The Choir of New College Oxford, composed of men 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 men 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 UsThursdays at 1.00 pm. The college's four organists continue with our series of short lunch-time concerts. Join us live on the choir's Youtube channel, or watch afterwards.
Find out moreIf you have enjoyed our live-streamed services, concerts and recordings, and would like to support the work of the choir, we would be most grateful.
Find out moreWe're very proud of this enormously generous review from Gramophone!
Find out moreWe are recruiting choristers for entry into the choir in September 2021. Auditions on Tuesday 12 January 2021 in New College School for boys now in year 2. Choristerships offer a unique and unparalleled musical education, with extraordinary opportunities for performances, recordings and tours. All choristers also enjoy generous bursaries at New College School.
Find out moreWe're very proud of this lovely review from The Sunday Times! Media Vita is out now!
Find out moreNew College Choir is delighted to announce its upcoming release of music by English Renaissance composer, John Sheppard.
Find out moreOur choristers' second recording of lockdown, recorded remotely over the summer in collaboration with Positive Note productions, is of Mendelssohn's beautiful Laudate Pueri.
Find out moreNovum NCR1394
RELEASE DATE: 28 September 2018
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2018 marks the centenary of Charles Hubert Hastings Parry (1848-1918). We hope you will please consider our new release for review. As is well known, Parry was a dominant force in British music making. Yet recent scholarship has demonstrated how his music brought his native land into the European musical mainstream, through its assimilation of continental—specifically German—models.
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 evidence suggests Parry vacillated between two strikingly different versions of the section ‘serene in changeless prime’ until shortly before publication.