BBC Choral Evensong: Truro Cathedral 1985 (John Winter)

Pre-recorded service broadcast on 11 September 1985, with the choir of Truro Cathedral, directed by John Winter and accompanies by Henry Doughty. The Lessons were edited out of the copy donated to the Archive.
Introit: O how amiable are thy dwellings (William Prendergast)
Responses: Bernard Rose
Psalms: 59, 60 (Bishop, Sterndale Bennett, Battishill)
Office Hymn: Lord Christ, who on thy heart (“Gonfalon Royal”)
Canticles: Murrill in E
Anthem: Exsultate justi (Lodovico Grossi da Viadana)
Hymn: Lord, teach us how to pray aright (“St Hugh”)
Organ voluntary: Fugue on the Magnificat, BWV 733 (Johann Sebastian Bach)

[@Mark_Dyer1]

Thank you for posting this. Of all Gothic Revival churches, the Cathedral for Truro, by Joseph Pearson, is by far the finest and most successful. It is a wonderful essay in Early English Gothic (Pearson's favourite Gothic 'order'); and the way the cathedral sits among Truro's little streets is very French, in feel. To view the Cathedral from the train, as one crosses the viaduct is a real architectural experience: akin to that of Durham, in its way. Truro also has a wonderful organ and choir. Long may they flourish!

[@brucewilliams8714]

Amen to that.
I had the great pleasure to be in the cathedral, and part of the Christmas Eve 1980 commemoration of the centennial of the first Service of Nine Lessons and Carols begun by Bishop Benson in 1880, and later made famous by the choir of King's College, Cambridge. I was visiting Britain and had just arrived in Truro that afternoon. My ancestors came to Australia from St. Ellen, outside Truro, about 190 years ago.

[@johnparsons1241]

So nice to hear the Murrill Mag &
Nunc. We had it at our wedding.