Over the five days of the festival, the daily choral services sung by the Cathedral Choir will focus on Byrd’s liturgical music – much of which was written to be performed by the choir in this place:
As with all services in the cathedral, there is no charge for admission.
Friday 30 June 2023
5.30pm Choral Evensong
sung by the Choristers and Lay Vicars
Lincoln Preces for the Epiphanie and Responses
The short service
Sing joyfully
9.00pm Compline
sung by the Lay Vicars
Nunc Dimittis (Dorian setting) Tallis
Ave Maria Parsons
Saturday 1 July 2023
12.30pm Sung Eucharist
sung by the Lay Vicars
Mass for three voices
Magnificat (Dorian setting) Tallis
O sacrum convivium Tallis
5.30pm Choral Evensong
sung by the Lay Vicars
The first Lincoln preces and the responses
The third service
Tribulationes civitatum
Sunday 2 July 2023
9.30am Choral Mattins
sung by the Lay Vicars
Preces and responses Tallis
Te Deum and Benedictus ‘in sides’
Diliges Dominum
10.30am Sung Eucharist in Nave
sung by the Choristers and Lay Vicars
Mass for four voices
O salutaris hostia
3.45pm Choral Evensong
sung by the Choristers and Lay Vicars
Lincoln Preces for the Epiphanie and Responses
The fifth service Tomkins
My shepherd is the living Lord Tomkins
9.00pm Compline
sung by the Choir of Merton College, Oxford
Monday 3 July 2023
12.30pm Sung Eucharist
sung by the Choir of Merton College, Oxford
Mass for five voices
5.30pm Choral Evensong
sung by the Lay Vicars and the Choir of Merton College, Oxford
Tuesday 4 July 2023
5.30pm Choral Evensong
with dedication of memorial
sung by the Choristers and Lay Vicars with the Tallis Scholars*
Prevent us, O Lord
Lincoln Preces for the Epiphanie and Responses
The verse service
*Domine quis habitabit Byrd