Sung Eucharist · 27 September 2026
Music by Maurice Greene, sung by the choir at our principal Sunday service.
Music, Confirmed and Published
The music for this service was chosen by the Director of Music and confirmed by the Rector.
At Sung Eucharist, the choir leads the congregation’s praise and adorns the celebration of Holy Communion with an anthem drawn from the English choral tradition. This week the choir sings Maurice Greene’s “Thou visitest the earth,” a joyful favourite of the eighteenth-century English cathedral repertoire.
Anthem
Maurice Greene (1696–1755) was organist of St Paul’s Cathedral and the Chapel Royal, and later Master of the King’s Musick - one of the most celebrated English church musicians of his generation. “Thou visitest the earth” is the joyful concluding movement of his harvest anthem “Acquaint thyself with God,” its dancing melody and warm harmony making it a long-standing favourite for services of thanksgiving in English cathedrals and parish churches.