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We were the first Choir of our kind to broadcast weekly webcasts of our services. Find our most recent live recordings here.

Recorded on
19 October 2023
  • Introit - Parsons: Ave Maria
  • Responses and Preces: Radcliffe
  • Psalm 25.1-8
  • Readings: Isaiah 40, 1-11, Luke 1, 57-66, 80
  • Jackson in G
  • MacMillan: Christus Vincit
  • Voluntary: Langlais, Acclamations (Suite Medievale)
Recorded on
14 May 2023
  • Responses and Preces: Radcliffe
  • Psalm 72.1-8
  • Readings: Luke 43.8, Genesis 16
  • Watson in E
  • Finzi: Lo, the full, final sacrifice
  • Voluntary: Howells Rhapsody no.1
Recorded on
10 May 2023
  • Responses and Preces: Gray
  • Psalm 53 
  • Kennedy: Worcester Service
  • Seers - Look down, O Lord
Recorded on
28 February 2023
  • Responses and Preces: Rose
  • Psalm: 136 (Lloyd)
  • Readings: Isaiah 55.10-11; Matthew 6.7-15
  • Howells (Gloucester Service)
  • Brahms: Geistliches Lied
  • Hymn: O for a heart to praise my God (Wright)
  • Voluntary: Muhly - Very Fast Music (Patterns)
Recorded on
22 February 2023

For this service of Ash Wednesday, the choir sings music by Byrd, Allegri and Tallis. The Italian composer, Allegri, sets the text of Psalm 51, featuring two choirs; the full choir and the semi-chorus, with plainsong between each verse. This service was broadcast live on BBC Radio Three.

Recorded on
4 March 2023

A Meditation on the Passion of Christ is a service of music and readings reflecting on the Passion of Christ. This year the service features music by Stainer, Byrd, Brahms, Palestrina, Victoria, Tallis, and de Monte, as well as readings written by John Donne.

Recorded on
4 February 2023

Memorial service for Professor Andrew David Hamilton Wyllie (1944–2022)

 

Recorded on
22 January 2023

This candlelit service of readings and music celebrates the season of Epiphany.

The readings and hymns tell the story of the coming of Christ, the Magi’s visit, and the presentation in the Temple.

 

Recorded on
1 December 2022
  • Responses and Preces: Rose
  • Psalm: 4 (Soaper)
  • Readings: 2 Kings 2.9–13; Philippians 4.1, 4–9
  • Murrill in E
  • Joubert: There is no rose
  • Hymn: 408(i) (descant: Robinson)
  • Voluntaries: J.S. Bach  Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier (BWV 731)
                        Howells  Paean
Recorded on
5 July 2022
  • Responses and Preces: Radcliffe
  • Psalm: 29 (Attwood)
  • Readings: Malachi 3.8–12; Acts 5.1–11
  • Jackson in G
  • Finzi: Lo, the full, final sacrifice
  • Voluntary: Howells Paean
Recorded on
15 March 2022
  • Responses and Preces: Radcliffe
  • Psalm 18 vv. 1-6 (tone i)
  • Readings: Ezekiel 36.22-27, Acts 19.1-10
  • Howells (Collegium Regale)
  • Elgar: Give unto the Lord
  • Voluntary: Bach  Prelude in C minor
Recorded on
3 March 2022
  • Responses and Preces: Tallis
  • Psalm 18 vv. 1-6 (tone i)
  • Readings: Luke 18.1-8, George Herbert 'Bitter-Sweet'
  • Lassus (tertii toni)
  • Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah I
  • Voluntary: Duruflé  Chant Donné
Recorded on
12 March 2022
  • A Meditation on the Passion of Christ (also known as the Lent Meditation Service) is a service of music and readings reflecting on the Passion of Christ. This year the service features music by, Bruckner, Byrd, Handel, Stainer, Wesley, Wills and Bach, as well as readings written by John Donne.
Recorded on
18 March 2022
  • Responses and Preces: Radcliffe
  • Psalm 93
  • Readings: Lamentations 3.19-33, Mark 15.6-20
  • Leighton (Collegium Magdalenae Oxoniense)
  • Frances-Hoad: A Blessing
  • Voluntary: Mendelssohn  Sonata No. 4, movement 2
Recorded on
13 March 2022
  • Introit: The Lent Prose
  • Psalm 27 (tone v)
  • Readings: Philippians 3.17-4.1, Luke 13.31-end
  • Langlais: Missa in simplicitate
  • Credo I
  • Voluntary: Clérambault  Plein Jeu from Livre d’Orgue
Recorded on
19 February 2022
  • Responses and Preces: Byrd
  • Psalm 99
  • Readings: 1 Samuel 18.1-5, Luke 7.1-10
  • Sumsion in G
  • Finzi: Lo, the full, final sacrifice
  • Voluntary: Howells  Rhapsody no.1 in D flat major
Recorded on
2 March 2022
  • Responses and Preces: Byrd
  • Psalm 51: Allegri  Miserere mei, Deus
  • Readings: Joel 2.1-2, 12-17, Matthew 6.1-6, 16-21
  • Tallis (Short Service)
  • Byrd: Civitas sancti tui
  • Voluntary: Prelude in B minor, BWV 544i
Recorded on
13 February 2022
  • Introit: Circumdederent Me
  • Psalm 1 (tone i)
  • Readings: 1 Corinthians 15.12-20, Luke 6.17-26
  • Louis Vierne: Messe Solennelle
  • Credo III
  • Voluntary: Widor  Final (Symphonie VI)
Recorded on
20 February 2022
  • Responses and Preces: Ayleward
  • Psalm 76
  • Readings: Job 23, Mark 9 vv. 17–24
  • Kelly in C
  • Chesnokov: Let my prayer arise
  • Voluntary: Pott Laudes
Epiphany 2022
Recorded on
23 January 2022

The choir celebrates the season of Epiphany with a candlelit service of readings, carols and hymns that tell of the coming of Christ, the Magi's visit, and the presentation in the Temple.

Recorded on
20 November 2021
  • Responses and Preces: Rose
  • Psalm 104 vv.1-10 (tone iii)
  • Readings: Genesis 45.1-15, John 20.19-23
  • Kennedy (Worcester Service)
  • Biebl: Ave Maria
  • Voluntary: Franck Choral no.1 in E major
Recorded on
14 November 2021
  • Psalm 130 (tone iv)
  • Gabriel Fauré -Requiem Op.48
  • Preacher: The Dean
  • Douglas Guest: For the Fallen
Recorded on
30 October 2021
  • Responses and Preces: Shephard
  • Psalm 139 vv. 1-18, 23-24 (Skeats)
  • Readings: Genesis 1.8–19, Mark 4.35-41
  • Howells (St Paul's Service)
  • Elgar: Give Unto the Lord
  • Hymn 252 (Descant: Robinson)
  • Voluntary: Elgar, Allegro Maestoso (Sonata in G)
Recorded on
20 October 2021
  • Responses and Preces: Rose
  • Psalm 103 vv.1-11 (tone viii)
  • Moore (Second Service)
  • Comeau: Vanity of Vanities

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