Choral Evening Prayer Wed, 6th August 2014

[DracoM]

Choral Evening Prayer
Buckfast Abbey, Devon
2014 Exon Singers' Festival



Order of Service:



Introit: An Introit for Transfiguration (Robin Holloway) (First performance)
Responses: Plainsong
Office Hymn: O vision blest of heavenly light (Coelestis gloriae)
Psalms: 97, 121 (Plainsong; Robin Holloway)
First Lesson: 2 Peter 1: 16-19
Anthem: Christus Jesus splendor Patris (Massaino)
Second Lesson: Matthew 17: 1-9
Homily: The Rt Revd David Charlesworth, Abbot of Buckfast
Canticle: Magnificat quarti toni (Palestrina)
Lord's Prayer (Toby Young ) (First performance)
Motet: Ave Maria (Josquin)
Final Hymn: 'Tis good, Lord, to be here (Carlisle)



Organ Voluntary: Hymne d'Actions de graces: 'Te Deum' (Langlais)



Jeffrey Makinson (Organist)
Richard Wilberforce (Music Director)

[EnzoElgar]

Recorded this very afternoon.

[DracoM]

And the new pieces?

[EnzoElgar]

A very prayerful service with a nice mix of new and old music.

[DracoM]

Particularly the plainchant. Less is more.