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
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.
Organised by: NSPCC Leeds
Admission: From £11.55 Book here
More Info: Doors open 6.30pm
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
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.
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
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
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
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
Common Worship
With Family Church for all ages.
This service is sung by a chamber ensemble drawn from the Minster Choir.
Gloria: Thorne (Trinity Mass, congregational)
S&B, AD: Messa da cappella a quattro voci | Monteverdi
Anthem: A New Year Carol | Britten
Voluntary: Bergamasca (Fiori Musicali) | Frescobaldi
Book of Common Prayer
This service is sung by a chamber ensemble drawn from the Minster Choir.
Responses: Tallis
Psalm: 46
Canticles: Dorian Service | Tallis
Anthem: Omnes de Saba | Handl
Voluntary: Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam (alio modo) | J. S. Bach
Common Worship
With Family Church for all ages.
Setting: Communion Service in C | Ireland
Anthem: Ubi Caritas | Duruflé
Voluntary: Tuba tune | C. S. Lang
Book of Common Prayer
Responses: Clucas
Psalm: 96
Canticles: Collegium Regale | Howells
Anthem: Beati quorum via | Stanford
Voluntary: Prelude on a theme of Palestrina | Milner
Book of Common Prayer
Responses: Clucas
Psalm: 116
Canticles: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in C | Stanford
Anthem: Expectans Expectavi | Wood
Voluntary: Adagio (Symphony in Cm) | Guilmant
Common Worship
With Family Church for all ages.
Setting: Communion Service in B flat and F | Stanford
Anthem: O for a closer walk with God | Stanford
Voluntary: Postlude on a theme of Orlando Gibbons | Stanford
Book of Common Prayer
Responses: Clucas
Psalm: 33 (1-12)
Canticles: Second Service | Byrd
Anthem: Sing Joyfully | Byrd
Voluntary: Andante (Trio Sonata III in D minor, 1st movement) BWV 527 | Bach
Book of Common Prayer
Responses: Sasha Johnson Manning
Psalm: 24
Canticles: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis | Coleridge
Anthem: Rejoice in God, o ye tongues | Coleridge
Voluntary: Scherzo | Ritchie
Common Worship
With Family Church for all ages.
This service is sung by the Minster Choir and the Minster Children’s Choir
Introit: O Trinity of Blessed Light | Plainsong (combined choirs)
Setting: Little Organ Mass | Haydn (Minster Choir)
Anthem: When to the Temple Mary Went | Eccard (Minster Choir)
Canticle: Nunc Dimittis in D | Wood (combined choirs)
Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in G | J. S. Bach
A special service held by candlelight
Anthem: Hail Gladdening Light | Stainer
Anthem: O Magnum Mysterium | Lauridsen
Anthem: O nata lux | Tallis
Anthem: When to the temple Mary went | Eccard
Canticle: Nunc Dimittis | Amy Beach
Voluntary: Fiat Lux | Dubois
