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BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

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Choral Evensong

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Music: Classical: Choral

Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: Chester Cathedral

Chester Cathedral

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, Chester Cathedral

Live from Chester Cathedral.

Introit: A new commandment (Tallis)
Responses: Radcliffe
Psalm 119 vv.145-176 (Crotch, Battishill, Wesley, Foster)
First Lesson: 1 Chronicles 29 vv.10-19
Office hymn: Almighty Lord, whose sovereign right (Golden Sheaves)
Canticles: Stanford in E flat
Second Lesson: Colossians 3 vv.12-17
Anthem: If the Lord had not helped me (Bairstow)
Hymn: All my hope on God is founded (Michael)
Voluntary: Plymouth Suite (Allegro risoluto) (Whitlock)

Philip Rushforth (Director of Music)
Andrew Wyatt (Assistant Director of Music)

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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