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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

Religion & Ethics

Music: Classical: Choral

Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: Salisbury Cathedral

La Nuova Musica - Handel's Israel in Egpyt

Salisbury Cathedral

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, Salisbury Cathedral

Live from Salisbury Cathedral.

Introit: Remember not, Lord, our offences (Purcell)
Responses: Tomkins
Psalms 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131 (Cutler, Goss, Goss, Jones, Walford Davies, Rogers)
First Lesson: Genesis 9 vv.8-17
Office hymn: Drop, drop, slow tears (Song 46)
Canticles: Second Service (Gibbons)
Second Lesson: 1 Peter 3 vv.18-22
Anthem: Let mine eyes run down with tears (Purcell)
Hymn: God moves in a mysterious way (London New)
Voluntary: Fantasia in A minor (Byrd)

David Halls (Director of Music)
John Challenger (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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