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Choral Evensong

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Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: Westminster Abbey

Music: Classical

12/10/2011

Westminster Abbey

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, Westminster Abbey

From Westminster Abbey on the eve of the Feast of Edward the Confessor.

From Westminster Abbey on the Eve of the Feast of Edward the Confessor 

Introit: Os justi meditabitur (Bruckner)
Responses: Matthew Martin
Psalms: 98, 99 (Elvey, Morley)
First Lesson: Ecclesiasticus 2 vv7-18
Canticles: The Second Service (Leighton) 
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 1 vv18-end
Anthem: Give unto the Lord (Elgar)
Hymn: Christ is the King (Vulpius)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in B flat Op 35 no 6 (Mendelssohn)

James O'Donnell (Organist and Master of the Choristers)
Robert Quinney (Sub Organist).

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