The choir are delighted to have been invited to sing Choral Evensong
on the Feast of the Epiphany, Monday 6 January 2020. Please note
that the advertised service time is 6:00pm, but the service does not
begin until 6:05pm because the Cathedral keeps old ‘Oxford’ time
(i.e. five minute west of Greenwich).
The Responses and
Canticles are taken from our Evensong repertoire, and the anthem,
from William Crotch’s (1775-1847) oratorio Palestine, is especially
appropriate for The Epiphany (the twelfth day of Christmas, when
Christ was manifested to the Gentiles as represented by the Wise
Men), and for Christ Church, where Crotch was organist:
The choir are also delighted to have been invited by The Revd Canon
Nicholas Setterfield to sing the same same programme of music at our
“home” church of St Matthew’s, Northampton. So if you are not able
to join us in Oxford, why not come to St Matthew’s on Sunday 5
January 2020 at 5:30pm?
Lo! star-led chiefs
Assyrian odours bring,
And bending Magi seek their
infant King!
Marked ye, where, hovering
o'er His head,
The dove's white wings
celestial glory shed?
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Programme:
Northampton Bach Choir
Organist - Ivan Linford
Conductor - Lee Dunleavy
Dunleavy - Preces and Responses
Psalms 98 and 100
Smart - Evening Service in Bb
Crotch - Lo! star-led chiefs
Buxtehude - Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern, BuxWV 223
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