BBC Choral Evensong: Washington National Cathedral USA 1993 (Douglas Major)

Service recorded in Washington National Cathedral USA in assocation with Radio America and broadcast on BBC Radio, 14 April 1993, with the choir of Washington Cathedral, directed by Douglas Major, and assistant organist Michael Velting. The Lessons were edited out of this recording before it was donated to the Archive. Introit: For Easter Day (David Koehring) Hymn: Christ is alive (“Truro”, arr Richard Dirksen) Responses: Douglas Major Phos Hilaron: Tone I (Plainsong) Psalm: 115 (Tonus Peregrinus, with handbells) First Lesson: Micah 7, vv 7-15 Canticles: Leo Sowerby in E minor Second Lesson: I Corinthians 15, vv 30-41 Anthem: Christ the Lord is risen today (Ned Rorem) Anthem: Come ye faithful (Philip Baker) Anthem: Christ our Passover (Richard Dirksen) Hymn: The Lord of Life (“Gelobt sei Gott”) Postlude: Grand Chœur dialogué [orchestrated] (Eugène Gigout)