St Peter's Church, Great Berkhamsted

The Church of St Peter Great Berkhamsted

St Peter's Parish News

Thursday 1 January 1970
BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong

This week’s BBC Radio 3 Choral Evensong came live from St Paul’s Cathedral. A lustily sung psalm is followed by a blest pair of evening canticles by Thomas Attwood Walmisley and Charles Wood, and Hubert Parry clamorous setting of Milton’s mystical ode, Blest pair of Sirens.

Introit: A Blessing (Judith Bingham)
Responses: Radcliffe
Canticles: Magnificat in B flat (Walmisley); Nunc dimittis in B flat (Wood)
Anthem: Blest pair of Sirens (Parry)
Voluntary: Fantasia and Fugue in G major (Parry)

Andrew Carwood (Director of Music)
James Orford (Organist)

The next choral evensong at St Peter’s Berkhamsted will be on Sunday 8 February – details to be announced next week.