Forthcoming broadcasts by BBC of Choral Evensong are from Winchester, Exeter, Westminster Abbey, Peterborough and Merton College. 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 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 5th October 2011
(rpt.) Sun 9th Oct 2011
Exeter Cathedral
Introit: A Celtic Psalm (Stephen Tanner)
Responses: Shephard
Psalms: 27, 28, 29 (Monk, Clark, Hylton-Stewart, Atkins)
Hymn: O blest creator of the light (Lucis Creator)
First Lesson: Proverbs 2 vv1-15
Canticles: Gloucester Service (Richard Shephard)
Second Lesson: Colossians 1 vv9-20
Anthem: Laudate Dominum (Ronald Corp) (first broadcast)
Hymn: Word of God, come down on earth (Liebster Jesu)
Organ Voluntary: Dance Rondo (Philip Moore)
Stephen Tanner (Director of the choir)
David Davies (Organist)
Weds 12th October 2011
(rpt.) Sun 16th Oct 2011
Westminster Abbey on the Eve of the Feast of Edward the Confessor
Introit: Os justi meditabitur (Bruckner)
Responses: Matthew Martin
Psalms: 98, 99 (Elvey, Morley)
First Lesson: Ecclesiasticus 2 vv7-18
Canticles: The Second Service (Leighton)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 1 vv18-end
Anthem: Give unto the Lord (Elgar)
Hymn: Christ is the King (Vulpius)
Organ Voluntary: Prelude and Fugue in B flat Op 35 no 6 (Mendelssohn)
James O’Donnell (Organist and Master of the Choristers)
Robert Quinney (Sub Organist)
Weds 19th October 2011
(no repeat)
Peterborough Cathedral
Introit: My God, how wonderful thou art (Richard Scarth)
Responses: Morley
Psalms: 98, 99, 100, 101 (Monk, Alcock, Elgar, Nicholson)
Hymn: Creator of the earth and sky (Deus Creator)
First Lesson: 1 Kings 22vv29-45
Canticles: Downing Service (Bob Chilcott)
Second Lesson: Acts 23 vv12-end
Anthem: Mater Christi sanctissima (Taverner)
Hymn: Word of the Father (Ad Tuum Nomen)
Organ Voluntary: Joie et clarté des corps glorieux (Messiaen)
Andrew Reid (Director of Music)
David Humphreys (Assistant Director of Music)
Weds 26th October 2011
(rpt.) Sun 30th Oct 2011
Merton College, Oxford
Introit: O quam gloriosum (Victoria)
Responses: Smith
Psalm: 119 vv145-176 (Murrill, Lang, Knight, Buck)
First Lesson: Baruch 5
Canticles: Howells in G
Second Lesson: Mark 1 vv1-11
Anthem: Valiant for Truth (Vaughan Williams)
Hymn: When all thy mercies, O my God (Contemplation)
Organ Voluntary: Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist BWV 671 (Bach)
Benjamin Nicholas and Peter Phillips (Directors of Music)
Anna Steppler (Organ Scholar)
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