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.
More About UsChoir 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.
More About UsJ S Bach, Christmas Oratorio
On 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.
Find out moreLondon Christmas Concert
Join the choir at the Christmas Festival at St John's Smith Square on 15 December
Find out moreByrd Concert: Friday 10 November 8.30pm
Two virtuoso performers, Robert Quinney & Donal McCann, play Byrd's dazzling keyboard music on all four instruments in chapel
Find out moreService Details & Music Lists
Choral services for Michaelmas Term finish this Saturday 2 December. They will resume for the Hilary Term on Friday 12 January.
Find out moreMichaelmas Term Organ Recitals
Thursdays at 1.15pm: live or live-streamed. This term's organ recital series starts on 12 October. We welcome visitors from Guildford, Hampton Court and Ulster, as well as colleagues from Magdalen and Christ Church.
Find out moreRobert 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 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.