14 February 2018 - Choral Evensong for Ash Wednesday

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Tuesday, 6 March 2018

This week's webcast of Choral Evensong is of the Ash Wednesday service. The service features Thomas Tallis's 'Short' setting of the evening canticles, the first choral movement of J.S. Bach's Cantata BWV 12 Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen,which was later reworked as the Crucifixus for his Mass in B Minor, as well as Allegri's celebrated setting of Psalm 51.

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Continuing their Magnificat series, and the last album of Andrew Nethsingha’s tenure as director, The Choir of St John’s College Cambridge present Magnificat 4 with works from composers including Judith Weir, Jonathan Dove, Joanna Forbes L’Estrange and Charles Villiers Stanford.

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