What's on - Choral

  • Sun 9th Nov

    10.30am - 11.45am

    Civic service for Remembrance Sunday

    Common Worship
    With Family Church for all ages.

    Anthem: For the Fallen | Guest
    Anthem: Greater Love | Ireland
    Anthem: Sunset | A. C. Green
    Voluntary: Elegy | Thalben-Ball

    Sun 9th Nov

    5.30pm - 6.30pm

    Requiem Mass For the Fallen and the Departed

    Common worship

    Setting: Requiem Mass | Maurice Durufle

    Thu 13th Nov

    7.00pm - 7.30pm

    Choral Evensong

    Book of Common Prayer
    Responses: Rose
    Psalm: 43
    Canticles: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in F | Dyson
    Anthem: Holy is the True Light | Harris
    Voluntary: Prelude in C | attrib. Bach

    Sun 16th Nov

    10.30am - 11.45am

    The Eucharist and Baptism

    Common Worship
    With Family Church for all ages.

    Setting: Messe Solennelle
    Voluntary: Carillon de Longpont | Vierne

    The annual service organised with SCARD for those who have lost loved-ones in vehicle accidents.

    Anthem: In Paradisum | Faure
    Anthem: Pie Jesu | John Rutter
    Anthem: A Gaelic Blessing | John Rutter
    Voluntary: Largo (from Symphony No. 9) | Dvořák arr. Rawsthorne

    Thu 20th Nov

    7.00pm - 7.30pm

    Choral Evensong

    Book of Common Prayer
    Responses: Felix Riley
    Psalm: 76
    Canticles: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D | Brewer
    Anthem: Purest and Highest | Stanford
    Voluntary: Trio in F | Smart

    Sun 23rd Nov

    10.30am - 11.45am

    The Eucharist

    Common Worship
    With Family Church for all ages.

    Setting: Gloria and Sanctus | Langlais (Messe Solennelle)
    Setting: Agnus Dei | Plainsong
    Anthem: Let all the World | Vaughan Williams
    Voluntary: Coronation March: Orb & Sceptre | Walton

    Sun 23rd Nov

    5.30pm - 6.30pm

    Choral Evensong

    Book of Common Prayer
    Responses: Felix Riley
    Psalm: 72
    Setting: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D | Dyson
    Anthem: Great is the Lord | Elgar
    Voluntary: Alla Marcia | Coleridge-Taylor

    Sun 30th Nov

    10.30am - 11.45am

    The Eucharist

    Common Worship
    With Family Church for all ages.

    Setting: Communion Service in G | Whitlock
    Anthem: Matin Responsory | Palestrina
    Voluntary: Wachet auf! | J. S. Bach

    Sun 30th Nov

    5.30pm - 6.30pm

    Advent Procession

    Common Worship

    Sung by the Choir of Leeds Minster
    All welcome
    Refreshments served afterwards

    Anthem: Matin Responsory | Palestrina
    Anthem: Drop down ye heavens | Lloyd
    Anthem: A Tender Shoot | Goldschmidt
    Anthem: Lux Aurumque | Whitacre
    Anthem: And he shall purify | Handel
    Anthem: Let all mortal flesh
    Voluntary: Fantasy on Helmsley | Leighton

  • Thu 4th Dec

    7.00pm - 8.30pm

    Yorkshire Evening Post Carol Service

    YEP Brass
    Choir of Leeds Minster
    Organiser: Yorkshire Evening Post
    Admission: Please sign up for your free tickets (retiring collection in aid of Martin House Children’s Hospice and Leeds Minster – minimum recommended donation £5)
    Doors open 6pm

    Anthem: How far is it to Bethlehem? | arr. Lindley
    Anthem: Silent Night | David Houlder
    Anthem: Jesus Child | John Rutter

    Sun 7th Dec

    10.30am - 11.45am

    The Eucharist

    Common Worship
    With Family Church for all ages.

    This service is sung by the Tenors and Basses of the Minster Choir

    Setting: Messe Cum Jubilo | Duruflé
    Anthem: Rorate Caeli | Plainsong

    Responses, Psalm 11, and Canticles will be sung to Plainsong
    Anthem: Ceremony of Carols | Benjamin Britten

    This service is sung by the upper voices of the Minster Choir, with members of St Peter’s Singers. The Britten anthem is accompanied on the harp by Bethan Cole.

    Thu 11th Dec

    7.00pm - 8.30pm

    Childline Carols by Candlelight

    Organised by: NSPCC Leeds
    Admission: From £11.55 Book here
    More Info: Doors open 6.30pm

    Sun 14th Dec

    10.30am - 11.45am

    The Eucharist

    Common Worship
    With Family Church for all ages.

    This service is sung by the Children’s Choir.

    Kyrie Eleison
    Anthem: The Angel Gabriel | Traditional
    Voluntary: Toccata on ‘Veni Emmanuel’ | Carter

    Sun 14th Dec

    5.30pm - 6.30pm

    Nine Lessons and Carols

    The traditional readings, anthems and carols following the pattern of King’s College, Cambridge, led by the clergy and choir of Leeds Minster, with well-known carols for all to sing.

    Veiled in Darkness | Glenn Rudolph
    Adam lay ybounden | Boris Ord
    Love came down at Christmas | Edgar Pettman.
    And the Glory of the Lord | Georg Frideric Handel
    Jesus Christ the Apple Tree | Elizabeth Poston
    A Spotless Rose | Herbert Howells
    A child is born in Bethlehem | Samuel Scheidt, ed. Willcocks
    My Lord has come | Will Todd
    We three Kings | Martin Neary
    Voluntary: Final from Symphonie I | Louis Vierne

    Sun 21st Dec

    10.30am - 11.45am

    The Eucharist

    Common Worship
    With Family Church for all ages.

    Setting: Mass of the Quiet Hour | Oldroyd
    Anthem: I sing of a maiden | Berkeley
    Voluntary: Fuga sopra il Magnificat BWV 733 | J. S. Bach

    Sun 21st Dec

    5.30pm - 6.30pm

    Carols and Readings

    At St John’s, Briggate.
    A traditional service led by the clergy and choir of Leeds Minster in  the oldest church in Leeds.
    Please wrap up for the cold in the building.

    Love came down at Christmas | Edgar Pettman.
    Jesus Christ the Apple Tree | Elizabeth Poston
    A Spotless Rose | Herbert Howells
    In the bleak midwinter | Harold Darke
    Sussex Carol | arr. Willcocks

    Wed 24th Dec

    11.00pm - 12.30am

    Midnight Mass

    The First Communion of Christmas with refreshments available from 10.30pm.

    Setting: Messe de Minuit | Charpentier
    Gradual Anthem: Silent Night | David Houlder
    Anthem at Communion: My Lord has come | Will Todd
    Voluntary: In dulci jubilo BWV 729 | J. S. Bach

    Thu 25th Dec

    10.30am - 11.30am

    The Eucharist for Christmas Day

    Common Worship
    We welcome the Bishop of Kirkstall as president and preacher

    Setting: Communion Service in E | Darke
    Anthem: I saw three ships | arr. Willcocks
    Anthem: Ding Dong
    Voluntary: Toccata | Widor