2008 – Lincoln Cathedral

In August 2008, the ECS visited Lincoln Cathedral for a week and sang the daily services there.  Additionally, we were privileged to provide the music for the annual service of the Knights Templar.  The music list was as follows:

 

Monday 4 August

  • Preces and Responses: Nardone
  • Office Hymn: OH 3
  • Psalms: 7, 8
  • Canticles: Hopper in B minor
  • Anthem: O for a closer walk – Grayston Ives
  • Hymn: NEH 464

Tuesday 5 August

  • Preces and Responses: Archer
  • Office Hymn: NEH 218
  • Psalms: 9
  • Canticles: Sumsion in A
  • Anthem: Now the God of Peace – Gerald Knight
  • Hymn: 492


Wednesday 6 August – Transfiguration

  • Introit: O Nata Lux – Thomas Tallis (OUP)
  • Office Hymn: NEH 176
  • Preces and Responses: Byrd
  • Psalm: 72
  • Canticles: Harwood in A flat
  • Anthem: Christ whose glory fills the sky – Harold Darke
  • Hymn: NEH 178
  • Antiphon

Friday 8 August (with the viols consort)       

  • Preces and Responses: Byrd
  • Office Hymn: 220
  • Psalms: 13, 14   
  • Canticles: 1st Service – Thomas Weelkes
  • Anthem: O thou the central Orb – Orlando Gibbons
  • Hymn: 482


Saturday 9 August – The Knights Templar

  • Introit: Lift up your heads, O ye gates
  • Hymn: Christ is made the sure foundation (NEH 205)        .
  • Anthem: Ye choirs of new Jerusalem – Charles V. Stanford
  • Hymn: Praise my soul, the King of Heaven (NEH 436)
  • Anthem: I was glad – Charles H. Parry
  • Anthem: Non nobis Domine
  • Hymn: When a knight won his spurs
  • Hymn: For all the saints (NEH 197)
  • Hymn: National Anthem

Saturday 9 August

  • Preces and Responses: Archer
  • Office Hymn: OH 1
  • Psalms: 15, 16
  • Canticles: Sumsion in G
  • Anthem: Hear my prayer – Adrian Batten
  • Hymn: NEH 338

Sunday 10 August
Sung Eucharist

  • Communion Setting: The Prince of Peace – W.S. Lloyd Webber
  • Motet: I give to you a new commandment – Peter Nardone
  • Hymns: AMNS 148, 220, 273, 372

Mattins   

  • Preces and responses    Sumsion
  • Venite  
  • Psalm: 88
  • Te Deum: Stanford in B flat
  • Jubilate: Stanford in B flat
  • Anthem: God is gone up with a merry noise – William Croft
  • Hymns: AMNS 194, 146 (omit * verses)
  • Final responses: Sumsion

Evensong

  • Preces and Responses: Sumsion
  • Office Hymn: OH 2
  • Psalm: 86
  • Canticles: Brewer in D
  • Anthem: Let Saints on earth – Anthony Caesar
  • Hymn: AMNS 170
  • Final Responses: Sumsion
  • Final sung prayer: Bless O Lord, us thy servants – John Harper