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Epiphany Carol Service

on BBC Radio 3

From the Chapel of Trinity College, Cambridge.
Introit: Epiphany Responsory (Marlow) Bidding prayers
Processional Hymn: Bethlehem of Noblest Cities (Stuttgart) Responsory: Isaiah 60
First Reading: Matthew 2, wl-12 What Child Is This? (Barratt)
Second Reading: It Was Given to Me by the Gods (Emily Dickinson ) The Child of Light (Saxton)
Third Reading: And Strike This Scene in Gold Too (Seamus Heaney )
Acclamation for the Offering of Gold In Winter Time (Berkeley)
Fourth Reading: Anthem (WH Auden) Acclamation for the Offering of Frankincense
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree (Poston) Hymn: 0 Worship the Lord (Was Lebet, descant Marlow)
Fifth Reading: An Ecstasy (Richard Crashaw )
Acclamation for the Offering of Myrrh Alleluia, pro Virgine Maria (Maxwell Davies)
Sixth Reading: Revelation 5 The Lamb (Tavener)
Hymn: As with Gladness (Dix, descant Willcocks)
Responsory Blessing (Marlow) There Is No Rose (Maconchy)
Organ Voluntary: Toccata, Op 16 (Jackson)
Director of music Richard Marlow.
Organ scholars Thomas Blunt and Mark Williams.

Contributors

Unknown:
Emily Dickinson
Unknown:
Seamus Heaney
Unknown:
Richard Crashaw
Music:
Richard Marlow.
Unknown:
Thomas Blunt
Unknown:
Mark Williams.

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