Choral Evensong

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Choral Evensong: St Ann's Church, Manchester

St Ann's Church, Manchester

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, St Ann's Church, Manchester

Live from St Ann’s Church, Manchester, with the HeartEdge Manchester Choral Scholars and Choral Scholars of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Music by Chilcott, Sumsion and Smith Moore.

Live from St Ann’s Church, Manchester with the HeartEdge Manchester Choral Scholars and Choral Scholars of St Martin-in-the-Fields.

Introit: It is a thing most wonderful (Bob Chilcott)
Responses: Sumsion
Psalms 32, 33, 34 (Atkins, Pye, Lawes)
First Lesson: Job 36 vv.1-12
Office hymn: Father, hear the prayer we offer (Cypress Court)
Canticles: Sumsion in G
Second Lesson: John 14 vv.1-14
Anthem: Save us, O Lord (Bairstow)
Prayer anthem: We shall walk through the valley in peace (Trad., arr. Undine Smith Moore)
Hymn: Praise to the holiest in the height (Chorus Angelorum)
Voluntary: Rhapsody No. 1 in D flat major (Howells)
 
Andrew Earis (Director of Music)
Olivia Tait (Choral Conducting Fellow)
Jeffrey Makinson (Organ)

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