Webcasts

We were the first Choir of our kind to broadcast weekly webcasts of our services. Find our most recent live recordings here.

02 Nov 19 - Eucharist for All Souls' Day

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2 November 2019

This week's webcast is taken from a Eucharist commemorating All Souls departed. Composers have approached the topic of death in a multitude of fashions, but Fauré himself described his attitude towards death 'as a happy deliverance, an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful

10 November 2019 - Remembrance Sunday Eucharist

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10 November 2019

This week's webcast is the Eucharist held in memory of the fallen of both World Wars and all subsequent conflicts. The Choir sings Duruflé's masterful and moving setting of the Requiem featuring the treatment and weaving-in of traditional plainsong themes amongst his characteristic harmony.

09 October 2019 - Evensong

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9 October 2019

Responses and Preces: Rose
Psalm 46 (tone v)
Lassus: Magnificat tertii toni
Nunc Dimittis tertii toni
Boyce: The Lord is King

20 October 2019 - Evensong

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20 October 2019

Responses and Preces: Radcliffe
Psalm 102 vv. 1–16 (Macpherson, Wesley)
Murrill in E
Purcell: Rejoice in the Lord alway
Hymns (NEH): 359 (tune 322), 265
Preacher: The Rev’d Canon Leanne Roberts, Canon Treasurer, Southwark Cathedral
Not in Polite Society – Class
Voluntary: Pott Laudes

12 July 2019 - Evensong sung by past and present members of the College Choir

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12 July 2019

Introit: Howells A Hymn for St Cecilia
Responses and Preces: Radcliffe
Psalm 139 vv. 1–18, 23–24 (Skeats)
Stanford in C
Tavener: The Lord’s Prayer
Parry: Hear my words, ye people
Hymn 408(i)
Voluntary: Parry Fantasia and Fugue in G

18 May 2019 - Choral Evensong

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18 May 2019

Responses and Preces: Radcliffe
Psalm 90 (Hylton Stewart, Thalben-Ball)
Walton: Chichester Service
Tavener: The Lord’s Prayer
Bernstein: Chichester Psalms
Hymn 112
Voluntary: Widor Finale (Symphony Romane)

23 May 2019 - Choral Evensong

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23 May 2019

Responses and Preces: Radcliffe
Psalms 110 (Lloyd), 111 (Smart)
Bevan: Magnificat octavi toni
Nunc Dimittis octavi toni
Tavener: The Lord’s Prayer
Boulanger: Lux aeterna
Hymn 486

26 May 2019 - Sung Eucharist

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26 May 2019

Introit: Byrd Gloria Tibi Domine
Tye: Missa Euge Bone
Gradual: Psalm 68 vv. 1–10 (tone v)
Preacher: The Chaplain
Credo: VI
Hymns 239, 494 (tune 413)
Voluntary: Tomkins A Substantial Verse

02 June 2019 - Sung Eucharist

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2 June 2019

Britten: Missa Brevis
Gradual: Psalm 97 (Martin)
Preacher: The Chaplain
Credo: VII
Hymns 134, 128
Voluntary: Prelude in E minor BWV 548

05 June 2019 - Choral Evensong

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5 June 2019

Responses and Preces: Rose
Psalm 28 (tone iv)
Moore (First Service)
Anna Semple: Footsteps in the Sand

06 July 2019 - Evensong with Electronics

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6 July 2019

Responses and Preces: Rose
Psalm 32 (Rogers)
Murrill in E
Nunn: Sitivit anima mea
Hymn 368
Voluntary: Vierne Final (Symphonie III)

09 June 2019 - Sung Eucharist

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9 June 2019

Introit: Palestrina Dum complerentur
Dove: Missa Brevis
Gradual: Psalm 104 vv. 24–34, 35b (tone iii)
Preacher: Sion Hughes Carew, Ordinand, Westcott House
Credo: I
Hymns 137, 367
Voluntary: Duruflé Choral Varié sur le thème du ‘Veni Creator’

07 July 2019 - Sung Eucharist

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7 July 2019

Introit: Gibbons This is the record of John
Poulenc: Mass in G
Gradual: Psalm 66 vv. 1–8 (tone i)
Preacher: The Dean
Credo: IV
Hymns 391, 336 (omit v. 2)
Voluntary: J.S. Bach Prelude in E flat major (BWV 552i)

03 July 2019 - Choral Evensong

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3 July 2019

Responses and Preces: Rose
Psalm 18 vv. 20–27 (tone i)
Cruft (Collegium Regale)
Biebl: Ave Maria

30 June 2019 - Choral Evensong

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30 June 2019

Responses and Preces: Leighton
Psalm 148 (Robinson)
Fayrfax: Magnificat Regale
Nunc Dimittis primi toni
Weir: Vertue
Hymns 383 (omit v. 3), 401 (omit v. 3)
Voluntary: J.S. Bach Fugue in E flat major (BWV 552ii)

02 May 2018 - Choral Evensong

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2 May 2018

This service from the Easter Term of 2018 was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3. Music includes Herbert Howells Gloucester Service and John Taverner Dum Transisset Sabbatum.

16 June 2019 - Choral Evensong

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16 June 2019

Responses and Preces: Lloyd (Set 2)
Psalms 93 (J. Robinson), 150 (Talbot)
Antiphon: Benedictus es
Stanford in G
Rachmaninoff: Hymn of the Cherubim
Hymns 343, 466
Preacher: The Rev’d Dr Carys Walsh, Curate Training Officer, Diocese of Peterborough, R.S. Thomas
Voluntary: Stanford Fantasia and Toccata in D minor

09 June 2019 - Choral Evensong

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9 June 2019

Responses and Preces: Shephard
Psalm 48 (Goss)
Antiphon: Non vos relinquam
Howells (Collegium Regale)
Harvey: Come, Holy Ghost
Hymns 140, 408(i)
Preacher: The Rev’d Dr Paul Edmondson, Head of Research and Knowledge, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust William Shakespeare
Voluntary: J.S. Bach Komm, Heiliger Geist (BWV 651)

Ascension Day - Festal Evensong

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30 May 2019

Introit: Marenzio O Rex Gloriae
Responses and Preces: Rose
Psalm 47 (tone vii)
Antiphon: Pater, manifestavi nomen tuum
Sumsion in G
Boyce: The Lord is King

25 May 2019 - Choral Evensong

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25 May 2019

Responses and Preces: Rose
Psalm 119 vv. 153–176 (Garrett, Goss, Walmisley)
Anderson (St John’s Service)
Anderson: My beloved spake
Hymn 393
Voluntary Buxtehude Praeludium in E BuxWV 141

19 May 2019 - Choral Evensong

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19 May 2019

Responses and Preces: Radcliffe
Psalm 99 (Whitlock)
Berkeley (Chichester Service)
Finnissy: Dum transisset Sabbatum
Hymns 394, 117
Preacher: The Dean
Voluntary: J. S. Bach Fugue in E minor (BWV 548ii)

11 May 2019 - Choral Evensong

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11 May 2019

Responses and Preces: Smith
Psalm 71 vv. 1-12 (Parratt)
Buxtehude: Magnificat
Taverner: Dum transisset Sabbatum
Hymn 106

05 May 2019 - Commemoration of Benefactors

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5 May 2019

Each year a service is held in Easter Term to commemorate the benefactors of St John’s College.

28 April 2019 - Sung Eucharist

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28 April 2019

Introit: Hildegard O pastor animarum
Byrd: Mass for five voices
Gradual: Psalm 118 vv. 14-end (tone vi)
Preacher: The Dean
Credo: V
Hymns 115, 234(ii)

01 March 2019 - Choral Evensong

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1 March 2019

Responses and Preces: Byrd
Psalm 7 (Clarke, Guest)
Moore (St John's Service)
Elgar: Give unto the Lord
Hymn 158

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Latest release

Magnificat

October 2019

In their first ever album dedicated solely to the Evening Canticles (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis), the Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge releases Magnificat, a celebration of their daily tradition of Evensong.

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Sir Stephen Cleobury

Stephen Cleobury (1948-2019)

23 November 2019

We are saddened to hear of the loss of Stephen Cleobury, Director of Music at King's for 37 years and former St John's Organ Scholar (1967-71)

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