Lent 4 - March 10 2013

• Organ: Voluntary in 3 parts – John Lugge 
• Opening Hymn “All for Jesus”
  

  All for Jesus--all for Jesus, this our song shall ever be;
  for we have no hope, nor Saviour, if we have not hope in thee.
  
  All for Jesus--thou wilt give us strength to serve thee, hour by hour,
  none can move us from thy presence, while we trust thy love and power.
  
  All for Jesus--at thine altar thou wilt give us sweet content;
  there, dear Lord, we shall receive thee in the solemn sacrament.
  
  All for Jesus--thou hast loved us; all for Jesus--thou hast died;
  all for Jesus--thou art with us; all for Jesus crucified.
  
  All for Jesus--all for Jesus-- this the Church's song must be;
  till, at last, her sons are gathered one in love and one in thee.

• Service Music: New Plainsong – David Hurd 
• Psalm 32 
• Offertory Hymn 485 “Love divine, all loves excelling” Communion 
• Hymn 519 “The Lord’s my shepherd” 
• Communion Motet – O crux ave – Rihards Dubra
  

  O Cross! all hail! sole hope, abide With us now in this Passiontide:
  New grace in pious hearts implant, And pardon to the guilty grant! 

• Concluding Hymn 352 “Amazing grace, how sweet the sound” 
• Organ: Trio de la troisieme mode – Peter Phillips

Music Notes

Scant information is available, but John Lugge (c.1602-c.1645) was Organist & Master of the Choristers at Exeter Cathedral during the period leading up to the English Civil War (1642-1651), and died 4 years before the execution of King Charles I. This voluntary (one of three composed by Lugge) was found in a manuscript in a library at Christ Church, Oxford and recently edited by Michael Cowgill (Director of Music at St. Michael’s Chuch, West Retford, Nottinghamshire). Few other compositions by Lugge survive, but they include nine plainsong settings and a handful of instrumental music.

Rihards Dubra was born in 1964 near Riga, Latvia and was brought up in the countryside by his grandmother. In 1997 he completed his musical education in with a Masters degree in composition. For several years he was an organist at Mater Dolorosa Catholic Church in Riga and is one of the founders and leaders of the group Schola Cantorum Riga. He also works as a music theory and composition teacher at Jurmala Music College. Dubra has composed several sacred works for choir as well as instrumental music. He says this about his sacred music: “I try to write music in the style of meditation …. The style of my music is always in affinity with Gregorian chant or the music of the Middle Ages through the view of a man who lives in the present century.”

Peter Phillips (c1560-1628) was an eminent and very prolific English-born composer, virtuoso organist and later a Roman Catholic priest. In 1582 he left England to settle in Belgium in order to preserve his Catholicism. Phillips was imprisoned for a short period, accused of complicity in a plot on Queen Elizabeth’s life but was acquitted and released. He travelled throughout Europe for several years, returning to settle in Antwerp where he married sometime after 1590. Following his wife’s death Phillips was ordained c1601 and after various appointments finally settled in Brussels where he died in 1628. The Trio heard at the end of today’s service was composed for ‘unspecified instruments’ but it works well on the organ.