BBC Recording and Broadcast

3rd and 4th February

Exeter Cathedral - BBC Recording

Exeter Cathedral hosted the Northern European Cathedrals Conference, Tuesday 3rd February to Friday 6th February. The start of the conference was marked by the BBC recording the opening service, to be broadcast on Radio 4, Sunday Worship 8th February, 8.10 a.m. The photo is of the recording underway at that service (photo: Exeter Cathedral Life 6.2.2026)

Evensong the following day was broadcast live on Radio 3, to be repeated Sunday 8th February. The service featured The Panther – an anthem inspired by the Exeter Book and specially commissioned for the Northern European Cathedrals Conference from the American composer Nico Muhly.

More details about the services.


Candlelight Concert with Exeter Cathedral Choir

Exeter Cathedral Candlelight Concert

Saturday 7 March, 7pm
An atmospheric candlelit concert given by the Cathedral Choir.

Instead of usual concert formal seating, the audience is invited to bring cushions, camping chairs, rugs etc to sit wherever they wish and are encouraged to follow the choir around the building as pieces are performed in different locations.

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(photo: Exeter Cathedral Marketing Department, Candlelight Concert 2025)

Installation of Choristers

Eight new choristers were installed during evensong on Sunday, 11th January. The service was followed by a reception and splendid celebratory cake (made by Madeleine Shaw, chorister mother and brother of former chorister Ben Shaw, whom ECOCA members from the early 1980s will remember).

Arabella, Arthur, Heidi, Katica, Laurence, Lucia, Rhian and Rupert were duly welcomed "as Choristers of this Cathedral Church".

Music:

Responses: Smith

Psalms 46 and 47

Mag and Nunc: St Paul's Service - Herbert Howells

Anthem: When Jesus, our Lord - Felix Medelssohn

Voluntary: Carillon-Sortie - Henri Mulet

Being a Chorister 100 years ago - the memoirs of Denis Vercoe

A new addition to this website is the memoirs of Denis Vercoe, who was a chorister at Exeter between about 1925 and 1928. His time at Exeter included singing on the first LP recording the choir ever made. He was one of the choristers shown in the photo below, carrying the bride's train at the wedding of the Dean's daughter in 1928. His chorister-world was very different from today!

Exeter Cathedral, wedding 1928

Easyfunding scheme

The current choir's Exeter Cathedral Choir Association has an essential aim of raising money for enrichment activities for the choristers and to help fund choir tours. You can support this at no cost to you, by simply doing your online shopping using 'Easyfunding'

https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/exetercathedralchoirassoc/
Over £1,500 has been raised so far this way!

ECOCA membership