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

From the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford.

From the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford, with music by Bach, Elgar, Stanford and Hassler.

From the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford.

Prelude: In dir ist Freude (Bach)
Introit: Ecce sacerdos magnus (Elgar)
Responses: Ayleward
Psalms 47, 48 (Nares, Walmisley)
First Lesson: Exodus 15 vv.1-19
Office hymn: Jesus, our master and our only saviour (Iste Confessor)
Magnificat: Stanford in B flat 
Second Lesson: Colossians 2 vv.8-15
Nunc dimittis: Wood in B flat
Anthem: Tribus miraculis (Hassler)
Hymn: O what their joy and glory must be (Regnator orbis)
Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in A, BWV 536 (Bach)

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

Recorded 27 October.

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