BBC Choral Evensong: Christ Church Cathedral Oxford 1976 (Simon Preston)

Описание: Live BBC radio broadcast from the chapel of Christ Church Oxford, 28 January 1976, with the choir of Christ Church, directed by Simon Preston. Assistant organist: Nicholas Cleobury. Organ scholar: Colin Walsh.

Responses: Ayleward
Psalms: 136, 137, 138 (Lloyd, Lloyd, Ley)
Lessons: Isaiah 49, vv 22-26; 1 Corinthians 12, vv 1-11
Canticles: Great Service in D (C Hubert H Parry)
Anthem: For lo, I raise up (Charles Villiers Stanford)

A point of interest in this recording is that, although the last three verses of Psalm 137 are usually omitted, here the psalm is sung in full:

1 By the waters of Babylon we sat down and wept : when we remembered thee, O Sion.
2 As for our harps, we hanged them up : upon the trees that are therein.
3 For they that led us away captive, required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness : Sing us one of the songs of Sion.
4 How shall we sing the Lord’s song : in a strange land?
5 If I forget thee, O Jerusalem : let my right hand forget her cunning.
6 If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth : yea, if I prefer not Jerusalem in my mirth.
7 Remember the children of Edom, O Lord, in the day of Jerusalem : how they said, Down with it, down with it, even to the ground.
8 O daughter of Babylon, wasted with misery : yea, happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us.
9 Blessed shall he be that taketh thy children : and throweth them against the stones.