St. Alban the Martyr

Monthly Music List


AUGUST 2025


Sunday 31st August 10:00 a.m – The Eleventh Sunday after Trinity
(Twenty-second in Ordinary Time)
Mass setting: White in E flat
Hymns:
238 New every morning is the love
302 O Thou, who at thy Eucharist did’st pray
277 Bread of the world, in mercy broken
333 All my hope on God is founded
No Anthem
Angelus
Voluntary : Fugue in B minor BWV544 – J. S. Bach


SEPTEMBER 2025


Sunday 7th September, 10:00 a.m. – Twelfth Sunday after Trinity
(Twenty-third in Ordinary Time)

Mass setting: Ireland in C
Hymns: 
232 Awake my soul, and with the sun
18 Ye servants of the Lord
Brother, sister, let me serve you (sheet)
76 Take up thy cross, the Saviour said
Anthem: Ex ore Innocentium – Ireland
Angelus
Voluntary: Grand Choeur (Alla Handel) Op.18 - Guilmant


Sunday 14th September 10:00 a.m. –  Holy Cross Day
(Dedication Festival – this year, in memoriam John Jenkin)
Mass setting: Little Organ Mass –  Haydn
Hymns:
94 We sing the praise of him who died
90 O sacred head, sore wounded
83 Glory be to Jesus
95 When I survey the wondrous cross
Anthem: O Saviour of the world – Goss
Angelus
Voluntary: Toccata and Fugue in D minor (Dorian), BWV 538 – J.S. Bach
Organist: Aled Liddington


Sunday 21st September 10:00 a.m. – St Matthew, Apostle and Evangelist
Fr Andrew’s Golden Jubilee of Ordination

Mass setting: Missa de Angelis
Hymns: 
263 All creatures of our God and King
19 Come thou Redeemer of the earth (Tune ii)
276 Bread of heaven, on thee we feed (Tune ii)
401 Light’s abode, celestial Salem
Anthem: How lovely is thy dwelling place (German Requiem) – Brahms
Angelus
Voluntary: from Archangels - 'St Michael' –  Frederick Stocken
(Frederick Stocken was Organ Scholar of St Catharine’s College, Cambridge, when Fr Andrew was Chaplain there) 


Sunday 28th September 10:00 a.m. – Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity,
(Twenty-sixth in Ordinary Time)

Mass setting: Little Organ Mass – Haydn
Sung Lord’s Prayer
Hymns: 
186 Tell out my soul
415 O for a thousand tongues to sing
387 Jesus, good above all other
333 All my hope on God is founded
Anthem: O for a closer walk with God – Stanford
Angelus
Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in G major BWV 541 – J.S. Bach
Organist: Keith Dale (former Organ Scholar at St Alban’s)


Sunday 28th September 6:00 p.m. – Eve of St Michael and All Angels
Solemn Choral Evensong and Benediction

Introit: God be in my head – Walford Davies
Responses: Rose
Psalm: 91
Canticles: Dyson in D
Hymns: 
440 Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
336 Angel Voices ever singing
Anthem: Save us, O Lord – Bairstow
Voluntary: Marche Héroïque – Brewer
Organis: Keith Dale (former Organ Scholar at St Alban’s)


Choir Rehearsals

Thursdays: 7:15 p.m.
Sundays: 9:00 a.m.
Solemn Choral Evensong and Benediction: 4:30 p.m.

Director of Music: Angela Sones

E-mail: angelasones@hotmail.co.uk

Music Secretary: Bryce Somerville

E-mail: Bryce@thesomervilles.biz