Liturgical music this month
Music List: March 2025
Friday 28th March 2025
6.15pm Choral Evensong (Lay Vicars Choral)
Responses Brown
Hymn 61
Psalm 69
Canticles The First Service – Weelkes
Anthem In ieiunio et fletu – Tallis
Voluntary Le Père – Langlais
Sunday 30th March 2025
The Fourth Sunday in Lent
11.15am Choral Eucharist (Girls and Lay Vicars Choral)
Hymns 334, 276, 294, 368
Service Missa brevis in C (Organ solo) – Mozart
Psalm 32
Motet All we like sheep – Handel
Voluntary Fantasia in G minor BWV 542 – J. S. Bach
3.30pm Choral Evensong (Boys and Lay Vicars Choral)
Responses Neary
Hymns 408, 61, 63
Psalm 30
Canticles Collegium Regale – Howells
Anthem Drop, drop slow tears - Leighton
Voluntary Psalm Prelude set 2, no. 1 – Howells
Friday 4th April 2025
6.15pm Choral Evensong (Lay Vicars Choral)
Responses Tallis
Hymn 61
Psalm 16
Canticles Purcell in G minor
Anthem Hear my prayer – Purcell
Voluntary Le Fils – Langlais
Sunday 6th April 2025
The Fifth Sunday in Lent
11.15am Choral Eucharist (Boys and Lay Vicars Choral)
Hymns 461, 358 (ii), And can it be, 84
Service Sumsion in F
Psalm 126
Motet When Jesus sat at meat – Nicholson
Voluntary O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß – J. S. Bach
3.30pm Choral Evensong (Girls and Lay Vicars Choral)
Responses Byrd
Hymns 76, 61, 83
Psalm 35
Canticles Stanford in C
Anthem A Litany – Walton
Voluntary Prelude on ‘St Columba’ – Stanford
Friday 11th April 2025
6.15pm Choral Evensong (Lay Vicars Choral)
Responses Tomkins
Hymn 61
Psalm 31: 1-16
Canticles The Second Service – Moore
Anthem Salvator mundi – Tallis
Voluntary Vater unser in Himmelreich – Telemann
Sunday 13th April 2025
Palm Sunday
11.15am Choral Eucharist (Girls and Lay Vicars Choral)
Introit Hosanna to the Son of David – Weelkes
Hymns 509, 511, 273, 79 (t. 128 ii)
Service Missa secunda – Hassler
Psalm 31: 9-16
Motets Lift up your heads – Handel
God so loved the world – Stainer
3.30pm Choral Evensong (Boys and Lay Vicars Choral)
Responses Radcliffe
Hymns 86, 78, 92
Psalm 69: 1-14
Canticles Sumsion in A
Anthem O Lord, rebuke me not – Byrd
Voluntary O Welt, ich muss dich lassen – Brahms
Thursday 17th April 2025
Maundy Thursday
8.00pm Choral Eucharist, Stripping of the Altars and Watch (Boys and Lay Vicars Choral)
Hymns 273, 302, 310, 268
Service Missa brevis – Palestrina
Psalms 116: 1, 10-17 and 22
Motet Ubi caritas – Gjeilo
Friday 18th April 2025
Good Friday
12.00 noon The Proclamation of the Cross (Girls and Lay Vicars Choral)
Hymns 82, 90 (omit*), 95
Passion St John – Victoria
Anthem Popule meus – Victoria
8.00pm Liturgical Performance (Lay Vicars Choral)
Membra Jesu nostri – Buxtehude
Saturday 19th April 2025
Easter Eve
8.00pm Easter Vigil Choral Eucharist (Lay Vicars Choral)
Hymns 466, 337, 420, 107
Service Missa brevis – Ives
Psalm 31: 1-4, 15-16
Motets Vidi aquam – Victoria
Sicut cervus – Palestrina
Voluntary Incantation pour un jour Saint – Langlais
Sunday 20th April 2025
Easter Sunday
11.15am Choral Eucharist (full choir)
Introit Haec dies – Byrd
Hymns 110, 117, 124
Service Missa brevis – Kodály
Psalm Easter Anthems
Motet Dic nobis, Maria – Bassano
Voluntary Litanies – Alain
3.30pm Choral Evensong (full choir)
Responses Clucas
Hymns 112, 101(i, omit*), 120
Psalm 66
Canticles Stanford in A
Anthem Jauchzet dem Herren – Schütz
Voluntary Cortege et Litanie – Dupré
Friday 25th April 2025
There is no service of Choral Evensong today
Sunday 27th April 2025
The Second Sunday of Easter
Services today are sung by the choir of St George’s Church, Belfast
11.15am Choral Eucharist
Hymns 103, 173 (t. 265), 106 (t. 219), 119 (t. 107)
Service Missa Princeps Pacis – W. Lloyd Webber
Psalm 118: 14-29
Motet Amor vincit omnia – Howe
Voluntary Fantasia in G BWV 572 – J. S. Bach
3.30pm Choral Evensong
Responses Rose
Hymns 118, 101 (omit*), 113
Psalm 66: 1-11
Canticles Collegium Regale – Howells
Anthem Jubilate Deo – Britten
Voluntary Les illuminations du citron vert – McGrath