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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13th October 2019 - 19th October 2019

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Sunday, 13th October 2019
Seventeenth Sunday after Trinity
THE TRANSLATION OF ST EDWARD THE CONFESSOR, KING, 1163, 1269
10:30am	Sung Eucharist	Quire
		Setting: Byrd Mass for five voices Motet: Byrd Beati mundo corde Voluntary: Guilmant March on a theme of Handel Op 15 no 2 Preacher: The Reverend Professor Sarah Foot Canon, Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, Oxford University
3:00pm	Evensong	Quire
		Introit: Tye Give almes of thy goods Responses: Leighton Canticles: Purcell in G minor Anthem: Elgar Give unto the Lord Voluntary: Bach Prelude and Fugue in C BWV 545 Preacher: The Reverend Dr James Hawkey Canon in Residence
Tuesday, 15th October 2019
Octave of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor
5:00pm	Evensong	Quire
	sung by the Lay Vicars	Introit: Byrd Psallite Domino Responses: Tallis Canticles: Tye Short Service Anthem: Gibbons Glorious and powerful God
Thursday, 17th October 2019
Octave of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor
5:00pm	Evensong	Quire
		Introit: Tye Give almes of thy goods Responses: Byrd Canticles: Marenzio Magnificat octavi toni Wood Nunc dimittis in B flat Anthem: Gibbons Sing unto the Lord
Friday, 18th October 2019
Octave of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor
5:00pm	Evensong	Quire
	sung by the Choirs of Westminster Abbey and Westminster Cathedral	Prelude: Franck Cantabile Introit: plainsong Iste Confessor Responses: Byrd Canticles: Mundy Magnificat secundi toni Victoria Nunc dimittis tertii toni Anthem: Bruckner Os justi meditabitur Voluntary: Bach Prelude and Fugue in E BWV 566
Saturday, 19th October 2019
Octave of the Translation of St Edward the Confessor
11:30am	Festival Sung Eucharist	Quire
	sung by the Westminster Abbey Special Service Choir	Setting: Padilla Missa Ego flos campi Motet: Victoria Laetatus sum Voluntary: Buxtehude Praeludium in D BuxWV 139 Preacher: The Most Reverend and Right Honourable Justin Welby Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of All England, and Metropolitan
3:00pm	First Evensong of the Dedication of Westminster Abbey	Quire
		Introit: Bruckner Locus iste Responses: Byrd Canticles: Howells Westminster Service Anthem: Martin In the Midst of Thy Temple Voluntary: Messiaen Apparition de l'église éternelle