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Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: Merton College, Oxford

Music: Classical

Merton College, Oxford

11/01/2017

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, Merton College, Oxford

From the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford.

Live from the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford

Introit: A Boy Was Born (Britten)
Responses: Ayleward
Psalms 110, 111 (Smart, Woodward)
First Lesson: Isaiah 49 vv.1-7
Canticles: Dyson in D
Second Lesson: Hebrews 1 vv.1-12
Anthem: Christmas Sequence (Robin Holloway) first broadcast
Carol: The First Nowell (arr. Willcocks)
Organ Voluntary: Les Enfants de Dieu (La Nativité) (Messiaen)

Director of Music: Benjamin Nicholas
Organ Scholars: Alexander Little, Thomas Fetherstonhaugh

Picture: John Cairns.

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