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Queen's College Choir - Vespers

  • Queen's College Chapel High Street Oxford OX1 4AW (map)

Choir of the Queen’s College, Oxford
Instruments of Time and Truth
Owen Rees
Director

Prelude: Toccata ottava, Libro II (Frescobaldi)
Introit: Cantate Domino (Monteverdi)
Responses: Monteverdi
Hymn: Ave maris stella (Monteverdi)
Psalm: Beatus vir (Monteverdi)
Lessons: Acts 17:22-31 & John 14:15-21
Preacher: The Chaplain
Magnificat: Legrenzi
Marian antiphon: Salve regina (Legrenzi)
Voluntary: Toccata quinta, Libro II (Frescobaldi)

IT&T joins the choir of Queen’s College, Oxford, for a liturgical service of Vespers, using movements from Claudio Monteverdi’s enduringly popular Vespers of 1610 and music by the later-17th Century Venetian composer Giovanni Legrenzi.

This is a chapel service; attendance is free and tickets are not required.