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Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: From Birmingham Cathedral

18/07/2010

From Birmingham Cathedral

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, From Birmingham Cathedral

Live from Birmingham Cathedral

Introit: Hail, gladdening light (Wood)
Responses: Gastoldi and Plainsong
Psalms: 73, 74 (Barnby, Stewart, Stainer, Ouseley)
First Lesson: Isaiah 33 vv2-10
Office Hymn: O Trinity of blessed light (Conditor alme)
Canticles: Latin Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis (Tallis)
Second Lesson: Philippians 1 vv1-11
Anthem: Lo! God is here! (Philip Moore)
Final Hymn: Blest are the pure in heart (Franconia)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in A flat, Op. 36 No. 2 (Dupre)

Director of Music: Marcus Huxley
Assistant Director of Music: Timothy Harper.

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