Choral Evensong on the Fourth Sunday before Lent - 9 February 2025 - from Merton College Chapel

Prelude Suite du troisième ton - Guillain
Introit Prevent us, O Lord - Byrd
Responses Shephard
Psalm 2
Canticles Gloucester Service - Howells
Anthem O sing unto the Lord - Tomkins
Hymns 476, 54, 346
Preacher The Revd Canon Jack Noble
Rector of St Giles, Cripplegate
Voluntary Fantasia and Toccata in D Minor - Stanford
/ mertoncollchoir
/ mertoncollchoir
"atmospheric...There is an uncommon intimacy to the broadcasts from the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford" Gramophone, February 2024
The Choir of Merton College consists of 30 undergraduate and graduate students at Oxford University, UK reading for degrees in a variety of subjects. The choir's primary duty is singing at regular services of Evensong and Choral Eucharist in the famous 13th-century Chapel.
Since the establishment of Merton’s Choral Foundation in 2008, the choir has gained an international reputation for offering the best of choral music through tours, recordings and broadcasts. In 2020, the choir won the award for best choral album at the BBC Music Magazine Awards for its recording of Gabriel Jackson’s The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. The choir’s discography on the Delphian Label has seen numerous five star reviews and many recordings have been named ‘Editor’s Choice’ by Gramophone magazine.