Pentecost XVI - 25 September 2022
We celebrate the Sixteenth Sunday of Pentecost with an online mass.
11.00 am Solemn Mass (livestreamed)
Today's prelude, Wohl dem, der in Gottes Furcht steht by British organist Simon Johnson, is part of the Orgelbüchlein Project, an international composition project that brings together contemporary composers from across Europe to complete Bach's Orgelbüchlein. Bach only completed 46 of the intended 164 chorale preludes for the year, leaving 118 chorale tunes as 'ghost' pieces.
In recognition of Michaelmas on September 29th, the Gallery Choir will sing Willan's Missa Brevis IX (St. Michael). They also perform Iustorum Animae, a setting of a text for All Saints' by British composer Matthew Martin (b. 1976). Martin, who is currently the Precentor and Director of College Music at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, is also active as an organist and educator, and has written music for the Tallis Scholars and the Choirs of Westminster Abbey.
The postlude is Paean by Antony le Fleming (b. 1941), a British composer best known for his choral music and who only recently retired as Music Director of St. Mary's Church, Hadlow in Kent.