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Live from Ely Cathedral, with music to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of organist and composer Arthur Wills, Director of Music at Ely Cathedral from 1958 to 1990.

Live from Ely Cathedral, with music to mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of organist and composer Arthur Wills, Director of Music at Ely Cathedral from 1958 to 1990.

Introit: The Praises of the Trinity (Wills)
Responses: Wills
Psalms 82, 83, 84, 85 (Hervey, Stones, Bairstow, Matthews)
First Lesson: Zechariah 12 vv1-10
Office Hymn: Father, we praise you that your holy servant (Plainsong)
Canticles: Evening Service on Plainsong Tones (Wills)
Second Lesson: Mark 11 vv27-33
Anthem: Sing we merrily (Campbell)
Hymn: Ye holy angels bright (Darwall’s 148th)
Voluntary: Postlude (Wills)

Edmund Aldhouse (Director of Music)
Sarah MacDonald (Director of the Girl Choristers)
Jeremy Lloyd (Assistant Director of Music)

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Music Played

  • Arthur Wills

    The Praises of the Trinity

    Choir: Ely Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Sarah MacDonald.

  • Frederick Alfred Hervey

    Psalms 82, 83, 84, 85

    Composer: James Stones. Composer: Edward Bairstow. Composer: Samuel Matthews. Performer: Jeremy Lloyd. Choir: Ely Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Edmund Aldhouse.

  • Arthur Wills

    Evening Service on Plainsong Tones (Magnificat)

    Performer: Jeremy Lloyd. Choir: Ely Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Edmund Aldhouse.

  • Arthur Wills

    Evening Service on Plainsong Tones (Nunc dimittis)

    Performer: Jeremy Lloyd. Choir: Ely Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Edmund Aldhouse.

  • Sidney Campbell

    Sing we merrily

    Performer: Jeremy Lloyd. Choir: Ely Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Sarah MacDonald.

  • Arthur Wills

    Postlude

    Performer: Jeremy Lloyd.

  • Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin

    Prelude no.15 in Jazz Style

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.

Broadcasts

  • Wed 16 Sep 202615:00
    BBC Radio 3
  • Sunday18:00
    BBC Radio 3