9.30-10am Choral Matins, a short, joyful service of music and readings, a great way to start your day at the Edinburgh Festival.
10.30-11.45am Eucharist, a choral mass setting and other music as part of a communion service with sermon.6-7pm Choral Evensong, the beautiful traditional Anglican evening office. During August this will include a sermon by a guest speaker as part of the Festival Pulpit series (right) and will be followed by a Q&A session.
The music
Sunday 7 August
Matins: A Gloucester Festival
Responses for double choir, John Bertalot (b.1931)
Te Deum and Jubilate, John Sanders (1933-2003)
Fear not, O Land, Herbert Brewer (1865-1928)
Toccata, John Sanders
Eucharist: Tudor Church Music
Mass for Four Voices, William Byrd (1539-1623)
Five Part Amen, Orlando Gibbons (1583-1625)
O Nata Lux, Thomas Tallis (1505-1585)
The eyes of all wait upon thee, Orlando Gibbons
Double Voluntary, John Hingeston (1606-1683)
Evensong
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D, Charles Wood (1866-1926)
For lo, I raise up, Charles V. Stanford (1852-1924)
Prelude on a theme from the Genevan Psalter, Charles Wood
Sunday 14 August
Matins: A "Power-packed personality"
Responses, Kenneth Leighton (1929-1988)
Te Deum and Jubilate in B Minor, T. Tertius Noble (1867-1953)
Nova! Nova! John Scott (1956-2015)
Finale in D, T. Tertius Noble
Eucharist for Ladies' Voices
Messe Basse, Gabriel Fauré (1845-1924)
Tantum Ergo, Jehan Alain (1911-1940
Ave Maria, Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
Dialogue sur les Mixtures, Jean Langlais (1907-1991)
Evensong: The world's first great broadcaster
Organ prelude: Jesu, Dulcis Memoria, Henry Walford Davies (1869-1941)
Responses, Herbert Sumsion (1899-1995)
Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in C, Henry Walford Davies
O sons and daughters, 15thC French, arr. Walford Davies
RAF March Past, Henry Walford Davies
Sunday 21 August
Matins: A "neo-Brucknerian"
Magdalene Responses, Bernard Rose (1916-1996)
Te Deum in C and Jubilate in A, Charles V Stanford (1852-1924)
Os Justi, Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)
Postlude in D minor, Anton Bruckner
Eucharist for men's voices
Missa Festiva in Honorem S. Antonii de Padua, P. Loots
Tantum ergo, Loots
Si iniquitates observaveris, Samuel Wesley
Finale in A minor, Loots
Evensong: The Apostle of Apostles
Responses, Plainsong
Magnificat Primi Toni, Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611)
Nunc Dimittis a 8, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)
Tu es Petrus, Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Tu es Petrus, Henri Mulet (1878-1967)
Sunday 28 August
Matins: Composers not of our time
Responses, William Byrd (1539-1623)
Festival Te Deum, Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
Jubilate (Collegium Regale), Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
O Clap your Hands, Orlando Gibbons (1583-1685)
Master Tallis's Testament, Herbert Howells
Eucharist with orchestra
Mass in G, Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Verleih uns frieden, Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)
Evensong: "I am not a religious man"
Responses, Herbert Howells (1892-1983)
Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis (Gloucester Service), Herbert Howells
Blessed city, heavenly Salem, Edward Bairstow (1874-1946)
Rhapsody no.3 in C# minor, Herbert Howells
