The Compline Service from St. Mark's Cathedral
Summary: A weekly podcast of the Compline service as sung every Sunday night by The Compline Choir in St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1954 by the group's former director, Peter R. Hallock, the service has become something of a phenomenon, with upwards of 500 people (most of them in their teens and early twenties) attending the service, and thousands in the local radio audience and on the Internet each week.
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Sunday of the Passion Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Fred McIlroy IV PROCESSIONAL: "Vexilla regis" ("The royal banners forward go"), from "Via crucis" (Franz Liszt [1811 - 1886]) PSALM: 22: 1 - 21 (plainsong, Mode IV Ending 1) HYMN: "Today He who hung the earth" (Byzantine chant, Tone VI) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Lodovico Grossi da Viadana [ca. 1560 - 1627], Tone VI) ANTHEM: "In manus tuas" (John Sheppard [ca. 1515 - 1559])
5th Sunday in Lent Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Richard Greene ORISON: "Lord, keep us steadfast in your word" (plainsong, Mode II, with harmonized verse by Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) PSALM: 51 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Now let us all with one accord" (Ex more docti mystico, plainsing, Mode II, Verona MS., 12th century) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Lodovico Grossi da Viadana [ca. 1560 - 1627]) ANTHEM: A setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah (Costanzo Festa [ca. 1486/90 - 1545])
4th Sunday in Lent Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Fred McIlroy IV ORISON: "Lord, keep us steadfast in your word" (plainsong, Mode II, with harmonized verse by Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) PSALM: 121 (Henry Walford Davies [1869 - 1941]) HYMN: "Lord Jesus, think on me" (tune: Southwell, from M. William Damon’s Psalter [1579]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong setting, Tone V Ending 1) ANTHEM: "I will lift up mine eyes" (Ernest Walker [1870 - 1949])
3rd Sunday in Lent Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Kenneth Peterson ORISON: "Lord, keep us steadfast in your word" (plainsong, Mode II, with harmonized verse by Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) PSALM: 19 (plainsong, Tone III Ending A 4) HYMN: A Hymn to God the Father ("Wilt Thou forgive that sin") (John Hilton [1599 - 1657]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong setting, Tone V Ending 1) ANTHEM: A setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah (Jacobus Archadelt [ca. 1504 - ca. 1567])
2nd Sunday in Lent Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Thomas Adams ORISON: "Lord, keep us steadfast in your word" (plainsong, Mode II, with harmonized verse by Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) PSALM: 22: 22 - 30 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Kind Maker of the world" (A la venue de Noël, melody from Fleurs des noëls, 1535) NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong setting, Tone III Ending 4) ANTHEM: A setting of the Lamentations of Jeremiah (Thomas Tallis [ca. 1505 - 1585])
1st Sunday in Lent Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Richard Greene ORISON: "Lord, keep us steadfast in your word" (plainsong, Mode II, with harmonized verse by Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) PSALM: 25: 1 - 8, 10 - 12, 14, 21 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Lord, who throughout these forty days" (tune: St. Flavian, melody from Day’s Psalter, [1562]; adapted and harmonized by Richard Redhead [1820 - 1901]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong setting, Tone III Ending 4) ANTHEM: "In jejunio et fletu" (Thomas Tallis [ca. 1505 - 1585])
Last Sunday after the Epiphany Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Kenneth Peterson ORISON: "Christ upon the mountain peak" (tune: IBIS, Thomas Kuras [1950 - 1999]; harmonized by Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) PSALMS: 93 (plainsong, Tone VIII Ending 3) & 150 (Charles Villiers Stanford [1852 - 1924]) HYMN: "O wondrous type! O vision fair" (Aeterne Rex altissime, plainsong, Mode I) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Lodovico Grossi da Viadana [ca. 1560 - 1627]; Tone VII) ANTHEM: "Resplenduit facies" (Tomás Luis de Victoria [1548 - 1611])
6th Sunday after the Epiphany Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Jeremy Matheis ORISON: "O Way, through whom our souls draw near" (M. Searle Wright [1918 - 2004]) PSALM: 42 (plainsong, Tone IV Ending 5) HYMN: "God himself is with us" (tune: Tysk, from Psalm und Chorbuch, [1719]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Jeff Junkinsmith [b. 1956]) ANTHEM: "Sicut cervus" (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina [ca. 1525 - 1594])
5th Sunday after the Epiphany Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Thomas Adams ORISON: "Eternal light, shine in my heart" (Ach bleib bei uns, melody by Samual Scheidt [1587 - 1654]; harmonized by Seth Calvisius [1556 - 1615]) PSALM: 27: 1 - 11 (plainsong, Tone VIII Ending 1) HYMN: "Te lucis ante terminum" ({Premier}, Compline Office hymn, Derek Tilton [b. 1987]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by C. Andreas; Tone III) ANTHEM: "O bone Jesu" (Orlando di Lasso [1532 - 1594])
4th Sunday after the Epiphany Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Nathan Jensen ORISON: "From all that dwell below the skies" (Old 100th, melody from Psaumes octante trois de David, [1551]; harmonized after Louis Bourgeois [ca. 1510 - ca. 1561]) PSALM: 111 (plainsong, Tone VIII Ending 5) HYMN: "Before the ending of the day" (Te lucis ante terminum, Compline office hymn, Sarum plainsong, Mode VIII, with a harmonized verse by Thomas Tallis [ca. 1050 - 1585]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Matteo Palotta [1680 - 1758]; Tone II Ending 1) ANTHEM: Peace (Peter Hallock [b. 1924])
3rd Sunday after the Epiphany Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Richard Greene ORISON: "Be present, O merciful God" (Roupen Shakarian) PSALM: 70 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Jesus calls us; o’er the tumult" (tune: Restoration, melody from The Southern Harmony, [1835]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Christopher Tye [ca. 1505 - ca. 1572]) ANTHEM: "Domine salva nos" (William Byrd [ca. 1539/40 - 1623])
1st Sunday after the Epiphany The Baptism of Our Lord Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Thomas Adams ORISON: "The people who in darkness walked have seen a glorious light" (tune: Dundee, melody The CL Psalmes of David, [1615], harmonized by Thomas Ravenscroft [ca. 1592 - ca. 1635] with later alterations) PSALM: 29 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "‘I come,’ the great Redeemer cries" (tune: This Endris Nyght, English melody; harmonized by Ralph Vaughan Williams [1872 - 1958]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Orlando Gibbons [1583 - 1625]) ANTHEM: The Baptism of Jesus (formerly The Baptism of Christ) (Peter Hallock [b. 1924])
Christmas Day Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Thomas Adams ORISON: "Away in a manger" (Traditional, arranged by Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) PSALM: 98 (plainsong, Tone VIII Ending 2) HYMN: "Of the Father’s love begotten" (Divinum mysterium, Sanctus trope, 11th century) NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong setting, Tone V Ending 1) ANTHEMS: I) "Beata progenies" (Leonel Power [ca. 1370/85 - 1445]); II) "O magnum mysterium" (Gerald Near [b. 1942])
4th Sunday in Advent Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Richard Greene ORISON: "Creator of the stars of night" (Conditor alma siderum, plainsong, Mode IV) CANTICLE: Magnificat (The Song of Mary) (Charles Wood [1866 - 1926], with O Antiphon verse for December 18) HYMN: "Lo, how a rose e’er blooming" (arranged by Tyler Morse [b. 1990]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Charles Wood) ANTHEM: "Pulcherrima rosa" (Anonymous, Codex Speciálník MS. [ca. 1500])
2nd Sunday in Advent Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Kenneth Peterson ORISON: "O heavenly Word, eternal Light" (Verbum supernum prodiens, plainsong, Mode II, Nevers MS., 13th century) PSALM: 85 (plainsong, Tone III Ending 5) HYMN: "Comfort, comfort ye my people" (melody by Claude Gudimel [1514 - 1572]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Roger Sherman) ANTHEM: "Rorate caeli desuper" (Peter Hallock [b. 1924])
