Festal Eucharist

Included in this Festal Eucharist are hymns sung by the congregation and choir, additional music sung exclusively by the choir, lessons, prayers, a sermon, and a Rite I Mass. All baptized Christians are welcome to receive Holy Communion. Details of the service may be seen in the leaflet, which is posted at the bottom of this page, where you will also find links to the webcast during and after the service. 

Music notes: As a composer, Latvian-born Uƒüis Prauli≈Ü≈ù draws from his formal conservatory training as well as past experiences of playing with rock bands and working as a sound engineer at Latvian Radio. Prauli≈Ü≈ù composed the Missa Rigensis in 2003. It was premiered that same year by the Riga Dom Boys’ Choir, a choir in which the composer himself sang as a boy. Prauli≈Ü≈ù intention was to compose a work in the spirit of the great Renaissance Masses, ‘without overwhelming force or volume’ resulting in a piece equally suited to concert or liturgical performance. The Gloria begins with dancing, antiphonal exchanges owing as much to rock music in its syncopated canonic build-up as it does to any older polyphonic tradition. The central ‘Domine Deus’ has an antique, mystical quality and the return of more outgoing music at ‘Quoniam tu solus’ reaches a joyful climax before bell-like pedal notes herald a melismatic series of Amens. The ‘swung’ Hosannas of the Sanctus are a jolt to the hushed beginning, and the simple Agnus Dei, with its clarity of texture, includes an optional Post-Communion recitation, adding to the unique quality of this setting.

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