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Choral Evensong

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Music: Classical: Choral

Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: Merton College, Oxford

Music: Classical

26/10/2011

Merton College, Oxford

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, Merton College, Oxford

From the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford.

From the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford 

Introit: O quam gloriosum (Victoria)
Responses: Smith
Psalm: 119 vv145-176 (Murrill, Lang, Knight, Buck)
First Lesson: Baruch 5
Canticles: Howells in G
Second Lesson: Mark 1 vv1-11 
Anthem: Valiant for Truth (Vaughan Williams)
Hymn: When all thy mercies, O my God (Contemplation)
Organ Voluntary: Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist BWV 671 (Bach)

Benjamin Nicholas and Peter Phillips (Directors of Music)
Anna Steppler (Organ Scholar).

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