Cantores Michaelis Music for the Liturgy
DECEMBER 2021
December 5 Sunday Sung Mass 10.30 Advent 2
Introit: Mass for IV voices William Byrd 1540-1623
Mass: Mass for a Meane - John Sheppard 1515-1550
Comfort ye my people, Every valley shall be exalted - Messiah - G F Handel 1685 -1759
In the bleak mid-winter - Gustav Holst 1874-1934
December 12 Sunday Sung Mass 10.30 Advent 3 Gaudete
Introit: Gaudete in Domino semper (Rejoice in the Lord always) Gregorian chant
Mass: Missa Quadragisimae
Rejoice in the Lord alway - Anon 16thC
O Lord give thy Holy Spirit - Thomas Tallis 1505-85
December 19 Sunday Sung Mass 10.30 Advent 4
Introit: Alma Redepmtoris mater- Gregorian Chant
Mass: Orbis factor - Gregorian chant 13thC
Dixit Maria - Hans Leo Hassler 1564 -1612
Lullay my liking - Gustav Holst 1874-1934
December 19 Candlelit Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols 18.30
Includes choral music: 15thC Anon * Bach* Warlock* Darke* Joubert* Semmons* Bradley & traditional Carols
December 24 Friday Christmas Eve Midnight Sung Mass 23.00
Introit: Hodie Christus Natus est (Today Christ is born) Gregorian chant
Mass: Missa l’ ora passa - Ludivico Viadana 1560-1627
Child for us sinners - Edmund Semmons 1905-1985 Away in a manger - W Kirkpatrick 1838-1921 The holly & the ivy English Trad.Arr H Walford Davies 1869-1941
Stille nacht - Hans Gruber 1787-1863
December Saturday 25 Christmas Day Sung Mass 10.30
Cantores Exeat
December Sunday 26 Said Mass 10.30
Cantores Exeat