From Blackburn to Truro via Eton
Weds 2nd March
Blackburn Cathedral
(rpt. Sun 6th March)
Introit: Bogoroditse Dyevo (Rachmaninov)
Responses: James Davy
Office Hymn: O God of earth and altar (King’s Lynn)
Psalms: 12, 13, 14 (Flintoft, Croft, Gibbons, Armstrong)
First Lesson: Proverbs 8 vv12-36
Canticles: Francis Jackson in G
Second Lesson: Colossians 1 vv9-20
Anthem: Salve Regina (Gabriel Jackson)
Hymn: Disposer supreme (Old 104th)
Organ Voluntary: Fantasia in G BWV 572 (Bach)
Weds 9th March
(Ash Wednesday)
St John’s College, Cambridge
(rpt. Sun 13th March)
Responses: Radcliffe
Psalm: 51 (Allegri)
First Lesson: Isaiah 1 vv10-18
Canticles: The Short Service (Hooper)
Second Lesson: Luke 15 vv11-32
Anthem: Domine non secundum peccata nostra (James MacMillan) (first performance)
Hymn: Lord Jesus, think on me (Southwell)
Organ Voluntary: Aus tiefer Not BWV 686 (Bach)
Weds 16th March
Truro Cathedral
(rpt. Sun 20th March)
Introit: Salvator mundi (Tallis)
Responses: Smith
Office Hymn: O, for a heart to praise my God (Tallis’s Ordinal)
Psalms: 82, 83, 84, 85 (Harrison, MacPherson, Parry, Hopkins)
First Lesson: Genesis 11 vv1-9
Canticles: The Short Service (Blow)
Second Lesson: Matthew 24 vv15-21
Anthem: Warum ist das Licht gegeben (Brahms)
Hymn: Take up thy cross (Breslau)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in C minor (Mendelssohn)
Weds 23rd March
Eton College Chapel Choir
(rpt. Sun 27th March)
Introit: A Prayer of King Henry VI (Ley)
Responses: Matthew O’Donovan
Psalms: 114, 115 (Tonus Peregrinus, Knight)
First Lesson: Job 1 vv1-22
Office Hymn: Lord of beauty, thine the splendour (St Audrey)
Canticles: Bairstow in D
Second Lesson: Luke 21 v34-22 v6
Anthem: One thing have I desired of the Lord (Howells)
Final Hymn: O praise ye the Lord (Laudate Dominum)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in B minor BWV 544 (Bach)
Weds 30th March
Liverpool Anglican Cathedral
(rpt. Sun 3rd April)