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Traditional Anglican service using the 1662 Book of Common Prayer

We will be singing the service of Holy Communion for St. Margaret's Anglican Church here in Budapest. The setting is the one in F minor composed in 1930 by Frederick Wadely, who, from 1910 to 1960, was organist at Carlisle Cathedral. The service follows the traditional pattern laid down in the Anglican rite according to the Book of Common Prayer (1662), with the addition - for Lent - of the Litany, in the arrangement by the 17th century composer Henry Loosemore, another long-serving organist, at King's College, Cambridge. There will also be choral music by Thomas Tallis, Herbert Howells, George Frideric Handel and Sir Henry Walford Davies, and keyboard music by Johann Sebastian Bach. The piano will be played by Alan Sutton, and the Gabrieli Choir will be conducted by its Musical Director Richard Sólyom. All are very welcome to attend.

“Temptation of Christ” by Vasily Surikov (1872)

Programme:

• Frederick Wadely (1882-1970): Communion Service in F minor
• Christóbal de Morales (c.1500-1553): Peccantem me Quotidie
• Henry Loosemore (d. 1670): Litany
• Herbert Howells (1892-1983): Our Father
• George Frideric Handel (1685-1759): Lord, I Trust Thee (from the Brockes Passion)
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750): Chorale Prelude in E minor BWV 745
• psalmody and hymnody

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