Choral Evensong

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• Premiere: The Maida Vale Service

  Composer Ben Ponniah introduces his new setting of the Evening Canticles.

  Duration: 1:04

• Christ conquers

  The choir of Guildford Cathedral sing Christus vincit by James MacMillan.

  Duration: 6:16

• My soul is athirst

  The choir of Portsmouth Cathedral sing 'Like as the hart' by Herbert Howells.

  Duration: 5:35

• Music to lighten our darkness

  The choir of Royal Holloway perform an introit by Ben Parry, live on Choral Evensong.

  Duration: 4:32
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• St George's Cathedral

• Portsmouth Cathedral

• The Choristers of St John's College

• Roderick Williams and James Burton
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• Choral Evensong Schedule

  
  Wed 12th May (repeated Sun 16th May)
  Live from St Martin-in-the-Fields, London, with St Martin’s Voices, on the Eve of the Ascension.

  Introit: The Ascension (Philip Moore)
  Responses: Ben Parry
  Psalms 15, 24 (Greenhow, Barnby)
  First Lesson: 2 Samuel 23 vv.1-5
  Office hymn: Teach me my God and King (Sandys)
  Canticles: Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense (Leighton)
  Second Lesson: Colossians 2 v.20 – 3 v.4
  Anthem: God is gone up (Finzi)
  Prayer anthem: King of Glory, King of peace (Grayston Ives)
  Hymn: Let all the world (Luckington)
  Voluntary: Siciliano for a High Ceremony (Howells)

  Andrew Earis (Director of Music)
  Ben Giddens (Organist)

  
  Wed 19th May (repeated Sun 23rd May)
  Live from St Pancras Church, during the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music.

  Prelude: Wings of Faith I: Come, Holy Ghost (Alan Gibbs)
  Introit: Troparion (Renāts Cvečkovskis)
  Responses: Kerensa Briggs
  Psalms 98, 99, 100, 101 (Christopher Batchelor)
  First Lesson: 1 Kings 19 vv.1-18
  Office hymn: Strong Son of God (Son of God)
  Canticles: St Pancras Canticles (Stevie Wishart)
  Second Lesson: Matthew 3 vv.13-17
  Anthem: O Ignis Spiritus (Joanna Marsh)
  Hymn: Love Divine, all loves excelling (Blaenwern)
  Voluntary: Wings of Faith II: Who are these like stars appearing? (Alan Gibbs)

  Christopher Batchelor (Director of Music)
  Peter Foggitt (Organist)

  
  Wed 26th May (repeated Sun 30th May)
  Live from Westminster Abbey.

  Introit: O hearken thou (Roxanna Panufnik)
  Responses: Rose
  Psalm 69 (Battishill, Goss)
  First Lesson: Genesis 15 vv.1-21
  Canticles: Walmisley in D minor
  Second Lesson: Romans 4 vv.1-8
  Anthem: For lo, I raise up (Stanford)
  Hymn: O thou who camest from above (Hereford)
  Voluntary: Rhapsody No 3 in C sharp minor (Howells)

  James O’Donnell (Organist and Master of the Choristers)
  Peter Holder (Sub-Organist)

  
  Wed 2nd June (repeated Sun 6th June)
  Live from St Davids Cathedral on the Eve of the Feast of Corpus Christi.

  Introit: Corpus Christi Carol (Britten)
  Responses: Radcliffe
  Office hymn: The heavenly Word proceeding forth (Plainsong, mode viii)
  Psalms 110, 111 (Smart, Elvey)
  First Lesson: Exodus 16 vv.2-15
  Canticles: Collegium Regale (Howells)
  Second Lesson: John 6 vv.22-35
  Anthem: O Beata Trinitas (Paul Mealor)
  Hymn: Alleluya, sing to Jesus (Hyfrydol)
  Voluntary: Organ Symphony No 3 (Marcia) (Widor)

  Oliver Waterer (Organist and Master of the Choristers)
  Simon Pearce (Assistant Director of Music)

  
  Wed 9th June (repeated Sun 13th June)
  From the Queen's Free Chapel of St George, Windsor Castle.

  Introit: Mother of God, here I stand (Tavener)
  Responses: Smith
  Psalm 113 (Atkins)
  First Lesson: Isaiah 61 vv.1-3
  Magnificat (Finzi)
  Second Lesson: 1 Thessalonians 2 vv.1-12
  Nunc dimittis: Stanford in C
  Anthem: Give unto the Lord (Elgar)
  Voluntary: Psalm-Prelude Set 2 No 3 ‘Sing unto him a new song’ (Howells)

  James Vivian (Director of Music)
  Luke Bond (Assistant Director of Music)

  Recorded 25 May 2021.

  
  Wed 16th June (repeated Sun 20th June)
  Live from the Chapel of King’s College, Cambridge.

  Introit: A prayer of King Henry VI (Ley)
  Responses: Radcliffe
  Psalms 82, 83, 84, 85 (Trent, Stonex, Parry, Jones)
  First Lesson: Judges 6 vv.1-16
  Canticles: Wood in E flat No 1
  Second Lesson: Matthew 5 vv.13-24
  Anthem: Save us, O Lord (Bairstow)
  Te Deum: Ireland in F
  Voluntary: Chorale Prelude on ‘Dundee’ (Parry)

  Daniel Hyde (Director of Music)
  Paul Greally (Organ Scholar)