Opera singer Robert Lloyd presents an edition devoted to the operas of Verdi. 
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About Choral Evensong
Choral Evensong is aired twice weekly - live at 3.30pm on Wednesday and repeated at 4pm Sunday.
Choral Evensong was first broadcast on Thursday 7 October 1926 live from Westminster Abbey and has been broadcast weekly on BBC Radio ever since.
- It is the longest running outside broadcast in the world
- Now visiting a different venue every week
- Featuring many new commissions, particularly in 2012 the Choirbook for the Queen, the anthology of music to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee
- Regularly broadcasting from Festivals in this country and abroad
If you would like to be in the congregation for Choral Evensong, please be seated by 3.15pm. -
Choral Evensong Advance Schedule
Here are the services coming up in the next few months on Choral Evensong.
Weds 6th March
Magdalen College, Oxford as part of 'Baroque Spring'.
(rpt. Sun 10th March)
A sequence of words and music for Lent featuring cantatas from Buxtehude's 'Membra Jesu Nostri' (BuxWV 75)
and the organ chorale prelude on 'Ach Herr, mich armen Sünder' (BuxWV 178).
With The Revd Dr Michael Piret (Dean of Divinity)
Players from The Orchestra of The Sixteen
Daniel Hyde (Informator Choristarum)
Thomas Allery (Assistant Organist)
David Gerrard (Organ Scholar)
Weds 13th March
Chichester Cathedral as part of 'Baroque Spring.'
(rpt. Sun 17th March)
Introit: Salvator mundi (Blow)
Responses: Reading
Office Hymn: O cross of Christ (Albano)
Psalm 69 vv1-22; vv30-37 and Psalm 70 (S.S.Wesley; Naylor; Battishill; Chipp)
First Lesson: Exodus 4 vv1-23
Canticles: Fourth service (Batten)
Second Lesson: Hebrews 10 vv1-18
Anthem: Vinea mea electa (Poulenc)
Final Hymn: Praise to the holiest in the height (Gerontius)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude & Fugue in B minor - BWV 544 (Bach)
Sarah Baldock (Organist & Master of the Choristers)
Timothy Ravalde (Assistant Organist)
Weds 20th March
Old Royal Naval College Chapel, Greenwich, with Trinity Laban Chapel Choir as part of 'Baroque Spring'
(rpt. Sun 24th March)
Introit: My days are gone like a shadow (Blow)
Responses: Ayleward
Psalm 104 (Walmisley, Vann, Edwards)
First Lesson: Exodus 9 vv1-12
Office Hymn: Ah, Holy Jesu, how hast thou offended (Herzliebster Jesu)
Magnificat secondo a4, from Selva morale e spirituale SV 282 (Monteverdi)
Second Lesson: Hebrews 12 vv3-13
Nunc Dimittis: Plainchant
Anthem: O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht BWV 118 (JS Bach)
Final Hymn: The duteous day now closeth (Innsbruck)
Organ Voluntary: Valet will ich dir geben, BWV 736 (JS Bach)
Ralph Allwood (Director of Chapel Music)
James Grainger (Assistant Organist)
Weds 27th March
Portsmouth Cathedral during Holy Week, as part of 'Baroque Spring'.
(no repeat)
Introit: Consider all ye passers by (Amner)
Responses: Smith
Psalms: 88 (Plainsong)
First Lesson: Isaiah 63 vv 1-9
Canticles: Humfrey in E minor
Second Lesson: Revelation 14 v18 - 15 v4
Anthem: Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz (Schütz)
Hymn: To mock your reign, O dearest Lord (Third Mode Melody)
Organ Voluntary: Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir BWV 686 (JS Bach)
Capelle Baroque Strings
David Price (Organist and Master of the Choristers)
Oliver Hancock (Sub-Organist)
Sunday 31st March (Easter Day)
Manchester Cathedral
(no repeat)
Introit: Haec dies (Byrd)
Responses: Leighton
Psalm 66 vv1-11 (Ashfield)
First Lesson: Isaiah 43 vv1-21
Office Hymn: The Lamb's high banquet we await (Ad cenam Agni)
Canticles: Bairstow in D
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 15 vv1-11
Anthem: Fürchte dich nicht, BWV 228 (JS Bach)
Final Hymn: At the Lamb's high feast we sing (Salzburg)
Organ Voluntary: Choral-Improvisation sur le Victimae Paschali Laudes (Tournemire)
Christopher Stokes (Organist & Master of the Choristers)
Jeffrey Makinson (Sub-Organist)
Michael Escreet (Double Bass)
Weds 3rd April
St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol
with RSCM Millennium Youth Choir
(rpt Sun 7th April)
Introit: Sing ye to the Lord (Bairstow)
Office hymn: Christ the Lord is risen again (Würtemburg)
Psalms: 141, 105 vv1-15 (Ogden, Ouseley)
First Lesson: Exodus 12 vv37-end
Canticles: (Roxanna Panufnik - 1st broadcast)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 15 vv20-28
Anthems: Alleluia (Owain Park - 1st broadcast); O filii et filiæ (Philip Moore - 1st broadcast)
Hymn: Thine be the glory (Maccabæus)
Organ Voluntary: Live Wire (Iain Farrington - 1st broadcast)
Director: David Ogden
Organist: Daniel Moult
Wed 10th April
Church of the London Oratory
(rpt. Sun 14th April)
Organ: Prélude du huitième ton (Nivers)
Invitatory: (Croce)
Psalms 109-112, 116 (Gregorian chant)
Hymn: Iste confessor (Gregorian chant and Frescobaldi)
Magnificat secundi toni (Quanti in mille anni) (Lassus)
O salutaris Hostia (Gregorian chant)
Tantum ergo (Duruflé)
Regina caeli à 7 (Lassus)
Organ: Offertoire sur O filii et filiae ( Lebègue)
Celebrant: Rev. Father George Bowen
Director of Music: Patrick Russill
Organist: Matthew Martin
Wed 17th April
Truro Cathedral
(rpt. Sun 21st April)
Responses: Rose
Office Hymn: Walking in a garden (Dun Aluinn)
Psalm 89 (Bairstow, Hopkins)
First Lesson: Genesis 3 vv8-21
Canticles: The Truro Service (First broadcast) (Russell Pascoe)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 15 vv12-28
Anthems: Cantate Domino (First broadcast) (Gabriel Jackson); Ave Maris Stella (First broadcast) (Paul Drayton)
Hymn: Come, ye faithful, raise the strain (St John Damascene)
Organ voluntary: "Organ" (Graham Fitkin)
Christopher Gray (Director of Music)
Luke Bond (Assistant Director of Music)
Wed 24th April
Wells Cathedral on the Eve of the Feast of Mark the Evangelist
(rpt. Sun 28th April)
Introit: How beautiful upon the mountains (Stainer)
Responses: Clucas
Psalm 119 vv1-32 (Gauntlett, Martin, Archer, Elvey)
First Lesson: Isaiah 52 vv7-10
Office Hymn: The saint who first found grace to pen (Brockham)
Canticles: Stanford in C
Second Lesson: Mark 1 vv1-15
Anthem: The spirit of the Lord (Prologue from 'The Apostles') (Elgar)
Final Hymn: Sing Alleluya forth ye saints on high (Martins)
Organ Voluntary: Imperial March (Elgar arr. Martin)
Matthew Owens (Organist and Master of the Choristers)
Jonathan Vaughn (Assistant Organist)
Wed 1st May
The Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge with the Cambridge University Chamber Orchestra
(rpt. Sun 5th May)
Introit: My beloved spake (Hadley)
Responses: Radcliffe
Psalm 149 (Alcock arr. S.Cleobury)
First Lesson: Job 23 vv1-12
Canticles: Stanford in A
Second Lesson: John 1 vv43-end
Anthem: Ascribe unto the Lord (S.S. Wesley)
Hymn: Thou art the Way (St James - descant: S.Cleobury)
Organ Voluntary: Finale from Variations on an Original Theme ('Enigma') (Elgar)
Stephen Cleobury (Director of Music)
Parker Ramsay and Douglas Tang (Organ Scholars)
Wed 8th May
St John’s College, Cambridge with St John’s Sinfonia on the eve of Ascension Day
(rpt. Sun 12th May)
Responses: Clucas
Psalm 15 (C. Gibbons)
First Lesson: 2 Samuel 23 vv1-5
Canticles: Primi Toni (Durante)
Second Lesson: Colossians 2 v20 - 3 v4
Anthem: Lobet Gott In seinen Reichen, BWV 11 (Ascension Oratorio) (JS Bach)
Organ Voluntary: Heut triumphieret Gottes Sohn, BWV 630 (JS Bach)
Andrew Nethsingha (Director of Music)
Freddie James and Edward Picton-Turbervill (Organ Students)
St John's Sinfonia
Wed 15th May
St Pancras Church, London as part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music
(rpt. Sun 19th May)
Introit: As watchmen look to the morning (Gordon Crosse) (1st broadcast)
Responses: Ronald Corp (1st performance)
Office Hymn: Rejoice, the year upon its way (Gilmour)
Psalms: 36, 46 (Léon Charles)
First Lesson: 1 Kings 19 vv1-18
St Pancras Canticles (Philip Moore) (1st performance)
Second Lesson: Matthew 3 vv13-end
Anthem: Come, Holy Ghost, our souls inspire (Diana Burrell) (1st broadcast)
Final Hymn: Come down, O love divine (Down Ampney)
Organ Voluntary: Chaconne for Jonathan Harvey (Ed Hughes) (1st performance)
Christopher Batchelor (Director of Music)
Michael Waldron (Assistant Organist)
Wed 22nd May
(No repeat)
The Chapel of New College, Oxford
Introit: The dove descending (Stravinsky)
Responses: Leighton
Psalms: 108, 109 vv1-4, vv20-30 (Turle, Barnby, Rimbault, Crotch)
First Lesson: Joshua 3 vv7-end
Canticles: Second Service (Leighton)
Second Lesson: Luke 9 vv37-50
Anthem: Rejoice in the Lamb (Britten)
Hymn: O Thou who camest from above (Hereford)
Organ Voluntary: Choral varié sur le thème du Veni Creator (Duruflé)
Edward Higginbottom (Director of Music)
Steven Grahl (Assistant Organist)
Wed 29th May
St Davids Cathedral during the 2013 Cathedral Festival
(rpt. Sun 2nd June)
Introit: Ave verum corpus (Colin Mawby)
Responses: Matthew Martin
Psalms: 110, 111 (S.S.Wesley, Elvey)
First Lesson: Exodus 16 vv2-15
Canticles: St Davids Service (Neil Cox) (first performance)
Second Lesson: John 6 vv22-35
Anthem: Lo! God is here! (Philip Moore)
Hymn: All for Jesus (Stainer)
Festival Te Deum in E (Britten)
Organ Voluntary: Allegro Agitato (from Organ Sonata) (Philip Moore)
Daniel Cook (Organist and Master of the Choristers)
Simon Pearce (Assistant Organist)
