Music Commissions
Music Commissions
| 1952 | "Daddy Long Legs" Miniature March for Piano | John Sykes (The John Sykes Project 2011) |
St Mary's Festival Anthems
"St. Mary's Festival Anthems", was inspired by a talk which Harry Bramma, Director of the Royal School of Church Music (RSCM), gave in Oxford in the Spring of 1994. He was addressing a small gathering of organists, choir trainers, clergy, and others interested in church music. In his talk, he encouraged all of us to consider commissioning new works for our choirs to perform. St. Mary's North Leigh, took up the challenge.
The Parish Church of St. Mary, is blessed with a small, but talented, balanced, dedicated and hard-working group of singers. The Mass is the central service at which the choirs sings a musical setting, an anthem, an unaccompanied motet and communion hymn.
The initial project of commissioning a piece, for each major festival of the Christian year, has been achieved, together with an introit, a setting of the Mass, a wedding anthem, and pieces for the Patronal Festival and a dedication.
I am very grateful to all those who accepted the commission for very little reward.
Howard Brayton
Choirmaster
St. Mary's - North Leigh
Oxfordshire - March 1998
| St. MARY'S MASS | Anthony Caesar * | |
| INTROIT | "Bless O Lord" | Michael Gillions |
| St. MARY | "Virgin-born, We Bow Before Thee" | Andrew Fletcher |
| ADVENT | "Saviour of the Gentiles Come" | Peter Irving |
| CHRISTMAS | "Christ's Coming" | Stephen Massie |
| EPIPHANY | "From Church to Church" | Malcolm McKelvey ** |
| PASSIONTIDE | "Saint Mary Goes A Seeking" | Simon Lole |
| EASTER | "Now Glad of Heart Be Everyone" | Martin Grundy |
| ASCENSION | "God is Gone up on High" | Martin How |
| WHITSUN | "Hail This Joyful Day's Return" | David Grundy |
| TRINITY | "Holy Father Great Creator" | Roderick Williams |
| HARVEST | "Sing to the Lord of Harvest" | Martin Grundy |
| REMEMBRANCE | "For the Fallen" | Peter Irving ** |
| PATRONAL | "Jerusalem, That Place Divine" | Peter Mills |
| WEDDING | "O God of Love, to Thee We Bow" | Simon Lole |
| DEDICATION | "Let My Due Feet Never Fall" | Peter Irving |
(Published by * Church Music Society ** Kevin Mayhew)
Other Commissions
| MAGNIFICAT & NUNC DIMITTIS | Peter Mills | |
| WEDDING | "O Perfect Love" | Andrew Fletcher |
| BAPTISM | "See Israel's Gentle Shepherd Stands" | David Blackwell |
| HYMN | "A Hymn of Intercession" | Daniel Bishop |