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Choral Evensong for BBC Broadcast

Choral Evensong for BBC Broadcast

4pm, Gloucester Cathedral

Graham Ross I Sing of a Maiden

Premièred in Gloucester Cathedral on 11 July 2009, this anthem won the John Sanders Memorial Prize for Composition. Graham is one of today’s youngest published composers, with works published by Novello & Co, Oxford University Press and the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music. He is an SPNM shortlisted composer (Society for the Promotion of New Music), and his works are housed in the British Music Information Centre.

Leighton Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense

This set of evening canticles were written for Magdalen College, Oxford in 1959 and commissioned by Bernard Rose. Leighton was one of Britain’s most distinguished post-war composers with over 100 compositions published (mostly by Novello & Co), many of which were written to commission.

Walton The Twelve

An anthem written for the 'Feast of Any Apostle' on a wondeful text by WH Auden, it was first performed in Christ Church, Oxford in May 1965.

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