Choral Evensong

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Choral Evensong: Durham Cathedral

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BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, Durham Cathedral

Live from Durham Cathedral, with music by Lloyd, Leighton, Bairstow and Howells.

Live from Durham Cathedral to mark the 1,000th anniversary of the relocation of the relics of the Venerable Bede from Jarrow to Durham.

Introit: Christ is the morning star (Lloyd)
Responses: Leighton
Psalms 93, 94 (Macfarren, Clark, Stanford, Garrett)
First Lesson: Hosea 13 vv.4-14
Canticles: Second Service (Leighton)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 15 vv.50-58
Anthem: Blessed City, Heavenly Salem (Bairstow)
Hymn: Ring Christ, ring Mary, Benedict and Bede (Woodlands)
Voluntary: Partita (Intrada) (Howells)

Daniel Cook (Master of the Choristers and Organist)
Joseph Beech (Sub-Organist)

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