BBC Radio 3’s Evensong recording on 25 June 2025 featured the Canticles from Dr Simon Lindley’s Knaresborough Service. Dr. Lindley was the choir’s previous conductor, who died earlier this year.
“Composing was just one of Simon’s many talents” said Choir Chair Chris Walker, ” It was great to hear his Knaresborough Canticles being used as part of Evensong; he would have been thrilled”.
The service was recorded at St Martin-in-the-Fields, London on 28 May, and features the St Martin’s Voices conducted by Director of Music Andrew Earis; Ben Collyer was the organist.
Music-lovers can hear it for the next 32 days via BBC Sounds. To listen on most smart speakers just say “ask BBC Sounds to play Choral Evensong”, or click on the link below.
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