BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong Broadcast

On Wednesday 8 July the choir sang Choral Evensong live on BBC Radio 3 to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Charles Wood’s death.

Introit: O thou sweetest source (Wood)
Responses: Sarah MacDonald
Psalms 41, 42, 43 (Wesley, van den Heuvel ‘after Wood’)
First Lesson: Isaiah 26 vv1-9
Office Hymn: Christ who knows all his sheep (Cambridge)
Canticles: Wood in A flat
Second Lesson: Romans 8 vv12-27
Anthem: Expectans expectavi (Wood)
Hymn-Anthem: God omnipotenteth reigneth (Wood)
Voluntary: Chorale Fantasia on ‘The Old Hundredth’ (Parry)

Matthew Martin (Precentor)
Eben Eyres, Jack van den Heuvel (Organ Scholars)

The service is available to listen to on demand on BBC Sounds and will be repeated on Sunday 12 July, 6pm on BBC Radio 3