Music events at the Cathedral

Choral Services at the Cathedral, sung by the Cathedral Choir, Term 1, 2024
Sunday 25th February
10.30am Morning Prayer (Cathedral Choir)
Preacher: The Sub Dean
Anthems: O Love of God: Parry/MacCarthy
Let no sad thing oppress thee: Brahms
Crossing the bar: Parry
Hymns: God whose almighty word (Moscow)
He will hold me fast
I cannot tell (Londonderry Air)
Voluntary: Fugue in E minor, BWV 548 (The Wedge): JS Bach

Monday 26th February
5.15pm Choral Evensong (Cathedral Choristers)
Responses: Robert Boughen (RIP 24/02/24)
Psalm 43
Long in F
Anthem: O World, I would now leave you (from cantata 95): JS Bach
Preacher: Mr Ross Cobb
Organ Voluntary: Elegy in Bb: G. Thalben-Ball

Thursday 29th February
5.15pm Choral Evensong (Cathedral Choir)
Introit: Adon Alam: Sulzer
Ebdon responses
Psalm 121 (Rose)
Byrd Short service
Anthem: Jesu, grant me this I pray: Whitlock
Preacher: Mr Ross Cobb
Hymn: Glory be to Jesus
Organ Voluntary: ‘So wünsch ich dir’ (Sonata 3): P. Hindemith

Sunday 2nd March
8.30am: Choral Communion (Cathedral Chamber Choir)
Setting: Darke in F
Hymns: Join all the glorious names
O for a heart
O worship the King

10.30am Morning Prayer (Cathedral Choir)
Preacher: The Dean
Anthems: This is the Day: Rutter
And He shall Purify: Handel (Messiah)
The Lord hath been mindful: SS Wesley (From ‘Ascribe unto the Lord’)
Hymns: Praise, my Soul
Yet not I
Jesu, lover of my soul
Organ Voluntary: Prelude in E minor, BWV 548: JS Bach

Monday 3rd March
5.15pm Choral Evensong (Cathedral Choristers)
Responses: Robert Boughen (RIP 24/02/24)
Psalm 125
Thiman in F
Anthem: Ave Verum corpus: E Elgar
Preacher: Mr Ross Cobb

Thursday 6th March
1.10pm Organ Recital
’Organ at the Opera’- Glenn Amer (St Peter’s Cremorne)

5.15pm Choral Evensong (Cathedral Choir)
Ebdon responses
Psalm 127 (Rose)
Noble in B minor
Anthem: Evening Hymn: Balfour Gardner
Preacher: Mr Ross Cobb
Hymn: Before the ending of the day (Te lucis ante terminum)
Organ Voluntary: Sketch in F minor: R Schumann

Sunday 10th March
10.30am Morning Prayer (Cathedral Choir)
Preacher: The Dean
Anthems: If the Lord had not helped me: EC Bairstow
Almighty and everlasting God: O Gibbons
Wash me throughly: SS Wesley
Hymns: Amazing Grace
May the mind of Christ
O for a thousand tongues

Monday 11th March
5.15pm Choral Evensong (Cathedral Choristers)
Responses: plainsong
Psalm 131
Dyson in C minor
Anthem: The Lord’s my shepherd: Jacob
Preacher: Mr Ross Cobb

Thursday 14th March
5.15pm Choral Evensong (Cathedral Choir)
Ayleward responses
Psalm 16
Stanford in G
Anthem: His yoke is easy: Handel
Preacher: Rev Jonathan Adams
Hymn: O sacred Head (Passion chorale)

Sunday 17th March
10.30am Holy Communion (Cathedral Choir)
Preacher: Dr Adrian Cheung
Anthems: Surely he hath borne our griefs
He trusted in God
All we like sheep: Handel (Messiah)
Stay with me Lord: Todd
Deep Peace: Douglass
Hymns: Join all the glorious names (Darwell’s 148th)
Come, let us worship Christ
I heard the voice of Jesus say (Kingsfold)
Voluntary: Fantasia in G minor, BWV 542: JS Bach

Monday 18th March
5.15pm Choral Evensong (Cathedral Choristers)
Responses: plainsong
Psalm 84
Wadely in Eb
Anthem: A new commandment: Crabtree, arr. Deasey
Preacher: Mr Ross Cobb

Thursday 21st March
5.15pm Choral Evensong (Cathedral Choir)
Ayleward responses
Psalm 122
Jackson in G
Anthem: If the Lord had not helped me: Bairstow
Preacher: Rev Jonathan Adams
Hymn: Lord Jesus, think on me (Southall)

Palm Sunday, 24th March
10.30am Morning Prayer (Cathedral Choir)
Preacher: Rev Jonathan Adams
Anthems: Lift up your heads: Handel (Messiah)
O world, I would now leave you: JS Bach, arr. Cobb
Flimg wide the gates: Stainer (from The Crucixion)
Hymns: All glory, laud and honour (Valet will ich hir geben)
Jerusalem (CityAlight)
My song is love unknown (Love Unknown)
Voluntary: Fantasia on ‘Valet will ich hir geben’: JS Bach

Maundy Thursday, 28th March
7pm Holy Communion
Hymns: Love divine, all loves excelling (Blaenwern)
My God, now is your table spread (Rockingham)
My song is love unkown (Love Unknown)

Good Friday 29th March
10am: Morning Prayer (Cathedral Chamber Choir)
Anthems: excerpts from ‘The Crucifixion’: Stainer
View me, O Lord: Wood
When rising fronm the bed of death: Tallis
Hymns: When I survey (Rockingham)
In Christ alone
O sacred head, sore wounded (Passion chorale)

Good Friday, 29th March 2024, 7pm
MESSIAH- Handel
The Cathedral Choir, The Ancient Academy of St Andrew’s
Penelope Mills, Ashlyn Tymms, Andrew Goodwin, Christopher Richardson - soloists
Ross Cobb - Director
Tickets HERE

Easter Day, Sunday 31st March
10.30am Holy Communion (Cathedral Choir & Brass Ensemble)
Preacher: The Archbishop
Anthems: Trinity Te Deum: Esenvalds
Hallelujah: Handel
O Sons & Daughters: Baker
On easter mon: Nixon
Stay with me: Todd
Hymns: Christ the Lord is risen today
In Christ alone
Thine be the glory

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The Very Rev Sandy Grant, Dean of Sydney
Mr Ross Cobb, Organist & Director of Music
Sean Henderson, Assistant Organist
Samuel Giddy, Assistant Organist