What's on - Choral

  • Sun 2nd Nov

    10.30am - 11.45am

    The Eucharist

    Common Worship
    With Family Church for all ages.

    Gloria: Thorne
    S/B/AD: Missa O Quam Gloriosum
    | Victoria
    Anthem: O Quam Gloriosum | Victoria
    Voluntary: Placare Christe servulis | Dupre

  • Sun 2nd Nov

    5.30pm - 6.30pm

    Music and Readings for All Souls’

    Special service for All Souls’ Day

    Anthem: Crossing the Bar | Parry
    Anthem: Song for Athene | Tavener
    Anthem: And I saw a new heaven | Bainton
    Voluntary: Adagio for Strings | Barber arr. Strickland

  • Thu 6th Nov

    7.00pm - 7.30pm

    Choral Evensong

    Book of Common Prayer
    Responses: Rose
    Psalm: 118
    Canticles: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in E minor | Statham
    Anthem: And I saw a new heaven | Bainton
    Voluntary: Prelude on ‘Crimond’ | Rowley

  • 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

  • Sun 16th Nov

    3.00pm - 4.30pm

    Oakleaf Memorial Service for victims of road death and injury

    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

  • Sun 7th Dec

    5.30pm - 6.30pm

    Choral Evensong – Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten

    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