Choral Evensong - Thursday 23 May 2024 - from Merton College Chapel, Oxford

Prelude His Humour Farnaby
Responses Smith
Psalms 138, 140, 141
Canticles Fifth Service Tomkins
Anthem See, see the word is incarnate Gibbons
Hymn 467
Voluntary Prelude and Fugue in A BWV 536 JS Bach
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"In fact, the level of ambition underpinning this new Merton College Choir [is] quite dizzying." - BBC
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The Choir of Merton College consists of 30 undergraduate and graduate students at Oxford University, UK reading for degrees in a variety of subjects. The choir's primary duty is singing at regular services of Evensong and Choral Eucharist in the famous 13th-century Chapel.
Since the establishment of Merton’s Choral Foundation in 2008, the choir has gained an international reputation for offering the best of choral music through tours, recordings and broadcasts. In 2020, the choir won the award for best choral album at the BBC Music Magazine Awards for its recording of Gabriel Jackson’s The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. The choir’s discography on the Delphian Label has seen numerous five star reviews and many recordings have been named ‘Editor’s Choice’ by Gramophone magazine.

[@Bailey2006a]

Nicely done organist...beautiful rendition of the Bach.

[@mcmurtrie1]

Beautiful!