Choir of New College Oxford
Choir of New College Oxford
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.
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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 UsRobert Quinney talks about Frescobaldi on This Week's Composer
Robert Quinney discusses Frescobaldi on Radio 3's This Week's Composer with presenter Donald McLeod.
Find out moreNew CD released!
New College: Commissions & Premieres is out now from Linn Records. The new disc celebrates the choir's commitment to new music over the last century.
Find out moreThe choir is now on holiday!
After singing Tallis's 40 part motet with the choirs of Christ Church and Magdalen, the choir is taking a well-earned summer break. Choral services start again in chapel on Friday 6 October.
Find out moreSummer Concert
Saturday 15 July at 5.00pm. Enjoy a summer choral programme from the choir's recent tour to Malta! The last opportunity to hear the choir live until October.
Find out moreMalta tour
The choir is in Malta singing in St John's Co-Cathedral Valletta and the Metropolitan Cathedral in Mdina.
Find out moreJames MacMillan premiere
The choir's new commission, When One Man Dies, a setting of John Donne by Sir James MacMillan, will be premiered at Evensong on Saturday 24 June.
Find out moreDonal McCann plays Bach
The Assistant Organist plays Bach's French Suites on the chapel's harpsichord this term. Catch the last recital on Tuesday 13 June at 9pm
Find out moreNew College: Commissions & Premieres
Linn Records CKD 720
RELEASE DATE: 23 June 2023
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The music composed for New College Choir in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries provides a compelling historical tour of changing musical styles and liturgical practices. On this disc we survey New College commissions from the 1920s to the 2020s, beginning with William Harris’s evergreen Faire is the heaven, composed while he was Organist of New College, and ending with two recent commissions from Caitlin Harrison and Deborah Pritchard. The disc is built round three settings of the Evensong canticles, by Paul Drayton, Herbert Howells, and Deborah Pritchard. For Kenneth Leighton’s heart-wrenching cantata Crucifixus pro nobis, written in 1961, the choir is joined by tenor Nick Pritchard, a former academical clerk at New College.