The Compline Service from St. Mark's Cathedral

1st Sunday in Advent Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Richard Greene ORISON: "O come, o come, Emmanuel" (Veni, veni, Emmanuel, plainsong, Mode I, Processionale, 15th century, adapted by Thomas Helmore [1811 - 1890]) PSALM: 146: 4 - 9 (plainsong, Tone IV Ending 2) HYMN: "Prepare the way, O Zion" (Bereden väg för Herran, melody from Then Swenska Psalmboken, [1697]; harmonized in Koralbok för Svenska Kyrkan, [1939]; altered.) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Richard Proulx [1937 - 2010]) ANTHEM: "Sive vigilem" (William Mundy [ca. 1527/28 - 1591])

Last Sunday after Pentecost Christ the King Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Fred McIlroy IV ORISON: "Judge eternal, throned in splendor" (Komm, o komm, du Geist des Lebens, melody from Neu-vermehrtes und zu Übung Christl. Gottesligheit eingerichtetes Meiningisches Gesangbuch, [1693]) PSALM: 95 (plainsong Tone III A Ending 1) HYMN: "For the beauty of the earth" (tune: Lucerna Laudoniae, David Evans [1874 - 1948]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong setting, Tone V Ending 2) ANTHEM: "Great Lord of Lords" (Charles Wood [1866 - 1926])

Sunday after All Saints (November 1st) Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Thomas Adams ORISON: "Holy is the True Light" (Sir William H. Harris [1883 - 1973]) PSALM: 34 (plainsong, Tone V Ending 2) HYMN: "Who are these like stars appearing" (tune: Zeuch mich, zeuch mich, melody from Geistreiches Gesang-buch [1698], harmonized by William Henry Monk [1823 - 1889]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Thomas Tallis [ca. 1505 - 1585]) ANTHEM: "Laudem dicite Deo" (John Sheppard [ca. 1515 - 1559])

16th Sunday after Pentecost St. Francis of Assisi (October 4) Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Thomas Adams ORISON: "Most High, omnipotent, good Lord" (tune: Assisi, Alfred Morton Smith [1879 - 1971]) PSALM: 8 (plainsong, Tone V Ending 2) HYMN: "Lord, make us servants of your peace" (tune: Dickinson College, Lee Hastings Bristol, Jr. [1923 - 1979]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong setting, Tone III Ending 4) ANTHEMS: Two selections from Quatre petites prières de St François d’Assise by Francis Poulenc [1899 - 1963]: I) "Tout puissant, très saint"; II) "O Seigneur, je vous en prie"

This archive recording of the Office of Compline is presented in memory of the Rev. Ralph Carskadden, who died on September 13, 2011.  He served as the Officiant for the service on August 15, 2004, which celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of the Compline Choir, and was sung by the choir, augmented by a number of choir alumni.   11th Sunday after Pentecost St. Mary the Virgin (August 15th) Conductor: Peter Hallock Officiant: Fr. Ralph Carskadden Cantor: Ken Peterson ORISON: “Now the day is over” (M. Searle Wright [1918 - 2004]) PSALMS: 134 & 4 (Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) HYMN: “Amazing Grace” (tune: New Britain, from Virginia Harmony, 1831; arr. by Richard Proulx / Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Thomas Tallis [ca. 1505 - 1585], Mode VII) ANTHEMS: "In Praise of Music" (Richard Proulx, 2004 [1937 - 2010]); "Ave Maria" (Franz Biebl, 1964 [1906 - 2001])

15th Sunday after Pentecost St. Michael and All Angels (Sept. 29th) Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Richard Greene ORISON: "Christ the fair glory of the holy angels" (Christe sanctorum, Sarum plainsong, Mode I) PSALM: 103 (plainsong, Tone VIII Ending 5) HYMN: "Jesus came, adored by angels" (tune: Lowry, Gerald Near [b. 1942]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Lodovico Grossi da Viadana [ca. 1560 - 1627], Mode VI) ANTHEM: "Tibi Christe, splendor patris" (plainsong, Mode II; polyphonic verses by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina [ca. 1525 - 1594])

13th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Brian Fairbanks ORISON: "Holy is the true light" (William Harris [1883 - 1973]) PSALM: 139 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Lord, thou hast searched me" (Kentucky Harmony, 1816) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Peter Hallock, 1996) ANTHEM: "Poor Wayfaring Stranger" (American spiritual, arr. by Derek Tilton [b. 1987] - first performance)

12th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Thomas Adams ORISON: "If ye love me" (Thomas Tallis [1505 - 1585]) PSALM: 119:33-48 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Lamp of our feet" (Johann Cruger [1598 - 1662]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (plainsong, mode 5) ANTHEM: "I give you a new commandment" (John Sheppard [c.1515 - 1558])

11th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Richard Greene ORISON: "The shadows of the evening hours" (Joshua Haberman [b. 1982]) PSALM: 22:22-30 (Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) HYMN: "As longs the deer for cooling streams" (melody and bass by Hugh Wilson [1764 - 1824], adapted and harmonized by Robert Smith [1780 - 1829]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Thomas Tallis [ca. 1505 - 1585], mode 7) ANTHEM: "Sicut cervus desiderat ad fontes" (Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina [ca. 1525 - 1594])

10th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Gregg Carder ORISON: "God himself is with us" (tune: Tysk, from Psalm und Choralbuch, 1719) PSALM: 23 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Te lucis ante terminum" ("Before the ending of the day") (Compline Office hymn, plainsong, Mode VIII, harmonized verse by Thomas Tallis [ca. 1505 - 1585], Ferial setting) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by James Bassi) ANTHEM: "Salva nos, Domine, vigilantes" (Jakob (Handl) Gallus [1550 - 1591])

9th Sunday after Pentecost St. Mary the Virgin (August 15th) Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: Jeremy Matheis Cantor: Brian Fairbanks ORISON: "Salve Regina" (plainsong, Mode I) PSALM: 34 (plainsong, Tone V Ending 2) HYMN: "Sing we of the blessed mother" (tune: Rustington, Charles Hubert Hastings Parry [1848 - 1918]) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Lodovico Grossi da Viadana [ca. 1560 - 1627], Mode VII) ANTHEM: "Ave Maria" (Franz Biebl, 1964 [1906 - 2001])

7th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jeremy Matheis Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Nathan Jensen ORISON: "Slowly the rays of daylight fade" (M. Searle Wright [1918 - 2004]) PSALM: 121 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "O Christ, you are both light and day" (Christe, qui Lux es et dies, plainsong, Mode II, Mailander Hymnen, 15th century) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Lodovico Grossi da Viadana [ca. 1560 - 1627], Tone 6-B) ANTHEM: "In pace" (John Sheppard [ca. 1515 - 1558])

4th Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Brian Fairbanks ORISON: "Now the day is over" (M. Searle Wright [1918 - 2004]) PSALMs: 134 & 4 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Round me falls the night" (melody by A. Drese, [d. 1701], harmonizations by S. S. Wesley, Henry Ley, J. S. Bach) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Orlando Gibbons [1583 - 1625]) ANTHEM: "Exultate justi in Domino" (Lodovico Grossi da Viadana [ca. 1560 - 1627])

2nd Sunday after Pentecost Conductor: Jason Anderson Reader: William Turnipseed Cantor: Richard Greene ORISON: Phos hilaron ("O gracious Light") (Kevin Siegfried [b. 1969]) PSALMS: 134 & 4 (Peter Hallock [b. 1924]) HYMN: "Eternal Ruler of the ceaseless round" (melody and bass by Orlando Gibbons [1583 - 1625]; harmonized in Hymns for Church and School, 1964) NUNC DIMITTIS: (anonymous setting adapted by Bernarr Rainbow [1914 - 1998], Tone IV)) ANTHEM: "Dilectus meus descendit" (from the "Canticum canticorum" by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina [ca. 1525 - 1594])

Trinity Sunday Conductor: Jeremy Matheis Reader: Joel Matter Cantor: Kenneth Peterson ORISON: "O Trinity of blessed light" (Jeff Junkinsmith [b. 1956]) PSALM: 29 (Peter Hallock) HYMN: "Come, thou almighty King" (tune: Moscow, Felice de Giardini [1716 - 1796], harmonization from The New Hymnal, 1916) NUNC DIMITTIS: (setting by Charles Wood [1866 - 1926]) ANTHEM: "Great Lord of Lords" (Charles Wood)