Choral services

Sung prayer has been offered in Westminster Abbey nearly every day for over a thousand years. Today, services are sung daily during term time by the world-renowned Choir of Westminster Abbey, and by visiting choirs when the Abbey Choir is in recess.

The music sung ranges from Gregorian chant dating from the first millennium to contemporary music and encompasses the remarkable richness and variety of the Anglican choral tradition.

This week's choral services

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25th - 31st October 2020

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Sunday, 25th October 2020
Last Sunday after Trinity
11.15am	Sung Eucharist	Quire
	sung by the Lay Vicars	Palestrina Missa In te Domine speravi Palestrina Laudate Dominum Byrd O quam suavis Bach Prelude and Fugue in A BWV 536 Preacher: The Venerable David Stanton Sub-Dean, Canon Treasurer, and Archdeacon of Westminster
3.00pm	Evensong	Quire
	The Book of Common Prayer; sung by the Lay Vicars	Muhly Oculi omnium Moore Responses Wood in E Martin Justorum animae Howells Rhapsody I in D flat Preacher: The Reverend Anthony Ball Canon in Residence
Monday, 26th October 2020
St Cedd, Abbot of Lastingham, Bishop of the East Saxons, 664
St Alfred the Great, King of the West Saxons, scholar, 899
5.00pm	Evensong	Quire
	The Book of Common Prayer; sung by the Lay Vicars	Byrd Look down, O Lord plainsong Responses Mouton Magnificat tertii toni Viadana Nunc dimittis tertii toni Verdelot Gabriel archangelus apparuit
Tuesday, 27th October 2020
5.00pm	Evensong	Quire
	The Book of Common Prayer; sung by the Lay Vicars	Byrd Look down, O Lord plainsong Responses Batten Short Service Byrd Benedictus (Short Service)
Thursday, 29th October 2020
James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, martyr, 1885
5.00pm	Evensong	Quire
	The Book of Common Prayer	Tallis O nata lux de lumine Gibbons and Barnard Responses Noble in B minor Wood O thou the central orb
Friday, 30th October 2020
5.00pm	Evensong	Quire
	The Book of Common Prayer	Tallis O nata lux de lumine Gibbons and Barnard Responses Lassus Magnificat octavi toni Wood Nunc dimittis in B flat Wood Hail, gladdening light
Saturday, 31st October 2020
Martin Luther, reformer, 1546
3.00pm	Evensong	Quire
	The Book of Common Prayer	Tallis O nata lux de lumine Gibbons and Barnard Responses Howells Collegium Regale Victoria O quam gloriosum Howells Rhapsody III in C sharp minor