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

BBC Radio 3

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Choral Evensong

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Music: Classical: Choral

Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: Blackburn Cathedral

Blackburn Cathedral

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, Blackburn Cathedral

Live from Blackburn Cathedral.

Introit: Lighten our darkness (Ed Jones)
Responses: Bertalot
Office Hymn: Dear Lord and Father of mankind (Repton)
Psalms 119 vv.1-32
First Lesson: Hosea 14 vv.1-7
Magnificat: Kelly in C
Second Lesson: 2 Timothy 4 vv.1-8
Nunc dimittis (Holst)
Anthem: Ave Maria (Parsons)
Prayer Anthem: Te lucis ante terminum (Francis Jackson)
Voluntary: Prélude, Fugue and Variation, Op 18 (Franck)

Samuel Hudson (Director of Music)
Shaun Turnbull (Organist)

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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