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Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: 11/08/2010

11/08/2010

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, 11/08/2010

Live from Gloucester Cathedral during the Three Choirs Festival.

From Gloucester Cathedral during the Three Choirs Festival.

Introit: I sing of a maiden (Graham Ross)
Responses: Joubert
Psalms: 59, 60, 61 (Clarke, Howells, Sumsion, Elgar)
First Lesson: Wisdom of Solomon 7 vv7-10, 15-16
Canticles: Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense (Leighton)
Second Lesson: John 16 vv5-15
Anthem: The Twelve (Walton)
Hymn: Firmly I believe and truly (Drakes Broughton)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in B (Dupre)

Director of Music: Adrian Partington
Deputy Director of Music: Ashley Grote.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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