BBC TV Choral Evensong: York Minster 1996 (Philip Moore) 

I am not religious. I am an ex-choirboy. To loose our cathedrals and their musical heritage would be a tragedy. They are a living link to our past, part of our heritage. They must be kept alive. They are worth fighting for.

The anglican ritual is , along with the english breakfast, are what I love best in UK.

It reminds me of the many uplifting evensongs I attended at Durham Cathedral and at St.Oswald's in the 1990s. I am thankful for these memories. Things have changed so much.

Superb. It was an amazing era. The brilliant JSW on the organ. The brilliant PM conducting with such subtle dignity. The brilliant choir.

Oh how happy am I, that I can enjoy this! Proudly British, English. Timeless!

Am so proud to be an Anglican am from Church of Nigeria Anglican communion, please I wish to go to United States or London to see how Anglican is like in other countries ,

Blessed be God! Evensong uplifts even an irreversibly 'scientific' mind. Thank you, Archive of Recorded Church Music.

Thanks, I can not be more delighted as a follower of church music.

Wow! Takes me back. What a great sound - everyone doing their job and doing it well.

We attended Evensong, Lessons and Carols, Midnight Mass and Christmas Day Choral Evensong at York Minster in December. Awesome. Thank you for sharing.

Delighted it has brought back some happy memories!

How I wish the Church of England still doing this as a form of their worship and litutgy

TO GOD BE THE GLORY FOREVER AND EVER Amen

Superb. Choral Evensong is the perfect service of worship and York Minster the perfect place in which to worship. Absolutely brilliant -brings back memories of the many times I have attended Evensong in York Minster. Thank you for this wonderful broadcast of Evensong.

Phillip Moore and Christopher Robinson have a conducting style which bears little visual relationship to the glorious sound that they achieve. True virtuosity!

So. Beautiful, been there, from Peterborough

So sorry that the BBC doesn’t hold the music and prayers of the Church in the same esteem as it once did as well as the rest of British culture. Greetings from the US.

JSW amazing organ decorating in the Psalm. Wonder what stop it is 🤔

Nice job Philip!

I can't remember after all this time what anthem we actually sang!

I have enjoyed choral evensong for 55 years. Why does the service seem to remain mainly in the higher Anglo-Catholic wing? As I study the Bible more I'm tending to Evangelical/Baptist theology, but still prefer my traditional Anglican worship.

thanks for that :-) Great to see this one. Where do you find this beautiful piece?

What is the tune the Lords Prayer is sung to? 28:00

What was the closing voluntary that Mr. John Scott Whiteley played? Does anyone recognize it? Thanks for any information you can tell me about that selection...

Shame about the anthem. Many watchers may not be aware that, in what has been called the greatest act of cultural vandalism ever to have occurred in British music, several years ago some genius at the BBC decided that it would be OK to destroy recordings of hundreds of past Radio 3 Choral Evensong broadcasts.

What is the very first thing sung? Wonderful recording.

6:13

I was there in the congregation

Nothing which follows refers to York Minster today (2020) or its clergy, congregation or choir. So wonderful to see Evensong in the days when it was done as a true piece of worship and liturgy, not an antiquarian ceremony by non-believers to charm the tourists (American in particular who just love British ceremony of any kind). A choir who turned to the altar and recited the words of the Creed joined by the congregation. In unison and not with lips defiantly closed as with some today seen on video in other places where Evensong is celebrated. Do a search of certain university choirs, and be appalled. These days in certain places allegedly within the Church, Evensong is a choral concert and a fusty piece of historical memorabilia masquerading as worship. Christians are limited to the clergy (one hopes) and a minor slice of the choir. Again I'm not talking about the Minster.

Note well, in that this wonderful tradition of choral evensong has diminished because liturgy along with the the entire Judaeo-Christian ethic/civilisation has diminished as the UK rushes into the grubby, specious post modern world of neo paganism, Islam and Nihilism.