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Choral Evensong: King's College, Cambridge

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King's College, Cambridge

22/01/2014

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

From the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge.

From the Chapel of King's College, Cambridge

Opening Antiphon: Verbum caro (Tavener)
Introit: Hymn to the Mother of God (Tavener)
Responses: Plainsong
Psalms: 108, 109 omitting vv5-19 (Tone VIII & Tone II)
First Lesson: 1 Kings 19 vv9-15
Canticles: Collegium Regale (Tavener)
Second Lesson: Mark 9 vv2-13
Anthems: There is no rose (Tavener) & Today the Virgin (Tavener)
Hymn: Ave, maris stella (Plainsong)
Closing Antiphon: Verbum caro (Tavener)
Organ Voluntary: Le Verbe (from La Nativité du Seigneur) (Messiaen)

Stephen Cleobury (Director of Music) 
Douglas Tang & Tom Etheridge (Organ Scholars).

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