This service of Choral Evensong with a Sermon in Music for the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple (Candlemas), Sunday 28th January 2024, has been collated from archive live music recordings together with prayers and readings for the appointed day specially recorded in church and in people's homes.

It features a Sermon in Music which gives our professional St Bride's Choir the opportunity to sing for an extended period on a theme relevant to the liturgical season.

Responses: John Reading

Psalm: 122

Canticles: Second Evening Service – William Byrd

Sermon in Music: i) When to the temple Mary went – Johannes Eccard; ii) Videte miraculum – Thomas Tallis

Organ Voluntary: Chorale Prelude: ‘Mit Fried und Freud ich fahr dahin’ BWV 616 – Johann Sebastian Bach

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