Psalm 22, Lotti's Crucifixus a 10, and Wood's Setting in Eb frame Evensong for the Wednesday in Holy Week from St Bartholomew the Great with the Choir of Royal Holloway University of London.

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Fr Marcus Walker explores 'Golgotha' by Richard Harrison as a part of our guided retreat from home.

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Evensong today is without sermon, but the Choir of Royal Holloway University of London has provided the music for this Holy Week Evensong.
Responses: Ferguson
Setting: Leighton, Second Service
Anthem: Stainer, 'God so loved the world'

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Fr Jeremy Haselock explores 'Christ Crucifed' by Antonello da Messina as a part of our guided retreat from home.

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Evensong today is without sermon, but the Choir of Royal Holloway University of London has provided the music for this Holy Week Evensong.
Responses: Gabriel Jackson
Setting: Howells, Gloucester Service
Anthem: Parry, 'There is an old belief'

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The Venerable Peter Delaney explores El Greco's masterpiece, 'The Agony in the Garden of Gethsemane' as a part of our guided retreat from home.

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A service modelled on the Christmas Carol Service, but for Holy Week, taking us through the events of the week from Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem to his death on the Cross using word and music with recordings from the choirs of St Bartholomew the Great and Royal Holloway University of London

Weelkes, Hosanna to the son of David (SBG)                                                                         

Parry, There is an old belief (RHUL) 

Bruckner, Christus factus est (RHUL)

Psalm 22:1-21 (Anglican chant) (SBG)                    

Lotti, Crucifixus a 10 (RHUL)  

Stainer, God so loved the world (SBG)

Click here for the order of service

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Hear the Rector's sermon on Palm Sunday in quarantine.

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Former Archdeacon of London, Peter Delaney, preaches for Evensong while the choir of the Chapel of Royal Holloway University of London sings the following music:

Responses: Leighton 
Canticles: Wood in Eb 
Anthem: Pärt's 'The deer's cry'

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On the day on which the Church of England remembers poet-priest John Donne we have curated an Evensong with a sermon by lawyer-priest Rosamond McDowell, prayers drawn from his poetry, music by Byrd and Purcell, and a newly composed piece by Francis Pott using the words from his friend, George Herbert's poem "King of glorie, king of peace". 

Responses: Byrd 
Setting: Purcell in G 
Anthem: Francis Pott, 'King of glorie, king of peace'

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