The College Chapel is renowned for its outstanding acoustics and is a popular venue for concerts and recordings. Professional musicians, as well as student groups, perform regularly throughout the year.

New CD

The College Choir has released its debut CD on the Delphian label. Entitled In the beginning, Peter Phillips and Benjamin Nicholas direct the choir in music by Gombert, Palestrina, Weelkes, Holst, Copland, Lukaszewski, Whitacre and Jackson. This attractive programme shows the choir at its best, and the disc has already attracted very favourable reviews and has been played on BBC Radio 3.

To order the disc, please visit the OU Shop. The CD is also available from High Street music stores.

Radio Performances

Choral Evensong, sung by the College Choir, was broadcast live on BBC Radio 3 from the College Chapel at 3.30pm on Wednesday 26 October. The service included music by Victoria, Howells, Vaughan Williams and Bach.

Evensong Podcasts

The College Choir records services for release as a podcast. Please find recent services below:

24 November 2010
Responses: Tomkins
Canticles: Dyson in F
Anthem: Ave Maria (Bruckner)
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9 June 2010
Responses: Smith
Magnificat primi toni: Palestrina
Latin Nunc Dimittis: Caldwell
Anthem: A New Song (MacMillan)
Voluntary: Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr (Sweelinck)
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26 May 2010
Responses: Tomkins
Magnificat: Short Service (Thomas Tallis) Nunc Dimittis: Collegium Regale (John Tavener)
Anthem: The Lord's Prayer (Sergei Rachmaninov)
Voluntary: Fugue in C minor BWV 537 (JS Bach)
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25 November 2009
Responses: Smith
Canticles: Purcell in G Minor
Anthem: A Hymn to the Virgin (Benjamin Britten)
Voluntary: Voluntary in G (Henry Purcell)
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4 November 2009
Responses: Smith
Canticles: Short Service (Orlando Gibbons)
Anthem: The souls of the righteous (Geraint Lewis)
Voluntary: Sonata No. 4 (First Movement) BWV 528 (JS Bach)
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17 June 2009
Responses: Rose
Canticles: Chichester Service (William Walton)
Anthem: I saw the Lord (John Stainer)
Voluntary: Toccata (Léon Boëllmann)
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29 April 2009
Responses: Smith
Canticles: Collegium Regale (Herbert Howells)
Anthem: The Lord is my Shepherd (Lennox Berkeley)
Voluntary: Saraband (in modo Elegiaco) (Herbert Howells)
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11 March 2009
Responses: Smith
Canticles: Second Service (William Byrd)
Anthem: When David heard (Thomas Tomkins)
Voluntary: Fantasia in A minor (William Byrd)
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11 February 2009
Responses: Ayleward
Canticles: Truro Service (Gabriel Jackson)
Anthem: Exultate Deo (Palestrina)
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