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Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis
The mainstay of evensong in some magnificent settings. If you like Mag & Nuncs, we've some good recordings in our CDs section.
Peter Aston

Thomas Attwood

Richard Ayleward


Bairstow
  • D
  • E Flat - unison with alternative Kyrie by Francis Jackson

Joseph Barnby


Adrian Batten

John Blow

Brewer


Ernest Bullock

Geoffrey Burgon


William Byrd


Bob Chilcott

George Dyson

Gerald Finzi

Orlando Gibbons

Howard Goodall

John Goss

William Harris

Basil Harwood

David Hogan

Herbert Howells - If baffled by quantity of these stunning settings, try Collegium Regale (but be warned, it's challenging)

John Ireland

Grayston Ives

Bryan Kelly

Orlando de Lassus


Kenneth Leighton


James MacMillan

William Mathias


John Henry Maunder


Herbert Murrill

Daniel Purcell

Henry Purcell
  • G minor - a lovely, light bouncy setting

Martin Shaw

John Sheppard


Charles Villiers Stanford - the great Edwardian. Try the B flat for starters
  • A
  • B flat - one of the ultimate Mag & Nunc settings, yet not difficult - particularly moving Nunc
  • C
  • Latin (Op 164) - Stanford's powerful Latin setting of the Magnificat for double unaccompanied SATB
  • F - the Queens’ Service
  • G

Herbert Sumsion

John Stainer

Thomas Tallis

John Tavener

Thomas Tomkins

  • Tomas Luis Victoria

Thomas Attwood Walmisley

Thomas Weelkes

Samuel Sebastian Wesley


James Whitbourn
  • Collegium Regale - first performed at King’s College, Cambridge in 2005
  • Arthur Wills
  • B Flat for men's voices (ATB) unaccompanied

Michael Wise
  • E flat - (part of the Restoration Canticles series) according to the bumf, this is ‘much loved’. We’re not familiar with it, but obviously popular

Charles Wood


Preces & Responses
Miniature unaccompanied masterpieces that give the liturgical form to evensong and matins. Direct.



Te Deum, Jubilate, Venite, Benedicite & Benedictus
Canticles for the morning service.

William Boyce

Benjamin Britten

William Byrd

George Dyson

Richard Farrant

Edward German

Orlando Gibbons

John Goss

William Harris

Herbert Howells

John Ireland

Kenneth Leighton

James Macmillan

John Henry Maunder

F. A. Gore Ouseley

Henry Purcell


Martin Shaw


Charles Villiers Stanford

Herbert Sumsion

Ralph Vaughan Williams


Masses (Communion Service)
Settings of the communion service from Latin to Common Worship.

Frank Adlam

Edward Bairstow

Adrian Batten


William Byrd - Byrd's 4 part mass is arguably one of the greatest pieces of music of all time. Superb.

Bob Chilcott

Harold Darke


Jonathan Dove
  • Jonathan Harvey
  • Missa Brevis - SATB and organ - written for the Cathedral Organists' Association

Basil Harwood


Herbert Howells

John Ireland

Gabriel Jackson

Kenneth Leighton

William Lloyd Webber

James Macmillan

William Mathias

Peter Maxwell Davies

John Merbecke
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

F. A. Gore Ouseley


Giovanni Palestrina

John Rutter

Franz Schubert

Martin Shaw

John Sheppard


John Stainer

Charles Villiers Stanford


Igor Stravinsky
  • Mass for SATB choir and double wind quartet

Herbert Sumsion

Thomas Tallis

Christopher Tye

Tomas Luis Victoria


Arthur Wills
  • Communion Service (Missa Eliensis)
  • Missa brevis


  • Others
    William Byrd - The Easter propers


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