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Choral Evensong

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Music: Classical: Choral

Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: Lichfield Cathedral

Music: Classical

20/05/2015

Lichfield Cathedral

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, Lichfield Cathedral

Live from Lichfield Cathedral

Introit: Antiphon for Ascension (Richard Lloyd) first broadcast
Responses: Rose
Office Hymn: Christ is the King (Gelobt sei Gott)
Psalm 104 (Parratt, Ben Lamb)
First Lesson: 1 Kings 19 vv 1-18
Canticles: The Lichfield Service (Grayston Ives) first broadcast
Second Lesson: Matthew 3 vv 13-end
Anthem: See, see, the word is incarnate (Gibbons)
Final Hymn: The Lord ascendeth up on high (Palace Green)
Organ Voluntary: Psalm Prelude Set 2 No 3 'Sing unto the Lord a new song' (Howells)

Directors of Music: Ben and Cathy Lamb
Organist: Martyn Rawles.

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