THIS WEEK
Wednesday 24th December Christmas Eve
4pm Crib Service for Families
10.45pm Candlelit Midnight Mass (with carol singing from 10.30pm)
Thursday 25th December
Christmas Day
11am Festival Sung Eucharist
with carols
Preacher:
The Revd Stephen Coleman
Joseph Haydn - Little Organ Mass
T.L.de Victoria - O magnum
mysterium
J.S.Bach - Vom Himmel hoch da
komm ich Herr BWV 700
Sunday 28th December
The First Sunday of Christmas
11am Sung Eucharist
with cantor and organ
Preacher:
The Revd Stephen Coleman
Plainsong - Missa de Angelis
Thomas Mawdyke -
The Coventry Carol
Louis-Claude Daquin - Noel Suisse
Thursday 1st January
New Year’s Day
12 Noon – Eucharist
with carols to celebrate the New Year
Sunday 4th January
Feast of the Epiphany
11am Sung Eucharist
Preacher:
The Revd Stephen Coleman
Joseph Haydn - St Nicholas Mass
Felix Mendelssohn - When Jesus our Lord was born in Bethlehem
Peter Cornelius - The Three Kings
CHAPEL OPENING TIMES
The Chapel is normally open to visitors Monday - Friday 8am to 2.30pm. The Chapel is also open on
Saturdays for Occasional Offices and on Sundays for the 11am Sung Eucharist. Exceptons to weekday opening times are public holidays, private bookings, and staff annual leave.
ACCESSIBILITY
Step-free access to the Chapel is via a ramp through the main entrance. Please arrange in advance by contacting the Chapel office.
Audability: The Chapel's soundsystem is suitably fitted with
a loop system for pews directly
beneath the south gallery.
RECORDINGS OF THE GROSVENOR CHAPEL CHOIR AND ORGAN
CDs are available from the Grosvenor Chapel Office, and directly by post from Richard Hobson, Director of Music. Please email hbsrnh@aol.com for details.
Into Thy Hands - The Music of Grosvenor Chapel
The Choir of the Grosvenor Chapel
Organ: Joseph Sentance (Mozart and Jackson)
Directed by Richard Hobson
Missa Brevis in D major K194 - W.A.Mozart
Loquebantur variis linguis - Thomas Tallis
Ad te evavi oculos meos - Robert White
Christus resurgens ex mortuis - Peter Phillips
Salvator mundi - John Blow
Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei - Henry Purcell
As pants the hart for cooling streams - G.F.Handel
Come, thou Holy Paraclete - Francis Jackson*
Into thy hands - Jonathan Dove
*first recording, written for the dedication of the William Drake organ
in May 1991.
The Glory of Grosvenor
Eighteenth century English organ music played by Richard Hobson on the 1991 Willam Drake organ.
John Bennett - Voluntary in F
Thomas Gladwin* - Sonata no.6 in E minor
William Walond - Voluntary in D minor & major
William Walond - Voluntary in D minor
Thomas Attwood - Dirge for 9th January 1806
William Russell - Voluntary in G minor set 1 no.10
William Russell - Voluntary in C major set 1 no.1
John Keeble - Voluntary in G major
John Keble - Voluntary in F
* Thomas Gladwin was organist of Grosvenor Chapel in the 18th century
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