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Title Evensong for Ascensiontide / [service conducted by the Dean, the Revd. S.W. Sykes]
Published London, England : Decca, [2017]
℗1967

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Description 1 online resource (1 audio file)
Contents Organ voluntary : verse in Phrygian mode / Henry Purcell -- Introit : Psallite Domino / William Byrd -- Sentence, Exhortation, Confession. Absolution, The Lord's prayer -- Responses / Richard Ayleward -- Psalm 24 : the Earth is the Lord's / chant by J. Robinson -- Psalm 47 : O clap your hands together, all ye people / chant by J. Davy -- Psalm 108 : O God, my heart is ready / chants by J.A. Atevenson and R.P. Stewart -- First lesson : Daniel 7: 9-10 and 13-14 (rev. standard version) -- Office hymn : The head that once was crowned with thorns / tune, St. Magnus by J. Clarke -- Magnificat [from] Sumsion in G / Herbert Sumsion -- Second lesson : Hebrews I (rev. standard version) -- Nunc dimittis (Sumsion in G) -- The creed and lesser litany -- The Lord's prayer / John Farmer -- Preces / Richard Ayleward -- Collects -- Anthem : O clap your hands / R. Vaughan Williams -- College prayer and grace -- Hymn : The Lord ascendeth up on high / music by M. Praetorius -- Voluntary : Chorale prelude "Heut' trimphiret Gottes Sohn", BWV 630 / J.S. Bach
Notes The spoken portions of the service are read by the Dean, and other clergy of the College
Text of the musical portions of the service on slipcase
Originally issued with title "Ascensiontide service" on analog discs: Argo ZRG 511
Performer Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge ; Jonathan Bielby, organ ; London Brass Players (16th and 18th works) ; George Guest, director
Event Recorded 1966 May 16-17 Chapel of St. John's College, Cambridge
Notes Sung in English
Hard copy version record
Subject Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with organ.
Ascension Day -- Songs and music
Ascension Day
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with organ
Genre/Form Streaming audio
Songs and music
Form Streaming audio
Author Guest, George, 1924-2002, conductor.
Sykes, Stephen, participant
Bielby, Jonathan, instrumentalist
St. John's College (University of Cambridge). Choir, singer.
London Brass Players, instrumentalist.