Music Calendar 2023: Year A – Lent

For each season of the church year we select Lectionary-based music ideas for choir, piano, and organ from the Augsburg Music Catalog. With each selection, you can expect: 

• A link to the Augsburg Fortress website for each piece where you can view a sample, learn more, and make a purchase.
• These suggestions are in addition to listings included in Sundays and Seasons. 
• Many scores are available through a subscription to Prelude Music Planner.

February 22 - Ash Wednesday

• VOCAL SOLO "From Depths of Woe" (from, New Songs of Gladness: Vocal Solos for Worship) John Dowland, arr. K. Lee Scott
• ANTHEM "Consecrated, Lord, to Thee" 2-part mixed, piano (from Take My Voice and Let Me Sing: Music for Smaller Ensembles) Wayne Wold
• ANTHEM Have Mercy on Me (SATB, solo, piano) Clayton White
• PIANO "Savior, When in Dust to You" (from, Endless Song: Accessible Piano Settings) Jerry Van der Pol
• PIANO "O Sacred Head, Now Wounded/Our Father, We Have Wandered" (from, Hymns of Joy and Grace, Volume 2: Piano Settings for Lent and Easter) Sylvia B. Oines
• ORGAN "Supplication" (from F. Melius Christiansen Organ Anthology) F. Melius Christiansen 

February 26 - First Sunday in Lent

• ANTHEM Jesus, Lover of My Soul (SAB, piano) David Greatrix
• ANTHEM Forty Days and Forty Nights (SATB, organ) Franklin Ashdown
• ANTHEM I Want Jesus to Walk With Me (SATB) Christopher Aspaas
• PIANO "Glory Be to Jesus" (from, In Praise of Love: Piano Settings for Lent and Easter) Zach Unke
• ORGAN HYMN ACCOMPANIMENT "Slane" (from, Awake and Sing: Hymn Introductions and Accompaniments) Eric Wall
• ORGAN "Erhalt uns, Herr" (from, Augsburg Organ Library Series 2 Lent) G. Winston Cassler

March 5 - Second Sunday in Lent

• VOCAL SOLO "Give Me Jesus" (from To God Will I Sing: Vocal Solos for the Church Year) David Cherwien
• ANTHEM God So Loved the World (SAB, keyboard, from Take My Voice and Let Me Sing: Music for Smaller Ensembles) Wayne Wold
• ANTHEM What Wondrous Love Is This (SATB, piano) Amy Lynne Engelsdorfer
• PIANO "God So Loved the World" (from, Near the Cross: Piano Settings)
  Terry D. Wilson
• PIANO "I Am Trusting You, Lord Jesus" (from, At the Name of Jesus: Piano Settings) Zach Unke
•  ORGAN "If You But Trust in God to Guide You" (from, A Walter Pelz Organ Anthology) Walter L. Pelz

March 12 - Third Sunday in Lent

• ANTHEM Come and Seek the Ways of Wisdom (Two-part mixed, piano, flute) Thomas Paulson
• ANTHEM Rock of Ages (SATB, organ) Michael Burkhardt
• ANTHEM Guide My Feet (SATB) Clayton White
• PIANO "Beach Spring" (from, Hymn Settings for the Year: 55 Piano Gems) Timothy Shaw
• PIANO "O Blessed Spring" (from, Piano Weavings, Volume 2) Sherri Hansen 
• ORGAN "O God, You Search Me" (from Draw Us In: Organ Settings) David Lasky 

March 19 - Fourth Sunday in Lent

• ANTHEM Hear My Voice, O Lord (SAB, piano, inst.) Jayne Southwick Cool
• ANTHEM We Shall Walk through the Valley (SATB) Undine Smith Moore
• ANTHEM Steal Away (SATB, piano, oboe) Robert A. Benson
• PIANO "O Christ, the Healer, We Have Come" (from, Piano Reflections on Hymns of Healing) Anne Krentz Organ
• ORGAN "Song" (from F. Melius Christiansen Organ Anthology) F. Melius Christiansen 
• ORGAN "Herr Jesu Christ, du höchstes Gut" (from, Ten Organ Chorales in the Schübler Tradition) J. S. Bach, ed. Marilyn Biery

March 26 - Fifth Sunday in Lent

• ANTHEM Love's Endeavor, Love's Expense (Two-part mixed, piano, inst.) Russell Schulz-Widmar
• ANTHEM Love and Mercy (SA(T)B, oboe, organ) Walter L. Pelz
• ANTHEM Out of the Depths (SATB, organ, inst.) Robert A. Benson
• PIANO "What Wondrous Love Is This" (from, Hymns of Joy and Grace, Volume 2: Piano Settings for Lent and Easter) Sylvia B. Oines
• ORGAN "Aus tiefer Not" (from, Augsburg Organ Library Series 2 Lent) Barbara Harbach
• ORGAN "Jesus Christ, Our Blessed Savior" (from, Christ Is the Life: Organ Settings for the Church Year) Brenda Portman