Choral Evensong

Weds 20th July (repeated Sun 24th July)

Live from Derby Cathedral

Introit: Cantate Domino (Monteverdi)
Responses: Sanders
Office Hymn: There's a wideness in God's mercy (Corvedale)
Psalm 104 (Hopkins, How, Hanforth)
First Lesson: Isaiah 55 vv.8-13
Canticles: Murrill in E
Second Lesson: 2 Timothy 2 vv.8-19
Anthem: All wisdom cometh from the Lord (Philip Moore)
Final Hymn: Ye that know the Lord is gracious (Rustington)
Organ Voluntary: Sonata No 5 - Allegro maestoso (Rheinberger)

Director of Music: Hugh Morris
Assistant Organist: Tom Corfield

Weds 27th July (repeated Sun 31st July)

Live from Gloucester Cathedral during the Three Choirs Festival

Sung by the Cathedral Choirs of Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester

Introit: The spacious firmament on high (Bernard Rose)
Responses: Rose
Psalms 59, 60 (Clarke, Partington)
First Lesson: Ezekiel 39 vv.21-29
Office Hymn: Be thou my guardian and my guide (Abridge) 
Canticles: The Gloucester Service (Ian King) - first performance
Second Lesson: Mark 1 vv.21-28
Anthem: For lo, I raise up (Stanford)
Final Hymn: O God of earth and altar (King’s Lynn)
Organ Voluntary: Passacaglia (Bernard Rose)

Director of Music: Adrian Partington
Organist and Assistant Director of Music: Jonathan Hope

Weds 3rd August (repeated Sun 7th August)

Southern Cathedrals Festival at Chichester Cathedral 

Pre-recorded in Chichester Cathedral on 21st July during the Southern Cathedrals Festival with the girls of Winchester and Salisbury Cathedral Choirs, and the men of Salisbury, Winchester and Chichester

Introit: Nachtlied (Reger)
Responses: Rose
Office Hymn: O God, by whose almighty plan (Surrey)
Psalm 119 vv.81-104 (Cooke, Pye, Attwood)
First Lesson: Isaiah 45 vv.1-7
Canticles: Collegium Regale (Wood)
Second Lesson: Ephesians 4 vv.1-16
Anthem: In exitu Israel (S Wesley)
Final Hymn: All my hope on God is founded (Michael)
Organ Voluntary: Symphony No 3 - first movement (Vierne)

Charles Harrison: Organist and Master of the Choristers (at Chichester)
Timothy Ravalde: Assistant Organist

Weds 10th August (repeated Sun 14th August)

Choral Evening Prayer live from Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral sung by the Royal School of Church Music Millennium Youth Choir 

Introit: Sing joyfully (Byrd)
Responses: Andrew Reid
Office Hymn: O glorious King of martyr hosts (Plainsong)
Psalm 116 (Rogers)
Canticle: Worthy are you, our Lord and God (Gelineau)
Reading: 1 Peter 4
Motet: Geistliches Lied (Brahms)
Magnificat: St Paul's Service (Howells)
Final Hymn: Give me the wings of faith (San Rocco)
Motet: Totus Tuus (Gorecki)
Organ Voluntary: Fantaisie-Improvisation sur L’Ave Maris Stella (Tournemire)

Director of Music: Adrian Lucas
Organist: Daniel Cook

Weds 17th August (repeated Sun 21st August)

Live from St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh during the Edinburgh International Festival

Introit: Assumpta est Maria (Gesualdo completed by Stravinsky)
Responses: Smith
Office Hymn: The Lord whom earth and sea and sky (Gonfalon Royal)
Psalms 113, 122 (Knight, Parratt)
First Lesson: Genesis 3 vv.9-15, 20
Latin Canticles (Tallis)
Second Lesson: Luke 1 vv.39-47
Anthem: Ave Maria (Parsons)
Final Hymn: Sing we of the blessed Mother (Abbot’s Leigh)
Organ Voluntary: Allegro from Sonata No 5 BWV 529 (Bach)

Organist and Master of the Music: Duncan Ferguson
Assistant Organist: Donald Hunt

Weds 24th August (repeated Sun 28th August)

Live from Edington Priory during the Edington Festival of Music within the Liturgy on the Feast of St Bartholomew

Introit: Mihi autem nimis (Plainchant)
Responses: Matthew Martin
Psalms 91, 116 (Plainchant)
First Lesson: Deuteronomy 18 vv.15-19
Office Hymn: Exsultet caelum laudibus (Plainchant)
Canticles: Andrews in D
Second Lesson: Matthew 10 vv.1-22
Anthems: The Twelve (Walton)
Mihi autem nimis (Francis Pott) - new commission
Final Hymn: Saints of God! Lo, Jesu’s people (Sussex)
Organ Voluntary: Rhapsody No.1 in D flat (Howells)

Conductors: Jeremy Summerly, Matthew Martin and Peter Stevens
Organist: Simon Bell

Weds 31st August (repeated Sun 4th September)

Recorded at the Charles Wood Summer School at St Patrick’s Church of Ireland Cathedral, Armagh

Introit: O most merciful (Jack Oades) - new commission to mark the 150th birthday of Charles Wood
Responses: Radcliffe
Psalms 147, 148, 149, 150 (Walmisley, Robinson, Stanford, Stanford)
First Lesson: Proverbs 15 vv.13-17
Office Hymn: Alone with none but thee, my God (Wood)
Canticles: Wood in E flat No.2
Second Lesson: 1 Peter 3 vv.8-12
Anthems: It were my soul’s desire (Wood arr. Philip Moore)
God be in my head (David Hill)
Final Hymn: O praise ye the Lord! (Laudate Dominum)
Organ Voluntary: Postlude in D minor Op.105 No.6 (Stanford)

Artistic Director: David Hill
Organist: Philip Scriven

Weds 7th September (repeated Sun 11th September)

Recorded at St Clement Danes Church, London, and sung by Genesis Sixteen

Introit: Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts (Purcell)
Responses: Bernard Rose
Psalm 37 (Foster, Hylton Stewart, Greene, Howells)
First Lesson: Proverbs 2 vv.1-15
Magnificat in B flat for double choir (Stanford)
Second Lesson: Colossians 1 vv.9-20
Nunc Dimittis (Plainsong)
Anthem: A Feast Song for St Cecilia (Bernard Rose)
Hymn: Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Repton)
Organ Voluntary: An Occasional Trumpet Voluntary (Patrick Gowers)

Conductors: Harry Christophers, Eamonn Dougan, Sarah Latto
Organist: Matthew Martin 

Weds 14th September (repeated Sun 18th September)

Danilov Monastery, Moscow

An Archive recording from 2005 of Orthodox Vespers for the Feast of the Exaltation of the Precious and Life-giving Cross from the Trinity Cathedral in the Danilov Monastery, the oldest monastery in Moscow, reconsecrated in 1988 after decades as a boys’ prison and now the official residence of the Russian Patriarch. 

The Cathedral Choir directed by Georgi Safonov sings music by Dodonov, Chesnokov, Goncharov and Trubachev. The Gospel for the day is John 12 vv28-36. 
Archpriest Andrei Teterin gives the homily and the commentator is Canon Michael Bourdeaux. 

Weds 21st September (repeated Sun 25th September)

Canterbury Cathedral

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Weds 28th September (repeated Sun 2nd October)

Westminster Abbey

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Weds 5th October (repeated Sun 9th October)

Celebrating 90 years of Choral Evensong Broadcasts

Archive TBC

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Weds 12th October (repeated Sun 16th October)

St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle

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Weds 19th October (repeated Sun 23th October)

Birmingham Cathedral

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Weds 26th October (repeated Sun 30th October)

St Mary the Virgin, Oxford 

With Schola Cantorum, Oxford and Roderick Wiiliams

Archive 2006

Weds 2nd November (repeated Sun 6th November) All Souls

New College, Oxford - Mozart Requiem

Archive 2011

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Weds 9th November (repeated Sun 13th November)

Ely Cathedral

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Weds 16th November (repeated Sun 20th November)

Bristol Cathedral

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Weds 23rd November 

Wakefield Cathedral (no repeat)

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Sunday 27th November (Advent Sunday)

St John's College, Cambridge

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Weds 30th November (repeated Sun 4th December)

Portsmouth Cathedral

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Weds 7th December (repeated Sun 11th December)

St Paul's Cathedral

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Weds 14th December (repeated Sun 18th December)

TBC

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Weds 21st December 

TBC

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Weds 28th December (repeated Sun 1st January)

Rodolfus Choir at St Gabriel's Church, Pimlico

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