[Online] Choral Vespers Rebroadcast

Music for tonight's service focuses on words from the Book of Job, the Old Testament Lesson for the Feast of St. Matthew, which we celebrate today: ‘But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding?' We hear two contemporary settings of the antiphon 'O Sapientia' ('O Wisdom') by Alexander Schmitt and Healey Willan. Both Tomás Luis de Victoria's evening hymn 'Te lucis ante terminum' and the Anonymous 16th century setting of Proper Psalm 112 feature a common musical style: the alternation of unison plainsong and polyphonic writing.

Music in the service:

O sapientia by Alexander Schmitt

Hymn: O Church of God, United

Beatus vir (Psalm 112)

Te lucis ante terminum by Tomás Luis de Victoria

O sapientia by Healey Willan

Responses by William Smith

Hymn: Ye Watchers and Ye Holy Ones

Benediction by Bernard Rose