Pentecost 25 - Sunday 18 November 2012

• Organ Prelude: 1. Prélude à l’Introït - 3. Élévation - 4. Communion - Charles Tournemire (1870-1939) (played by Peter Dunphy) 
• Opening Hymn 434 “The love of Jesus calls us” Service Music: John Merbecke 
• Solo: TBA (Virginia Wright, mezzo-soprano) 
• Offertory Hymn 529 “God, my hope on you is founded” 
• Communion Hymn 49 “Draw nigh and take” 
• Final Hymn 491 “The head that once was crowned with thorns” 
• Organ Postlude: The Prince of Denmark’s March – Jeremiah Clarke

Music Notes

Born at Bordeaux, France, Charles Tournemire served as the organiste titulaire at the Basilique Ste-Clotilde, Paris from 1898 to 1939. Gregorian chant exerted a substantial influence on Tournemire’s compositional output, most notably L’Orgue Mystique, a collection of 51 five-movement Offices or suites. Each of these Offices contains five pieces to be used for the five moments at which, before Vatican II, the liturgical organist intervened in the mass: namely, Introit, Offertory, Elevation, Communion, and Recessional. The first four pieces are untitled and brief so they can be inserted during the mass without hindering its progress. L’Orgue Mystique, composed between 1927 and 1932, is arranged by liturgical seasons: Christmas, Easter and Pentecost including principal feast days.