Edington Returns
26th - 29th August 2021There will be a live Festival of Music within the Liturgy in Edington Priory Church this year, to run from Compline on the evening of Thursday 26 August until Eucharist on Sunday morning 29 August.
Due to the strong possibility of ongoing situation, Director Richard Pinel, in consultation with the church and community, has taken the decision to limit both the number of participants and the duration of the festival in order to create the safest possible environment for all involved.
“It is a truly joyous thing that we can come together for a celebration of music and worship in August. The mini festival will follow our traditional framework of three or four services a day, but we will be limiting the congregation inside the church for each service. Because this will inevitably mean that a large number of people will not be able to enjoy the services from inside the church, we will be live streaming every service through our website, and will also be able to accommodate a controlled number of people outside in the churchyard.”
You can watch the livestreams of all the services below and on the website homepage. They will be available for 30 days after the festival has ended.
Places in the church for services will need to be booked in advance. More information on how to do this is available here.
Festival Calendar
Thursday 26 August
Compline 9.15pm
Miserere mihi, Domine plainsong
Te lucis ante terminum plainsong
In manus tuas Thomas Tallis
Nunc dimittis in E Sydney Watson
Regina caeli plainsong
Friday 27 August
Remembering the souls of the departed
Matins 9.00am
Solemn Requiem 11.30am
Missa pro defunctis Tomás Luis de Victoria
Requiem aeternam Giovanni Maria Nanino
SERMON The Reverend Canon Jeremy Davies Canon Emeritus, Salisbury Cathedral
Prelude and Fugue in C minor BWV546 Johann Sebastian Bach
Solemn Evensong 8.00pm
BBC Radio 3 recording for later broadcast – doors close 7.55pm
Prelude on ‘Urbs Beata’ Richard Wayne Dirksen (1921–2003)
Litany of the Saints plainsong
Magnificat & Nunc dimittis in A flat Basil Harwood
Blessed city, heavenly Salem Sir Edward Cuthbert Bairstow
Empyrean Francis Pott
Compline 9.15pm
Saturday 28 August
God is Love
Matins 9.00am
Solemn Eucharist 11.30am
Mass XII plainsong
SERMON The Reverend Canon Dr Victoria Johnson Canon Precentor, York Minster
My beloved spake Patrick Hadley
Ave verum corpus Sir Edward Elgar
O sacrum convivium William Byrd
Solemn Evensong 8.00pm
Never weather-beaten sail Richard Shephard
Preces & Responses Richard Shephard
Evening Service in B minor Thomas Tertius Noble
Strengthen ye the weak hands Sir William Harris
HOMILY The Reverend Andrew Wickens Rector of Newton Heath & Minor Canon, Manchester Cathedral
Alma redemptoris mater plainsong
Compline 9.15pm
Sunday 29 August
Rebuilding community
Looking to the human heart
Matins 9.00am
Solemn Eucharist 11.30am
Kyrie Mass XI ‘Orbis factor’ plainsong
Missa brevis in C ‘Spatzenmesse’ K220 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
SERMON The Reverend Andrew Sinclair Vicar of Bratton, Edington and Imber, Erlestoke, and Coulston & Rural Dean, Devizes
Ave maris stella plainsong
Ave verum corpus Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ave Maria Robert Parsons
Prelude in E flat major ‘St Anne’ BWV 552 Johann Sebastian Bach