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
| Sunday, 22nd May 2022 | ||
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| Sixth Sunday of Easter | ||
| 10.00am | Matins | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Bairstow Jesu the very thought of thee |
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| 11.15am | Sung Eucharist | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Tye Missa Euge bone Preacher: The Reverend Mark Birch Precentor |
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| 3.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Bairstow Jesu the very thought of thee Preacher: The Venerable Tricia Hillas Canon in Residence |
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| Tuesday, 24th May 2022 | ||
| John and Charles Wesley, evangelists, hymn-writers, 1791 and 1788 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Lay Vicars | Wesley Si iniquitates observaveris |
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| Thursday, 26th May 2022 | ||
| Ascension Day | ||
| 5.00pm | Sung Eucharist | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Mozart Missa in F K192 Preacher: The Reverend Dr James Hawkey Canon Theologian and Almoner |
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| Friday, 27th May 2022 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Choir of Westminster Abbey | Mendelssohn Erhaben, o Herr |
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| Saturday, 28th May 2022 | ||
| Lanfranc, Prior of Le Bec, Archbishop of Canterbury, scholar, 1089 | ||
| 5.00pm | Evensong | Quire |
| sung by the Lay Vicars | Byrd O Rex gloriae |
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