Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 23rd of December, 2012.

At S. George's Cathedral, Southwark (OF 1130), Flor Peeters' Missa in honorem Sancti Ioseph and Drayton's Ecce Ancilla.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 16th of December, 2012.

At Leeds Cathedral (OF 1100) Alain's Messe modale and Perosi's Laudate Dominum. At S. George's Cathedral, Southwark (OF 1130) Lloyd-Webber's Missa Princeps pacis. At Westminster Cathedral (OF 1030) Rubbra's Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 9th of December, 2012.

At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (OF 1100) Howell's Mass in the Dorian Mode and Messiaen's O sacrum convivium. At the London Oratory (OF 1100) Howell's Mass in the Dorian Mode.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 2nd of December, 2012.

At Farm Street (OF 1100) Vaughan William's Mass in G minor. At S. George's Cathedral, Southwark, (OF 1130) Pärt's Missa Syllabica.

MacMillan profile

The Catholic World Report provides a profile of James MacMillan in the latest edition which may be read here. H/T to the Catholic Herald.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 25th of November, 2012.

At Farm Street (OF 1100) Eric Thiman's O panis dulcissime. At S. Anne's Cathedral, Leeds (OF 1100) Vierne's Messe Solennelle. At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (OF 1100) MacMillan's Sedebit Dominus Rex and at Vespers (1500) Durufle's In paradisum. At the Oxford Oratory (OF 1100) Edward de Rivera's Acclamationes Oratorianae. At S. George's Cathedral, Southwrk (OF 1130), Langlais Messe Solennelle and Britten's Regis regum. At Westminster Cathedral (OF 1030) Langlais' Messe Solonnelle and Macmillan's Sedebit Dominus Rex and at Vespers (1530) Macmillan's Christus Vincit.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 18th of November, 2012.

At Leeds Cathedral (OF 1100) Henryk Gorecki's Totus tuus. At the Oxford Oratory (OF 1100) Eham's De Profundis clamavi and Biener's Venite ad me omnes. At S. Etheldreda's, Ely Place, (OF 1100) and S. George's Cathedral, Southwark, (OF 1130) Langlais' Missa Salve Regina. At Sacred Heart, Wimbledon, (OF 1115) Langlais' Missa in Simplicitate. At Westminster Cathedral (OF 1030) Jonathan Dove's Missa Brevis and at Vespers (1530) Pizzetti's De profundis.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 11th of November, 2012.

At Leeds Cathedral (OF 0930) Langlais' Missa in simplicitate, Cousins Ave Maria and Andriessen's Tantum ergo. At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (OF 1100), S. George's Cathedral, Southwark (OF 1130), S. James' Spanish Place (OF 1030) and Westminster Cathedral (OF 1030) Durufle's Requiem. At the Oxford Oratory (OF 1130) David Bevan's Requiem and Colin Mawby's Libera me Domine.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 4th of November, 2012.

At Brentwood Cathedral (OF 1130) Durufle's Messe cum Jubilo. At Farm Street (OF 1100) Langlais' Missa in simplicitate and Durufle's Ubi caritas. At Leeds Cathedral (OF 1100) Pärt's Berliner Messe. At Sacred Heart, Wimbledon (OF 1115) Peeters' Missa in honorem Reginae Pacis, Bonnet's Ave Maria and Durufle's Ubi caritas. At Westminster Cathedral (OF 1030) Vaughan Williams' Mass in G minor and Mawby's Ave verum corpus.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 28th of October, 2012.

At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (OF 1100) Lauridsen's Ubi caritas and Gorecki's Totus tuus.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 21st of October, 2012.

At S. Anne's Cathedral, Leeds (OF 0930) Andriessen's Tantum ergo. At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Vespers (1500) Durufle's Ubi caritas. At S. George's Cathedral, Southwark (OF1130) O'Neill's Missa Seria and Ives' O Sacrum Convivium. At the London Oratory (OF 1100) Howells' Salve Regina.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 14th of October, 2012.

At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (OF 1100) Mawby's Ave verum corpus. At Vespers (1500) Cousins' Ave Maria. At the Oxford Oratory Vespers (1700) Edward de Rivera's Magnificat Quinti Toni. At S. Etheldreda's, Ely Place, (OF 1100) Dupre's Laudate Dominum. At S. George's Cathedral, Southwark, (OF 1130) Flor Peeters' Missa In Honorem Sancti Iosephi and Laloux's Tantum ergo. At the London Oratory (OF 1100) Vaughan Williams Mass in G minor.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 7th of October, 2012.

At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (OF 1100) Durufle's Messe Cum Jubilo, and the motets Ego sum panis vivus and Ave verum corpus of Grayston Ives. At Vespers (1500) Speravi in te by Chris Hutchings (first performance). At S. Etheldreda's, Ely Place, (OF 1100) the first performance of Lloyd's Asperges me. At Westminster Cathedral Vespers (1530) the St Patrick's Magnificat of James MacMillan.

Saturday evening at 1930 the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Choir gives a concert containing many works from the recent Latin repertoire including; 

Cantate (Colin Mawby), Lux arumquae (Eric Whitacre), Ubi caritas (Morten Lauridsen), O sacrum convivium (Gabriel Jackson), Te lucis ante terminum (Humphrey Clucas), Ave Maria (Igor Stravinsky), Sedebit Rex & In splendoribus (James MacMillan).

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 30th of September, 2012.

At S. George's Cathedral, Southwark (OF 1130) O'Neill's Missa Seria and Rees' Jesu! Dulcis memoria. At S. James', Spanish Place, (OF 1030) Licinio Refice's Missa in Honorem Virginis Perdolentis.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 23rd of September, 2012.

At Farm Street (OF 1100) Ives' Missa Brevis. At S. George's Cathedral, Southwark, (OF 1130) Langlais' Missa Salve Regina and Durufle's Ubi Caritas.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 16th of September, 2012.

At Leeds Cathedral (OF 0930) Duggan's Missa brevis. At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (OF 1100) Mawby's Jubilate and at Vespers (1500) Durufle's Ubi caritas and Andriessen's Magnificat. At St George's Cathedral, Southwark (OF 1130) O'Neill's Dominus regit me. At Sacred Heart, Wimbledon (OF 1115) Lennox Berkeley's Missa brevis, Stravinsky's Ave Maria and Barry Turner's Ave verum corpus. At Westminster Cathedral Vespers (1530) Dupre's O salutaris hostia.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 9th of September, 2012.

At Leeds Cathedral (OF 1100) Langlais' Tantum Ergo and Duggan's Missa Brevis. At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (OF 1100) Ives' Missa Brevis and Andriessen's Tantum ergo. At St Etheldreda's, Ely Place (OF 1100) Lloyd's Ave Sancta Etheldreda.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 2nd of September, 2012.

Nothing noted. Most choirs commence duties next Sunday.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 26th of August, 2012.

Nothing noted in the contemporary Latin repertoire.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday 19th of August 2012.

Nothing noted in liturgical use.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday 12th of August, 2012.

Nothing 'liturgical' noted for this Sunday.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 5th of August, 2012

Nothing noted liturgically however the premiere of James MacMillan's Credo takes place at the Proms on the 7th of August (Broadcast BBC Radio 3). The performance will be shown on BBC4 TV on the 10th of August.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 29th of July, 2012.

At S. James' Spanish Place (OF 1030) Langlais' Messe Solennelle. At the London Oratory (Vespers & Benediction 1530) Simon Biazeck's Magnificat Tone 8.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 22nd of July, 2012.

At Leeds Cathedral (OF 1100- Visiting Choir- Liverpool Met.) Colin Mawby's Caro mea.  At the Oxford Oratory (OF 1100) Afferentur Regi virgines post eam by Anthony Pollen CO (d. 1940). At Sacred Heart Wimbledon (OF 1115) Fernand Laloux's (1901-1970) Mass of St Ignatius and the Ave Maria of Carl Rutti (b. 1949).

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 15th of July, 2012.

At Farm Street (OF 1100) the Missa in simplicitate of Jean Langlais. At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (OF 1100) Langlais' Messe Solennelle. At S. Etheldreda's Ely Place (OF 1100) Michael Bonfitto's Missa Martyrum.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 8th of July, 2012.

At Brentwood Cathedral (OF 1130) Vierne's Messe Solennelle and motet Tantum Ergo.  Morten Lauridsen's Ubi Caritas. At Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral (OF 1100) Langlais' Messe Solennelle. At Leeds' Cathedral (OF 1100) Langlais' Messe d'Escalquens and Swayne's Panis angelicus. At Liverpool Metroplitan Cathedral (OF 1100) Colin Mawby's Caro mea. At S. George's Cathedral, Southwark, (OF 1130) O'Neill's Missa Sancti Nicolai and Dupre's Laudate Dominum.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 1st of July, 2012.

At Leeds' Cathedral (OF 1100) the Missa Brevis of John Duggan and Lalouette's O mysterium ineffabile. At S. George's Cathedral, Southwark (OF 1130) Langlais' Missa Salve Regina. At Westminster Cathedral (OF 1030) Vaughan Williams' Mass in G minor and Dupre's Laudate Dominum.

Sunday, 24th of June, 2012.

At Leeds Cathedral (OF 1100) Andriessen's Tantum ergo. At the Oxford Oratory (OF 1100) Peeters' Missa Laudis Sancti Ioannis Baptistae.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 17th of June, 2012.

At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral ( OF 1100) Peeter's Missa Laudis and Andriessen's Tantum ergo. At S. Ethedreda's, Ely Place, (OF 1100) the first performance of Lloyd's Ave Sancta Etheldreda. At S. George's Cathedral, Southwark, Grayston Ives' Missa Brevis. At S. Mary's Cadogan Street (OF 1130) W. S. Lloyd Webber's Missa Princeps Pacis.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 10th of June, 2012.

At Brentwood Cathedral (OF 1130) the Messe Solennelle of Jean Langlais and Olivier Messiaen's O Sacrum Convivium. At Leeds Cathedral (OF 1100) Jehan Alain's Messe modale and Durufle's Ubi caritas et amor. At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (OF 1100) Langlais' Messe d'Escalquens.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 3rd of June, 2012.

At Brentwood Cathedral (OF 1130) Vaughan Williams' Mass in G Minor. At Farm Street (OF 1100) Lennox Berkeley's Missa Brevis. At Sacred Heart, Wimbledon (OF 1115) Grayston Ives' Missa Brevis.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 27th of May, 2012.

At Brentwood Cathedral (OF 1130) Fenton's motet Veni Sancte Spiritus, the Agnus Dei from Vierne's Messe Solennelle and Colin Mawby's Panis Angelicus. At Leeds Cathedral (OF 1100) Durufle's Messe cum jubilo. At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (OF 1100) Durufle's Veni Creator Spiritus. At the Oxford Oratory (OF 1100) the motet Factus est repente de caelo by Terence Gahagan (1900-1980). At St George's Cathedral, Southwark, (OF 1130) Vierne's Messe Solennelle. At St James' Spanish Place (OF 1030) Vaughan Williams' Mass in G minor.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 20th of May, 2012.

At Leeds Cathedral (OF 1100) the Messe Solennelle of Louis Vierne. At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (OF 1100) the Messe Solennelle of Jean Langlais. At S. George's Cathedral, Southwark (OF 1130) Norman Harper's Psallite Domino (premiere).

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 13th of May, 2012.

At Leeds Cathedral (OF 0930) Duggan's Missa brevis and (OF 1100) De Severac's Tantum ergo. At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (OF1100) Durufle's Ubi caritas and at Vesper's (1500) Malcolm's Magnificat Tone VIII. At the Oxford Oratory (OF 1100) the Missa super Lux et Origo of Hermann Schroeder (1904-1990). At S. George's Cathedral, Southwark (OF 1130) Rubbra's Missa in honorem Sancti Dominici and Messiaen's O sacrum convivium. At S. James, Spanish Place, (OF 1030) Lennox Berkeley's Missa Brevis.

The London Festival of Contemporary Church Music runs from the 12th to the 20th of May and the programme may be found here. 

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 6th of May, 2012.

At the Birmingham Oratory (EF 1030) Flor Peeter's Mass of S. Joseph. At Farm Street (OF 1100) Zoltan Kodaly's Missa Brevis and motet Verbum caro. At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (OF 1100) Colin Mawby's motet Caro mea.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday 29th of April, 2012.

At Brentwood Cathedral (OF 1130) Malcolm's Missa ad praesepe and Mawby's Ave Verum. At Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral (OF 1100) Langlais' Messe Solennelle. At Leeds Cathedral (OF 1100) Mawby's Ave Verum. At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (OF 1100) Flor Peeter's Missa Laudis and Colin Mawby's Alleluia Christus Resurrexit. At Vespers (1500) Simon Biazeck's Magnificat Tone VIII. At the Oxford Oratory (OF 1100) Martin Dumler's Missa Salutis and Agatha Pfeiffer's O Filii et Filiae. At S. George's Cathedral, Southwark (OF 1130) and Westminster Cathedral (OF 1030) Langlais' Messe Solennelle.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday 22nd of April, 2012.

At Brentwood Cathedral (OF 1130) Ubi Caritas of Durufle and James Devor's Ave verum corpus. At Farm Street (OF 1100) Ives' Missa Brevis and Malcolm's Jesu dulcis memoria. At Leeds Cathedral (OF 1100) Arvo Part's Beatitudes. At the Oxford Oratory (OF 1100) the Missa Haec Dies of Joseph Vranken (1881-1961) and Bernard Huijbers' Qui sunt hi sermones?

Weekend Roundup

Sunday 15th of April, 2012.

Nothing noted in the Contemporary Latin repertoire for this Sunday.

A temporary break in transmission..

I'm overseas at the moment and there have been problems with 'signing in' for the public weekly entries of 'Weekend Roundup'. These should get back to normal around the 14th of April. Apologies for any inconvenience caused.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 11th of March, 2012.

At Leeds Cathedral (OF 1100) movements from Durufle's Requiem. At St George's Cathedral, Southwark (OF 1130) O'Neill's Southwark Mass for Men's Voices, and Cousins Crux fidelis. At Westminster Cathedral (OF 1030) Berkeley's Mass for Five Voices.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 4th March, 2012.

At Brentwood Cathedral (OF 1130) Vaughan Williams' Mass in G minor. At the Oxford Oratory (OF 1100) Jeremy de Satge's Penitential Mass. At St George's Cathedral, Southwark (OF 1130)

Bárdos' Missa Quarta, and Poulenc's Timor et tremor.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 26th of February, 2012.

At the Birmingham Oratory (OF 1030) Igor Stravinsky's Ave Maria. At Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral (OF1100) the Missa Brevis of Elwyn Edwards. At Farm Street (OF 1100) Herbert Howells' Mass in the Dorian Mode. At Leeds Cathedral (OF 0930) Cousins' Ave Maria and (OF 1100) excerpts from Durufle's Mass Op. 9. At Westminster Cathedral (OF 1130) Scapulis suis of George Malcolm.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday 12th of February 2012

At Farm Street ()F 1100) Lloyd Weber's Missa Sanctae Mariae Magdalena. At Leeds Cathedral (OF 0930) Perosi's Laudate Dominum.


Sunday 19th of February 2012

At the Birmingham Oratory (OF 1030) Flor Peeter's Ego sum Panis Vivus. At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedrl (OF 1100) Grayston Ives' Ave verum corpus and Ego sum panis vivus. At 1500 Louis Vierne's Messe Solennelle. At the Oxford Oratory (OF 1030) Louis Bardos' Missa Prima. At St George's Cathedral, Southwark (OF 1130) Durufle's Messe Cum Jubilo and Mathias' O Salutaris.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 5th of February, 2012.

At St George's Cathedral, Southwark, (OF 1130) Jean Langlais' Missa Salve Regina. At Sacred Heart Wimbledon (OF 1115) Perosi's Missa Pontificalis. At Westminster Cathedral (OF 1030) Vaughan Williams' Mass in G minor.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 29th of January, 2012.

At Brentwood Cathedral (OF 1130) Jean Langlais' Messe Solennelle and Maurice Durufle's Ubi Caritas. At Farm Street (OF 1100) Francis Poulenc's Salve Regina. At Leeds Cathedral (OF 0930) Andriessen's Tantum ergo. At the Oxford Oratory (OF 1100) John Duggan's (b. 1963) motet Ave verum corpus. At Westminster Cathedral (OF 1030) Kodaly's Missa Brevis.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, 22nd January, 2012.

At the Birmingham Oratory (OF 1030) William Sewell's Mass of St Philip. At Farm Street (OF 1100) Filke's Missa in honorem S. Caroli Borromaei. At Leeds Cathedral (OF 1100) Durufle's Ubi caritas, Tantum ergo and Tota pulchra. At Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (OF 1100) Lennox Berkeley's Missa Brevis and Cousins' Dextera Domini. At S. Etheldreda's, Ely Place, (OF 1100) Flor Peeter's Mass in Honour of S. Joseph and Ave verum.

Weekend Roundup

Sunday, January 15th, 2012

At the Oxford Oratory (OF 1100) Messe Breve en Ut Georges Berruyer (1887-1966)
Cantate Domino Albert Alain (1880-1971) At St Etheldreda's, Ely Place (OF 1100) Veritas mea – Malcolm. At Westminster Cathedral (OF 1030) Jonathan Dove's Missa Brevis, Messiaen's O Sacrum Convivium and Ronald Corp's Laudate Dominum. At St George's Cathedral, Southwark (OF 1130) W.S. Lloyd Webber's Missa Princeps pacis and Barber's Agnus Dei.

Weekend Roundup

At Farm Street (OF 1100) and at the London Oratory (OF 1100) Poulenc's Videntes stella.