Music written for Lichfield Cathedral and Lichfield Cathedral Choir
This information has been compiled from a variety of sources and is presented here in an unedited and unverified state. If you can provide any further information about the music, please contact Richard Shakeshaft with the details so that they can be amended, updated or added.
Uncertainty about a particular detail is shown by a question mark in the relevant box of the list, but a bold question mark at the start of the entry shows uncertainty about the complete record.
Composer | Work | Date |
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Additional Notes and Source of Information | ||
John Alcock | The Verse Service | - |
written for Lichfield? | ||
Judith Bingham | O magnum mysterium | 1994? |
commissioned for The Lichfield Festival (details from AML) | ||
Michael East | When David Heard | - |
(details from JRW) | ||
Michael East | The Verse Service | - |
(details from JRW) | ||
Daniel Gawthrop | Watch thou, dear Lord | 1988 |
(details from MG) | ||
Paul Halley | Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis: Lichfield Cathedral Service | 2007 |
The dedication reads as follows: Commissioned by Richard and Rosemary Prentis to celebrate the occasion of their Ruby Wedding, and first performed at the opening of the Lichfield Festival by the Choristers of Lichfield Cathedral, under the direction of Philip Scriven on Thursday July 5th, 2007. |
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William H Harris | Almighty and most merciful father | - |
written for Dick Greening who had been WH's assistant at Windsor; published during JRW's tenure and the manuscript and some letters are in the Cathedral library (details from RJS/JRW) | ||
Malcolm Hawkins | Sancta Sophia | 1991 |
commissioned by The Lichfield Festival | ||
Jackson Hill | The St Chad Service | 2003 |
no further details | ||
Gabriel Jackson | Ecce venio cito | 2005 |
written for the silver wedding anniversary of Elaine and Mark Farrant | ||
Anthony Joule | Seek him that maketh | 2009 |
(details from MG) | ||
Grayston Ives | The Lichfield Service | 2015 |
commissioned as part of the celebrations of 700 years of the choral foundation and broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 20 May, 2015 | ||
Ben Lamb | Fauxbourdons on the Great Advent Antiphons | 2008 |
no further details | ||
Richard Lloyd | The Lichfield Te Deum | 1990/1991? |
written for The Lichfield Festival as part of the Lang Silver Commission? (details from JRW/MG) | ||
Richard Lloyd | The Lichfield Service (Evening canticles) | 2013 |
first performed at Evensong on 11 June, 2013. | ||
Richard Lloyd | Jubilate | |
(details from MG) | ||
Richard Lloyd | To Christ the Prince of Peace | - |
"is in my collection with a note on it from RHL saying 'for Robert whose "fault" this is'." (details from RJS) | ||
Richard Lloyd | Sing praise to God | 1994 |
written for the 90th birthday of Andrew Walters' father (details from AFW) | ||
Richard Lloyd | Mass of SS Mary and Chad | 2000 |
(details from MG) | ||
Richard Lloyd | The Lichfield Antiphons | 2008 |
(details from MG) | ||
Richard Lloyd | O Lord, make us this day | 2009 |
a setting of a prayer by Dr Samuel Johnson, written on the 300th anniversary of his death (18 September 2009) and first performed at Eucharist on Sunday 19 September 2010 (details from RLl) | ||
Andrew Lumsden | St Luke Passion | - |
(details from RJS) | ||
Andrew Lumsden | Evening Service on Plainsong Tones | - |
(details from RJS) | ||
Andrew Lumsden (arr) | Now the green blade riseth / Noel nouvelet | - |
(details from RMJS) | ||
Andrew Lumsden (arr) | Silent Night | - |
(details from MG) | ||
Jonathan Lycett | Fauxbourdon (Men's Voices) | 2002 |
(details from MG) | ||
Alex Mason | Evening Canticles | 2005 |
(details from MG) | ||
Alex Mason | Viri Galilæi (Men's Voices) | 2004 |
(details from RMJS) | ||
Nicholas Maw | Three Hymns | 1989 |
commissioned by The Lichfield Festival and first performed on 9 July 1989 while Maw was the Festival's composer in residence (details from JRW) | ||
Frederick Arthur Gore Ouseley | It came even to pass | 1861 |
written for the reopening of the quire of Lichfield Cathedral on 22 October, 1861 | ||
Ambrose P Porter | Almighty and most merciful father | - |
written for use at Johnson Commemoration (details from JRW/MG) | ||
Ambrose P Porter | The Virgin's Cradle Song | - |
setting for three part trebles (details confirmed by RLl) | ||
Bernard Rose | Almighty God who are the giver of all wisdom | 1982 |
a setting of one of Johnson's prayers to celebrate the bicentenary of his death; Rose attended the first performance and the anthem was subsequently broadcast on a recorded Choral Evensong on Radio 3 on Friday 5 October 1984 (details from JRW/MG; unpublished draft and final version held in the Magdalen College, Oxford archives: MC:F61/MS1/131–132 26 Mar 1984) | ||
John Sanders | Quem dilecta | 1992 |
(details from RJS/MG) | ||
John Sanders | The Lichfield Service | 2002 |
written for Percy Young | ||
? Robert Saxton | ||
as The Lichfield Festival composer in residence | ||
Robert Sharpe | Venite Comedite | |
(details from RJS) | ||
Robert Sharpe | Fauxboudon (Men's Voices) | |
(details from RJS) | ||
Robert Sharpe | Responses (Men's Voices) | |
(details from RJS) | ||
Paul Spicer | Responses (Men's Voices) | |
(details from PSp/MG) | ||
Paul Spicer | Magnificat and Nunc dimittis (Men's Voices) | |
(details from MG/PSp) | ||
Paul Spicer | Michael, the great prince | 2004 |
written for Michael Yorke's final service as Dean of Lichfield Cathedral (details from PSp) | ||
Stanley Vann | The Lichfield Service (Evening Canticles) (Men's Voices) | 1999 |
(details from RJS/MG) | ||
Percy Young | O how amiable are thy dwellings | - |
(details from JRW) | ||
Percy Young | Te Deum | |
(details from JRW) | ||
? Percy Young | Magnificat and Nunc dimittis | - |
(details from JRW) |