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Choral Evensong: Gloucester Cathedral - Three Choirs Festival

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27/07/2016

Gloucester Cathedral - Three Choirs Festival

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, Gloucester Cathedral - Three Choirs Festival

Gloucester Cathedral - Three Choirs Festival.

From Gloucester Cathedral during the Three Choirs Festival.

Live from Gloucester Cathedral during the Three Choirs Festival
Sung by the Cathedral Choirs of Gloucester, Hereford and Worcester

Introit: The spacious firmament on high (Bernard Rose)
Responses: Rose
Psalms 59, 60 (Clarke, Partington)
First Lesson: Ezekiel 39 vv.21-29
Office Hymn: Be thou my guardian and my guide (Abridge) 
Canticles: The Gloucester Service (Ian King) - first performance
Second Lesson: Mark 1 vv.21-28
Anthem: For lo, I raise up (Stanford)
Final Hymn: O God of earth and altar (King's Lynn)
Organ Voluntary: Passacaglia (Bernard Rose)

Director of Music: Adrian Partington
Organist and Assistant Director of Music: Jonathan Hope.

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