Compline 4th Dec Advent from Corpus Christi Church, Leeds

[DracoM]

Advent 1

Compline


A reflective service of night prayer for the first week of Advent from Corpus Christi Church, Leeds. With words and music for the end of the day, including works by Sheppard, Tallis, and Byrd, sung by the senior girls and choral scholars of Leeds Cathedral choir.

IIntroit: In pace (Sheppard)
Psalm 7 (Plainsong)
Hymn: Te lucis ante terminum (Tallis)
Reading: Mark 1 vv.1-4
Responsory: In manus tuas (Tallis)
Canticle: Nunc dimittis a5 (Byrd)
Marian Antiphon: Alma redemptoris (Plainsong)

Thomas Leech (conductor)

[Tom Leech]

Available on Sounds until the start of January https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001svtx
Forum members might be interested to know that the girls (and - although not singing on this - our boy choristers too) join the cathedral's pyramid of choirs from our whole-class primary school sessions across the diocese (reaching some 6500 children every week, with an additional keyboard programme as well). At the cathedral children progress from the KS1 Children's Choir into the Junior Boys / Junior Girls Choirs, then into the Senior Boys / Girls, with boys joining our Schools Scholars group as their voices change. On this recording, it's the senior girls singing soprano, with our university choral scholars and some of our Choral Directors singing ATB.
You can find out more at https://www.dioceseofleedsmusic.org.uk/

[jonfan]

Thanks Tom.The standards of music making within worship are amazing throughout the Leeds Diocese and achieved by encouraging age, gender, ethnic and social diversity. A very encouraging achievement that should warm the hearts of those depressed about the future of church music