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Good evening, friends. The six suites for unaccompanied cello by J.S. Bach are among the most ingenious and inspired of all his compositions. Written exactly 300 years ago, when Bach was Kappellmeister in Köthen, the single instrumental lines weave a miraculous pattern of implied harmonies and varied colours. The music historian Wilfred Mellers described the suites...
Before the penitential season of Lent begins, we are reminded today of the revelation of God’s glory in Christ on the Feast of Transfiguration – Jesus appears in dazzling white on the mountain with Elijah and Moses (Mark 9, 2–9). The disciples misunderstand, thinking that this is their final destination (Let us make three tabernacles, one...
Dear Friends, As you will know, we are currently in the season of Candlemas, which began last Tuesday with the Presentation of Christ in the Temple. St Luke (Chapter 2) recounts how Jesus was brought by his parents to the temple in Jerusalem, and greeted by the aged Simeon who declared the young child ‘a light...
Today we are pleased to be able to offer the Epiphany Carol Service, the third in our series of special services for Advent, Christmas and Epiphany. It includes seasonal musical offerings by the choir, lovely Epiphany hymns, instrumental interludes by flautist Abigail Burrows, readings by members and friends of the Church, and a short reflection by Revd Wendy Carey....
[The following is a list of music from the Service of Holy Communion on the Fourth Sunday of Advent, 20 December 2020] Prelude Improvisation on “Gabriel’s Message” Improvisation on the piano by Adrian Boynton on the tune of a Basque folk carol, originally based on a 13th century carol Angelus Ad Virginem Introit Bogoróditsye Dyévo Words from Luke...
Good evening, everyone. Traditionally on the third Sunday of Advent our thoughts turn to John the Baptist, and his proclamations of the coming of the Messiah. Tonight we begin with Charles Coffin’s great eighteenth-century hymn ‘On Jordan’s bank the Baptist’s cry announces that the Lord is nigh’, set to the tune ‘Winchester New’, adapted from a...
[The following is a list of music from the Service of Holy Communion on the Third Sunday of Advent, 13 December 2020] Prelude Improvisation on the tune ‘Dundee’ (The people that in darkness sat) Adrian Boynton Short Introit O Nata Lux (O Light, born of Light, you who are deigned to become clothed in flesh for...
Good evening, friends. Our music to end the day features wonderful repertoire by the great baroque composers Bach and Handel. Bach wrote the glorious cantata ‘Wachet auf rift uns di stimme’ (Sleepers Wake, the watch-cry pealeth) for Advent Sunday 1724. He takes the original hymn melody by Philipp Nicolai (1599) and gives it a joyful and...
[The following is a list of music from the Service of the Word on the Second Sunday of Advent, 6 December 2020] Prelude Sonata No.4 in B♭ major From 6 Organ Sonatas, Opus 65, by Felix Mendelssohn 2nd Movement – Adante religioso Short Introit How beautiful are the feet Aria from “Messiah” (HWV 56) by George...
Good evening, friends. Today is the Feast of Christ the King, the climax of the church’s liturgical year. Next week we begin a ‘new year’ as we enter the season of Advent. The Kingship of Christ is powerfully represented in the image of Jesus hanging from the Cross on Good Friday. In the words of St...
Prelude Harpichord sonata in C Andantino Composed by Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti c. 1740. Introit Responsorial Psalm 97 “The Lord is king, most high above all earth” Hymn The king of love my shepherd is Composed by Henry Williams Baker in 1868. Tune: DOMINUS REGIT ME by John Bacchus Dykes composed also in 1868, arr Adrian Boynton....
In the past few days our thoughts have been with the thousands of men and women who through two world wars and more recent conflicts have sacrificed their lives in the cause of justice and peace. The poignancy of this Remembrance season has been heightened by news this week that deaths in the UK from Coronavirus...
[The following videos were provided for the music in this morning’s Service of the Word.] Organ Prelude “Humoresque L’organo primativo” (Toccatina for Flute) Composed by Pietro Alessandro Yon, inspired by a folk-made organ encountered in a museum. Hymn Come to us, creative Spirit Words by David Mowbray. Tune: ANGEL VOICES composed by Edwin George Monk. Hymn...
The following videos may not have appeared in this morning’s service. Prelude Improvisation on “O Valiant Hearts” Tune SUPREME SACRIFICE composed by Charles Harris. Improvisation on the piano by Adrian Boynton. Introit Justorum Animae Words from the Book of Wisdom 3:1-3. Opus 38, a motet composed by Charles Villiers Stanford. Hymn O God our help...
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