Choral Evensong

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Choral Evensong: Chapel of Merton College, Oxford

Merton College, Oxford

Chapel of Merton College, Oxford

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, Chapel of Merton College, Oxford

Live from the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford.

Live from the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, with music by Ernest Bullock, George Dyson, James MacMillan and Jean-Jacques Grunenwald.

Live from the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford.

Introit: Give us the wings of faith (Bullock)
Responses: Ayleward
Psalm 119 vv.1-16 (Woods, Parratt)
First Lesson: Jeremiah 3 vv.11-18
Office hymn: The eternal gifts of Christ the King (Gonfalon Royal)
Canticles: Dyson in F
Second Lesson: Jude vv.1-4, 17-25
Anthem: A New Song (James MacMillan)
Hymn: Jerusalem the Golden (Ewing)
Voluntary: Hymne aux mémoires héroiques (Grunenwald)

Benjamin Nicholas (Director of Music)
Simon Hogan (Organist)
Kentaro Machida (Organ Scholar)

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