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Choral Evensong

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Music: Classical: Choral

Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: Manchester Cathedral

Music: Classical

08/02/2012

Manchester Cathedral

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, Manchester Cathedral

From Manchester Cathedral

Introit: Corpus Christi Carol (Judith Bingham) ('The Choirbook for The Queen' -first performance)
Responses: Tomkins 
Office Hymn: O Trinity of blessed light (Plainsong)
Psalms: 42, 43 (Camidge, Stokes)
First Lesson: Ecclesiastes 3vv1-15
Magnificat (Stadlmayr)
Second Lesson: John 17vv20-26 
Nunc Dimittis (Giorgi)
Anthem: Judicame, Deus (Andrea Gabrieli)
Jubilate Deo in E flat (Britten)
Hymn: Songs of thankfulness and praise (St Edmund)
Organ Voluntary: Moto ostinato from Musica Dominicalis (Petr Eben)

Christopher Stokes (Organist and Master of the Choristers)
Jeffrey Makinson (Sub Organist).

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