A sung evening service with chants and Renaissance polyphony for five voices. Pieces include:
- Dering, "Ave virgo gloriosa"
- Tallis, "Dum transisset sabbatum"
- Byrd, "Justorum animae"
- Lasso, "Salve regina"
- Victoria, "Alma redemptoris mater"

Compline 2 - 22 - 15 (Stanford Memorial Church)

A fragment from our recent Compline at Stanford Memorial Church. Includes Byrd's "O Lord Make Haste to Help Us" from his Preces settings and his "Miserere mei, Deus" for five voices, as well as two psalm recitations.

Voces Aestatis - Compline July 12, 2015 (fragment).WAV

A half-hour evening service held on Sunday, August 9, 2015, 9-9:30pm in Stanford Memorial Church. Chanted prayers and psalms sung by a choir of eight singers, interspersed with polyphonic pieces from the 16th century:

- Opening blessings and Introit (chant)
- Introductory Prayer: William Byrd, O Lord, Make Haste to Help Us from the Short Service
- Psalm antiphon: William Byrd, Miserere mei, Deus for 5 voices
- Psalm 4 (chant)
- Psalm 31 (chant)
- Repeat of Psalm antiphon
- Hymn: To you before the close of day (chant)
- Motet: Tomas Luis de Victoria, Versa est in luctum
- Respond: Into your hands, O Redeemer (chant)
- Antiphon to the Canticle of Simeon: Save us, O Redeemer (chant)
- Canticle of Simeon: William Byrd, Nunc dimittis from the Short Service
- Repeat of the Antiphon to the Canticle of Simeon (chant)
- Kyrie Eleison: Tomas Luis de Victoria, Kyrie from the Office of the Dead
- The Lord's Prayer (chant)
- Tallis, Salvator mundi I
- Collect: Be present, O merciful God (chant)
- Marian hymn: Orlando di Lasso, Ave regina caelorum for 6 voices
- Closing prayers (chant)




Compline August 9, 2015 (complete service)

A half-hour evening service held on Sunday, August 9, 2015, 9-9:30pm in Stanford Memorial Church. Chanted prayers and psalms sung by a choir of eight singers, interspersed with polyphonic pieces from the 16th century:

- Opening blessings and Introit (chant)
- Introductory prayer: William Byrd, O Lord, Make Haste to Help Us from the Short Service
- Psalm antiphon: Have mercy on me, O Lord (chant)
- Psalm 4 (chant)
- Psalm 31 (chant)
- Repeat of Psalm antiphon (chant)
- Anthem: Purcell, Thou knowest, Lord from the Burial Service
- Hymn: To you before the close of day (chant)
- Respond: Tallis, In manus tuas
- Antiphon to the Canticle of Simeon: Save us, O Redeemer (chant)
- Canticle of Simeon: William Byrd, Nunc dimittis from the Short Service
- Repeat of the Antiphon to the Canticle of Simeon (chant)
- Kyrie Eleison: William Byrd, Kyrie from the Mass for Five Voices
- The Lord's Prayer (chant)
- Collect: Be present, O merciful God (chant)
- Motet: Tallis, O Nata Lux
- Closing blessing (chant)
- Marian hymn: Orlando di Lasso, Ave regina caelorum for 6 voices
- Closing prayers (chant)

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