Repertoire for Upcoming Compline Services
Join us at 8 p.m. in the church for a 30-minute service with candlelight, light incense, and a liturgy chanted entirely by our Compline choir, Sanctuary. An Order for Compline is available here. In addition to these chanted psalms and prayers, Sanctuary will sing the following pieces in the coming weeks.
April 6 | The Fifth Sunday in Lent
Herbert Howells, Salvator mundi (Requiem)
Orlando di Lasso, Te lucis ante terminum
Raphaella Aleotti, Miserere mei, Deus
April 13 | The Sunday of the Passion: Palm Sunday
Eleanor Daley, Behold, we have seen him
Arvo Pärt, Nunc dimittis
Michael McGlynn, O Maria
April 20 | Easter Day
Eleanor Daley, My master from a garden rose
Alleluia, Liber usualis
Te lucis ante terminum (Eastertide), Liber usualis
Michael Simpson, In manus tuas Domine
Gary Davison, Most glorious Lord of life
April 27 | The Second Sunday of Easter
Ivo Antognini, O filii et filiae
In manus tuas Domine (Eastertide), Liber usualis
William Walton, Set me as a seal
Kerensa Briggs, Regina Caeli
May 4 | The Third Sunday of Easter
Raphaella Aleotti, Ego flos campi
John Sheppard, Pater noster
René Clausen, Prayer of Mother Teresa
May 11 | The Fourth Sunday of Easter; Good Shepherd Sunday
Bobby McFerrin, Psalm 23
David Bednall, Te lucis ante terminum
Annabel Rooney, The God of love my shepherd is
May 18 | The Fifth Sunday of Easter
Edward Bairstow, I sat down under his shadow
Herbert Howells, Nunc dimittis
Cecilia McDowall, I know that my redeemer liveth
May 25 | The Sixth Sunday of Easter (last Compline service until August 3)
Jane Marshall, Easter Prayer
John Sheppard, In manus tuas Domine
Philip Stopford, Do not be afraid
Compline takes a summer break in June and July. It resumes Sunday, August 3.
Sanctuary will sing at the Great Vigil of Easter on Saturday, April 19. The service begins at 7:30 p.m. outside, and moves indoors after the Lighting of the New Fire.