The Choir of New College Oxford, composed of adult singers and boy trebles, is one of the leading choral ensembles in the world, celebrated for its distinctive and stylish performance of music from five centuries. You can hear the choir in choral services live in New College Chapel, Oxford, and via webcasts, on concert tours and on its 100+ recordings. The choir is directed by Robert Quinney.
More About UsThe Choir of New College Oxford, composed of adult singers and boy trebles, is one of the leading choral ensembles in the world, celebrated for its distinctive and stylish performance of music from five centuries. You can hear the choir in choral services live in New College Chapel, Oxford, and via webcasts, on concert tours and on its 100+ recordings. The choir is directed by Robert Quinney.
More About UsWe welcome all visitors to the open day this Saturday, and especially those singing Evensong in New College. The service starts at the slightly later time of 6.00pm
Find out moreOn Saturday 4 May Sir David Lumsden, former Organist of New College, will be celebrated at Evensong at 5.45pm. Music: Leighton, Drop, drop, slow tears; Byrd, Great Service; Harris, Faire is the heaven.
Find out moreChoral services for Trinity Term begin on Friday 19 April at 6.15pm. Full details of the music list will be posted tomorrow.
Find out moreThursdays at 1.15pm: live or live-streamed. The series starts on 25 April with a recital by Robert Quinney.
Find out moreRobert Quinney discusses Frescobaldi on Radio 3's This Week's Composer with presenter Donald McLeod.
Find out moreSunday 17 March at 5.00pm. New College Choir with Instruments of Time & Truth, directed by Robert Quinney. Waiting list for tickets.
Find out moreOn Tuesday 19 December at 6.30pm New College Choir with Instruments of Time & Truth will perform parts I-III of Bach's dramatic and expressive setting of the Christmas Story.
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This disc situates Parry’s music in its European context. Parry was a social and political liberal, and crucially—like all the leading British musicians of his time—his horizons extended beyond the island of his birth. His late set of six motets, Songs of Farewell, are among his greatest achievements in any musical genre, demonstrating his capacity for deeply affecting introspection. In this recording, they are prefaced by another sextet: the pithy Sechs Sprüche by Mendelssohn, which make clear the debt Parry owed to his continental forebears and contemporaries.
Moreover, this recording presents, for the first time, an early version of ‘There is an old belief’, edited by Robert Quinney from the autograph manuscripts in Oxford’s Bodleian Library and a printed proof copy. The compositional history of the motet is unclear, but the evidence suggests Parry vacillated between two strikingly different versions of the section ‘serene in changeless prime’ until shortly before publication.