Choral Evensong is aired twice weekly – live at 4pm 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 September
(rpt Sun 11th Sept)
Washington National Cathedral
Introit: My house shall be called a house of prayer (Douglas Major)
Introduction (The Very Revd Samuel T Lloyd)
Pie Jesu (Duruflé)
Reading: Isaiah 58 vv9-12
I love the Lord (Jonathan Harvey)
Reading: Look at Love (Rumi)
There is a balm in Gilead (arr. Dawson)
Reading: Revelation 21 vv1-5
Welcome sweet and sacred Feast (Finzi)
Reading: New Vows (Louise Erdrich)
Set me as a seal (René Clausen)
Reading Matthew 25 vv34-40
Homily (The Very Revd Samuel T Lloyd)
Hymn: Great is thy faithfulness
Prayers
Geistliches Lied (Brahms)
Organ Voluntary: Fugue in E flat (St Anne) BWV 552b (Bach)
Director of Music: Michael McCarthy
Organist: Jeremy Filsell
Weds 14th September
(rpt Sun 18th Sept)
Royal Academy of Music Chamber Choir at Neresheim Abbey, Germany
Prelude:Sinfonia settima (Johann Rosenmüller )
Introit: Adoramus te Jesu Christe (Jacob Handl)
Initium: Deus in adjutorium (Giovanni Gastoldi)
Psalms: Dixit Dominus, Laudate pueri (Anon 17th cent)
Reading:1 Corinthians 1 vv18-25
Responsorium: O Crux ave (Richard Dering)
Homily:The Revd Fr Gregor Hammes OSB
Office Hymn: Vexilla Regis (Monteverdi)
Magnificat on the eighth tone (Johann Kaspar Kerll)
Prayers and Lord’s Prayer (Robert Stone)
Anthem: Laudate Dominum (Monteverdi)
Chorale: Zieh an die Macht, du Arm des Herr
Organ Postlude: Toccata I (Georg Muffat)
Celebrant:The Very Revd Prior Fr Albert Knebel OSB
Director of Music: Patrick Russill
Organists: Richard Brasier, Peter Holder
Weds 21st September
(rpt Sun 25th Sept)
Clare College, Cambridge at St Matthew’s Church, Northampton
Introit: Let all the world in every corner sing (Leighton)
Responses: Kenneth Leighton
Psalms: 119 vv33-40, 89-96 (Jones, Crotch)
First Lesson: Ecclesiastes 5 vv4-12
Canticles: Walton Chichester Service
Second Lesson: Matthew 19 vv16-end
Anthem: Rejoice in the Lamb (Britten)
Hymn: Thine arm, O Lord, in days of old (St Matthew)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue on a theme of Victoria (Britten)
Graham Ross (Director of Music)
Nicolas Haigh (Senior Organ Scholar)
Peter Harrison (Junior Organ Scholar)
Weds 28th September
(rpt Sun 2nd October)
Southern Cathedrals Festival at Winchester Cathedral
Introit: Hail gladdening light (Wood)
Responses: Rose
Psalm: 91 (Alcock)
First Lesson: 2 Kings 6vv8-17
Canticles: Stanford in A
Second Lesson: Matthew 18vv1-6, 10
Anthem: Te Deum (Collegium Regale- Howells)
Hymn: Ye holy angels bright (Darwall’s 148th)
Organ Voluntary: Fugue on the chorale ‘Ad nos, ad salutarem undam’ (Liszt)
Director of Music: Andrew Lumsden
Organist: Simon Bell
Weds 21st Sept 2011
(rpt.) Sun 25th Sept 2011
Exeter Cathedral