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Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh

Music: Classical

17/08/2016

St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh

From St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh, during the Edinburgh International Festival

From St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh, during the Edinburgh International Festival.

Live from St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh during the Edinburgh International Festival

Introit: Assumpta est Maria (Gesualdo completed by Stravinsky)
Responses: Smith
Office Hymn: The Lord whom earth and sea and sky (Gonfalon Royal)
Psalms 113, 122 (Knight, Parratt)
First Lesson: Genesis 3 vv.9-15, 20
Latin Canticles (Tallis)
Second Lesson: Luke 1 vv.39-47
Anthem: Ave Maria (Parsons)
Final Hymn: Sing we of the blessed Mother (Abbot's Leigh)
Organ Voluntary: Allegro from Sonata No 5 BWV 529 (Bach)

Organist and Master of the Music: Duncan Ferguson
Assistant Organist: Donald Hunt.

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