St Bride's doors are closed due to the coronavirus outbreak. This service has been collated from archive live recordings together with specially recorded spoken content for Easter Sunday.

This service is sung by our professional Choir of St Bride's.

Setting: Communion Service in F – Darke

Anthem: This joyful Eastertide – Wood

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We mark Good Friday in music, words and prayer at St Bride's in our Three Hours' Devotion. The central hour of our observance is a reflection on the Passion narrative in St Matthew's Gospel, explored through words, hymns, and music. It focuses on three key figures: Judas, Pilate and Jesus himself.

We mark Good Friday in music, words and prayer at St Bride's in our Three Hours' Devotion which begins with a performance of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater. This performance was recorded live and is made available because this year our doors are closed due to the coronavirus.

Soloists: Claire Seaton - soprano; Charlie Morris - alto

Organist: Robert Jones

This is the best-known setting of the 13th century poem based upon the prophecy of Simeon that a sword shall pierce the heart of Christ's mother Mary (Luke 2: 35) and compassionately describes the sorrowing Mary as she keeps station at the foot of the cross.

The poet, debatably Jacapone da Todi, a thirteenth century Franciscan monk, prays to Mary to let him share her grief and to let him suffer with Jesus and for her intercession. In the last stanza the poet prays directly to God for a place in paradise.

Pergolesi’s setting was written in about 1735 and was first printed in London in 1749. It became the most frequently published single work of the 18th century.

Pergolesi (1710-1736) composed it at the end of his life which was spent at a Franciscan monastery in Pozzuoli and it was written as a replacement for the Allesandro Scarlatti setting in use at the church of Maria dei Sette Dolori in Naples.

St Bride's doors are closed due to the coronavirus outbreak. This service has been collated from archive live recordings together with specially recorded spoken content for Maundy Thursday.

This service is sung by our professional Choir of St Bride's.

Setting: Mass for Five Voices – Byrd

Anthem: Ubi caritas – Gjeilo

Translation:

Where charity and love are, God is there.

Christ’s love has gathered us into one.

Let us rejoice and be pleased in Him.

Let us fear, and let us love the living God.

And may we love each other with a sincere heart.

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St Bride's doors are closed due to the coronavirus outbreak. This service has been collated from archive live recordings together with specially recorded spoken content for the appointed Sunday.

This service is sung by our professional Choir of St Bride's.

Responses: Smith

Psalm: 24

Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Fourth Evening Service – Batten

Anthem: Pueri hebraeorum – Victoria

Translation:

The Hebrew children

spread their garments in the way,

and cried out, saying:

Hosanna to the Son of David:

blessed is He that cometh

in the Name of the Lord.

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This service is sung by our professional Choir of St Bride's.

Setting: Missa Brevis in B Flat - Mozart

Psalm: 118: 19-24

Anthem: Hosanna to the Son of David - Weelkes

Anthem Text:

Hosanna to the Son of David.

Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

Blessed be the King of Israel.

Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest places.

Hosanna in the highest heavens.

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St Bride's doors are currently closed due to the coronavirus outbreak. This service has been collated from our extensive archive of live recordings together with specially recorded prayers, sermon, and readings & collects for the appointed Sunday.

This service is sung by our professional Choir of St Bride's.

Setting: Communion Service in A minor - Darke

Canticle: The Lamentation - Bairstow

Anthem: O vos omnes - Casals

Translation: All ye that pass by, behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow.

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St Bride's doors are currently closed due to the coronavirus outbreak. This service has been collated from our extensive archive of live recordings together with specially recorded prayers, sermon, and readings & collects for the appointed Sunday.

This service is sung by our professional Choir of St Bride's.

Responses: Byrd

Psalm: 30

Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis: Fifth Evening Service – Tomkins

Anthem: Were you there? – Chilcott

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During the Coronavirus outbreak all public worship at St Bride's has been cancelled. This recording is a recreation of the publicised service from music in our archive of live recordings together with newly recorded spoken material. We hope it provides support and continuity of worship despite our physical separation. Please forgive any infelicities.

This service is sung by our professional Choir of St Bride's.

Responses: Radcliffe

Psalm: 31: 1-8

Setting: Evening Service in D - Moeran

Sermon in Music: i) Ave Maria - Bruckner; ii) Ave Maria - Mendelssohn

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During the Coronavirus outbreak all public worship at St Bride's has been cancelled. This recording is a recreation of the publicised service from music in our archive of live recordings together with newly recorded spoken material. We hope it provides support and continuity of worship despite our physical separation. Please forgive any infelicities.

Setting: Communion Mass, Op. 130 - Jongen

Psalm: 127: 1-4

Anthems: i) Oculi omnium - Wood; ii) Agnus Dei - Jongen

Preacher: Canon Alison Joyce, Rector of St Bride's

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