OCATVIUS

In readiness for the Via Crucis service at St Walburge’s Catholic Church Preston on Passion Sunday, 3rd April at 3:00 p.m. the following music is being prepared:

• Miserere mei Deus – Allegri
• Mary walked through a wood of thorn – Radcliffe
• Nolo Mortem Peccatoris – Morley
• Lord, for Thy Tender Mercies Sake – Richard Farrant
• Thou Knowest Lord – Purcell
• Ubi Caritas – Mealor
• The Reproaches – Sanders
• Drop, Drop, Slow Tears – Tune 46 – Gibbons (EH)
• Passion Chorale (Bach) (EH – 3 verses 1,4&5). The alternative harmony for the middle verse will be found by scrolling down to Chorale 72. Wenn ich einmal soll scheiden.

In readiness for the Summer Concert at St Cuthbert’s Church Darwen on Sunday, 9th July at 7:30 p.m. the following music is being prepared:

• My spirit sang all day – Finzi
• Lay a garland – Pearsall
• Fair Phyllis – Farmer
• As Torrents – Elgar
• The blue bird – Stanford
• 5 English Folk Songs – Vaughan Williams
  • No.1 The dark-eyed sailor – (link above)
  • No. 4 The Lover’s Ghost – (link above)
• Waltzing Matilda – arr Rathbone
• And so it goes – Joel arr. Chilcott
• Lloyd Weber in Concert – arr. Lojeski
• It don’t mean a thing – Ellington arr. Machuff
• Teddy Bears Picnic – trad arr. Carter
• Oh I do like to be beside the seaside – trad arr Carter
• The long day closes – Sullivan

In readiness for the Christmas Concert at St Catherine’s Catholic Church Leyland on Saturday, 17th December at 7:30 p.m. the following music is being considered:

• Joy to the World – Handel arr. Rutter (extended)
• Hymn to the Virgin – Britten
• Ding Dong Merilly – Wilberg
• A Spotless Rose – Howells
• Away in a manger – arr. Jacques
• In the Bleak – Holst arr. Wilberg
• Coventry Carol – Leighton
• Tomorrow shall be – Gardner
• Cowboy Carol – arr. Sargent
• We wish you a MC – Warrell