Service Music:

Voluntary    Pedal Fantasia on Adeste Fideles    Flor Peeters (1903-1986)
Yingying Xia, organ scholar (debut)
Voluntary  Suite II in G Minor    Louis-Nicolas Clérambault (1676-1749)
I. Plein Jeu
IV. Basse de Cromorne

Processional Hymn 102    Once in royal David’s city    Irby

Gloria S280     Robert Powell (b. 1932)

Sequence Hymn 249    To the Name of our salvation    Grafton

Offertory Music    Organ Sonata No. 2 in C minor, II. Adagio    Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Sanctus  S130    Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Fraction anthem S164    Jesus, lamb of God    Franz Schubert

Communion Anthem    In the bleak midwinter    Harold Darke (1888-1976)
Text: Christina Rossetti (1888-1976)
The text may be found at Hymn 112.
Soloist: Michael Mei, tenor

British composer and organist Harold Darke held the organist post at Emmanuel Church, West Hampstead from 1906 to 1911. He became organist at St Michael Cornhill in 1916, and stayed there until 1966. It is widely accepted that the Cornhill Lunchtime Organ Recitals series begun by Darke in 1916 is the longest-running lunchtime organ concert series in the world. His midday recitals each Monday, playing Bach in the legato style of Schweitzer, made him a City institution. The series has flourished under his successors up to the present organist, Jonathan Rennert. Darke also served as professor for organ at the Royal College of Music from 1919 to 1969.

Communion Hymn 82    Of the Father’s love begotten    Divinum mysterium

Hymn in Procession 450    All Hail the power of Jesus’ Name!    Coronation

Voluntary    Toccatina on Angels we Have Heard on High    Richard Elliot (b. 1957)

Ted Babbitt, organist / choirmaster
Yingying Xia, organ scholar