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Cathedral Services

Cantus are a familiar face at Cathedrals around the United Kingdom where we have stood in for incumbent choirs since November 2001. This page contains information about past services including full details of music sung.

 

Past cathedral visits

Date Cathedral Items performed
2nd November 2001 Chichester

Fauré Requiem – All Souls Day Service

28th December 2002 Winchester Saturday evensong:

Rose responses: Canticles;

Evening service in A (Sumsion):

Anthem; In the bleak mid winter (Harold Darke)


Sunday Matins:
Rose responses

Te Deum from morning service in B flat(Stanford)

Anthem; Ding dong merrily on high (trad. arr Wilcocks)


Sunday Eucharist:

Setting; Communion service in F (Darke)

Motet: Christus factus est (Bruckner)


Sunday Evensong:

Rose responses: Canticles;

Collegium Regale (Howells):

Anthem; O magnum mysterium (Poulenc)

31st May 2003 Worcester

Saturday evensong:
Reading responses

Canticles; Evening service in G min (Purcell); Anthem: Jehova quam multi sunt, (Purcell)


Sunday Eucharist:
Setting; Communion service in E (Darke):

Motet; O sacrum convivium (Messaien)


Sunday Evensong:
Reading responses:

Canticles; Evening service in B min (Noble); Anthem; God is gone up (Finzi)

9th August 2003 Hereford

Saturday Evensong
Rose responses: Canticles; Evening service in G (Stanford): Anthem; Psalm 86 (Holst)
Sunday Eucharist
Setting; Cantus Missae (Rheinberger): Motet; O salutaris hostia (Sumsion)
Sunday Evensong
Rose responses: Canticles; Evening service in A (Stanford): Anthem; Beati quorum via (Stanford)

4th October 2003 Peterborough

Saturday Evensong
Reading responses: Canticles; Evening service in G (Stanford): Anthem; Christus factus est (Bruckner)

17th April 2004 Bath Abbey

Saturday Evensong
Rose responses:

Canticles; Dyson in F;

Anthem; Blessed be the God and Father (Wesley)
Sunday Matins
Introit: Bogoroditsye dyevo (Rachmaninov): Ferial responses:

Canticles; Stanford in B flat:

Anthem; Sing joyfully (Byrd)
Sunday Evensong
Introit: Bogoroditsye dyevo (Rachmaninov): Rose responses:

Canticles; Gloucester services (Howells): Anthem; Ye choirs of new Jerusalem (Stanford)

24th July 2004 Chichester

Saturday Evensong
Reading responses:

Canticles; short service (Ayleward): Anthem; O sing joyfully (Batten)
Sunday Matins
Reading responses:

Canticles: morning service in B flat (Stanford):

Anthem; Jesu dulcis memoriam (Victoria)
Sunday Eucharist
Setting; Communion service in A (Darke): Motet; O salutaris hostia (Sumsion)
Sunday Evensong
Reading responses:

Canticles: Evening service in C (Stanford): Anthem; I was glad (Parry)

11th September 2004 Guildford

Saturday Evensong
Reading responses:

Canticles; Evening service in B min (Noble): Anthem; Justorum animae (Stanford)

27th November 2004 Peterborough

Saturday Evensong
Introit; Happy are they (Jolliffe):

Rose responses:

Canticles: Collegium Regale in F (Wood):

Anthem; Vox dicentis (Naylor)

28th May 2005 Worcester

Saturday Evensong
Rose responses:

Canticles; Evening service in D (E J Moeran):

Anthem; Psalm 86 (Holst)
Sunday Eucharist
Setting: Communion service in F (Darke): Motet; Ave verum (Elgar)
Sunday Evensong
Rose reponses:

Canticles; Collegium Regale (Howells): Anthem; Psalm 148 (Holst)

5th November 2005 Wells

Saturday Evensong
Leighton responses: Canticles; Evening Service in F (Dyson): Anthem; Beati quorum via (Stanford)
Sunday Eucharist
Setting; Communion service in E (Darke): Motet; Christus factus etst (Bruckner)
Sunday Matins
Leighton responses: Canticles; Collegium regale (Howells); Anthem; Justorum animae (Stanford)
Sunday Evensong
Leighton responses: Canticles; Evening service in C (Stanford): Anthem; I was glad (Parry)

19th November 2005 Peterborough

Saturday Evensong
Reading responses: Canticles; Short service (Gibbons):

Anthem; Give us the wings of faith (Bullock)

25th March 2006 Norwich

Saturday Eucharist (Feast of the annunciation)
Setting: Missa Brevis (Palestrina): Motet; Beata viscera (Byrd)
Sunday Eucharist
Setting: Communion service in F (Darke): Motet; Salvator mundi (Blow)
Sunday Evensong
Leighton responses: Canticles; Evening service in B min (Noble): Anthem; Solus ad victimam (Leighton)

15th July 2006 Coventry

Saturday Evensong
Introit; Happy are they (Jolliffe): Reading responses: Canticles; Short services (Gibbons); Anthem; Whosoever dwelleth under the defence of the most high (Britten)
Sunday Eucharist
Setting; Missa Brevis (Palestrina): Motet; O salutaris hostia (Rossini)
Sunday Evensong
Introit; Happy are they (Jolliffe): Reading responses: Canticles; Collegium Regale in F (Charles Wood):
Anthem; Evening hymn (Balfour-Gardiner)

21st October 2006 St Edmundsbury

Saturday Evensong
Rose responses: Canticles; Evening service in B flat (Stanford): Anthem; Whosoever dwelleth under the defence of the most high (Britten)
Sunday Eucharist
Setting; Communion service in F (Darke): Motet; O salutaris hostia (Rossini)
Sunday Matins
Rose reponses: Canticles; Collegium Regale (Howells): Anthem; Jesu dulcis memoriam(Victoria)
Sunday Evensong
Rose responses: Canticles; Evening service in C (Stanford): Anthem; Blessed city, heavenly salem (Bairstow)

11th November 2006 Peterborough

Saturday Evensong
Rose reponses: Canticles; Evening service in A (Stanford): Anthem; Take him, earth, for cherishing (Howells)

6th January 2007 Lincoln

Saturday Evensong
Ely responses (Paul Ayres): Canticles; Second services (Byrd): Anthem; O admirabile comertium (Byrd)
Sunday Eucharist
Setting; Missa Brevis (Palestrina): Motet; Tantum ergo (de Severac)
Sunday Matins
Ely responses (Paul Ayres): Canticles; Collegium Regale (Howells): Anthem; A maiden most gentle (Carter)
Sunday Evensong
Introit; Videmus stellam (Byrd): Ely responses (Paul Ayres): Canticles; Evening service in E (Herbert Murrill): Anthem; Three kings (Cornelius)

21st April 2007 Bristol

Saturday Evensong
Ely responses (Paul Ayres): Canticles; Evening service in G (Stanford): Anthem; Justorum animae (Stanford)
Sunday Eucharist
Setting; Cantus missae (Rheinberger): Motet; Tantum ergo (de Severac)
Sunday Evensong
Ely responses (Paul Ayres): Canticles; Collegium Regale (Howells); Anthem; Beati quorum via (Stanford)

20th October 2007 Chester

Saturday evensong

Ely responses (Paul Ayres)

Canticles: Stanford in C

Anthem: I was glad (Parry)

 

Sunday Eucharist

Setting: Cantus missae (Rheinberger)

Anthem for the Peace: Jesu Dulcis Memoria (Victoria)

Communion motet: O salutaris hostia (Elgar)

 

Sunday Eucharist 2

Setting: Missa Brevis (Palestrina)

Motet: Sicut cervus (Palestrina)

 

Sunday Evensong

Ely responses (Paul Ayres)

Canticles: Gloucester service (Howells)

Anthem: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me (Elgar)