Since New College Choir will be touring Cyprus next week, the Choir of Somerville College has been invited to sing a service of Choral Evensong at New College Chapel on Friday. The choir will be singing the following pieces:

Thomas Tallis: If ye love me (Introit)
James Turle: Psalm 136
William Smith: Responses
Charles Villiers Stanford: Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis in C, op. 115
Andrew Lloyd Webber: Pie Jesu (Requiem)

Friday 28 October 2011, 6:15pm, New College Chapel

The choir will be conducted by David Crown and accompanied by organ scholars Douglas Knight and Robert Pecksmith. The solo parts in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem will be taken by Tal Katsir (soprano) and Amelia Walsh (soprano).

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Next week the Choir of Somerville College will be singing a service of Choral Evensong at Winchester Cathedral. The programme for the service includes  music written or arranged by three Somervillian composers: David Crown's Preces/Responses, an arrangement of Tomkins' Magnificat by Francis Knights (former Director of Chapel Music) and a setting of the Nunc Dimittis written by music student David Hughes. Click here to see the Facebook event page.

Choral Evensong with the Choir of Somerville College, Oxford
Wednesday 18 May 2011, 5:30pm, Winchester Cathedral

Psalm 93
David Crown: Preces/Responses
Thomas Tomkins (arr. Francis Knights): Magnificat
David Hughes: Magnificat
Rachmaninov: Bogoroditsye Dyevo

The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford
David Crown (conductor)
Tristan Mitchard and Douglas Knight (organ)