BBC radio broadcast, 13 August 1997, featuring the choir of St John’s College Cambridge with the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Christopher Robinson. Organ scholar: Peter Davis.
Published in 1895 as Nos. 11 and 12 of “Morning, Evening and Communion Service in A major” (Op. 12) but actually written in February 1880 as a work for choir and orchestra, having been commissioned by Sir John Stainer for the annual Festival of the Sons of the Clergy at St Paul’s Cathedral. It was first performed on 12 May 1880 in St Paul’s.
