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Choral Evensong: Manchester Cathedral

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Manchester Cathedral

25/05/2016

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, Manchester Cathedral

Live from Manchester Cathedral on the Eve of Corpus Christi

Organ Prelude: Christe qui lux es et dies (Scheidt)
Introit: Ave verum corpus (Byrd)
Responses: Smith
Psalm 119 vv.73-104 (plainsong)
First Lesson: Exodus 3 vv.1-12
Office Hymn: Of the glorious body telling (Mode iii)
Canticles: Third Service (Batten)
Second Lesson: Acts 7 vv.30-38
Anthem: See, see, the Word is incarnate (Gibbons)
Final Hymn: And now, O Father, mindful of the love (Song 1)
Organ Voluntary: Fantasia of four parts (Gibbons)

Christopher Stokes: Organist and Master of the Choristers
Geoffrey Woollatt: Sub-Organist.

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