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Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: Chichester Cathedral

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Chichester Cathedral

01/02/2017

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, Chichester Cathedral

From Chichester Cathedral on the eve of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.

From Chichester Cathedral on the eve of the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple.

Live from Chichester Cathedral on the Eve of the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple

Introit: Sicut audivimus (Byrd)
Responses: Philip Moore
Office Hymn: In our darkness light has shone (Upton Cheyney)
Psalm 118 (Atkins, Pye)
First Lesson: 1 Samuel 1 vv.19b-28
Canticles: Sumsion in G
Second Lesson: Hebrews 4 vv.11-18
Anthem: Suscepimus Deus (Byrd)
Hymn: Hail to the Lord who comes (Old 120th)
Organ Voluntary: Introduction, Passacagalia and Fugue (Healey Willan)

Organist and Master of the Choristers: Charles Harrison
Assistant Organist: Timothy Ravalde.

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