BBC Choral Evensong: Manchester Cathedral 1993 (Stuart Beer)

Live BBC broadcast from Manchester Cathedral, 24 November 1993, with the cathedral choir, directed by Stuart Beer, and Christopher Stokes (organist). The Lessons were edited out of the recording before it was donated to the Archive. The accompanying graphic is used by kind permission of Ope O (  / greatarsenal  .

Responses: Thomas Tomkins
Psalm 119, vv 1-32 (Walford Davies, Flintoft, Bairstow, Day)
First Lesson: Hosea 11 vv 1-11
Office Hymn: O Holy Spirit, Lord of Grace (“Tallis’s Ordinal”)
Canticles: Fifth Service (Thomas Tomkins)
Second Lesson: Matthew 12 vv 1-21
Anthem: When David heard that Absolom was slain (Thomas Tomkins)
Hymn: Holy Spirit, ever dwelling (“Salisbury”)
Organ Voluntary: Master Tallis’s Testament (Herbert Howells)

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