BBC Choral Evensong: St Albans Cathedral 1978 (Peter Hurford)

Live BBC radio broadcast from St Albans Cathedral & Abbey, 12 July 1978, with the choir of St Albans Cathedral, conducted by Peter Hurford. Assistant Organist: Andrew Parnell
Introit: Lucis Creator optime (Henry Washington)
Responses: Bernard Rose
Psalms: 65, 66, 67
Office Hymn: Lord of all being
Canticles: Evening Service in A (Edward Woodall Naylor)
Anthem: I saw the Lord (John Stainer)
The spoken parts of the service, together with the announcements, were edited out of the recording before it was donated to the Archive.

[@decalto1505]

The three chants to the Psalms are by Thomas Attwood Walmisley. They are available in most published Psalters and Chant Books. The last one is usually sung to the words of Psalm 49.

[@Plantinga314]

Thank you heartily for such this most informed and helpful annotation. Happy Christmas. And God rest ye merry!

[@treblechoir99]

Thank you.

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You're welcome!

[@markadams6070]

I give God thanks for Peter Hurford. So proud to have sung under his charismatic leadership. He enabled ordinary people to achieve the extraordinary.