sunday after Pentecost)
Director: David Stevens
Cantor: Susan Richter
SATB: 1-2-2-3

• Orison: plainsong — O gracious Light (cento Bruce Ford & James McGregor)
• Psalm 149
• Hymn: Leonhard Lechner — An Evening Hymn (contrafact of Der süße Schlaf, à5)
• Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
• Anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — O quam gloriosum

2015/10/18

Sunday the 18th (21st Sunday after Pentecost/St Luke)
Director: David Stevens
Cantor: Eric Johnson
SATB: 2-3-2-3

• Orison: Anon. 16th Century (the Mulliner Book) — Rejoice in the Lord alway
• Psalm 33:10-22
• Hymn: Anon. 16th Century (Wanley MSS) — O Lord, the maker of all thing
• Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
• Anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Sicut cervus (Prima Pars)
• A second anthem: Giovanni Croce — O sacrum convivium

2015/10/04

Sunday the 4th (19th Sunday after Pentecost)
Director: David Stevens
Cantor: A P Perry
SATB: 2-4-2-2

• Orison: Christopher Tye — Sing unto the Lord, ye that are his saints
• Psalm 42
• Hymn: William Mundy — O Lord, the maker of all thing
• Nunc Dimittis: William Mundy, to Mr Parsons' Service of Five Parts
• Anthem: Thomas Tallis — Salvator mundi (à5)

2015/09/27

Sunday the 27th (18th Sunday after Pentecost/before Michaelmas)
Director: David Stevens
Cantor: Barbara Manson
SATB: 2-3-2-1

• Orison: Roland de Lassus — Jubilate Deo
• Psalm 103:8-22
• Hymn: Jesus came, adored by angels (Lowry)
• Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
• Anthem: Richard Dering — Factum est silentium (à6)

2015/09/20

Sunday the 20th (17th Sunday after Pentecost/Eve of St Matthew)
Director: David Stevens
Cantor: Bev McCune
SATB: 2-3-2-1

• Orison: Anon. 16th Century (Peterhouse MSS) — This is the day which the Lord hath made
• Psalm 13
• Hymn: Thomas Tallis — Festal Te lucis (à5)
• Nunc Dimittis: Hans Leo Hassler, à5
• Anthem: Roland de Lassus — Jubilate Deo

2015/09/13

Sunday the 13th (16th Sunday after Pentecost/Eve of Holy Cross)
Director: Howard Burkett
Cantor: Susan Richter
SATB: 1-3-1-1

• Orison: Thomas Tallis — O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit
• Psalm 19
• Hymn: plainsong — O Christ, you are both light and day (Christe, qui lux es et dies)
• Nunc Dimittis: Thomas Tallis — The Short (Dorian) Service
• Anthem: Thomas Tallis — Salvator mundi (à5)

  2015/08/30

  Sunday the 30th (14th Sunday after Pentecost/After St Augustine/Eve of St Aidan)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 2-3-1-1
  

  • Orison: O gracious Light (Mode 2 plainsong, Cento Bruce Ford & James McGregor)
  • Psalm 15
  • Hymn: William Mundy — O Lord, the maker of all thing
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: William Mundy — O Lord, the world's Saviour

  2015/08/16

  Sunday the 16th (12th Sunday after Pentecost/after St Mary the Virgin)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 1-3-3-4
  

  • Orison: Igor Stravinsky — Ave Maria
  • Psalm 34:1-9
  • Hymn: O Christ, you are both light and day (David Hurd — Compline)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
  • Anthem: Jean Mouton — Ave Maria...Virgo serena (à5, Prima Pars)
  • A second anthem: Roland de Lassus — Salve Regina

  2015/08/09

  Sunday the 9th (11th Sunday after Pentecost/after the Transfiguration)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Saul Jerome San Juan
  SATB: 1-1-3-3
  

  • Orison: Adrian Batten — Let my complaint come before thee, O Lord
  • Psalm 9:12-20
  • Hymn: O Christ, you are both light and day (David Hurd — Compline)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
  • Anthem: Roland de Lassus — Salve Regina

  2015/08/02

  Sunday the 2nd (10th Sunday after Pentecost)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Gary Goethe
  SATB: 2-2-3-3
  

  • Orison: plainsong - O gracious Light (Mode 2 Cento Bruce Ford & James McGregor)
  • Psalm 9:1-11
  • Hymn: William Byrd — Christe qui lux es et dies
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Ego sum panis vivus

  2015/07/19

  Sunday the 19th (8th Sunday after Pentecost)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Cameron Mousighi
  SATB: 3-2-4-2
  

  • Orison: Jacob Handl (Gallus) — Adoramus te, Jesu Christe (à6)
  • Psalm 51:11-20
  • Hymn: Thomas Tallis — Te lucis (Sarum Ferial Tone, à5)
  • Lord's Prayer: ?? — Vater Unser
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Roland de Lassus — Salve Regina

  2015/07/12

  Sunday the 12th (7th Sunday after Pentecost/after St Benedict)
  Director: Barbara Manson
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 3-2-2-1
  

  • Orison: William Byrd/Alfred Whitehead — I have longed for thy saving health (The Earl of Salisbury's Pavan)
  • Psalm 119:33-40
  • Hymn: plainsong — O gracious Light (Mode 2, Cento Bruce Ford and James McGregor)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Thomas Tallis — The Short (Dorian) Service
  • Anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Vere languores

  2015/05/03

  Sunday the 3rd (5th Sunday of Easter/Cantate Domino)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 2-1-2-1
  

  • Orison: Jacques Arcadelt — Haec dies
  • Psalm 84
  • Hymn: Christ Jesus lay in death's strong bands
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 in falsobordone/Antiphon Resurrexit Dominus
  • Anthem: Cipriano de Rore — Jubilate Deo (à5)
  • A second anthem: Jacob Handl (Gallus) — In nomine Jesu (à5)

  2015/04/19

  Sunday the 19th (3rd Sunday of Easter/Jubilate Deo)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Howard Burkett
  SATB: 1-3-4-2
  

  • Orison: Hans Leo Hassler — Gloria (Missa Secunda)
  • Psalm 114
  • Hymn: Hans Leo Hassler — Ein veste Burgk ist unser Gott (Chorale)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Thomas Tallis — from The Short Service
  • Anthem: Roland de Lassus — Scio enim
  • A second anthem: Francesco Soriano — Regina caeli

  2015/04/12

  Sunday the 12th (2nd Sunday of Easter/Quasimodo/Low Sunday)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Bev McCune
  SATB: 5-2-3-3
  

  • Orison: Roland de Lassus — Scio enim
  • Psalm 112
  • Hymn: Plainsong — O sons and daughters (O filii et filiae)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Claude Goudimel — Cantique de Symeon
  • Anthem: Roland de Lassus — Surgens Jesus (à5)
  • A second anthem: Francesco Soriano — Regina caeli

  2015/03/15

  Sunday the 15th (4th Sunday in Lent/Laetare)
  Director: Barbara Manson
  Cantor: Wallace Harwood
  SATB: 3-1-1-2
  

  • Orison: George Oldroyd — Prayer to Jesus
  • Psalm 84
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Thomas Morley — Nolo mortem peccatoris

  2015/03/01

  Sunday the 1st (2nd Sunday in Lent/Reminiscere/St David of Wales)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantors: Neil and Kathryn Burgess
  SATB: 5-4-5-4
  

  • Orison: William Byrd —Ne irascaris (à5 - Prima Pars only)
  • Psalm 19
  • Hymn: Thomas Tallis — Salvator mundi (à 5)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 in falsobordone à 5
  • Anthem: Josef Gabriel Rheinberger — Abendlied

  2015/02/22

  Sunday the 22nd (First Sunday in Lent/Invocabit)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 4-3-5-3
  

  • Orison: Thomas Morley — Agnus Dei
  • Psalm 8
  • Hymn: Thomas Tallis — Sancte Deus
  • Nunc Dimittis: Thomas Tallis — from The Short Service
  • Anthem: Cristobal Morales — Peccantem me quotidie

  2015/02/08

  Sunday the 8th (5th Sunday after Epiphany/Sexagesima)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Howard Burkett
  SATB: 3-2-7-4
  

  • Orison: Adrian Batten — Let my complaint come before thee, O Lord
  • Psalm 119:137-144
  • Hymn: Claudio Monteverdi — Adoramus te, Christe (à6)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Johann Walther — Lumen ad revelationem (à6)
  • Anthem: Andrzej Hakenberger — Exsultate justi (à6)

  2015/02/01

  Sunday the 1st (4th Sunday after Epiphany/Septuagesima/Eve of Candlemas)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Bev McCune
  SATB: 4-3-5-3
  

  • Orison: Adrian Batten — Let my complaint come before thee, O Lord
  • Psalm 84:1-6
  • Hymn: Johannes Eccard — Maria wallt zum Heiligtum
  • Nunc Dimittis: Johann Walther — Lumen ad revelationem (à6)
  • Anthem: Francisco Guerrero — Alma Redemptoris Mater

  2015/01/25

  Sunday the 25th (3rd Sunday after Epiphany/Conversion of St Paul)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Kathryn Burgess
  SATB: 4-2-6-3
  

  • Orison: Severin Cornet — Now God be with us
  • Psalm 119:105-112
  • Hymn: Richard Lloyd — View me, Lord, a work of thine
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Francisco Guerrero — Alma Redemptoris Mater

  2015/01/11

  Sunday the 11th (1st Sunday after Epiphany)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 6-3-6-5
  

  • Orison: Luca Marenzio — Tribus miraculis
  • [Psalm omitted]
  • Hymn: When Jesus went to Jordan's stream
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Smith of Durham à5/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Claude Goudimel — Cantique de Symeon
  • Anthem: Roland de Lassus — Unus Dominus, una fides (à6)
  • A second anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Alma redemptoris (à8)

  2015/01/04

  Sunday the 4th (2nd Sunday of Christmas)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Wallace Harwood
  SATB: 6-3-3-4
  

  • Orison: Jean Mouton — Reges terrae
  • Psalm 96
  • Hymn: In the bleak mid-winter (CRANHAM, v.2 faburden by Brian Petty)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 in falsobordone/Antiphon Omnes de Saba
  • Anthem: Francesco Corteccia — Surge, illuminare Jerusalem (à5)
  • A second anthem: Blasius Amon — Magi videntes stellam (à5)

  2014/12/28

  Sunday the 28th (First Sunday of Christmas/The Holy Innocents)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 3-3-4-2
  

  • Orison: William Byrd — O magnum mysterium
  • Psalm 34
  • Hymn: Peter Racine Fricker — The first Christmas
  • Prayers and collects
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 Fauxbourdons à5/Antiphon Verbum caro
  • Anthem: Hans Leo Hassler — Verbum caro factum est (à6)

  2014/12/21

  Sunday the 21st (4th Sunday of Advent/St Thomas/O Rex gentium)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Kathryn Burgess
  SATB: 5-3-3-2
  

  • Orison: Jacob Handl (Gallus) — Orietur stella (à5)
  • Psalm 103:1-8
  • Hymn: O heavenly Word, eternal Light (O Heiland, reiß)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Roland de Lassus — Tone 2 Fauxbourdons à5/Antiphon O Rex gentium
  • Anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Ne timeas, Maria
  • A second anthem: Roland de Lassus — Alma redemptoris mater (à5)

  2014/12/07

  Sunday the 7th (2nd Sunday of Advent/after St Nicholas)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Gary Goethe
  SATB: 4-4-5-4
  

  • Orison: Robert Ramsey — O Sapientia (à5)
  • Psalm 8
  • Hymn: Savior of the nations, come (Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
  • Anthem: Andrzeij Hakenberger — Ad te levavi (à6)
  • A second anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Alma redemptoris mater

  There are a few more services in between here, which I will post soon. But I wanted to get these most recent ones out while it is still Christmastide!
  
  Merry Christmas to you all!

  2014/10/12

  Sunday the 12th (18th Sunday after Pentecost/after St Philip)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Neil Burgess
  SATB: 4-4-4-2
  

  • Orison: William Byrd — Prevent us, O Lord (à 5)
  • Psalm 119:33-40
  • Hymn: CHH Parry — Crossing the Bar
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Byrd à 5/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Tone 3 Alternatim/attr. Palestrina — Salva nos
  • Anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — O Domine Jesu Christe (à 6)
  • A second anthem: Roland de Lassus — Salve Regina (à 6)

  2014/10/05

  Sunday the 5th (17th Sunday after Pentecost/after St Francis)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 3-3-4-3
  

  • Orison: O gladsome light (Cantique de Symeon)
  • Psalm 119:25-32
  • Hymn: All creatures of our God and King (Lasst uns erfreuen)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Byrd à 5/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Tone 3 Alternatim/attr. Palestrina — Salva nos
  • Anthem: Roland de Lassus —Salve Regina (à 6)

  2014/09/21

  Sunday the 21st (15th Sunday after Pentecost/St Matthew)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Bev McCune
  SATB: 5-3-1-2
  

  • Orison: Nathaniel Giles — Almighty Lord and God of love
  • Psalm 119:9-16
  • Hymn: attr. Palestrina — Te lucis super Aeterna Christi munera
  • Nunc Dimittis: Tomás Luís de Victoria, Tone 3 Alternatim/attr. Palestrina — Salva nos
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Justorum animae (à 5)

  2014/09/07

  Sunday the 7th (13th Sunday after Pentecost/Eve of the Nativity of St Mary the Virgin)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 4-4-2-1
  

  • Orison: Thomas Morley — Teach me, O Lord (à 5)
  • Psalm 119:1-8
  • Hymn: Richard Lloyd — View me, Lord, a work of thine
  • Nunc Dimittis: Claude Goudimel — Cantique de Symeon
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Sing joyfully (à 6)

  2014/08/31

  Sunday the 31st (12th Sunday after Pentecost/after St Augustine/after the Decollation of St John the Baptist)
  Director: Barbara Manson
  Cantor: Neil Burgess
  SATB: 4-3-3-3
  

  • Orison: John Sheppard — In manus tuas
  • As the Psalm: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Sicut cervus (Prima Pars only)
  • Hymn: plainsong — O nata lux de lumine
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Resplenduit facies ejus (à 5)

  2014/08/24

  Sunday the 24th (11th Sunday after Pentecost/St Bartholomew)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Gary Goethe
  SATB: 3-3-2-2
  

  • Orison: Claude Goudimel — Author of the whole creation (Par le desert de mes peines)
  • Psalm 138
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tone)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Claude Goudimel — Cantique de Symeon
  • Anthem: Nicolas Gombert — Venite ad me, omnes (à 5)

  2014/08/17

  Sunday the 17th (10th Sunday after Pentecost/after St Mary the Virgin)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 2-4-5-3
  

  • Orison: Adrian Batten — Let my complaint come before thee, O Lord
  • Psalm 18:21-31
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tone)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Gibbons — Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
  • Anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Salve Regina (à 8)

  2014/08/10

  Sunday the 10th (9th Sunday after Pentecost/St Laurence/before St Mary the Virgin/eve of St Clare)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Howard Burkett
  SATB: 4-5-4-4
  

  • Orison: Claudio Monteverdi — Ave maris stella (à 8 — 1610 Vespers)
  • As the Psalm: plainsong — Magnificat, Tone 8 solemnior
  • Hymn: Virgin-born, we bow before thee (Psaume 86)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Claude Goudimel — Cantique de Symeon

  2014/07/27

  Sunday the 27th (7th Sunday after Pentecost/after St James)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Will Konitzer
  SATB: 3-5-4-2
  

  • Orison: Peter Philips — Tibi Laus (à 5)
  • Psalm 33:1-11
  • Hymn: Robert White — Precamur sancte Domine (à 5)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Gibbons — Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
  • Anthem: Philippe de Monte — Lux perpetua lucebit sanctis tuis (à 5)

  2014/07/13

  Sunday the 13th (5th Sunday after Pentecost/after St Benedict)
  Director: Barbara Manson
  Cantor: Gary Goethe
  SATB: 3-5-3-1
  

  • Orison: Thomas Attwood — Teach me, O Lord
  • Psalm 92
  • Hymn: Michael Haller — Justus ut palma
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Antoine Brumel — Ecce panis angelorum

  2014/07/06

  Sunday the 6th (4th Sunday after Pentecost/after Independence Day)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Joan Ely Carlson
  SATB: 3-3-3-2
  

  • Orison: arr. H.P. Burkett —O God of earth and altar (to Don oích úd I mBeithil)
  • Psalm 16
  • Hymn: Thomas Tallis — If ye love me, keep my commandments
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Thomas Tallis — This is my commandment
  • A second anthem: Ned Rorem — Sing, my soul, his wondrous love

  2014/06/29
  We had a young and vocal member of the congregation this evening ...

  Sunday the 29th (3rd Sunday after Pentecost/SS Peter & Paul/after St John the Baptist)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Will Konitzer
  SATB: 1-5-3-0
  

  • Orison: Jacob Handl (Gallus) — Honestum fecit
  • Psalm 116:10-17
  • Hymn: attr. Palestrina — Te lucis (super Aeterna Christi munera)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: William Mundy — He that hath my commandments

  2014/06/22

  Sunday the 22nd (2nd Sunday after Pentecost/Corpus Christi Sunday/before St John the Baptist)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 1-2-5-2
  

  • Orison: Anon. c. 1600 (Peterhouse MSS Latter Set) — This is the day which the Lord hath made
  • As the Psalm: Adrian Batten — When the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tone)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Tomás Luís de Victoria/School of Palestrina — Tone 3 alternatim/Salva nos
  • Anthem: William Walton — Set me as a seal
  • A second anthem: William Byrd — Ave verum corpus

  2014/06/01

  Sunday the 1st (7th Sunday of Easter/Exaudi Domine/after Ascension)
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 4-3-3-4
  

  • Orison: Couillart — Viri Galilei
  • Psalm 8
  • Hymn: Plainsong — Jesus, Redeemer of the world (Jesu nostra redemptio)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Orlando Gibbons — O clap your hands together (à 8)
  • A second anthem: Gregor Aichinger — Regina caeli

  2014/05/25

  Sunday the 25th (6th Sunday of Easter/Vocem jucunditatis/eve of St Augustine)
  Director: Barbara Manson
  Cantor: Saul San Juan
  SATB: 3-3-0-1
  

  • Orison: Anon. c. 1600 This is the day which the Lord hath made
  • Psalm 139: 1-13
  • Hymn: Come away to the skies (MIDDLEBURY)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Thomas Tallis — The Short (Dorian) Service
  • Anthem: Hans Leo Hassler — Cantate Domino (à 5)

  2014/05/18

  Sunday the 18th (5th Sunday of Easter/Cantate Domino/eve of St Dunstan)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 3-1-1-3
  

  • Orison: Jacques Arcadelt — Haec dies
  • Psalm 138
  • Hymn: Thomas Tallis — Te lucis (Sarum ferial tone, à 5)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Thomas Tallis — The Short (Dorian) Service
  • Anthem: Cristobal de Morales — Regina caeli

  2014/04/13

  Sunday the 13th (Palm Sunday)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 4-4-4-2
  

  • Orison: Juan Ginés Peres — Gloria laus et honor (à 5)
  • Psalm 67
  • Hymn: O sorrow deep (O Traurigkeit)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
  • Anthem: Jachet de Mantua — O vos omnes
  • A second anthem: Friedrich Kuhnau — Tristis est anima mea (à 5)

  2014/04/06

  Sunday the 6th (5th Sunday of Lent/Judica me/old Passion Sunday/after St Ambrose)
  Director: Barbara Manson
  Cantor: Gary Goethe
  SATB: 3-2-3-1
  

  • Orison: Thomas Morley — Agnus Dei
  • Psalm 23
  • Hymn: plainsong — The Lent Prose
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Manuel de Sumaya — Christus factus est
  • A second anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — O vos omnes

  2014/02/23

  Sunday the 23rd (7th Sunday after Epiphany/Sexagesima)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 3-2-3-0
  

  • Orison: Roland de Lassus — Adoramus te, Christe
  • Psalm 145:1-14
  • Hymn: plainsong — O Christ, you are both light and day
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Ave Regina caelorum (Paribus Vocibus — Prima Pars only)

  2014/02/09

  Sunday the 9th (5th Sunday after Epiphany)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Joan Ely Carlson
  SATB: 4-3-6-2
  

  • Orison: Anon. 16th Century — This is the day which the Lord hath made
  • Psalm 71:1-12
  • Hymn: plainsong — Jesus, redeemer of the world (Jesu, nostra redemptio)
  • Kyrie: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Kyrie I (Missa in Minoribus Duplicibus)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Orlando Gibbons — Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
  • Anthem: William Byrd — O lux beata Trinitas (à 6)

  2014/02/02
  
  In memory of our brother Mark Fish.

  Sunday the 2nd (The Presentation of Christ in the Temple [Candlemas])
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Bev McCune
  SATB: 3-3-3-3
  

  • Orison: Orison: Richard Lloyd — View me, Lord, a work of thine
  • Psalm 87
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tone)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Cristóbal de Morales — Tone 8 alternatim/Antiphon Lumen ad revelationem
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Senex puerum portabat
  • A second anthem: Jacobus Gallus — Ecce quomodo moritur justus

  2014/01/26

  Sunday the 26th (3rd Sunday after Epiphany/after the Conversion of St Paul)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 4-4-3-1
  

  • Orison: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Sicut cervus (Prima Pars only)
  • Psalm 119:97-104
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tone)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: George Oldroyd — Prayer to Jesus

  2014/01/05

  Sunday the 5th (2nd Sunday of Christmas/Epiphany Eve)
  Director: Barbara Manson
  Cantor: Will Konitzer
  SATB: 2-2-2-2
  

  • Orison: Loyset Compère — Verbum caro factum est
  • Psalm 136:1-9
  • Hymn: Peter Warlock — Bethlehem Down
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 in falsobordone/Antiphon Omnes de Saba
  • Anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — O magnum mysterium

  2013/12/29

  Sunday the 29th (1st Sunday of Christmas/St Thomas Becket)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Saul San Juan
  SATB: 2-1-3-4
  

  • Orison: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Dies sanctificatus
  • first part of the service
  • Psalm 18:1-10
  • Hymn: Love came down at Christmas (Gartan)
  • second part of the service - collects
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 in falsobordone/Antiphon Verbum caro
  • Anthem: Luca Marenzio — Hodie Christus natus est
  • A second anthem: Cornelius Verdonck — Ave gratia plena
  • closing of the service

  2013/12/22

  Sunday the 22nd (4th Sunday of Advent/Rorate/after St Thomas/O Emmanuel)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 2-2-2-3
  

  • Orison: William Byrd — Ecce virgo concipiet (à5)
  • Psalm: [omitted]
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tone)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Giovanni Paolo Cima — Tone 2 in falsobordone/Antiphon O Emmanuel
  • Anthem: Heinrich Schütz — Ach, Herr, du Schöpfer aller Ding (à5)
  • A second anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Alma redemptoris mater

  2013/11/10

  Sunday the 10th (25th after Pentecost/eve of St Martin)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Will Konitzer
  SATB: 3-2-4-2
  

  • Orison: Thomas Morley — Domine, fac meum
  • Psalm 41
  • Hymn: plainsong — Christ, mighty Savior (Christe, lux mundi)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: Thomas Morley/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Anon. 18th Century (Widecombe MS)
  • Anthem: Roland de Lassus — Veni in hortum meum (à 5)

  2013/10/27

  Sunday the 27th (23rd after Pentecost/eve of SS Simon & Jude)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 4-3-3-2
  

  • Orison: Roland de Lassus — In manus tuas (à 5)
  • Psalm 113
  • Hymn: Lead, kindly Light (Lux Benigna)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Anon. 18th Century (Widecombe MS)
  • Anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Surge, amica mea (à 5)

  2013/10/13

  Sunday the 13th (21st after Pentecost/after St Philip/Translation of St Edward)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Wallace Harwood
  SATB: 3-2-3-2
  

  • Orison: Jacob Handl (Gallus) — Ecce quomodo moritur justus
  • Psalm 111
  • Hymn: plainsong — Christ, mighty Savior (Christe, lux mundi)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Rodrigo de Ceballos — Tone 3 alternatim
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Prevent us, O Lord (à 5)
  • A second anthem: William H. Lloyd — View me, Lord

  2013/09/22

  Sunday the 22nd (18th after Pentecost/after St Matthew)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Saul San Juan
  SATB: 5-4-3-2
  

  • Orison: Heinrich Schütz — Oculi omnium
  • Psalm 2
  • Hymn: Claudio Monteverdi — Adoramus te, Christe (à 6)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Claude Goudimel — Cantique de Symeon
  • Anthem: Francisco Guerrero — Salve Regina (Prima Pars only)

  2013/09/01

  Sunday the 1st (15th after Pentecost/after St Augustine/after St Aidan/St Giles)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Wallace Harwood
  SATB: 4-3-3-3
  

  • Orison: Severin de Cornet — Now God be with us (Parmì di star)
  • As the Psalm: Francesco Corteccia — Ecce nunc benedicite (à 5)
  • Hymn: plainsong — Hymn: To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum Festal tone)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Rodrigo de Ceballos — Tone 3 alternatim
  • Anthem: Roland de Lassus — Expectans expectavi
  • A second anthem: Roland de Lassus — Salve Regina (à 6)

  2013/08/25

  Sunday the 25th (14th after Pentecost/after St Bartholomew)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Joan Ely Carlson
  SATB: 4-3-3-2
  

  • Orison: Mudd — Let thy merciful ears, O Lord
  • Psalm 113
  • Hymn: William Mundy — O Lord, the maker of all thing
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: Thomas Morley à 5/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Thomas Tallis — The Short (Dorian) Service
  • Anthem: Orlando Gibbons — Almighty and everlasting God
  • A second anthem: Roland de Lassus — Salve Regina (à 6)

  2013/08/18

  Sunday the 18th (13th after Pentecost/after St Mary the Virgin)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 4-2-4-2
  

  • Orison: Igor Stravinsky — Ave Maria
  • Ave Maria (à 5)
  • Hymn: Virgin-born, we bow before thee
  • Nunc Dimittis: Thomas Tallis — The Short (Dorian) Service
  • Anthem: Roland de Lassus — Salve Regina (à 6)

  2013/07/28

  Sunday the 28th (10th after Pentecost/after St James & St Anne)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Will Konitzer
  SATB: 5-5-4-4
  

  • Orison: William H. Harris — Almighty and most merciful Father
  • Psalm: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Sicut cervus (Prima Pars only)
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tone)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Byrd à 5/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
  • Anthem: Christopher Tye — Sing unto the Lord, ye that are his saints
  • A second anthem: William H. Harris — Holy is the true light

  2013/07/21

  Sunday the 21st (9th after Pentecost/Eve of St Mary Magdalene)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Saul San Juan
  SATB: 4-3-3-3
  

  • Orison: Charles Villiers Stanford — When Mary through the garden went
  • Psalm 42
  • Hymn: plainsong — Jesus, Redeemer of the world (Jesu, nostra redemptio)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Byrd à 5/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: William Goldwyn in F
  • Anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — In diebus illis

  2013/03/10

  Sunday the 10th (Lent 4/Laetare)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Howard Burkett
  SATB: 2-3-4-2
  

  • Orison: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Super flumina Babylonis
  • Psalm 43
  • Hymn: Jachet de Mantua — O vos omnes
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Ave Regina caelorum (à 5, Part I only)

  2013/02/24

  Sunday the 24th (Lent 2/Reminiscere/St Matthew/before St David)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Kathryn Burgess
  SATB: 4-4-5-3
  

  • Orison: William Byrd — Emendemus in melius (à 5)
  • Psalm 8
  • Hymn: Anon. 16th Century (Wanley MSS) — O Lord, the maker of all thing
  • Nunc Dimittis: William Byrd — from The Short Service
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Ne irascaris/Civitas sancti tui (à 5)

  2013/02/03

  Sunday the 3rd (4th after Epiphany/Sexagesima/after Candlemas/St Blaise)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Will Konitzer
  SATB: 4-3-3-4
  

  • Orison: [Pierre?] Passereau — Auxilium meum
  • Psalm 13
  • Hymn: (omitted)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Rodrigo de Ceballos — Tone 3 Alternatim
  • Anthem: Thomas Tallis — Salvator mundi (à 5)
  • A second anthem: Jean Lhéritier — Sancta Maria

  2013/01/20

  Sunday the 20th (The 2nd Sunday after Epiphany, Cana Gospel, Eve of St Agnes)
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 4-4-5-4
  

  • Orison: Anon. c. 1600 (Peterhouse MSS "Latter Set") — This is the day which the Lord hath made
  • Psalm 12
  • Hymn: Anon. 16th Century (Wanley MSS) — O Lord, the maker of all thing
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
  • Anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — O Domine Jesu Christe (à 6)
  • A second anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Alma Redemptoris Mater (à 8)

  2013/01/13

  Sunday the 13th (The First Sunday after Epiphany/Baptism of Christ)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 2-5-5-3
  

  • Orison: William Byrd — Come help, O God (à 5)
  • Psalm 67
  • Hymn: When Christ's appearing was made known (Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schar)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Rodrigo de Ceballos, Tone 3 Alternatim
  • Anthem: Jacob Handl — Laetentur caeli (à 6)
  • A second anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — O Domine Jesu Christe (à 6)

  2012/12/30

  Sunday the 30th (The Sunday after Christmas)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 3-4-4-2
  

  • Orison: Ralph Vaughan Williams — The blesséd son of God
  • Psalm 48
  • Hymn: Peter Warlock — Bethlehem Down
  • Nunc Dimittis: plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Hans Leo Hassler — Verbum caro factum est (à 6)

  2012/12/16

  Sunday the 16th (Advent 3/Gaudete/O Sapientia)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Howard Burkett
  SATB: 3-3-4-2
  

  • Orison: Savior of the nations, come (Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland)
  • Psalm 110
  • Hymn: plainsong — Creator of the stars of night (Conditor alme siderum)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Roland de Lassus — Tone 2 in falsobordone (à 5)/Antiphon O Sapientia
  • Anthem: Hieronymus Praetorius — Gaudete omnes (à 6)
  • A second anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Alma redemptoris mater

  2012/12/09

  Sunday the 9th (Advent 2/after St Nicholas)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Bev McCune
  SATB: 5-4-5-3
  

  • Orison: Benjamin Britten — A Hymn to the Virgin
  • [Psalm omitted]
  • Hymn: Savior of the nations, come (Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland)
  • Nunc Dimittis: William Mundy — To Mr Parsons' Service of Five Parts
  • Anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Canite tuba in Sion (à 5)
  • A second anthem: Roland de Lassus — Alma redemptoris mater (à 5)

  2012/12/02

  Sunday the 2nd (Advent 1/after St Andrew)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Sawyer Sellers
  SATB: 4-4-2-2
  

  • Orison: O heavenly Word, eternal Light (O Heiland, reiss)
  • Psalm 24
  • Hymn: plainsong — The Advent Prose (RVW fauxbourdons)
  • Nunc Dimittis: William Mundy, To Mr Parsons' Service of Five Parts
  • Anthem: Roland de Lassus — Domine Dominus noster (à 6)
  • A second anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Alma Redemptoris Mater

  2012/11/25

  Sunday the 25th (26th after Pentecost/Last Sunday before Advent)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantors: Gary Goethe & Kathryn Burgess
  SATB: 4-3-4-2
  

  • Orison: Robert White — Precamur sancte Domine (à 5)
  • Psalm 84
  • Hymn: [omitted]
  • Nunc Dimittis: William Mundy, to Mr Parson's Service of Five Parts
  • Anthem: Juan Ginès Perez — Gloria, laus et honor (à 5)

  2012/10/21

  Sunday the 21st (21st after Pentecost/after St Luke)
  Director: Barbara Manson
  Cantor: Saul San Juan
  SATB: 3-2-2-2
  

  • Orison: Anon. (Wanley MSS) — O Lord, the maker of all thing
  • Psalm 16
  • Hymn: plainsong — O gracious Light (mode 8, cento Bruce Ford & James McGregor)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Roland de Lassus, Tone 4 in Falsobordone
  • Anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Kyrie (Missa Quarti Toni)

  2012/10/14

  Sunday the 14th (20th after Pentecost/after St Philip/after St Edward/Eve of St Theresa of Avila)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 4-5-4-3
  

  • Orison: Thomas Tallis — O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit
  • At the Psalm: Adrian Batten — Let my complaint come before thee, O Lord
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tone)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Johann Walther — Lumen ad revelationem (à 6)
  • Anthem: Jacob Handl — Laetentur caeli (à 6)
  • A second anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — O Domine Jesu Christe (à 6)

  2012/09/23

  Sunday the 23rd (17th after Pentecost/after St Matthew)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 3-4-3-2
  

  • Orison: William Byrd — Prevent us, O Lord (à 5)
  • Psalm 132
  • Hymn: plain song —Jesus, Redeemer of the world (Jesu, nostra redemptio)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Claude Goudimel — Cantique de Symeon
  • Anthem: Thomas Weelkes — Gloria in excelsis Deo (à 6)

  2012/09/16

  Sunday the 16th (16th after Pentecost/after Holy Cross/St Ninian/eve of St Hildegard)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 3-2-5-1
  

  • Orison: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Crucem sanctam subiit (à 5)
  • Psalm 118:1-13
  • Hymn: Thomas Tallis — Ferial Te Lucis (à 5)
  • Nunc Dimittis: plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Jacobus Clemens non Papa — Crux fidelis

  2012/09/09

  Sunday the 9th (15th after Pentecost/after the Nativity of the BVM)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Joan Ely Carlson
  SATB: 3-2-4-0
  

  • Orison: E'en like the hunted hind (The Fifth Tune of Tallis)
  • Psalm 87
  • Hymn: Maker of all things (The Fourth Tune of Tallis)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Rodrigo de Ceballos — Tertii Toni Alternatim
  • Anthem: Thomas Tallis — In pace in idipsum

  2012/08/19

  Sunday Aug 19th (12th after Pentecost/after St Mary the Virgin)
  Director: Barbara Manson
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 3-2-2-2
  

  • Orison: Igor Stravinsky — Ave Maria
  • Psalm 4
  • Hymn: plainsong — Ave maris stella
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Sicut cervus (prima pars)
  • A second anthem: Palestrina — Sitivit anima mea (secunda pars)

  2012/08/12

  Sunday Aug 12th (11th after Pentecost/after St Clare)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Saul Jerome San Juan
  SATB: 4-2-5-3
  

  • Orison: William Byrd — Be unto me, O Lord, a tower of strength
  • first part of the service
  • Psalm 126
  • Hymn: Leonhard Lechner — An Evening Hymn (à 5)
  • second part of the service
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
  • Anthem: Giovanni Croce — O sacrum convivium
  • A second anthem: Roland de Lassus — Salve Regina (à 6)
  • close of the service

  2012/06/10

  Sunday the 10th (2nd after Pentecost/after Corpus Christi/St Ephrem/after St Columba)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Wallace Harwood
  SATB: 2-3-3-5
  

  • Orison: Maurice Duruflé — Ubi caritas
  • Psalm 102: 1-12
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tone)
  • Lord's Prayer: Igor Stravinsky — Pater noster
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Maurice Duruflé —Tantum ergo

  2012/05/27

  Sunday the 27th (Pentecost)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Joan Ely Carlson
  SATB: 4-2-2-3
  

  • Orison: Come down, O Love divine (DOWN AMPNEY)
  • Psalm 87, Burgess fauxbourdons
  • Hymn: Before the ending of the day (Ad coenam Agni)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 in falsobordone/Antiphon Spiritus Paraclitus
  • Anthem: Giovanni Croce — Hodie completi sunt dies Pentecostes (à 5)

  2012/05/13

  Sunday the 13th (6 Easter/Vocem iucunditatis/after Julian of Norwich, Gregory Nazianzen)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Saul San Juan
  SATB: 2-2-3-2
  

  • Orison: Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger — Bleib bei uns (à 6)
  • Psalm 96
  • Hymn: This joyful Eastertide (VRUECHTEN)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Byrd à 5/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Roland de Lassus — Tone 4 in falsobordone
  • Anthem: Thomas Weelkes — Gloria in excelsis Deo (à 6)

  2012/04/29

  Sunday the 29th (4 Easter/Misericordia Domino/Good Shepherd Sunday/St Catherine of Siena)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 3-2-3-2
  

  • Orison: Behold and have regard (Old 25th)
  • The Lord to me a shepherd is (Canterbury/Low Dutch Tune)
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Iesu redemptor saeculi)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 in falsobordone/Antiphon Surrexit Dominus
  • Anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Surrexit Pastor bonus (à 6)

  2012/04/08

  Sunday the 8th (Easter)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 2-3-3-2
  

  • Orison: Roland de Lassus — Scio enim quod redemptor
  • Psalm 118:1-17
  • Hymn: O sons and daughters, let us sing (O filii et filiae — Easter day text)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Tone 3 alternatim/Anon. (school of Palestrina) — Salva nos
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Haec dies (à 6)
  • A second anthem: Gregor Aichinger — Regina caeli

  2012/04/01

  Sunday, April 1st (Palm Sunday)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Wallace Harwood
  SATB: 3-4-3-3
  

  • Orison: Juan Ginés Perez — Gloria, laus, et honor (à 5)
  • Psalm 25:1-14
  • Hymn: Thomas Morley — Nolo mortem peccatoris
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Jacob Handl (Gallus) — Ecce quomodo moritur justus
  • A second anthem: Johann Kuhnau — Tristis est anima mea (à 5)

  2012/03/25

  Sunday the 25th (Lent 5/Judica/The Annunciation)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Joan Ely Carlson
  SATB: 3-2-5-2
  

  • Orison: Thomas Morley — Nolo mortem peccatoris
  • Psalm 1
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tone)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Thomas Tallis — Derelinquit impius (à 5)
  • A second anthem: Georgian (Kartuli) trad. — Shen khar venakhi (Marian anthem)

  2012/03/11

  Sunday, March 11th (Lent 3/Oculi)
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 2-4-5-4
  

  • Orison: William Byrd — Prevent us, O Lord, in all our doings (à 5)
  • Psalm 42
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tone)
  • Nunc Dimittis: William Byrd, The Short Service
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Emendemus in melius (à 5)
  • A second anthem: William Byrd — Ne irascaris, Domine (à 5) (Prima Pars only)

  2012/02/26

  Sunday, February 26th (Lent 1/Invocavit)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 3-3-3-2
  

  • Orison: Thomas Tallis — Purge me, O Lord
  • Psalm 2
  • Hymn: Thomas Tallis — Te lucis (Ferial, à 5)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Thomas Tallis — The Short (Dorian) Service
  • Anthem: Thomas Tallis — In ieiunio et fletu (à 5)

  2012/02/12

  Sunday, February 12th (6th after the Epiphany/Sexagesima)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Howard Burkett
  SATB: 2-2-2-3
  

  • Orison: William Byrd — Sing joyfully (à 6)
  • Psalm 112
  • Hymn: plainsong — Christ, mighty savior, light of all creation (Christe, lux mundi)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Christopher Tye — to Mr Parsons' Service
  • Anthem: Peter Philips — Ave Regina caelorum (à 5)

  2012/01/29

  Sunday, January 29th (4th after Epiphany/after the Conversion of St Paul/Sunday before Candlemas)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Wallace Harwood
  SATB: 1-3-1-2
  

  • Orison: Adrian Batten — Lord, we beseech thee
  • Psalm 111
  • Hymn: plainsong — Jesus, Redeemer of the world (Jesu nostra redemptio)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Elway Bevin — the Short/Dorian Service (à 5)
  • Anthem: Thomas Tallis — Salvator mundi (à 5)
  • A second anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Alma Redemptoris Mater

  2012/01/08

  Sunday, January 8th (Sunday after the Epiphany/Baptism of Our Lord)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Jennifer Davis
  SATB: 2-2-2-1.025
  

  • Orison: Jacques Arcadelt — Haec dies
  • Psalm 89: 20-37
  • Hymn: When Jesus came to Jordan's stream (Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 in falsobordone/Antiphon Omnes de Saba
  • Anthem: Luca Marenzio — Tribus miraculis

  2012/01/01

  Sunday, January 1st (Sunday after Christmas/Circumcision of Christ [a.k.a. Holy Name])
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 2-2-2-2
  

  • Orison: William Byrd — O magnum mysterium
  • Psalm 8
  • Hymn: plainsong — Dost thou in a manger lie (Dies est laetitiae)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
  • Anthem: Hans Leo Hassler — Verbum caro factum est (à 6)
  • A second anthem: Jacobus Clemens non Papa — Magi veniunt ab oriente

  2011/12/18

  Sunday, December 18th (Advent 4/O Radix Jesse)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 2-2-3-1
  

  • Orison: Robert Ramsey — O Sapientia
  • Psalm 1
  • Hymn: Nova, nova (Nova, nova)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Roland de Lassus — Tone 2 in falsobordone/Antiphon O Radix Jesse
  • Anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Ave Maria

  2011/12/04

  Sunday, December 4th (Advent 2/St John Damascene/ after St Andrew/after Nicolas Ferrar)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Saul San Juan
  SATB: 0-2-1-1
  

  • the bell
  • Orison: Anon. 16th Century (Wanley MSS) — I am the voice of a crier
  • Psalm 85
  • Hymn: plainsong — On Jordan's bank the Baptist's cry (Jordanis ora praevia)
  • Nunc Dimittis: plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Comfort, comfort ye, my people (Psaume 42)
  • A second anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Alma Redemptoris Mater

  2011/11/27

  Sunday the 27th (Advent 1)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 2-3-3-2
  

  • Orison: plainsong — The Advent Prose (Fauxbourdon by RVW)
  • as the Psalm: John Amner — Lift up your heads, O ye gates
  • Hymn: Hark the glad sound, the Savior comes (Bristol)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
  • Anthem: Jacob Isaak — Jerusalem, surge
  • A second anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Alma redemptoris Mater (à 8)

  2011/11/13

  Sunday the 13th (22nd after Pentecost)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Bev McCune
  SATB: 2-2-4-2
  

  • Orison: Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger — Abendlied (à 6)
  • Psalm 104:25-37
  • Hymn: plainsong — Christ, mighty Savior (Christe, lux mundi)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
  • Anthem: Jacob Handl — Laetentur caeli (à 6)
  • A second anthem: Roland de Lassus — Salve Regina (à 6)

  2011/10/16

  Sunday the 16th (18th after Pentecost)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 4-2-1-2
  

  • Orison: Ludwig Senfl — Deus in adjutorium
  • Psalm 32
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Claude Goudimel — Cantique de Symeon
  • Anthem: Orlando Gibbons — Almighty and everlasting God
  • A second anthem: Giovanni Maria Nanino — Adoramus te, Christe (à 5)

  2011/10/02

  Sunday the 2nd (16th after Pentecost/after St Michael and All Angels)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 1-2-1-1
  

  • Orison: Adrian Batten — Let my complaint come before thee, O Lord
  • Psalm 148
  • Hymn: O Christ, you are both light and day
  • Lord's Prayer: Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Thomas Tallis — The Short (Dorian) Service
  • Anthem: Thomas Morley — Agnus Dei

  2011/09/25

  Sunday the 25th (15th after Pentecost/after St Matthew)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Joan Ely Carlson
  SATB: 1-2-2-2
  

  • Orison: [omitted]
  • Psalm 119:33-40
  • Hymn: Thomas Tallis — Festal Te lucis (à 5)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Thomas Tallis — The Short (Dorian) Service
  • Anthem: Roland de Lassus — Jubilate Deo

  2011/09/11

  Sunday the 11th (13th after Pentecost)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Saul San Juan
  SATB: 2-3-2-2
  

  • Orison: Thomas Tallis — Purge me, O Lord
  • Psalm 46
  • Hymn: Thomas Tallis — Ferial Te lucis (à 5)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Thomas Tallis — The Short (Dorian) Service
  • Anthem: Thomas Tallis — O Lord, in thee is all my trust
  • A second anthem: Hans Leo Hassler — Cantate Domino (à 5)

  2011/09/04

  Sunday the 4th (12th after Pentecost)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 2-2-2-0
  

  • Orison: E'en like the hunted hind (Tallis — The Fifth Tune)
  • Psalm 87
  • Hymn: To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum Festal tone)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Byrd à 5/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Thomas Tallis — In pace in idipsum

  2011/08/28

  Sunday the 28th (11th after Pentecost/after St Bartholomew/St Augustine of Hippo)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 2-2-2-2
  

  • Orison: Thomas Tallis, The First Tune — My God, I love thee
  • Psalm 26
  • Hymn: Alone with none but thee (TIBRADDEN, arr hpb)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: William Mundy — O Lord, the world's Savior

  2011/08/21

  Sunday the 21st (10th after Pentecost/after St Mary the Virgin)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Saul San Juan
  SATB: 2-2-2-3
  

  • Orison: Martin de Rivaflecha — Anima mea liquefacta est
  • Psalm 4
  • Hymn: Virgin-born, we bow before thee (Psaume 86)
  • Lord's Prayer: Igor Stravinsky — Pater noster
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Jean Lhéretier — Sancta Maria
  • A second anthem: Igor Stravinsky — Ave Maria

  2011/08/14

  Sunday the 14th (9th after Pentecost)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Mark Rodriguez
  SATB: 2-3-2-1
  

  • Orison: William Byrd — Come, help, O God (à 5)
  • Psalm 3
  • Hymn: Thomas Tallis — Te lucis (Sarum ferial tone, à 5)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Rodrigo de Ceballos — Tone 3 Alternatim
  • Anthem: Thomas Tallis — Salvator mundi (à 5)

  2011/08/07

  Sunday the 7th (8th after Pentecost/after the Transfiguration)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 3-2-2-2
  

  • Orison: Jesus came, adored by angels (Gerald Near — Lowry)
  • Psalm 8
  • Hymn: Fairest Lord Jesus (Schönster Herr Jesu)
  • Lord's Prayer: Igor Stravinsky — Pater noster
  • Nunc Dimittis: Rodrigo de Ceballos — Tone 3 Alternatim
  • Anthem: Francisco Guerrero — Gloria et honore (à 6)

  2011/07/31

  Sunday the 31st (7th after Pentecost/Lammas Eve)
  Director: Barbara Manson
  Cantor: Howard Burkett
  SATB: 2-1-2-2
  

  • Orison: Thomas Tomkins — O pray for the peace of Jerusalem
  • Psalm 30
  • Hymn: Claude Goudimel — Author of the whole creation (Par le desert de mes peines)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Passereau — Auxilium meum a Domino

  2011/07/24

  Sunday the 24th (6th after Pentecost/eve of St James)
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 3-2-2-4
  

  • Orison: [omitted]
  • Psalm 33:1-12
  • Hymn: plainsong — Jesus, Redeemer of the world (Jesu, nostra redemptio)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy — Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener in Frieden fahren, op. 69/1
  • Anthem: William Mundy — O Lord, the maker of all thing

  2011/07/03

  Sunday the 3rd (3rd after Pentecost/after SS Peter & Paul)
  Director: Barbara Manson
  Cantor: Wallace Harwood
  SATB: 3-4-2-3
  

  • Orison: Richard Farrant or John Hilton — Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake
  • Psalm 125
  • Hymn: O Love, how deep, how broad, how high (Deo Gracias/Agincourt Carol)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Roland de Lassus — Cum essem parvulus (à 6, Prima Pars)
  • A second anthem: plainsong — Salve Regina (Simple tone)

  2011/06/26

  Sunday the 26th (2nd after Pentecost/after Corpus Christi/after St John the Baptist)
  Director: Barbara Manson
  Cantor: Howard Burkett
  SATB: 2-3-2-3
  

  • Orison: Healey Willan — O how glorious (in memoriam Elaine Dykstra)
  • As the Psalm: Roland de Lassus — Lauda anima mea Dominum
  • Hymn: plainsong — Christ, mighty Savior (Christe, lux mundi)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Ave verum Corpus

  2011/06/19

  Sunday the 19th (Trinity Sunday)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Julie Silva
  SATB: 3-3-3-4
  

  • Orison: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Sanctus (Missa Quarta)
  • Psalm 150
  • Hymn: Round the Lord in glory seated (RUSTINGTON)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Charles Wood — Father all-holy

  2011/06/12

  Sunday the 12th (Pentecost)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 1-2-2-3
  

  • Orison: William Byrd — Confirma Hoc, Deus (à 5)
  • Psalm 33:1-11
  • Hymn: Orlando Gibbons — Song 44(Veni Creator)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Loquebantur variis linguis

  2011/05/29

  Sunday the 29th (6 Easter/Vocem iucunditatis/before the Visitation)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 3-1-2-3
  

  • Orison: Thomas Tallis —If ye love me
  • Psalm 34:1-8
  • Hymn: plainsong — Jesus, the world's redeeming Lord (Te lucis, Sarum festal tone)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Charles Wood in Bb (à 6)
  • Anthem: Josef Gabriel Rheinberger — Abendlied (à 6)
  • A second anthem: plainsong — Regina caeli (Simple tone)

  2011/05/22

  Sunday the 22nd (5 Easter/Cantate Domino)
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 3-3-3-3
  

  • Orison: Adrian Batten — Lord, we beseech thee
  • As the Psalm: Charles Villiers Stanford — Beati quorum via
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tone)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 in falsobordone/Antiphon Resurrexit Dominus
  • Anthem: Andrzej Hakenberger — Exsultate justi (à 6)
  • A second anthem: Cristobal de Morales — Regina Caeli

  2011/05/08

  Sunday the 8th (3 Easter/Jubilate Deo/Julian of Norwich)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 3-1-3-1
  

  • Orison: Roland de Lassus — Jubilate Deo
  • Psalm 85
  • Hymn: Come away to the skies (Middlebury) [omitted]
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Byrd à 5/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 in falsobordone/Antiphon Resurrexit Dominus
  • Anthem: Cristobal de Morales — Regina Caeli

  2011/05/01

  Sunday the 1st (Easter 2/Quasimodo/Low Sunday)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Joan Carlson
  SATB: 2-2-2-2
  

  It has been a long, LONG break since the last Compline recordings. I regret this, but am very glad to be back and singing, and making these recordings available again.

  • Orison: This joyful Eastertide (VRUECHTEN)
  • Psalm 84
  • Hymn: plainsong — O sons and daughters, let us sing (O filii et filiae)
  • Lord's Prayer: Igor Stravinsky — Pater Noster
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Jacob Regnart — Stetit Jesus

  2010/09/19

  Sunday the 19th
  Cantor: Joan Carlson
  SATB: 1-1-0-0
  

  • Orison: plainsong — O gracious light (Mode 2, cento Bruce Ford & James McGregor)
  • Psalm 119: 49-56
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum Festal tone)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Caspar Ett — Blessed City, heavenly Salem (Oriel)

  2010/08/22

  Sunday the 22nd (Pentecost 12)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Saul San Juan
  SATB: 4-3-2-2
  

  • Orison: Christopher Tye — Sing unto the Lord, ye that are his saints
  • Psalm 119:25-32
  • Hymn: plainsong — Jesus, redeemer of the world (Jesu, nostra redemptio)
  • Lord's Prayer: Igor Stravinsky — Pater noster
  • Nunc Dimittis: Orlando Gibbons — Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
  • Anthem: Constanzo Festa — Dominator coelorum (à 5)
  • A second anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Sicut cervus (Prima Pars only)

  2010/07/18

  Sunday the 18th (Pentecost 7/before St Mary Magdalene)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Bev McCune
  SATB: 1-1-1-2
  

  • Orison: Thomas Tallis — Maker of all things (The Fourth Tune)
  • Psalm 15
  • Hymn: Franz Xaver Witt — Quis ascendet in montem Domini
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: William Mundy — O Lord, the maker of all thing

  2010/07/04

  Sunday, July 4th (Pentecost 5/Independence Day)
  Director/Cantor: Howard Burkett
  SATB: 1-1-1-1
  

  • Orison: plainsong — O gracious light (Mode 2, cento Bruce Ford & James McGregor)
  • Psalm 30
  • Hymn: (J[ohn?] Cole — Geneva) When all thy mercies, O my God
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: arr. H. P. Burkett — O God of earth and altar (Don oích uíd i mBeithil)

  2010/06/27

  Sunday the 27th (Pentecost 5/after the Nativity of St John the Baptist/before SS Peter & Paul)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Julie Silva
  SATB: 1-2-2-2
  

  • the ambience: the bell and processional
  • Orison: Thomas Tallis — O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit
  • first part of the service
  • Psalm 66
  • Hymn: plainsong — Two stalwart trees (Ave caeli janua)
  • second part of the service
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Hans Leo Hassler — Tu es Petrus
  • A second anthem: Diego Ortiz — Janitor caeli
  • close of the service
  • the ambience: the recessional, and congregation departs

  2010/05/30

  Sunday the 30th (Trinity Sunday)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 2-3-2-1
  

  • Orison: Juan Esquivel — Duo seraphim (à 6)
  • Psalm 18:14-29
  • Hymn: plainsong — Jesus, redeemer of the world (Jesu, nostra redemptio)
  • Lord's Prayer: Igor Stravinsky — Pater noster
  • Nunc Dimittis: Claude Goudimel, on Cantique de Symeon
  • Anthem: William Byrd — O Lux beata Trinitas (à 6)

  2010/05/23

  Sunday the 23rd (Pentecost)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Bev McCune
  SATB: 2-2-1-0
  

  • Orison: William Byrd — Haec dies (à 3)
  • Psalm 18:1-13
  • Hymn: plainsong — Hail this joyful day's return (Beata nobis gaudia)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Attend mine humble prayer, O Lord (à 3)

  2010/05/16

  Sunday the 16th (7 Easter/Exaudi/after Ascension)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Jonathan Nesvadba
  SATB: 2-2-1-3
  

  • Orison: Dulos Couillart — Viri Galilaei
  • Psalm 19
  • Hymn: The Lord ascendeth up on high (Ach Herr, du allerhöchster Gott)
  • Lord's Prayer: Igor Stravinsky — Pater noster
  • Nunc Dimittis: Gibbons Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
  • Anthem: Peter Philips — Ascendit Deus (à 5)
  • A second anthem: Gregor Aichinger — Regina caeli

  2010/05/02

  Sunday the 2nd (5 Easter/Cantate Domino/after SS Philip & James)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 3-2-1-3
  

  • Orison: Roland de Lassus — Surrexit Pastor bonus (à 5)
  • Psalm 110
  • Hymn: This joyful Eastertide (Vruechten)
  • Lord's Prayer: Igor Stravinsky — Pater noster
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Charles Villiers Stanford — When Mary through the garden went

  [Quite a gap in time here, for various reasons. I will get around to filling at least some of it in the next couple of months.]

  2010/02/28

  Sunday the 28th (2 Lent/Reminiscere)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Jonathan Nesvadba
  SATB: 4-4-3-0
  

  • Orison: plainsong — O gracious Light (Mode 2, cento. Bruce Ford & James McGregor)
  • Psalm 82
  • Hymn: From deepest woe I cry to thee (Aus tiefer Not)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: John Sheppard — In pace in idipsum
  • A second anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Ave Regina caelorum (paribus vocibus) Prima Pars

  2010/02/14

  Sunday the 14th (Epiphany Last/Quinquagesima/Transfiguration Sunday)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 2-3-1-1
  

  • Orison: plainsong — O wondrous type, O vision fair (Aeterne Rex altissime)
  • Psalm 8
  • Hymn: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Quicumque Christum quaeritis
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Byrd à 5 (Preces)/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Gibbons Song 1)
  • Anthem: Fairest Lord Jesus
  • A second anthem: Francesco Soriano — Ave Regina caelorum

  2010/01/31

  Sunday the 31st (Epiphany 4/Septuagesima/Sunday before Candlemas)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Saul San Juan
  SATB: 2-2-2-3
  

  • Orison: William Byrd — Kyrie (Mass for Five Voices)
  • Psalm 87
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum Festal tone)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Byrd à 5/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Song 1)
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Domine, secundum multitudinem dolorum meorum (à 5)

  2010/01/24

  Sunday the 24th (Epiphany 3/eve of the Conversion of St Paul)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Jen Frazer
  SATB: 5-3-1-1
  

  • Orison: plainsong — O blest Creator, source of light (Lucis Creator optime)
  • Psalm 84
  • Hymn: Fairest Lord Jesus (Schönster Herr Jesu)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Byrd à 5/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Richard Dereng — Jubilate Deo (à 6)
  • A second anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — O Domine Jesu Christe (à 6)

  2010/01/10

  Sunday the 10th (Epiphany 1/Sunday after the Epiphany/Baptism of Our Lord)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Joan Ely Carlson
  SATB: 3-2-1-0
  

  • Orison: When Christ's appearing was made known
  • Psalm 112
  • Hymn: When Jesus went to Jordan's stream
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Adoramus te, Christe

  2010/01/03

  Sunday the 3rd (Christmas 2/Solemnity of the Epiphany observed)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 2-3-1-1
  

  • Orison: Virgin-born, we bow before thee (Psaume 86)
  • first part of the service
  • Psalm 72
  • Hymn: William Byrd — O magnum mysterium
  • second part of the service
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 in falsobordone w/Antiphon Omnes de Saba
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Beata viscera (à 5)
  • A second anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Alma redemptoris Mater
  • close of the service

  2009/12/27

  Sunday the 27th (Christmas 1/St John the Evangelist)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 1-3-0-1
  

  • Orison: Anon. (Spanish, c. 1569) — Christus natus est nobis
  • Psalm 34:1-9
  • Hymn: Anon. Spanish (Cancioneiro de Uppsala) — Verbum caro factum est
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 in falsobordone/Antiphon Verbum caro
  • Anthem: Francisco Guerrero — A un niño llorando (à 5)

  2009/12/13

  Sunday the 13th (Advent 3/Gaudete/[St John of the Cross])
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Fr. James Misko
  SATB: 2-4-1-2
  

  • Orison: Jacob Handl (Gallus) — Ecce concipies
  • Psalm 63
  • Hymn: O heavenly Word, eternal Light (O Heiland, reiß)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: [Pierre?] Passereau — Auxilium meum

  2009/12/06

  Sunday the 6th (Advent 2/Populus Sion/[St Nicholas])
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 1-3-0-0
  

  • Orison: plainsong — Populus Sion
  • Psalm 112
  • Hymn: plainsong — On Jordan's bank (Iordanis ora praevia)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 7/Burgess fauxbourdons/Ant. Veni, Domine
  • Anthem: Hans Leo Hassler — Laetentur caeli

  2009/11/15

  Sunday the 15th (Pentecost 24)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Joan Ely Carlson
  SATB: 4-3-1-1
  

  • Orison: Adrian Batten — Haste thee, O God
  • Psalm 16
  • Hymn: plainsong — Jesus, Redeemer of the world (Jesu, nostra redemptio)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Byrd à 5/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Henry Aldrich in G
  • Anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — O Domine Jesu Christe (à 6)

  2009/10/25

  Sunday the 25th (Pentecost 21/after St James of Jerusalem)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Saul San Juan
  SATB: 1-3-2-4
  

  • Orison: William Byrd — Prevent us, O Lord (à 5)
  • Psalm 14
  • Hymn: Thomas Weelkes — Rejoice in the Lord
  • Nunc Dimittis: John Travers in F
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Ne irascaris, Domine (à 5) Prima Pars

  2009/10/11

  Sunday the 11th (Pentecost 19)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Joan Ely Carlson
  SATB: 2-3-0-2
  

  • Orison: Severin Cornet — Now God be with us (Parmi di star)
  • Psalm 12
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum Festal tone)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: Thomas Tompkins/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Henry Aldrich in G
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Prevent us, O Lord (à 5)

  2009/10/04

  Sunday the 4th (Pentecost 18/St Francis)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Fr James Misko
  SATB: 2-2-1-2
  

  • Orison: Adrian Batten — Lord, we beseech thee
  • Psalm 11
  • Hymn: plainsong — Christ, mighty Savior (Christe, lux mundi)
  • Nunc Dimittis: John Travers in F
  • Anthem: Heinrich Isaac — Gustate et videte (Taste and See)
  • A second anthem: Anon./Martin Shaw/hpb — Canticle of the Sun

  2009/09/27

  Sunday the 27th (Pentecost 17/before Michaelmas)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 3-3-2-3
  

  • Orison: [omitted]
  • first part of the service
  • Psalm 148
  • Hymn: plainsong — Christ, the fair glory of the holy angels (Caelitum Joseph)
  • Nunc Dimittis: John Travers in F
  • Anthem: attr. Josquin Des Pres or Noel Bauldeweyn — Ave Christe (Prima Pars)

  2009/09/13

  Sunday the 13th (Pentecost 15/Holy Cross)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Saul San Juan
  SATB: 3-4-2-3
  

  • Orison: Adrian Batten — Let my complaint come before thee, O Lord
  • Psalm 9:1-11
  • Hymn: Lord, make us servants of your peace (Dickinson College)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Claude Goudimel, Cantique de Symeon
  • Anthem: Roland de Lassus — Salve Regina à 6

  2009/09/06

  Sunday the 6th (Pentecost 14)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 3-1-2-0
  

  • Orison: plainsong — In peace indeed (In pace in idipsum)
  • Psalm 146
  • Hymn: plainsong — Christ, mighty Savior (Christe, lux mundi)
  • Nunc Dimittis: School of Palestrina Tone 3 Alternatim w/ Polyphonic Salva nos
  • Anthem: John Sheppard — In pace in idipsum

  2009/08/30

  Sunday the 30th (Pentecost 13/after the Decollation of St John the Baptist)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Joan Ely Carlson
  SATB: 4-2-1-4
  

  • Orison: plainsong — O gracious Light (mode 2, cento Bruce Ford & James McGregor)
  • Psalm 25:1-7
  • Hymn: plainsong — Jesus, redeemer of the world (Jesu nostra redemptio)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Gibbons Song 1 — Lord God, you now have set your servant free
  • Anthem: Leonhard Lechner — Novit Dominus (à 6)
  • A second anthem: Roland de Lassus — Salve Regina (à 6)

  2009/08/23

  Sunday the 23rd (Pentecost 12/St Bartholomew)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Fr. James Misko
  SATB: 2-3-3-3
  

  • Orison: Leonhard Lechner — An Evening Hymn (Der süße Schlaf - à 5)
  • Psalm 91
  • Hymn: plainsong — The eternal gifts of Christ the King (Aeterna Christi munera)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Claude Goudimel — Cantique de Symeon
  • Anthem: Thomas Tallis — In pace in idipsum

  2009/08/16

  Sunday the 16th (Pentecost 11/after St Mary the Virgin)
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 3-3-2-3
  

  • Orison: Igor Stravinsky — Ave Maria
  • Psalm 138
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tune)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Claude Goudimel — Cantique de Symeon
  • Anthem: Trond Kverno — Ave Maris Stella

  2009/08/09

  Sunday the 9th (Pentecost 10/after the Transfiguration/Holy Name of Jesus [Sarum])
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 1-2-1-2
  

  • Orison: plainsong — O gracious Light (mode 2, cento Bruce Ford & James McGregor)
  • Psalm 8
  • Hymn: William Byrd — Christe qui lux es (alternatim)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Claude Goudimel — Cantique de Symeon
  • Anthem: William Byrd, arr. Alfred Whitehead — I have longed for thy saving health

  2009/07/26

  Sunday the 26th (Pentecost 4/after St Mary Magdalene & St James)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Jen Frazer
  SATB: 2-2-1-2
  

  • Orison: Thomas Tallis — Salvator mundi (à 5)
  • Psalm 6
  • Hymn: Thomas Tallis — Te lucis (Festal tone, à 5)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: Thomas Tompkins/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Rodrigo de Ceballos — Tone 3 Alternatim
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Haec dies (à 6)

  2009/07/19

  Sunday the 19th (Pentecost 7/before St Mary Magdalene)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Bev McCune
  SATB: 2-2-2-3
  

  • Orison: William Byrd — Emendemus in melius (à 5; Prima Pars)
  • Psalm 4
  • Hymn: plainsong — Christ, mighty savior (Christe, lux mundi)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: Thomas Morley/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Rodrigo de Ceballos — Tone 3 Alternatim
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Haec dies (à 6)
  • A second anthem: Richard Terry — Richard de Castre's Prayer to Jesus

  2009/07/12

  Sunday the 12th (Pentecost 6)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 4-3-2-1
  

  Apologies for the long gap between services: I was busy administering an early music workshop (the Texas Toot), and then got sick and couldn't sing for several weeks! But things are looking up now... Enjoy!

  • Orison: Adrian Batten — Lord, we beseech thee
  • Psalm 26
  • Hymn: The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended (ST CLEMENT)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Smith of Durham à 5/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Rodrigo de Ceballos — Tone 3 Alternatim
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Sing joyfully (à 6)

  2009/06/07

  Sunday the 7th (Trinity Sunday)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 2-2-1-1
  

  • the bell
  • Orison: plainsong — O gracious light (Mode 4, cento Bruce Ford & James McGregor)
  • first part of the service
  • Psalm 150
  • Hymn: plainsong — O Trinity of blessed light (O lux beata Trinitas)
  • second part of the service
  • Nunc: John Blow — Single Chant in E Minor
  • Anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Benedicta sit sancta Trinitas
  • close of the service

  2009/05/31

  Sunday the 31st (Pentecost)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Jonathan Nesvadba
  SATB: 1-2-2-4
  

  • Orison: William Byrd — Confirma hoc (à 5)
  • Psalm 145
  • Hymn: plainsong — Hail this joyful day's return (Beata nobis gaudia)
  • Nunc: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 in falsobordone/Antiphon Spiritus Paraclitus
  • Anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Loquebantur variis linguis

  2009/05/24

  Sunday the 24th (Easter 7/Exaudi/after Ascension)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 4-3-1-3
  

  • Orison: Henry Purcell — O God, the King of glory
  • Psalm 47
  • Hymn: The Lord ascended up on high (Michael Praetorius — Ach, Herr, du allerhöchster Gott)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 in falsobordone/Antiphon Ascendens Christus
  • Anthem: Peter Philips — Ascendit Deus (à 5)

  2009/04/26

  Sunday the 26th (Easter 3/Jubilate/after St Mark)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 3-3-1-2
  

  • Orison: Adrian Batten — O sing joyfully
  • Psalm 116
  • Hymn: plainsong — O thou, who wast for sinners slain (Jesu, redemptor seculi — Lyon melody)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Byrd à 5/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 in falsobordone/Antiphon Resurrexit Dominus
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Sing joyfully (à 5)
  • A second anthem: Cristóbal de Morales — Regina caeli

  2009/04/19

  Sunday the 19th (Easter 2/Quasimodo/Low Sunday)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 4-2-1-2
  

  • Orison: Constanzo Porta — Ego sum Pastor bonus (à 6)
  • Psalm 111
  • Hymn: This joyful Eastertide (Vruechten)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: Thomas Tallis à 4/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Cristóbal de Morales — Regina caeli

  2009/03/22

  Sunday the 22nd (Lent 4/Laetare/"Refreshment Sunday")
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 3-1-1-1
  

  • Orison: Peter Cornelius — Jerusalem
  • Psalm 87
  • Hymn: plainsong — O splendor of the Father's face (O splendor aeterni Patris)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Joan Pujol — Ecce nunc benedicite/Antiphon Signatum est
  • A second anthem: Francesco Soriano — Ave Regina caelorum

  2009/03/08

  Sunday the 8th (Lent 2/Reminiscere)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 3-2-1-1
  

  • Orison: plainsong — In peace indeed
  • Psalm 119:161-166
  • Hymn: From deepest woe I cry to thee (Aus tiefer Not)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Gibbons' Song 1, realized by RVW)
  • Anthem: John Sheppard — In pace in idipsum (SSAT version)
  • A second anthem: Roland de Lassus — Adoramus te, Christe

  20090301

  Sunday, March 1st (Lent 1/Invocabit/[St David])
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Joan Ely Carlson
  SATB: 3-1-1-2
  

  • Orison: Richard Lloyd — View me, Lord
  • Psalm 25
  • Hymn: plainsong — The Lent Prose (Attende, Domine with refrain harm. hpb)
  • Nunc Dimittis: plainsong — Tone 4a, w/Burgess Fauxbourdon & Antiphon Cum videris nudum
  • Anthem: William Mundy — O Lord, the maker of all thing
  • A second anthem: plainsong — Ave Regina caelorum (Simple Tone)

  2009/01/11

  Sunday the 11th (Epiphany 1/Sunday after the Epiphany/Baptism of Our Lord)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Jonathan Nesvadba
  SATB: 4-2-2-3
  

  • Orison: Cristóbal de Morales — Inter natos mulierum
  • Psalm 113
  • Hymn: When Jesus went to Jordan's stream (Christ, unser Herr zum Jordan kam)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 in falsobordone w/Antiphon Omnes de Saba
  • Anthem: Francesco Corteccia — Surge, illuminare (à 5)
  • A second anthem: Luca Marenzio — Tribus miraculis

  2009/01/04

  Sunday the 4th (Christmas 2/Holy Name[Circumcision]/Epiphany anticipated)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 3-3-2-2
  

  • Orison: plainsong — The Father's sole-begotten Son (A Patre Unigenitus)
  • Psalm 145:1-12
  • Hymn: Michael Praetorius — Omnis mundus jocundetur
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 in falsobordone w/Antiphon Omnes de Saba
  • Anthem: Herbert Howells — Here is the little door

  2008/12/28

  Sunday the 28th (1st Sunday of Christmas/The Holy Innocents)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Fr James Misko
  SATB: 5-4-1-3
  

  • Orison: Peter Racine Fricker — The First Christmas
  • Psalm 96
  • Hymn: plainsong — O holy Child, our prayers receive (Mundi salus qui nasceris)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 in falsobordone w/Antiphon Verbum caro
  • Anthem: William Byrd — O magnum mysterium
  • A second anthem: Hans Leo Hassler — Verbum caro factum est (à 6)

  2008/12/21

  Sunday the 21st (4th Sunday of Advent/ Rorate / O Rex gentium (Sarum) / O Oriens (Roman))
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 1-3-0-4
  

  • Orison: The angel Gabriel from heaven came (Gabriel's Message)
  • Psalm 8
  • Hymn: plainsong — When shades of night around us close (In noctis umbra desides, sung to Conditor alme siderum)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Giovanni Paolo Cima — Tone 2 in falsobordone w/Antiphons O Oriens (before) and O Rex gentium (after)
  • Anthem: Pierre-Louis-Philippe Dietsch, after Jacques Arcadelt — Ave Maria
  • A second anthem: plainsong — Alma Redemptoris Mater (Solemn/Florid tone)

  2008/11/30

  Sunday the 30th (1st Sunday of Advent/St Andrew)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Jennifer Frazer
  SATB: 2-3-1-4
  

  • Orison: plainsong — The Advent Prose (refrain harm. RVW)
  • Psalm 119:65-72
  • Hymn: plainsong — Redeemer of the nations, come (Veni redemptor gentium)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Byrd à 5/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Giovanni Paolo Cima — Tone 7 in falsobordone w/ Antiphon Veni, Domine
  • Anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Canite tuba in Sion (à 5)

  2008/11/09

  Sunday the 9th (Pentecost 26)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 1-2-1-1
  

  • Orison: Thomas Tallis — O nata Lux (à 5)
  • Psalm 119:49-56
  • Hymn: Thomas Tallis — Te lucis (Sarum festal tune, à 5)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Byrd à 5/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Thomas Tallis — Salvator mundi (à 5)

  2008/10/14

  Tuesday, October 14th
  
  Benefit concerts for/at St Joseph's Chapel, Salado, TX
  (Two performances to accommodate overflow crowd)
  (And it was almost Tyler Fletcher's birthday, too)
  Director: David Stevens
  SATB: 2-3-2-3
  

  Concert I — 7:00pm

  • Hans Leo Hassler — Cantate Domino
  • Adrian Batten — Let my complaint come before thee, O Lord
  • Plainsong — Jesus, Redeemer of the world (Jesu, nostra redemptio) [women]
  • Plainsong — Christ, mighty savior (Christe, Lux mundi) [men]
  • Plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tune)
  • Anon./Martin Shaw/hpb — Canticle of the Sun
  • William Byrd/Robert Stone — Kyries from the Second Service/The Lord's Prayer
  • attr. Tomás Luís de Victoria — Ave Maria
  • Igor Stravinsky — Ave Maria

  Concert II — 8:20pm (after dinner and drinks with the audience)

  • George Oldroyd — Prayer to Jesus
  • Hans Leo Hassler — Cantate Domino
  • Lord, make us servants of your peace (Dickinson College)
  • Anon./Martin Shaw/hpb — Canticle of the Sun
  • Jacob Handl (Gallus) — Ecce quomodo moritur justus
  • William Byrd — Kyries from the Second Service/Robert Stone — The Lord's Prayer
  • Igor Stravinsky — Ave Maria
  • Gregor Aichinger — Regina caeli

  2008/10/05

  Sunday the 5th (Pentecost 21/after St Francis of Assisi)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Fr James Misko
  SATB: 1-3-1-2
  

  • Orison: Anon./Martin Shaw/hpb — Canticle of the Sun
  • Psalm 119:9-16
  • Hymn: Anon. 16th C. (Wanley MSS) — O Lord, the maker of all thing
  • Nunc Dimittis: Orlando Gibbons — from The Short Service
  • Anthem: Thomas Morley — Teach me thy way, O Lord (à 5)

  2008/09/28

  Sunday the 28th (Pentecost 20/eve of St Michael & All Angels)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 3-3-0-1
  

  • Orison: plainsong — O gracious Light (Mode 2, cento Bruce E. Ford & James McGregor)
  • Psalm 34:1-10
  • Hymn: plainsong — Thee, O Christ, the Father's splendor (Tibi, Christe, splendor Patris)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Visita quaesumus Domine

  2008/09/14

  Sunday the 14th (Pentecost 18/eve of Holy Cross)
  6:30 PM — Compline as closing event of "Eyes Wide Open"
  Hosted by the American Friends Service Committee
  Sung at Central Presbyterian Church, Austin, TX
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 3-3-3-4
  

  This recording was made in an unfamiliar location, and was being hand-held rather than stationary on a piece of furniture as is the norm. There are a few results of this, the most noticeable of which is that the first 30 seconds or so of the opening piece (Prayer to Jesus) were not recorded (dang!).

  • Orison: George Oldroyd — Prayer to Jesus
  • Psalm 87
  • Hymn: Lord, make us servants of your peace (Dickinson College)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Gibbons' Song 1, realized by RVW)
  • Anthem: Jacob Handl — Ecce quomodo moritur justus
  • A second anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Super flumina Babylonis

  2008/09/07

  Sunday the 7th (Pentecost 17/eve of the Nativity of the BVM)
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 5-4-3-4
  

  We don't usually have forces this large — 16 singers!! — but we are in preparation for singing a Compline service as part of "Eyes Wide Open". This is a traveling exhibition produced by the American Friends Service Committee, to raise awareness of the human cost of the war in Iraq.

  Because of the number of singers tonight, we were spread quite a bit wider across the front of the sanctuary than usual, putting one corner of the choir pretty much directly under the microphone. So every once in a while you'll hear a particular voice or two being very present in these recordings.

  • Orison: George Oldroyd — Prayer to Jesus
  • Psalm 87 (Tone 4.3 fauxbourdon by Francis Burgess)
  • Hymn: Lord, make us servants of your peace (Dickinson College)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Gibbons' Song 1, realized by RVW)
  • Anthem: Jacob Handl — Ecce quomodo moritur Justus
  • A second anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Super flumina Babylonis

  2008/08/31

  Sunday the 31st (Pentecost 16/after St Augustine of Hippo/after the decollation of St John the Baptist)
  Director: Barbara Manson
  Cantor: Fr. James Misko
  SATB: 2-1-2-2
  

  • Orison: Adrian Batten — O sing joyfully
  • Psalm 116:1-10
  • Hymn: Roland de Lassus — Te lucis ante terminum (Roman Mode 8 melody, à 4 alternatim)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Orlando Gibbons — from The Short Service
  • Anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Sicut cervus

  2008/08/24

  Sunday the 24th (Pentecost 15/eve of St Bartholomew)
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 4-3-2-4
  

  We decided, for whatever reason, to celebrate an all-Byrd service. Hope you enjoy it!

  • Orison: William Byrd —Prevent us, O Lord (à 5)
  • Psalm 40
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tone)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Byrd à 5/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: William Byrd — Gradualia I/4
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Domine, salva nos (à 6)

  2008/08/17

  Sunday the 17th
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 4-3-2-3
  

  • Orison: Igor Stravinsky — Ave Maria
  • Psalm 138
  • Hymn: Christ, mighty Savior (Christe, lux mundi)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Gibbons' Song 1, realized by RVW)
  • Anthem: Trond Kverno — Ave Maris Stella

  2008/07/06

  Sunday the 6th (Pentecost 8)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 2-2-2-2
  

  • Orison: Thomas Morley — Teach me thy way, O Lord (à 5)
  • Psalm 145:13-22
  • Hymn: Michael Haller — Discite a me
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Smith of Durham/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Orlando Gibbons — from The Short Service
  • Anthem: Richard Alison — Behold now praise the Lord (à 5)

  2008/06/29

  Sunday the 29th (Pentecost 7/after the nativity of St John the Baptist/Eve of SS Peter & Paul)
  Director: Barbara Manson
  Cantor: Joan Ely Carlson
  SATB: 3-2-2-3
  

  • Orison: Adrian Batten — When the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion
  • Psalm 116
  • Hymn: plainsong Aurea luce et decore roseo
  • Nunc Dimittis: Rodrigo de Ceballos — Tone 3 alternatim
  • Anthem: Diego Ortiz — Janitor Caeli

  2008/06/15

  Sunday the 15th (Pentecost 5/after St Barnabas, St Anthony of Padua, St Basil the Great)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Joan Ely Carlson
  SATB: 2-3-2-3
  

  • Orison: Richard Farrant or John Hilton — Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake
  • Psalm 9:1-11
  • Hymn: The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended (St Clement)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Smith of Durham/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Orlando Gibbons — from The Short Service
  • Anthem: Hans Leo Hassler — Cantate Domino (à 5)
  • A second anthem: Roland de Lassus — Salve Regina (à 6)

  2008/06/08

  Sunday the 8th of June (Pentecost 4/eve of St Columba)
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 1-4-4-6
  

  • Orison: Alone with none but thee (Sowby)
  • Psalm 1
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tone)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: William Smith of Durham/Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Orlando Gibbons — from The Short Service
  • Anthem: Orlando Gibbons — O clap your hands together (à 8)

  2008/05/18

  Sunday the 18th (Trinity Sunday)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Jen Frazer
  SATB: 3-3-0-3
  

  • Orison: plainsong — O gracious Light (Mode 2, cento Bruce E. Ford & James McGregor)
  • first part of the service
  • Psalm 111
  • Hymn: plainsong — Be with us, Holy Trinity (Adesto, sancta Trinitas)
  • second part of the service
  • Nunc Dimittis: Robert Lucas Pearsall — Nunc Dimittis in F
  • Anthem: Giammateo Asola — O altitudo divitiarum (and close of service)

  2008/05/11

  Sunday, May 11th (Pentecost)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 1-2-2-1
  

  • Orison: plainsong — Hail this joyful day's return (Beata nobis gaudia)
  • Psalm 145
  • Hymn: To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tone)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: Thomas Tomkins (à 5) and Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Thomas Tallis — If ye love me

  2008/05/04

  Sunday, May 4th (7th Sunday of Easter/Sunday after the Ascension)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Fr. James Misko
  SATB: 3-4-2-2
  

  • Orison: Couillart — Viri Galilaei
  • Psalm 96
  • Hymn: The Lord ascendeth up on high (Ach, Herr, du allerhöchster Gott)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Gibbons' Song 1, realized by RVW)
  • Anthem: John Amner — He that descended (à 5)

  2008/04/27

  Sunday the 27th (6th Sunday of Easter/Sunday after St George & St Mark)
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 3-2-2-2
  (Anglican-Music listsib Richard Griffiths from Dublin sitting in)

  • the bell
  • Orison: Claudin de Sermisy — Benedic, anima mea
  • Psalm 119:137-144
  • Hymn: O gladsome Light (Cantique de Simeon)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Rodrigo de Ceballos — Tone 3 alternatim
  • Anthem: Cristóbal Morales — Regina caeli

  2008/04/20

  Sunday, April 20th (5th Sunday of Easter)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 3-4-2-3
  

  • Orison: Trad./Martin Shaw/hpb — Canticle of the Sun
  • Psalm 119:129-136
  • Hymn: plainsong — O Christ, you are both light and day (Christe, qui lux es)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Orlando Gibbons — from The Short Service
  • Anthem: Thomas Weelkes — Gloria in excelsis deo (à 6)
  • A second anthem: Cristóbal Morales — Regina caeli

  2008/04/13

  Sunday, April 13th (4th Sunday of Easter)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 1-2-3-4
  

  • Orison: Christ the Lord is risen again (Christ ist erstanden)
  • Psalm 119:113-120
  • Hymn: Come, ye faithful, raise the strain (Gaudeamus Pariter)
  • Kyrie and Lord's Prayer: Thomas Tomkins (à 5) and Robert Stone
  • Nunc Dimittis: Orlando Gibbons — from The Short Service
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Haec dies (à 6)
  • A second anthem: Cristóbal Morales — Regina caeli

  2008/03/30

  Sunday the 30th (Low Sunday/Quasimodo)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Ted Smith
  SATB: 3-4-2-3
  

  • Orison: [omitted]
  • Psalm 78:1-39
  • Hymn: plainsong — O sons and daughters, let us sing (O filii et filiae)
  • Nunc: Orlando Gibbons — from The Short Service
  • Anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Quia vidisti me, Thoma
  • A second anthem: Cristobal Morales — Regina caeli

  2008/03/23

  Sunday the 23rd (Easter)
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 5-3-2-3
  

  • Orison: This joyful Eastertide (Vruechten)
  • Psalm 118
  • Hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum Festal tone)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Anon. (18th Century?) Widecombe MS
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Haec dies (à 6)
  • A second anthem: Francesco Soriano — Regina caeli

  2008/03/09

  Sunday the 9th (5th Sunday in Lent/Judica/Passion Sunday)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 1-3-2-1
  

  • Orison: plainsong — Attende, Domine (w/ hpb fauxbourdon)
  • Psalm 119:153-160
  • Hymn: Anon 16th Cent (Wanley MSS) — O Lord, the maker of all thing
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Jean Conseil — Adjuva me, Domine
  • A second anthem: Philippe de Monte — Peccantem me quotidie (à 5)

  2008/03/02

  Sunday the 2nd (4th Sunday in Lent/Laetare/Refreshment Sunday/Mothering Sunday)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Joan Ely Carlson
  SATB: 3-4-1-3
  

  • orison: plainsong — Be joyful, Jerusalem (Laetare Jerusalem, w/ Viadana fauxbordons à 5)
  • Psalm: Peter Cornelius/J. S. Bach — Jerusalem (paraphrase of Psalm 122)
  • hymn: plainsong — Hear us, O Lord (Attende, Domine, w/ hpb fauxbourdon)
  • Kyrie: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Missa Quarti Toni
  • Nunc Dimittis: Anon. (18th Century?) Widecombe MS
  • anthems: Johann Caspar Aiblinger — Scapulis suis and plainsong — Ave Regina caelorum (simple tone)

  2008/02/24

  Sunday the 24th (3rd Sunday in Lent/Eve of St Matthias)
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 2-4-2-3
  

  • orison: William Byrd — Prevent us, O Lord (à 5)
  • Psalm 119:145-152
  • hymn: To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tune)
  • Kyrie: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Missa Quarti Toni
  • Nunc Dimittis: Anon. (18th Century?) Widecombe MS
  • anthem: Thomas Tallis — Salvator mundi (à 5)

  2008/01/20

  Sunday the 20th (2nd Sunday after the Epiphany/Septuagesima)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Fr James Misko
  SATB: 3-3-3-5
  

  • orison: plainsong — O gracious Light (Mode 2, cento Bruce E. Ford & James McMillan)
  • first part of the service
  • Psalm 1
  • hymn: Thomas Tallis — Te lucis ante terminum (Sarum festal tone, à 5)
  • second part of the service
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Gibbons' Song 1, realized by RVW)
  • anthem: William Byrd — Praise our Lord, all ye gentiles (à 6)
  • a second anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Alma redemptoris Mater (à 8)
  • close of the service

  2008/01/13

  Sunday the 13th (1st Sunday after the Epiphany/Baptism of Our Lord)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 2-3-1-7
  

  • orison: Luca Marenzio — Tribus miraculis
  • Psalm 75
  • hymn: When Jesus went to Jordan's stream (Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • anthem: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Alma redemptoris Mater (à 8)

  2008/01/06

  Sunday the 6th (Epiphany)
  Director/Cantor:David Stevens
  SATB: 5-2-1-2
  

  • orison: Francesco Corteccia — Surge, illuminare Jerusalem (à 5)
  • first part of the service
  • Psalm 72
  • hymn: plainsong — Alleluia, song of gladness (Urbs beata Jerusalem)
  • second part of the service
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5c in Falsobordone/Antiphon Omnes de Saba
  • anthem: Blasius Amon — Magi videntes stellam (à 5)
  • close of the service

  2007/12/30

  Sunday the 30th (Christmas 1)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 2-2-1-1
  

  • orison: William Byrd — O magnum mysterium
  • first part of the service
  • Psalm 85
  • hymn: Michael Praetorius — Puer natus in Bethlehem
  • second part of the service
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 in falsobordone/Antiphon Verbum caro
  • anthem: Herbert Howells — Here is the little door
  • close of the service

  2007/12/09

  Sunday the 9th (Advent 2/after St Nicholas)
  Director: Barbara Manson
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 1-2-0-3
  

  • orison: The Advent Prose (with Vaughan Williams Fauxbourdon)
  • Psalm 27:10-18
  • hymn: plainsong — To you before the close of day (Te lucis, Advent tune)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Anon. (18th Century?) Widecombe MS
  • anthem: Kodály Zoltán — Veni Emmanuel (à 3)
  • a second anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Alma redemptoris mater

  2007/11/25

  Sunday the 25th (Last Sunday after Pentecost/Christ the King)
  Director: Barbara Manson
  Cantor: Fr James Misko
  SATB: 2-3-0-4
  

  • the bell calls downtown Austin to Compline
  • orison: plainsong — O gracious Light (Mode 2, cento Bruce E. Ford & James McGregor)
  • Psalm 72:1-7
  • hymn: Josquin Des Prez — Tu solus qui facis mirabilia
  • Nunc Dimittis: Anon. (18th Century?) Widecombe MS
  • anthem: Jacobus Gallus (Handl) — In nomine Jesu (à 5)

  2007/11/11

  Sunday the 11th (Pentecost 24)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 4-4-1-3
  

  • orison: Adrian Batten — Lord, we beseech thee
  • first part of the service
  • Psalm 119:113-120
  • hymn: Thomas Tallis — Te lucis (Sarum Festal tone, à 5)
  • second part of the service
  • Nunc Dimittis: William Mundy — Mr. Parsons' Service (à 5)
  • anthem: Jacobus Gallus (Handl) — In nomine Jesu (à 5)

  2007/11/04

  Sunday the 4th (Pentecost 23/Sunday after All SS & All Souls')
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 3-4-2-4
  

  • orison: William H. Harris — Holy is the true light
  • first part of the service
  • Psalm 119:105-112
  • hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tone)
  • second part of the service
  • Nunc Dimittis: Anon. (18th Century?), Widecombe MS — Nunc Dimittis
  • anthem: William Byrd — O quam gloriosum/Benedictio et claritas (à 5)
  • close of the service

  2007/10/14

  Sunday the 14th (Pentecost 20)
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 4-3-1-3
  

  • orison: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Exsultate justi
  • as the Psalm: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Super flumina Babylonis
  • hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tone)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • anthem: Adrian Batten — O sing joyfully
  • a second anthem: Thomas Tallis — O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit
  • a third anthem: Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Alma redemptoris mater

  2007/09/23

  Sunday the 23rd (Pentecost 17/Sunday after St Matthew)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 2-2-2-3
  

  • orison: Adrian Batten — Let my complaint come before thee, O Lord
  • Psalm 146
  • hymn: Lead us, O Father (Song 22)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Gibbons' Song 1, realized by RVW)
  • anthem: Anon. 16th Cent. — Rejoice in the Lord alway

  2007/09/16

  Sunday the 16th (Pentecost 16/Sunday after Holy Cross)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 6-3-1-4
  

  • orison: Charles Wood — Father all-holy
  • Psalm 95
  • hymn: plainsong — O Christ, you are both light and day (Christe qui lux es et dies)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Richard Farrant in G minor
  • anthem: Richard Dering — Factum est silentium (à 6)

  2007/08/26

  Sunday the 26th (Pentecost 13)
  Director: Barbara Manson
  Cantor: Joan Ely Carlson
  SATB: 4-2-2-2

  • orison: Richard Farrant — Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake
  • first part of the service
  • Psalm 93
  • hymn: plainsong — O Christ, you are both light and day (Christe, qui lux es et dies)
  • second part of the service
  • Nunc Dimittis: Richard Farrant in G Minor
  • anthems: Jacobus Gallus (Handl) — Adoramus te, Jesu Christe (à 8) and Pierre-Louis-Philippe Dietsch, after Jacques Arcadelt — Ave Maria (Nous voyons que les hommes), and end of service

  2007/08/19

  Sunday the 19th (Pentecost 12)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 3-2-1-5

  • orison: Adrian Batten — Lord, we beseech thee
  • first part of the service
  • Psalm 142
  • hymn: Severin Cornet — Now God be with us (Parmi di star)
  • second part of the service
  • Nunc Dimittis: Richard Farrant in G Minor
  • anthem: Jacobus Gallus (Handl) — Adoramus te, Jesu Christe (à 8)
  • close of the service

  2007/08/12

  Sunday the 12th (Pentecost 11/St Mary the Virgin [anticipated])
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Fr. James Misko
  SATB: 4-3-3-4

  • orison: plainsong — O gracious Light (Mode 2, cento Bruce E. Ford & James McGregor)
  • first part of the service
  • Psalm 138
  • hymn: plainsong — To you, before the close of day (Te lucis, Sarum festal tone)
  • second part of the service
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lord God, you now have set your servant free (Gibbons' Song 1, realized by RVW)
  • anthem: Richard Dereng — Ave virgo gloriosa (à 5)
  • a second anthem: Trond Kverno — Ave maris stella
  • close of the service

  2007/07/22

  Sunday the 22nd (Pentecost 8/St Mary Magdalene)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 2-2-1-3
  

  • orison: Christopher Tye — Sing unto the Lord, ye that are his saints
  • first part of the service
  • Psalm 96
  • hymn: plainsong — Jesus, redeemer of the world (Jesu, nostra redemptio)
  • second part of the service
  • Nunc Dimittis: Robert Ramsey Nunc Dimittis in G
  • anthem: Thomas Tallis — Salvator mundi (à 5) and close of the service

  2007/07/08

  Sunday the 8th (Pentecost 6)
  Director: Barbara Manson
  Cantor: Susan Richter
  SATB: 3-2-0-3
  

  • Orison: Mudd — Let thy merciful ears, O Lord
  • first part of the service
  • the Psalm: Psalm 66
  • the hymn: Claude Goudimel — Author of the whole creation (Par le desert de mes peines)
  • second part of the service
  • Nunc Dimittis: Robert Ramsey Nunc Dimittis in G
  • the anthem: Hans Leo Hassler — Cantate Domino and end of service

  2007/07/01

  Sunday the 1st (Pentecost 5/SS Peter & Paul/eve of the Visitation)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Joan Ely Carlson
  SATB: 2-2-1-3
  

  • orison: Claude Goudimel — Author of the whole creation (Par le desert de mes peines)
  • first part of the service
  • the Psalm — Psalm 118:1-19
  • the hymn — The eternal gifts of Christ the King (Aeterna Christi munera)
  • second part of the service
  • Nunc Dimittis: Robert Ramsey Nunc Dimittis in G
  • the anthem: William Byrd — Justorum animae (à 5); Salve, Regina (Simple Tone) and end of service

  2007/06/24

  Sunday the 24th (Pentecost 4/Nativity of St John the Baptist)
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 3-1-1-3
  

  • orison - Adrian Batten — Let my complaint come before thee, O Lord
  • the Psalm - Psalm 8
  • the hymn - Thomas Tallis — Te lucis ante terminum (Ferial Tone, à 5)
  • the Nunc - Robert Ramsay — Nunc Dimittis in G
  • the anthem - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Sicut cervus

  2007/06/08 — Jamie's Vespers Service

  The Compline Choir was honored to sing for the Vespers Service preceding Jamie Misko's ordination into the Roman Catholic priesthood. It was a very special occasion.

  2007/06/03

  Sunday the 3rd (Trinity Sunday)
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 3-2-1-5
  

  It was a dark and stormy night! No, really ... if you listen through the service music parts, you can hear rumbling thunder all through the evening. We had a very sizeable group, as much of this music was in rehearsal for Jamie Misko's ordination the following Friday.

  • orison - Thomas Tallis — O nata lux (à 5)
  • first part of the service
  • the Psalm - Psalm 41
  • the hymn - Maurice Duruflé — Tantum ergo
  • second part of the service
  • at the Nunc - Roland de Lassus — Magnificat Septimi Toni "Margot labourez les vignes"
  • the anthem - Andrzej Hakenberger — Exsultate justi (à 6)
  • close of the service

  2007/04/22

  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Ted Smith
  SATB: 1-2-1-3
  

  • orison - Adrian Batten — O sing joyfully
  • first part of the service
  • the Psalm - Psalm 30
  • the hymn - plainsong — At the lamb's high feast we sing (Ad coenam agni)
  • second part of the service
  • the Nunc - Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5 Fauxbourdons/Antiphon Resurrexit Dominus
  • the anthem - Michael Haller — Ego sum panis vivus and plainsong Regina coeli (Simple tone)
  • close of the service

  2007/04/15

  Sunday the 15th (2 Easter/Low Sunday)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: The Rev. Deacon Jamie Misko
  SATB: 1-3-1-3
  

  Well, it was Tax Day, but we still sang Compline.

  • orison - That Easter day with joy was bright (Puer Nobis)
  • first part of the service
  • the Psalm - Psalm 139:1-17
  • the hymn - O sons and daughters (Filii et Filiae)
  • second part of the service
  • the Nunc - Richard Runciman Terry — Tone 5 Fauxbourdons/Antiphon Resurrexit Dominus
  • the anthem - Hans Leo Hassler — Quia vidisti me, Thoma
  • another anthem - Cristobal Morales — Regina coeli (à 6)
  • close of the service

  2007/02/11

  Sunday the 11th (6th Sunday after the Epiphany/Sexagesima)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: The Rev. Deacon Jamie Misko
  SATB: 2-2-1-3
  

  • orison: Cristobal de Morales — Simile est regnum
  • Psalm 20
  • hymn: plainsong — Jesus, redeemer of the world (Jesu, nostra redemptio)
  • Nunc Dimittis: plainsong, Tone 3
  • anthem: Maurice Duruflé — Tantum ergo

  2007/01/28

  Sunday the 28th (4th Sunday after Epiphany/Sunday after Conversion of St Paul)
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 2-3-1-5
  

  We had an excellent, large group at Compline tonight -- 5 basses! As a result, we did some nice 6-part pieces in addition to the usual chant and SATB things.

  • the bell, masterfully rung by Ted Smith
  • orison: — Anon. c 1600 This is the day which the Lord hath made
  • first part of the service
  • Psalm: Psalm 129
  • hymn: The day thou gavest
  • second part of the service
  • Nunc Dimittis: Johann Walther — Lumen ad revelationem/Nunc dimittis (à 6)
  • anthem: William Byrd — Praise our Lord, all ye Gentiles (à 6)
  • close of the service

  2007/01/21

  Sunday the 21st (3rd Sunday after Epiphany/Sunday after the Confession of St Peter)
  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Barbara Manson
  SATB: 1-2-1-2
  

  A nice group tonight -- lots of coughing from the congregation (and singers), though.

  • orison: Claudin de Sermisy — Benedic, anima mea
  • Psalm: Psalm 128
  • hymn: Epiphany Te Lucis
  • Nunc Dimittis: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • anthem: Jean Conseil — Adjuva me, Domine

  2007/01/07

  Sunday the 7th (Sunday after Epiphany)
  Director: Howard Burkett
  Cantor: Joan Ely Carlson
  SATB: 2-1-2-2
  

  The first Compline of the new year! And I didn't skip anything, honest! There actually was no Compline on Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve. [ Volume correction on these files 2007/08/27. "Normalize" is a wonderful thing to know about! ]

  • orison: Howard Preston Burkett — A God and yet a man
  • first part of the service
  • Psalm: Psalm 72: 1-7, 10-14
  • hymn: Epiphany Te Lucis
  • second part of the service
  • Nunc Dimittis: Ludovico Grossi da Viadana — Tone 5c in Falsobordone/Antiphon Omnes de Saba
  • anthem: Francesco Corteccia — Surge, illuminare Jerusalem (à 5)
  • close of the service

  2006/12/17

  Sunday the 17th (Advent 3/O Sapientia)
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 3-2-1-4
  

  My apologies for the long break in the recordings. I seem to have misplaced my Microtrack 24/96 recorder somewhere in the interim, and it took a few weeks to accept that fact and order a new one. Sigh.

  • orison: Francisco Guerrero — Rorate caeli
  • first part of the service
  • Psalm: Psalm 24
  • hymn: Hark the glad sound! (Bristol)
  • second part of the service
  • Nunc Dimittis: Lassus — Tone 2 Fauxbourdons Nunc Dimittis (à 5), with women chanting antiphon O Sapientia
  • anthem: William Byrd — O magnum mysterium
  • a bonus anthem: Lassus — Alma redemptoris mater (à 5)
  • close of the service

  2006/10/17 (a Tuesday!)

  Tuesday the 17th (St Ignatius of Antioch/Benefit Concert at St Joseph's Chapel, Salado, TX)
  David Stevens Directing
  SATB: 2-3-1-3
  

  A performance in the Chapel at Fletcher's Books and Antiques, in Salado, Texas. The chapel is quite small, and I wasn't able to get any check-able level settings, so I went with what I had. As a result, we overpowered the recorder occasionally and there is some clipping on loud passages (especially those sopranos -- sheesh! :-) )

  • Anon. c. 1600. (Peterhouse MSS Latter Set) — This is the day which the Lord hath made
  • Thomas Tallis — If ye love me, keep my commandments
  • Adrian Batten — Lord, we beseech Thee
  • Hymn: O Jesus, joy of loving hearts (Dickinson College)
  • Thomas Morley — Nolo mortem peccatoris
  • Anon 16th Cent (Wanley MSS) — O Lord, the Maker of all thing
  • Batten — When the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion
  • Psalm 92 (Plainsong Psalter)
  • Christopher Tye — Sing unto the Lord, ye that are his saints
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina — Alma redemptoris mater

  2006/10/15

  Sunday the 15th (Pentecost 19)
  Director/Cantor: David Stevens
  SATB: 2-3-1-3
  

  • the bell
  • Orison: Anon. c. 1600. (Peterhouse MSS Latter Set) — This is the day which the Lord hath made
  • first part of the service
  • Psalm: Psalm 92
  • Hymn: Anon 16th Cent (Wanley MSS) — O Lord, the Maker of all Thing
  • second part of the service
  • Nunc: Thomas Tomkins, from the Second Service
  • Anthem: Christopher Tye — Sing unto the Lord, ye that are his saints
  • A second anthem: Adrian Batten — When the Lord turned again the captivity of Sion
  • close of the service

  2006/10/01

  Director: David Stevens
  Cantor: Ted Smith
  SATB: 2-2-1-1
  

  This evening, we recorded from a different location -- out in the congregation. This may explain the large amount of hiss and background noise. Or perhaps it's just the Pecan Street Festival carrying on just outside. Anyway, I think we will move it back to the location up in the chancel area.

  • the bells of St. David's
  • Orison: Tomás Luís de Victoria — Tibi Christe splendor Patris
  • Hymn: Christ the fair glory of the holy angels (Christe sanctorum, to plainsong melody Caelitum Joseph)
  • Nunc Dimittis: Thomas Tomkins from the Second Service
  • Anthem: Thomas Tallis — O Lord, give thy Holy Spirit

  2006/09/24

  • Orison: Adrian Batten — Deliver us, O Lord our God
  • Psalm: Psalm 54
  • Hymn: O Trinity of blessèd light (plainsong O lux beata Trinitas)
  • Nunc: Plainsong, Tone 3
  • Anthem: Roland de Lassus — Sicut mater consolatur (à 5)

  2006/09/17 Levels should be pretty good.

  • Orison: "But as for us" (plainsong Nos autem gloriari)
  • service, part 1
  • Psalm: Psalm 116
  • Hymn: Fulfilled is all that David told (plainsong Vexilla regis/Impleta sunt)
  • service, part 2
  • Nunc: William Mundy — "to Mr Parsons' service of five parts"
  • Anthem: Thomas Tallis — Salvator Mundi (à 5) Note: the strange sound at the very beginning is the tail end of an explosive cough in the congregation. Sigh -- don't know how to edit that out completely.
  • close of the service: thanks be to God!

  2006/09/10 [ Volume correction on these files 2007/08/27. "Normalize" is a wonderful thing to know about! ]

  • Orison: William Byrd — Ne irascaris, Domine, part 1 (à 5)
  • Psalm: Psalm 125
  • Hymn: Christ, mighty Savior (plainsong Christe, lux mundi)
  • Nunc: William Mundy — "to Mr Parsons' service of five parts"
  • Anthem: William Byrd — Ne irascaris, Domine, part 2 (Civitas sancti tui) (à 5)
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