| Music at St Michael's Cantores Michaelis Organists: Duncan Bradley John Dunnett Tim Rogerson Adrian Taylor Music for the Liturgy DECEMBER 2021 December 5 Sunday Sung Mass 10.30 Advent 2 Introit: Mass for III voices William Byrd 1540-1623Mass: 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 Sung Mass 10.30 Cantores Exeat  |