A live recording of one of the anthems from today's service, Howard Goodall's setting of Psalm 23 (The Lord is my Shepherd), is available through our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EViB5epHMn8.
Today the choir sang at Dr Olive Sayce's memorial service in the college chapel. Dr Sayce, Emeritus Fellow in Modern Languages, was a generous supporter of the choir and helped to fund our second choir tour to Germany (2009) and our first commercial CD recording (2011). A live recording of one of the anthems from today's service, Howard Goodall's setting of Psalm 23 (The Lord is my Shepherd), is available through our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EViB5epHMn8. A few months after our appearance on RTÉ Lyric, our Duruflé CD is now getting some airplay on France Musique's 'Changez de disque!' programme: http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/em/changez-disque/emission.php?e_id=100000059 (time index: 38:50).
Organ Scholar Robert Pecksmith and Choir Manager Stefan Schwarz perform the Imperial March from Star Wars: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW4XS449EYU Our debut CD Requiem æternam was featured on Tim Thurston's radio show Gloria (RTÉ Lyric FM) today. Click here to listen to the programme.
The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford, celebrates the recent international release of Requiem æternam. Our CD Launch Concert will include extracts from Duruflé's Requiem as well as anthems and organ works by Bach, Leighton and Parry. Click here to download the programme.
Friday 16th November 2012, 7:30pm, Somerville Chapel The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford Conductor: David Crown Organists: Douglas Knight, Tristan Mitchard, Robert Pecksmith Admission is free. The CD will be available for purchase during the interval and after the concert. A recording of our performance of Philip Glass' Knee Play 1 (from Einstein on the Beach) at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue in London is now available from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdkjbI_LskI. The choir’s first commercial CD, a recording of Maurice Duruflé’s hauntingly beautiful Requiem and Robin Milford’s Mass for five voices, is now available from Amazon UK. See our discography for more information.
Next Friday Robert Pecksmith, Somerville's new Junior Organ Scholar, will be playing piano and organ works by Boëllmann, Franck and Beethoven as well as one of the funniest parodies of classical music, Dudley Moore's Beethoven Sonata Parody from Beyond the Fringe. Please see the Facebook event page and the programme for full details. Admission is free; there will be a retiring collection in aid of Somerville Choir. SMS Lunchtime Recital: Robert Pecksmith (organ/piano) Friday 1st June 2012, 1:15pm, Somerville College Chapel A few tracks from our concert at St. Michael at the North Gate are now available on our YouTube channel:
Franz Schubert: Mass in G Kyrie Benedictus Soloists: Tal Katsir (soprano), Andreas Kyrris (tenor), Stephen O'Driscoll (bass) Johann Sebastian Bach: Christ lag in Todesbanden, BWV 4 The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford Musicians of the Dreaming Spires David Crown, conductor A selection of live recordings from the Accession Day service at St. Paul's Cathedral has just been uploaded to our YouTube channel: Ralph Vaughan Williams: O taste and see Kate Piddington (soprano), Robert Peckmith (organ) Charles Villiers Stanford: Magnificat in G Tal Katsir (soprano), Douglas Knight (organ) Charles Villiers Stanford: Nunc Dimittis in G Stephen O'Driscoll (baritone), Robert Pecksmith (organ) |
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