BBC Choral Evensong: Salisbury Cathedral 1968 (Richard Seal)

Live BBC broadcast from the Trinity Chapel of Salisbury Cathedral, 20 November 1968, with the cathedral choir, directed by Richard Seal and accompanied by Michael Smith (organ).
Introit: Let my prayer come up (John Blow)
Responses: William Smith
Psalm 104 (Goss, Russell, Turle)
Lessons: Proverbs 22, vv 1-16; 1 John 2, vv 18-29
Canticles: Evening Service in G minor (Henry Purcell)
Anthem: O sing unto the Lord (Henry Purcell)
Hymn: The spacious firmament on high (“London”)

[@howardshelton]

With the unmistakeable bass voice of the legendary Claud Norris!

[@remyworldpeace]

Lovely service I hadn't listened to before. I love the Purcell canticles

[@howardshelton]

RIP Richard Godfrey Seal (1936-2022) with whom I had the great good fortune to sing at Salisbury from 1972 to 1977

[@jonb6417]

No doubt that these are lads, not girls, eh, Salisbury! Sung with power and gusto, what a great service! And no errors in the tricky bits of the Mag either. Edit: And having listened to it again, how absolutely perfect and sublime is the start of the Nunc Gloria at 20'09". I've never heard that sung as well anywhere by any choir.

[@Mark_Dyer1]

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