Choir of St John's Edinburgh

Join us this Sunday 22 June, when we will buzz with music for Midsummer:

Matins: Responses (Martin), Ireland in F, "Ave verum" (Mozart)
Eucharist: Communion (Kidd), "Sancte Deus" (Tallis), "Tantum ergo" (Duruflé)
Evensong: Responses (Martin), Watson in E, "Welcome, sweet and sacred feast" (Finzi)

Join us this Sunday for some stellar music - May the 4th be with you! Beautiful tulips by Veronica.

10.30am Eucharist: Communion (Jackson in G), "Dum transisset" (Taverner), "This joyful Eastertide" (Wood).
6pm Evensong: Responses (Ayleward), Canticles (Dyson in F), "In exitu Israel" (Wesley).

Good to spot a soprano dishing out soup! 👋 Morag

There is no choir in St John's Edinburgh this Sunday. However, you will find us not far away singing in two beautiful Borders churches:

🐑 Choral Evensong at Legerwood Kirk (pictured): 5pm Saturday 25 April

🐄 Sung Eucharist jointly with the Choir of St John's Jedburgh: 10am Sunday 26 April

HOLY WEEK AND EASTER WITH THE CHOIR OF ST JOHNS

Maundy Thursday:
7pm Eucharist: Byrd Mass for 4 Voices.

Good Friday:
7.30pm Meditation: Byrd, Lotti, Bairstow and Sanders.

Easter Day:
9.30am Matins: Rose, Ireland, Walton, Philips.

10.30am Eucharist: Haydn, Widor, Wesley, Handel.

Join us on Palm Sunday 🌴

Matins: Tomkins Responses, Canticles (Noble in B Minor), "God so loved the world" (Stainer)

Eucharist: Byrd 5 voices, "Hosanna to the Son" (Weelkes), Mark Passion (Lassus)

Evensong: Tomkins Responses, Canticles (Byrd Fauxbourdons), "Lord let me know mine end" (Greene).

Ah... Social media secretary @eleanormharris.bsky.social is just a humble ecclesiastical historian who likes singing a bit of Byrd, she doesn't know much about ballets and films. Could hardly spell Katchachurian...

We're warming up for the final singalong of @petroc.bsky.social's Radio 3 Breakfast show. We will miss him greatly as we get up for our day jobs thinking of music.

Our star Petroc moment was when he played Katchachurian's Theme for the Onedin line on @urbaneprofessor.bsky.social's suggestion 😊

Join us this Sunday 6 April for music for Lent 5:

10.30am Eucharist: Communion (Macmillan), "Ne irasceris, Domine" (Byrd), "In pace" (Blitheman).
6pm Evensong: Responses (Ebdon), Canticles (Howells Gloucester service), "Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes mei" (Purcell).

Join us on 30 March as we celebrate Mothering Sunday with fabulous music at 9.30am, 10.30am and 6pm.

Remember the clocks go forward: don't be late for matins! 🕘

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It's busy behind the scenes! Join us Sunday 23 March:

Matins: Byrd Responses, Benedicite (Jackson in G), Jubilate (Britten), Hide not thou thy face (Farrant)

Eucharist: Salvator mundi (Blow), Remember not, Lord (Purcell)

Evensong: Byrd Responses, Byrd short service, Civitatis sancti tui (Byrd)

Join us this Sunday 16 March for music for the second Sunday in Lent:

Matins: Radcliffe responses, Howells Coll Reg, Verily I say unto you (Tallis)

Eucharist: Geistliches lied (Brahms), Drop, drop slow tears (Gibbons)

Evensong: Radcliffe responses, Noble in B Minor, Christus factus es (Bruckner)

Join us this Sunday 9 March for music for Lent:

Matins: Responses (Ebdon), Te Deum (Tallis), Jubilate (Tomkins 5th), "When David heard" (Tomkins).

Eucharist: "Drop, drop slow tears" (Walton), "Nolo mortem" (Morley).

Evensong: Responses (Ebdon), Purcell in G min, "Hear my prayer" (Purcell).

Last night our Shrove Tuesday party went with a swing! But tonight we're back in St John's with a very different vibe.

Join us at 7.30pm for our Ash Wednesday service to mark the beginning of Lent, with music including Allegri "Miserere" and Lotti "Crucifixus".

Join us this Sunday 2 March - and between the music look at the wonderful display of snowdrops in our garden 🤍

10.30am Eucharist: Communion (Kidd), "O radiant dawn" (Macmillan), "Ave verum corpus" (Byrd).
6pm Evensong: Responses (Rose), Canticles (Dyson in D), "Evening hymn" (Balfour Gardener).

Join us this Sunday 23 February:

Matins: Responses (Martin), (Ireland in F), "We wait for thy loving kindness O God" (McKie).

Eucharist: de Jongh, "O sacrum convivium" (Messian), "If ye love me" (Tallis).

Evensong: Responses (Martin), Mathias Jesus College service, "Lift up your heads" (Mathias).

A feast of English anthems for Sunday 16 February:

Matins: Byrd Responses, Stanford in B flat, "O for a closer walk with God" (Stanford).

Eucharist: "Almighty and everlasting God" (Gibbons), "Ave verum corpus" (Elgar).

Evensong: Byrd Responses, Aston in F, "Save us O Lord" (Bairstow).

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Join us this Sunday for a feast of music old and new:

Matins: Tomkins, Noble in B Minor, "Ave maris stella" Grieg.
Eucharist: Kidd, "Let all mortal flesh keep silent" (Bairstow), "O nata lux" (Tallis).
Evensong: Tomkins, Howells Collegium Regale, "Like as the hart" (Howells).

Join us this Sunday 2 February at 6pm as we celebrate Candlemas. From now on the length of daylight really starts to accelerate🕯🌤🌥🌤🌞

Music:
"When to the temple Mary went" (Eccard), "Nunc dimittis" (Holst), "Senex puerum portabat" (Byrd), "A hymn to the virgin" (Britten), "Illuminare Jerusalem"

Be brightened up this Sunday 26 Jan:

Matins: Responses (Sumsion), Canticles (Darke in F), "Thou knowest Lord" (Purcell).

Eucharist: Communion (de Jongh), "Sicut Cervus" (Palestrina), "Ubi Caritas" (Durufle).

Evensong: Responses (Sumsion), Canticles (Sumsion in A), "Illuminare, Jerusalem" (Weir).

Eucharist will be choral though and there's some lovely music lined up, so I hope you're able to stay around.

No, apologies if that was advertised incorrectly elsewhere!

Happy new year! We're back at work but we're not yet out of festive mode. Join us today at 6pm for beautiful music from many centuries for Epiphany Carols. Journey with the three wise men, and give a proper welcome to our new musical director Giles Longstaff who started on Christmas Eve.

Christmas Eve carols 🎅Join us at 6.30pm today to hear the Christmas story and sing all your favourite carols. We'll back you with harmony and descants!

A fantastic Nine Lessons & Carols last night and a splendid farewell to our director David.

But Christmas is just beginning! Help us sing in our new director Giles Longstaff with loads more carols, descants, stories, and all the big organ stops:
Christmas eve 6.30pm & 10.45pm
Christmas day 10.30am

Aw that's a shame. But we also have another carol service coming up on Christmas Eve at 6.30pm which is where all the beltable bangers will be - hope you can come to that one!

We're on our best behaviour at carol services, but the rest of the year many of us read our novels in the prayers 🤫

FESTIVAL OF NINE LESSONS AND CAROLS

Sunday 22 December 6pm
St John's Princes Street
Carols old and new sung by the Choir of St John's.

Our church is cozy, our tree is up, our voices are warm, our candles are ready - we can't wait to see you for our most magical night of the year.

We have loads of Christmas music coming up, starting on 22 December. More soon, or preview the full schedule here: www.facebook.com/share/p/15fk...

Join us this Sunday for the reflective and peaceful music of Advent as we rest and wait in darkness for the return of the light. Music by Byrd, Jackson, Stanford, Battishill, Macmillan, Handl, Sumsion and Greene.