Laudate Dominum by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Notes
from ”Vesperae solenne de confessore” KV 339

Duration
TO FOLLOW

Forces required:
Soprano, Choir and Organ
OR Soprano and Organ

Text
TO FOLLOW

Let the bright seraphim by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Notes
From the opera Semele, this aria was memorably sung by Kiri Te Kanawa at the wedding of the Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer, at St Paul's Cathedral on 29 July 1981

Duration
TO FOLLOW

Forces required:
Organ, Trumpet and Soprano
Organ and Soprano, without the trumpet

Text
Let the bright Seraphim in burning row,
Their loud uplifted Angel trumpets blow.

Let the cherubic host, in tuneful choirs,
touch their immortal harps with golden wires.

Love changes everything by Andrew Lloyd Webber (b.1948) (C)

Notes
TO FOLLOW

Duration
TO FOLLOW

Forces required:
Organ or Piano and Soprano

Text
Love changes everything
Love,
Love changes everything:
Hands and faces,
Earth and sky,
Love,
Love changes everything:
How you live and
How you die

Love
Can make the summer fly,
Or a night
Seem like a lifetime.

Yes, Love,
Love changes everything:
Now I tremble
At your name.
Nothing in the
World will ever
Be the same.
Love,
Love changes everything:
Days are longer,
Words mean more.
Love,
Love changes everything:
Pain is deeper
Than before.

Love
Will turn your world around,
And that world
Will last for ever.

Yes, Love,
Love changes everything,
Brings you glory,
Brings you shame.
Nothing in the
World will ever
Be the same.
Off
Into the world we go,
Planning futures,
Shaping years.
Love,
Bursts in, and suddenly
All our wisdom
Disappears.

Love
Makes fools of everyone:
All the rules
We make are broken.

Yes, Love,
Love changes everyone.
Live or perish
In its flame.
Love will never,
Never let you
Be the same.

Levavi Oculos Meos - Herbert Howells (1892 - 1983)

Notes
The subtitle of this wonderful comtemplative setting of verses from Psalm 121 is “Aubade for a Wedding” - a gentle Siciliano, with a massive Howellsian climax. Composed for a wedding in 1959 at Hereford Cathedral.

Duration
Approx 5 minutes

Text
Levavi oculos meos in montes: unde veni et auxilium mihi.
Dominus custodit te al moni malo
I will lift up my eyes unto the hills; from whence cometh my help.
The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil.

[Verses from Psalm 121]

Forces required:
Organ and Soprano

The Lord bless you and keep you by John Rutter b. 1945

Notes
TO FOLLOW

Duration
TO FOLLOW

Text
TO FOLLOW

The Lord is my Shepherd (theme from The Vicar of Dibley) by Howard Goodall (b. 1958)

Notes
TO FOLLOW

Duration
TO FOLLOW

Forces required:
EITHER Organ and Soprano
OR Organ and Choir

Text
TO FOLLOW

The Lord’s My Shepherd by Malcolm Archer (b.1952)

Notes

Text

Duration

A setting of the traditional words by Malcolm Archer, until recently Organist and Master of the Choristers at St. Paul’s Cathedral, to the tune Brother James’ Air.

Forces required:
EITHER Organ and Soprano
OR Organ and Choir

Also suitable as a hymn (but with the traditional tune)

Words Psalm 23 from the Scottish Psalter (1650)
Music traditional, arranged Malcolm Archer

1. The Lord's my Shepherd, I'll not want;
He makes me down to lie
In pastures green; He leadeth me
The quiet waters by.

2. My soul He doth restore again,
And me to walk doth make
Within the paths of righteousness,
E'en for His own Name's sake.

3. Yea, though I walk through death's dark vale,
Yet will I fear no ill,
For Thou art with me, and Thy rod
And staff me comfort still.

4. A table Thou hast furnished me
In presence of my foes;
My head Thou dost with oil anoint,
And my cup overflows.

5. Goodness and mercy all my life
Shall surely follow me,
And in God's house forevermore
My dwellingplace shall be.

Love Divine, all love's excelling by Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Notes
Wesley’s words were written for the tune Fairest Isle, from Purcell’s semi-opera King Arthur, where the words are as follows:

“Fairest isle, all isles excelling,
Seat of pleasure and of love:
Venus here will quit her dwelling,
And forsake her Cyprian grove.
Cupid from his fav’rite nation
Care and envy will remove;
Jealousy, that poisons passion,
And despair that dies for love.”

Why should the devil have all the best tunes?

Text
TO FOLLOW

Duration
TO FOLLOW

Forces Required
Soprano and Organ (or Piano)

Text
Love divine, all loves excelling,
joy of heaven to earth come down,
fix in us thy humble dwelling,
all thy faithful mercies crown.
Jesu, thou art all compassion,
pure unbounded love thou art;
visit us with thy salvation,
enter every trembling heart.

Come almighty to deliver,
let us all thy life receive;
suddenly return and never,
never more thy temples leave.
Thee we would be always blessing,
serve thee as thy hosts above;
pray and praise thee without ceasing,
glory in thy perfect love.

Finish then thy new creation:
pure and sinless let us be;
let us see thy great salvation,
perfectly restor’d in thee;
chang’d from glory into glory,
till in heav’n we take our place,
till we cast our crowns before thee,
lost in wonder love and praise.
Words by Charles Wesley (1707 – 1788)

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