John Rutter

Thank you so much, Aaron.

the team you're absolutely fabulous and marianna for bringing the reading um virginia for the prayers art and jay's the welcome team and all of the people involved in the service we really really thank you and we thank you for being part of the service for being here this morning for taking the time i'm going to say the um ironic blessing now At the end of the service, if you want to stay for a little bit, you will hear the Aaronic Blessing enveloped in the music of John Rutter, and that's very nice.

But the service will have ended, so feel free to go out for tea and coffee, which will be available afterwards.

Of course, prayer ministry, as David has reminded us, is here for you.

Nice.

It tucked away in the warm at G Live in Guildford with Guildford Choral supported by Southern Pro Musica doing John Rutter's Magnificat.

So a real treat there for classical music and choral music lovers.

They're doing Beethoven.

They're doing Mendelssohn and then finishing with John Rutter's Magnificat.

So Gilbert Coral joins professional chamber orchestra Southern Pro Musica for an inspiring evening under the leadership of Jonathan Wilcox.

The concert opens with Bate Houghton's dramatic Egmont Overture, followed by Mendelssohn's uplifting hymn of praise, celebrating hope, faith and music's transformative power and culminating in John Rutter's joyous Magnificat.

Now, all the tickets are available from glive.co.uk.

The drama Vivian the Blockbuster by Californian author Alwyn Wymark is on Radio 4 Extra at 2.30pm. Friday night is Music Night.

It's a musical celebration of works by John Rutter and Bob Chilcott, two towering composer-conductors of British choral music, at 7.30pm on Radio 3.

Screenshot on Radio 4 explores the relationship between graphic novels, comics and film, asking whether the graphic novel is an inherently cinematic art form.

Screenshot Graphic Novels is on Radio 4 at 7.15pm. And to conclude the week, today's vintage comedy is a 1961 episode of Beyond Our Ken.

night of the dear Saviour's birth.

There's also one by John Rutter called The Lord Bless You and Keep You.

Do you know that one? I love John Rutter.

Do you?

Bloody love a bit of that.

Yes, it does sound like it's something that isn't, but it isn't that.

And we do a bit of wellness and beauty at the end.

Wellness, beauty and John Rutter.

The drama Vivian the Blockbuster by Californian author Alwyn Wymark is on Radio 4 Extra at 2.30 p.m. Friday night is Music Night.

It's a musical celebration of works by John Rutter and Bob Chilcott, two towering composer-conductors of British choral music, at 7.30pm on Radio 3.

Screenshot on Radio 4 explores the relationship between graphic novels, comics and film, asking whether the graphic novel is an inherently cinematic art form.

Screenshot Graphic Novels is on Radio 4 at 7.15pm. And to conclude the week, today's vintage comedy is a 1961 episode of Beyond Our Ken.

It was at Westminster Abbey, um, live broadcast on Radio 3, the 100th year anniversary of the beginning of Choral Evensong and, um, this is the longest-running outside broadcast anywhere in the world.

Sam Jackson, the controller of Radio 3, was, uh, there, and, um, I met John Rutter for the first time, the amazing composer.

Well, don't look at me like I'm supposed to know who that is.

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The 22 singers will stand still and deliver five centuries of Western classical music from Monteverdi and Palestrina to Fanny Mendelssohn and John Rutter.

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Lane says this first short half of the program was built directly from singer requests.