Category: Recordings

Memorial Service for Dr Olive Sayce

25/5/2013

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.

Somerville Choir on Radio France

20/3/2013

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).

New Video: Imperial March (Darth Vader Theme)

23/2/2013

Organ Scholar Robert Pecksmith and Choir Manager Stefan Schwarz perform the Imperial March from Star Wars:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW4XS449EYU

RTÉ Lyric FM

16/12/2012

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.

CD Launch Concert

13/11/2012

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.

Live Recording

5/11/2012

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.

CD Release

15/9/2012

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.

Lunchtime Recital

27/5/2012

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

New Live Recordings

20/3/2012

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