Sung Vespers from Brompton Oratory, Live Now on BBC3 Streaming

Thanks to a reader tip, the NLM can inform you of a wonderful and rare opportunity for listener's who cannot visit London to hear sung Vespers live from the London Oratory today at 11:00AM EST (4:00PM BST) via BBC Radio 3's Choral Evensong programme.

Organ Prelude: Intonatio del settimo tono (Andrea Gabrieli)
Invitatory: Deu in adjutorium meum (Croce)
Antiphons and Psalms: 110, 111, 112, 113, 117 (Plainsong)
Hymn: Iste confessor (Palestrina)
Antiphon: Hic vir despiciens (Plainsong)
Canticle: Magnificat octavi toni (Victoria)
Motet: O viridissima virga (Hildegard of Bingen)
Antiphon of Our Lady: Salve Regina (Philips)
Organ Voluntary: Chaconne in F (Fischer)

Organist: John McGreal
Celebrant: The Very Rev Ignatius Harrison
Director of Music: Patrick Russill

It's on now. Click on the "listen live" link in the upper right hand corner of the Choral Evensong link above.

1 posted on 09/17/2008 8:18:26 AM PDT by Pyro7480

To: Siobhan; Canticle_of_Deborah; NYer; Salvation; american colleen; Desdemona; StAthanasiustheGreat; ..

Catholic ping!

2 posted on 09/17/2008 8:19:13 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If the angels could be jealous of men, they would be so for one reason: Holy Communion." -M. Kolbe)

To: Siobhan; Canticle_of_Deborah; NYer; Salvation; american colleen; Desdemona; StAthanasiustheGreat; ..

I should add that if you can't listen to it live now, you'll be able to listen to it for the next week later at the following link (it may go up as late as Friday or the weekend even, so be patient): Choral Evensong.

3 posted on 09/17/2008 8:29:59 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If the angels could be jealous of men, they would be so for one reason: Holy Communion." -M. Kolbe)

I clicked on “Listen Live” and nothing happened. I must be doing something wrong. And I so wanted to be soothed.

4 posted on 09/17/2008 8:36:01 AM PDT by Savage Beast (If anyone can deal with a hostile climate and a pack of wolves it's the Governor of Alaska!)

It required Real Player.

5 posted on 09/17/2008 8:50:55 AM PDT by Pyro7480 ("If the angels could be jealous of men, they would be so for one reason: Holy Communion." -M. Kolbe)

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