Choral Evensong

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Sung choral evening services from around the country

Choral Evensong: Tewkesbury Abbey

Tewkesbury Abbey

BBC Radio 3 - Choral Evensong, Tewkesbury Abbey

Live from Tewkesbury Abbey with music by Walton, Leighton and Hadley.

Live from Tewkesbury Abbey

Introit: My beloved spake (Hadley)
Responses: Richard Ayleward
Psalm: 25 (Stonex)
First Lesson: Job 23: 1-12
Office hymn: Twin princes of the courts of heaven (Gonfalon Royal)
Canticles: Chichester Service (Walton)
Second Lesson: John 1: 43-51
Anthem: Give me the wings of faith (Leighton)
Hymn: Who are these like stars appearing (All Saints)
Voluntary: Introduction and Passacaglia (Roy Massey)

Simon Bell (Director of Music)
Carleton Etherington (Organist)

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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