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Lucy Walker: Compline

An Order for Night Prayer

Lucy Walker: Compline

An Order for Night Prayer

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Choral book

£6.50

Publisher: RSCM Press
ISBN: 9780854023561
Published: 24/01/2024

Listen to recordings, sung by St Martin's Voice, of some of this beautiful music, using the links on the Table of Contents tab, above.

This resource for Compline (Night Prayer) is a co-production between St Martin-in-the-Fields, where Lucy Walker is Composer-in-Residence, and the Royal School of Church Music.

Church of England liturgy has always been at the core of RSCM’s publishing, and we are delighted to be working with Andrew Earis, Director of Music at St Martin’s and Lucy to publish this beautiful setting of the music for Compline. As well as Lucy’s ethereal settings, we have provided the timeless original plainchant settings of the responses, to give an alternative to the new pieces in case choirs choose not to use entirely new Compline material. The new music is designed to be interchangeable with the original, allowing choirs to select parts from the new composition, or indeed sing the whole new setting.

Compline is suitable for more reflective times of the church year, in particular, Advent and Lent, and especially during Passiontide and Holy Week.

It is worth noting the difference in keys between the opening section of the service, that includes The Word of God, and the ending prayer section. The opening section is in brighter, sharp keys, whilst the following prayer section, as we head towards our bed and sleep, is in darker, flat keys. We suggest adding a few spoken prayers after the Nunc dimittis before the sung prayer responses.

Sung excerpts from Compline by Lucy Walker are performed by St Martin's Voices, conducted by Andrew Earis.

01 Opening Responses

02 Before the ending of the day

03 Into thy hands, O Lord

04 Keep me as an apple of an eye

05 Preserve us O Lord

06 Lord have mercy

07 Closing rresponses

Lucy Walker

Originally from the North-East of England, Lucy is now based in Cambridge. She completed both her undergraduate and postgraduate studies at Gonville & Caius College, graduating in 2020 with double first-class honours, and the Sir Rudolph Peters Prize for Excellence in Music, and subsequently in 2021 with the college Graduate Prize for Music. Recognised as one of Classic FM’s Rising Stars in 2024, Lucy is gaining repute for her vibrant choral writing, described by Bob Chilcott as ‘full of light, and beautifully crafted’.

In 2022, Lucy was appointed Composer-in-Residence with St Martin’s Voices, the flagship professional vocal consort based at St-Martin-in-the-Fields, and, alongside, has won numerous high-profile commissions, including writing for the BBC Singers, VOCES8, The Sixteen, various UK Cathedral Choirs, and Anna Lapwood and the Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Lucy’s works have been frequently broadcast on national radio, featured on commercial recordings, and are gaining popularity in performance across Europe and the US.

Lucy also works as a music educator, teaching musical analysis, theory and harmony to undergraduate students at the University of Cambridge. Lucy is passionate about making music, especially choral music, accessible and inclusive, and her compositions and teaching work aim to reflect this mission.