Ash Wednesday to Easter for Choirs

Lionel Dakers was born in Rochester, Kent, in 1924, and died in 2003. He was Director of the Royal School of Church Music from 1972 until 1989 and enjoyed an international reputation as an ambassador for excellence in church music. He was also for more than 30 years an examiner for the Associated Board of the Royal School of Music. He was awarded a Lambeth Doctorate in Music in 1979, became a Fellow of the Royal College of Music in 1980 and was appointed CBE in 1983.John Scott was born in 1956 in Wakefield, Yorkshire, where he was a Cathedral chorister. In 1974 he became Organ Scholar at St John's College, Cambridge. On leaving Cambridge, he was appointed Assistant Organist at London's two Anglican Cathedrals, St Paul's and Southwark, eventually becoming Organist and Director of Music at St Paul's in 1990. He is now Director of Music at St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, New York, and also enjoys an extensive career as an international concert organist. He was appointed a Lieutenant of the Royal Victorian Order (LVO) in the New Year Honours List 2004. John Scott died in August 2015.

Whether or not you like this sort of binding for choral copies, go and buy one for your organist who will love to have a copy that easily lies open flat (and, if they already have a copy, will not spurn a second copy to help with page turns).

• Lent Prose ; Civitas sancti tui (Bow thine ear, O Lord) ; Lord, for thy tender mercy's sake ; The Litany (BCP) ; The Litany ; Peccantem me quotidie ; Agnus Dei ; Like as the hart ; Drop, drop, slow tears ; Wash me throughly ; Christus factus est ; The Lamentation ; Jesu, grant me this I pray ; God so loved the world ; Ecce quomodo moritur justus ; Adoramus te, Christe ; God so loved the world ; The Feast of Palms ; Hosianna dem Sohne Davids ; Hosanna to the Son of David ; Ride on ; Ingrediente Domino ; Pueri Hebraeorum ; In the heart where love is abiding ; (a) Pange lingua (b) Of the glorious Body telling ; Tantum ergo ; Ave verum corpus ; A new commandment ; Sing, my tongue ; In the departure of the Lord ; Were you there? ; O vos omnes ; O mortal man ; Crux Fidelis ; Eheu, sustulerunt ; The Reproaches ; Popule meus ; Alleluia. Christus surrexit ; Psalm 114 ; Joy is come! ; Light of the World ; Most glorious Lord of life ; This joyful Eastertide ; Now the green blade riseth ; Christ the Lord is risen again! ; Surrexit Christus hodie ; Easter Anthems ; I saw water (Vidi aquam) ; The Easter Song of Praise ; Ye choirs of new Jerusalem ; O sons and daughters ; He is risen