Live Choral Evensong broadcast on BBC Radio 3

Date: Wednesday 26 April 2023
Time: 16:00 - 17:00

Live from the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford. All welcome to join us in Chapel, no booking required.

Please be seated by 3.45pm. 

Introit: Sing my soul, his wondrous love (Rorem)
Responses: Byrd
Office hymn: The Lamb’s high banquet we await (Deus tuorum militum)
Psalms 67, 72 (Bairstow, Bairstow)
First Lesson: Genesis 3 vv.8-21
Canticles: Chichester Service (Walton)
Second Lesson: 1 Corinthians 15 vv.12-28
Anthem: Blessed be the God and Father (Wesley)
Hymn: Walking in a garden (Dun Aluinn)
Voluntary: Symphonie-Passion (Résurrection) (Dupré)

Benjamin Nicholas (Director of Music)
Owen Chan, Francois Cloete (Organ Scholars)