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Choral Evensong: King's College, Cambridge

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29/02/2012

King's College, Cambridge

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, King's College, Cambridge

From King's College Cambridge. Including the first performance of a new composition commissioned for the Choirbook for the Queen.

From Kings College Cambridge, including the first performance of a new composition commissioned for the Choirbook for the Queen, a collection of contemporary anthems, published for the Diamond Jubilee of Her Majesty The Queen. 

Organ Prelude on Selna (Robin Orr)
Introit: Cities and Thrones and Powers (Alexander Goehr) (first performance - Choirbook for the Queen)
Responses: Radcliffe
Psalms: 142, 143 (Camidge, Pring)
First Lesson: Jeremiah 5vv20-end 
Office Hymn: Audi Benigne Conditor (Plainsong)
Magnificat quarti toni (Palestrina)
Second Lesson: John 5vv30-end
Nunc Dimittis tertii toni (Victoria)
Anthems: The Fayrfax Carol (Thomas Adès)
To Keep a True Lent (Richard Baker)
Final Hymn: Lord Jesu, think on me (Southwell)
Organ Voluntary: Postlude in D Minor Op. 105 no. 6 (Stanford)

Stephen Cleobury (Director of Music)
Ben-San Lau, Parker Ramsay (Organ Scholars).

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