The Parish Choir of All Saints, Fulham
The Parish Choir of All Saints Church, Fulham sings for the 10.30am Eucharist and 6pm Evensong Sunday services at the church, and is regarded as one of the best choirs of its tpe in the countr. At these services it performs a wide range of music, both popular cathedral-stle repertoire and more unusual music – from striking South American baroque works to South African choral dances and new commissions by contemporar composers.
In addition to these sung services, the choir also sings on other occasions – from the top of the church tower on Ascension Day, at the dawn Vigil on Easter Sunday, and for numerous carol services and concerts including at the London International Festival of Early Music. In recent years they have broadcast live on BBC1 (Christmas Day) and Radio 4. They also tour Britain and abroad, most recently visiting Southwell, St David’s, Ely, Bur St Edmunds, Lincoln, Wells, Chichester, Ireland, Canterbur, Winchester, Durham and France among many others. They have hosted workshops with Stile Antico, Andrew Nethsingha, (Westminster Abbey), Martin Near (Westminster Abbey, Winchester Cathedral), Stephen Jackson (BBC Symphony Chorus) and David Hill, (BBC Singers, St John’s College, Cambridge). Entr is by audition with the direcor of music; he is always keen to hear from interested singers in all voice parts.
Junior All Saints Singers (JASS)
Junior All Saints Singers (JASS) is All Saints’ children’s choir. The choir rehearses ever Monday evening during term time (excluding half term) and leads the worship once a month at the 9.30am Family Service and occasional special services.
There are no auditions – all that is required is an eagerness to sing and a commitment to attend the weekly rehearsal and monthly service. The direcor of music strives to develop the children’s vocal technique and instil a sense of responsibilit for the choir’s leadership of the Family Service liturgy, while working on a varied and appealing repertoire. If you are interested in joining, please contac the direcor of music.
Direcor of Music: Jonathan Wikeley
Direcor of JASS: Sam Poppleton
Assistant Organist: Thomas Dilley
Saturday 8 June, 2024, 7pm
Choral Classics at Clifton Cathedral
Antonio Lotti Crucifixus à 8
W. A. Mozart Ave verum corpus
Gregorio Allegri Miserere mei
Felix Mendelssohn Da nobis pacem
Gabriel Fauré Cantique de Jean Racine
Gabriel Fauré Requiem
The Choirs of All Saints, Fulham; St Luke’s, Chelsea; and the Schola Cantorum of St Matthew’s, Kensington join with the Clifton Festival Strings under the direction of Jeremy Summerly to perform a concert of choral favourites as part of the Clifton International Festival of Music.
Saturday 29 June, 2024
Choral Workshop with Bob Chilcott
Singing workshop – 12–5pm Concert – 6–7pm
Open to everybody, this singing workshop will be a fantastic opportunity to work with composer and conductor Bob Chilcott on some of his finest works. Tickets for the workshop will be available to buy beforehand.
The concert, directed by Bob Chilcott, will comprise the music learnt during the afternoon, plus other works by Chilcott sung by the Choir of All Saints, Fulham and is open both to those who have taken part in the workshop and those who just wish to listen. We very much look forward to seeing you at what will be a terrific afternoon of singing!
Sunday 7 April Quasimodogeniti Sunday
10.30am Congregational Eucharist
Voluntar: Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier BWV 731 J.S. Bach
Hymns: 124 St Fulbert, 104 Salzburg, 115 Noël Nouvelet, 120 Maccabeus
Mass setting: St Albans Mass Archer
Voluntar: Christ lag in Todesbanden BWV 625 J.S. Bach
6pm Congregational Evensong
Voluntar: Vesper Voluntaries ✙ 8 ‘Poco Allegro’ Op. 14 Elgar
Hymns: 362 Austria, 436 Praise, My Soul
Psalm: 143, 1–11
Voluntar: Etude ✙ 4 in A flat ‘Innig’ Op. 56 Schumann
Sunday 14 April Third Sunday of Easter
9:30am Family Service
Hymns: Thine be the glor, I danced in the morning
10.30am Choral Eucharist
Voluntar: Serenade Bourgeois
My spirit sang all day Finzi
Sung by the Parish Choir
Hymns: 486 Fulda, 352 Diademata, 353 Repton, 443 Gopsal
Mass setting: St Albans Mass Archer
Alle- (psallite cum) -luya Anon. Montpellier ms
Voluntar: Symphonie. ✙ 5 (v, Toccata) Widor
6pm Choral Evensong
Voluntar: Adagio BWV 564 J.S. Bach
Haec dies Wood
Hymns: 113 Savannah (Herrnhut), 124 St Fulbert
Responses: Rose
Psalm: 142 Stewart
Canticles: Wood in E flat ✙ 2
Blessed be the God and Father S.S. Wesley
Voluntar: Choral Song S.S. Wesley
Sung by the Parish Choir
Sunday 21 April Fourth Sunday of Easter
9:30am Family Eucharist
Hymns: I heard the voice of Jesus say, There’s a wideness in God’s mercy
10.30am Choral Eucharist
Voluntar: Choral Dorien Alain
Surrexit Dominus David Briggs
Sung by the Parish Choir
Hymns: 302 Song 1, 205 Westminster Abbey, 282 Pastor pastorum, 105 Chislehurst
Psalm: 23 Wikeley
Mass setting: St Albans Mass Archer
Christ the Lord is risen again Rutter
Voluntar: Prelude in E flat BWV 552i J.S. Bach
6pm Choral Evensong
Voluntar: Chant de Paix Langlais
Christ being raised from the dead Moore
Hymns: 351 Neander, 368 Cwm Rhondda
Responses: Rose
Psalm: 81, 8–16 Stewart
Canticles: Brewer in D
Easter Hymn Mascagni
Sung by the Parish Choir
Voluntar: Lobe den Herren, den mächtigen König der Ehren Reger
Sunday 28 April Fifth Sunday of Easter
9:30am Family Service
Hymns: And can it be, And did those feet in ancient time
10.30am Choral Eucharist Lower voices
Voluntar: Préambule Vierne
The Call Wikeley*
Hymns: 408 Blaenwern, 296 St Helen, 276 Bread of Heaven, 320 Highwood
Psalm: 22, 25–31 Plainsong
Mass setting: St Albans Mass Archer
Vinea mea eleca Poulenc, arr. Wikeley*
Voluntar: Praeludium in e ‘Kleine’ Bruhns
6pm Choral Evensong
Voluntar: Ad regias Agni dapes Dupré
Hymns: 381 Aurelia, 208 St Catherine’s Court
Responses: Plainsong
Psalm: 44, 16–end Plainsong
Canticles: Lang in C# minor
Ascribe unto the Lord S.S. Wesley arr. Elliott Park*
Voluntar: Toccata Gigout
Lower voices
* The Call was written for the Choir of All Saints, Fulham, and first performed by the choir in October 2023. The arrangements of Vinea mea eleca and Ascribe unto the Lord were commissioned for the Choir of All Saints, Fulham. They receive their world premieres here tonight.
Sunday 5 May Sixth Sunday of Easter
9:30am Family Service
Hymns: Seek ye first; I, the Lord of sea and sky
10.30am Choral Eucharist
Voluntar: Elegy Ireland
The Lamb Tavener
Sung by the Parish Choir
Hymns: 106 Ave Virgo virginum, 420 Wolvercote, 419 Tallis’s Ordinal, 368 Cwm Rhondda
Mass setting: St Albans Mass Archer
Sancus: Cantus Missae Rheinberger
Greater Love Ireland
Voluntar: Toccata in F BuxWV 157 Buxtehude
6pm Choral Evensong
Voluntar: Ground Gibbons
Almight and everlasting God Gibbons
Hymns: 382 Song 13, 355 Song 1
Responses: Ayleward
Psalm: 45 Tallis
Canticles: Second Service Gibbons
Grant, O Holy Trinit Gibbons
Voluntar: Fantazia of foure parts Gibbons
Sung by the Parish Choir
Thursday 9 May
7am Ascension Day Service from the church tower
Hymns: 130 Llanfair, 134 St Magnus
From the rising of the sun Ouseley
8pm Festival Choral Eucharist
Voluntar: Allegretto Op. 1 Stanford
Coelos ascendit hodie Stanford
ASCENSION DAY
Sung by the Parish Choir
Sung by the Parish Choir
Hymns: 130 (omit * vv) Llanfair, 271 Hyfrodol, 388 Truro, 134 St Magnus
Psalm: 93 Macfarren
Mass setting: Cantus Missae Rheinberger
God is gone up Finzi
Voluntar: Heut’ triumphieret Gottes Sohn BWV 630 J.S. Bach
Sunday 12 May Sunday after Ascension
9:30am Family Service
Hymns: Lord of all hopefulness, We are marching in the light of God
10.30am Choral Eucharist for Bell Sunday
Voluntar: The Italian Ground Gibbons
✗een of the May Chilcott
Sung by the Parish Choir
Hymns: 130 (omit * vv) Llanfair, 332 Miles Lane, 305 Anima Christi, 345 Vulpius (Gelobt sei Gott)
Mass setting: Missa in tempore Paschali (Bell Mass) Wikeley
Psalm: 1 Elgar
Rejoice in the Lord alway Purcell
Voluntar: Carillon de Westminster Vierne
6pm Choral Evensong
Sung by the Parish Choir as part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music
Voluntar: Diptch II: Chorale Dobrinka Tabakova
O nata lux Kerry Andrew
Hymns: 388 Truro, 466 Moscow
Responses: Phoebe McFarlane
Psalm: 147, 1–12 Stanford
Canticles: New Service Mary Offer*
A Hymne to Christ Imogen Holst
Voluntar: Fanfare Processional David Bednall
* This piece was commissioned for the Choir of All Saints, Fulham, from Mary Offer, soprano in All Saints Choir. It receives its world premiere here tonight.
Sunday 19 May
10.30am Festival Choral Eucharist, First Communion & Farewell to Rev. Penny Seabrook
Voluntar: Veni Creator en taille à 5 de Grigny If ye love me Tallis
PENTECOST
Sung by the Parish Choir
Hymns: 137 Down Ampney, 469 Corvedale, Be still, for the presence of the Lord, 109 Salva festa dies
Gloria: Responsorial
Sancus & Benedicus: St Anne’s Mass MacMillan
Agnus Dei: Spatzenmesse Mozart
Faire is the heaven Harris
Voluntar: Prelude and Fugue in G BWV 541 J.S. Bach
There is no Choral Evensong today
Sunday 26 May Trinity Sunday
9:30am Family Service
Hymns: Brother, sister, let me serve you; Shine, Jesus, shine
10.30am Choral Eucharist
Sung by the Parish Choir
Voluntar: Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott BuxWV 199 Buxtehude
As I went down to the river to pray Trad. arr. Wikeley*
Hymns: 146 Nicaea, 373 Coe Fen, 278 Gartan, 336 Angel Voices
Mass setting: Krönungsmesse Mozart
Voluntar: Fugue in E flat ‘St Anne’ BWV 552ii J.S. Bach
6pm Choral Evensong
Voluntar: O lux beata Trinitas Amy Summers
Hail, gladdening Light Wood
Sung by the Parish Choir
Hymns: 343 Redhead No. 46, 159, 278 St Patrick’s Breastplate/Gartan
Responses: Phoebe McFarlane
Psalm: 104, 1–10 Bevan
Canticles: Stanford in G
I saw the Lord Stainer
Voluntar: Dialogue sur les Grands Jeux de Grigny
* This piece was written for the Choir of All Saints, Fulham, and received its premiere by the choir in May 2018.
Sunday 2 June
9:30am Family Service
Hymns: Seek ye first; Let us build a house
First Sunday after Trinity
10.30am Choral Eucharist Upper voices
Voluntaries: Bist du bei mir J.S. Bach, Little Elegy R.R. Bennett
Tota pulchra es Duruflé
Hymns: 234 Ratisbon, 377 St Denio, 138 Veni Creator (Mechlin), 495 Benson
Mass setting: Woodard Service Shephard
Why do I use my paper, ink and pen? Byrd
Voluntar: from The Dansere: ‘La Mourisque’ & ‘Branle ✗atre’ Susato
6pm Choral Evensong Upper voices
Voluntar: Monologue Op. 162 no. 1 Rheinberger
Abendsegen Humperdinck
Hymns: 383 Aberystwyth, 335 Engelberg
Responses: Plainsong
Psalm: 35 Plainsong
Canticles: Ashfield in D minor
Ave Maria Holst
Voluntar: Rhosymedre Vaughan Williams
Sunday 9 June
Second Sunday after Trinity
The choir is on tour this week with the choirs of St Luke’s, Chelsea and St Matthew’s, Kensington, singing at the Clifton Festival.
9:30am Family Eucharist
Hymns: Make me a channel of your peace, Give me oil in my lamp
10.30am Congregational Eucharist
Voluntar: Adagio Bridge
Hymns: 372 Monks Gate, 480 Manchester, 322 Miles Lane, 237 Bunessan, 436 Praise, my soul
Mass setting: Woodard Service Shephard
Voluntar: Allegro con spirito Bridge
6pm Congregational Evensong
Voluntar: On Song 34 Op. 105 no. 2 Stanford
Hymns: 331 Eventide, 186 Woodlands, 44 Pastor pastorum, 244 Tallis’s Canon
Psalm: 37, 1–11
Voluntar: Postlude in d Op. 105 no. 6 Stanford
Friday 14 June
7:15pm. Music by the Bridge. Choral Masterpieces. The Choir of All Saints Fulham sings a concert of well-known choral classics and hidden masterpieces.
Sunday 16 June Third Sunday after Trinity
9:30am Family Service
Hymns: Lord Jesus Christ; Christ triumphant, ever reigning
10.30am Choral Eucharist Sung by the Choral Scholars
Voluntar: The Hour Glass Florence Price
I know my soul hath power to know all things Parry
Hymns: 339 Slane, 484 Aurelia, 457 Dominus regit me, 427 Laudate Dominum
Psalm: 92, 1–4, 12–15 Dienes-Williams
Mass setting: Woodard Service Shephard
Tantum ergo Duruflé
Voluntar: Concerto after Vivaldi (i, Allegro) Walther
6pm Choral Evensong Sung by the Choral Scholars
Voluntar: A Fantasy Tomkins
Cantate Domino Pitoni
Hymns: 480 Manchester, 333 Michael
Responses: Ayleward
Psalm: 39 Wikeley, after Parry
Canticles: First Service Tomkins
Alma redemptoris mater Heinichen
Voluntar: Toccata settima (Secondo libro) Frescobaldi
Sunday 23 June
9:30am Family Service
Fourth Sunday after Trinity
Hymns: Praise, my soul; Let us build a house
10.30am Choral Eucharist
Sung by the Parish Choir
Voluntar: Von Gott will ich nicht lassen BWV 658 J.S. Bach
Jubilate in C Britten
Hymns: 354 Melita, 265 Regent Square, 467 Wilshire, 413 Nun danket
Psalm: 107, 1–3, 23–32 Wikeley, after Sumsion
Mass setting: Woodard Service Shephard
Crossing the Bar Rani Arbo
Voluntar: Te Deum Marchand
6pm Choral Evensong
Voluntar: Idyll Coleridge-Taylor
Evening Prayer Huw Morgan
Hymns: 365 Winchester New, 439 Gerontius
Responses: Morland Ellis
Psalm: 49 Walmisley
Canticles: Sanci Johannis Cantabridgense Moore
All wisdom cometh from the Lord Moore
Voluntar: 1er Prélude profane Alain
Saturday 29 June
Choral workshop (12–5pm) with Bob Chilcott
Sung by the Parish Choir
Concert and performance of workshop music, dir. Bob Chilcott (6pm)
Open to everybody, this singing workshop will be a fantastic opportunity to work with composer and conductor Bob Chilcott on some of his finest works. Tickets for the workshop are available to buy beforehand.
The concert, directed by Bob Chilcott, will comprise the music learnt during the afternoon, plus other works by Chilcott sung by the Choir of All Saints, Fulham.
Sunday 30 June Dedication Sunday
10.30am Festival Choral Eucharist
Sung by the Parish Choir & JASS
Voluntar: Als Jesus Christus in der Nacht BWV 1108 J.S. Bach
I was glad Parry
Hymns: 205 Westminster Abbey, 485 Thornbury, 208 St Catherine’s Court, I, the Lord of sea and sky
Mass setting: Missa Omni Sancorum Fulhamensis Elliot Park*
Locus iste Bruckner
Voluntar: Fanfare Lemmens
6pm Choral Evensong
Voluntar: Adagio Bruhns
O most merciful Wood
Hymns: 70 Southwell, 5 Merton
Responses: Morland Ellis
Psalm: 53 Peter Kirk
Canticles: Purcell in G minor
O praise the Lord Boyce
Sung by the Parish Choir
Voluntar: Passacaglia in D BuxWV 161 Buxtehude
* This piece was written for the Choir of All Saints Fulham by Elliott Park, former choral and conducting scholar, and bass at All Saints. It received its premiere at All Saints in July 2023.
Sunday 7 July
9:30am Family Service
Hymns: Seek ye first, Colours of day
10.30am Choral Eucharist
Sixth Sunday after Trinity
Sung by the Parish Choir
Voluntar: Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele BWV 654 J.S. Bach
Tebe poyem Rachmaninoff
Hymns: 334 Old Hundredth, 486 Fulda, 357 Sussex, 394 Luckington
Psalm: 123 Clucas
Mass setting: Woodard Service Shephard
My heart is steadfast Lucy Walker
Voluntar: Choral varié sur ‘Veni Creator’ Duruflé
6pm Choral Evensong
Voluntar: Prelude Dyson
Les Anges Satie, arr. William Wallis*
Hymns: 341 Franconia, 252 St Clement
Responses: Clucas
Psalm: 64 G. J. Bennett
Canticles: Dyson in F
Ave Maria, virgo serena Josquin
Voluntar: Sarabande in modo elegaico Howells
Sung by the Parish Choir
* This piece was arranged for the Choir of All Saints, Fulham, by William Wallis, tenor in All Saints Choir. It was first performed in February 2023.
Friday 12 July
7:15pm. Music by the Bridge. ‘Serenade to Summer’. Come to the last of the Music by the Bridge Concerts this season for a lovely concert of music for voice and harp, with soprano Eloise Irving.
Sunday 14 July
9:30am Family Service
Seventh Sunday after Trinity
Hymns: Love Divine, Mine eyes have seen the glor
10.30am Choral Eucharist
Voluntar: Méditation Duruflé
Shall we gather by the river Trad. arr. Wikeley
Sung by the Parish Choir
Hymns: 271 Hyfrodol, 295 Picardy, 376 Kingsfold, 435 St Gertrude
Psalm: 85.8–13 Parratt
Mass setting: Collegium regale Howells
Hymne à la Vierge Villette
Voluntar: Prelude and Fugue in C BWV 545 J.S. Bach
6pm Choral Evensong
Voluntar: Psalm Prelude Set 1 no. 2 Howells
Crossing the Bar J. Wafter-Parry
Sung by the Parish Choir
Hymns: 392 Alberta, Summer suns are glowing Ruth
Responses: Clucas
Psalm: 66 Lloyd
Canticles: St Paul’s Service Howells
Seek him that maketh the seven stars Dove
When rooks fly homeward Baynon
Voluntar: Fugue sur le nom d’Alain Op. 7 Duruflé
From 17–23 July the choir will be touring to Truro Cathedral The choir is on holiday until Sunday 8 September 2024.
Frontispiece: Pentecost. Belgium, possibly Tournai, c. 1440. Morgan Library, MS M.357. Fol. 127r
