Choral Evensong is aired twice weekly on Radio 3 – live at 3.30 pm on Wednesday and repeated at 4pm Sunday. Choral Evensong was first broadcast on Thursday 7 October 1926 live from Westminster Abbey and has been broadcast weekly on BBC Radio ever since.
Weds 7th Dec 2011 (rpt Sun 11th Dec 2011) – Live from Norwich Cathedral on the First Evensong of the Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
Introit: Hail gladdening light (Wood) Responses: Ayleward Hymn: O strength and stay (O strength and stay) Psalm: 37 (Goss, Ouseley) First Lesson: Amos 9 vv11-end Canticles: Howells in B minor Second Lesson: Philippians 4 vv4-9 Anthem: And I saw a new heaven (Bainton) Anthem: A hymn to the Virgin (Britten) Organ Voluntary: Moderato con moto from Sonata in A minor (William Harris) Thomas Primrose (Conductor) David Dunnet (Organist)
Weds 14th Dec 2011 (rpt Sun 18th Dec 2011) – Chapel of Worksop College with the Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.
Introit: Sanctus (Alcock) Responses: Geoffrey Webber Office Hymn: Sancte Cuthberte (Laus Patrono) Psalm: 38 (Webber) First Lesson: Jeremiah 7 vv1-11 Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D minor (Vaughan Williams) Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 2 vv1-10 Anthem: Komm, Jesu, komm (Bach) Hymn: Hills of the North, rejoice (Little Cornard) Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in C minor (Vaughan Williams) Geoffrey Webber (Director of Music) Annie Lydford and Nick Lee (Organ Scholars) Timothy Uglow (Director of Music at Worksop College)
Weds 21st Dec 2011
(no repeat) –
Portsmouth Cathedral
Introit: Hymn to the Mother of God (John Tavener) Responses: Clucas Hymn: Creator of the stars of night (Conditor alme) Psalms: 81, 84 (Plainsong) First Lesson: Isaiah 55 Canticles on Plainsong Tones (Arthur Wills) Second Lesson: 2 Peter 2vv4-end Anthem: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (Praetorius) Hymn: Hark, what a sound (Highwood) Organ Voluntary: Les enfants de Dieu from La Nativité du Seigneur (Messiaen) David Price (Organist and Master of the Choristers) William Drakett and Nick Miller (Acting Sub-Organists)
Weds 28th Dec 2011 (rpt 1st Jan 2012) – St John’s Church, Upper Norwood, London with the Choir of King’s College, London on the Feast of the Holy Innocents
Introit: Vox in Rama (Bernadino de Ribera) Responses: Tomkins Office Hymn: Salvete flores martyrum (Victoria) Psalms: 123 (Roseingrave) 124 (Knight) 127 (Garrett) and 128 (Turle) First lesson: Jeremiah 31, vv15-17 Magnificat sexti toni a 12 (Victoria) Second lesson: Matthew 2, vv13-18 Nunc dimittis (Victoria) Anthem: Singet dem Herrn BWV 225 (Bach) Hymn: Unto us is born a Son Organ Voluntary: Prelude in G major BWV 541 (Bach) Director of Music: David Trendell Organ Scholars: Richard Hall and Christopher Woodward