The first video recording of our concerts and services in America has now been uploaded to YouTube: 

The Choir of Somerville College (conducted by David Crown and accompanied by organist Robert Smith) sings Charles Wood's Expectans expectavi at Washington National Cathedral.

UPDATE

More live recordings from our US tour:

Charles Wood: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in D
(Washington National Cathedral, 1 July 2014)

Arthur Somervell: O Saviour of the World
Andrew Carter: Go before us, O Lord
(St. John's Episcopal Church, Northampton/Massachusetts, 5 July 2014)

John Joubert: O Lorde, the maker of al thing
Paul Simon: Bridge over troubled water (arr. Sechler)
(Christ Church Christiana Hundred, Wilmington/Delaware, 3 July 2014)

Today's service at 6pm will be the last chapel service of term and a chance for all members of the college community to come together to celebrate the end of another year at Somerville and say goodbye to those who are leaving (including Chapel Director Fiona Gatty and several members of the choir).

The service will feature the usual mix of speeches, readings and music. The choir will be singing works by Hassler, Wood, Händel, Guest and Rutter. The service will also include two hymns: the college song (Omnes laetae nunc sodales) and Jerusalem. The organ voluntary will be Robert Smith's arrangement of Sousa's The Stars and Stripes Forever, a preview of the choir's upcoming US tour.

On Saturday the choir will be singing choral evensong at Coventry Cathedral.

The music for the service includes Farrant's Hide not thou thy face, Rubbra's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in A flat as well as Howells' A Hymn for St. Cecilia.

The organ voluntary will be the final movement of Vierne's Organ Symphony No. 1 in D minor.

Saturday 1st February 2014, 4pm
Evensong with the Choir of Somerville College, Oxford
David Crown, conductor
Robert Smith, organ

Choral services at Somerville Chapel will resume today at 6pm. The choir will be singing Howells' A Hymn for St Cecilia, Rutter's O clap your hands together and the Kyrie from Victoria's Missa O magnum mysterium. The organ voluntary will be Messiaen's Joie et Clarté des Corps Glorieux. Please see our music list for details of the services in weeks 2-8.

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.

On Monday the choir will be giving its third performance at St. Paul's. The music for the service includes Stanford's Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in C and well as Howells' coronation anthem Behold, O God our Defender. The organ voluntary will be Wesley's Choral Song.

Monday 13th May 2013, St. Paul's Cathedral, 5pm
Evensong with the Choir of Somerville College, Oxford
Conductor: David Crown
Organists: Douglas Knight, Robert Smith

Having sung at last year’s Accession Day Service as part of the celebrations for the Diamond Jubilee, the Choir of Somerville College will be returning to St. Paul’s to sing evensong at 5pm on Monday of 6th week (18th February 2013). The programme will include Noble’s Evening Service in B minor, the Radcliffe Responses and Balfour-Gardiner’s Evening Hymn. The choir will be conducted by David Crown and accompanied by organists Douglas Knight and Robert Smith.

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 Smith (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 Smith (organ)