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The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford - Web Archive 2002-2021

New Live Recordings

30/12/2013

 
Two extracts from our concert at Douai Abbey:

Gabriel Fauré: Sanctus (from Requiem, op. 48)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ph8TmL_eos

John Rutter: O clap your hands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU16Pu7U0I0

The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford
David Crown, conductor
Robert Pecksmith, organ

BBC Radio 3

8/12/2013

 
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Today at 4pm we will be making our first appearance on Radio 3. The Choir, presented by Mary King, will include a live recording of our performance of Psalm, the result of our collaboration with composer Daniel Saleeb and poet Chloe Stopa-Hunt.

We sang the world premiere of this piece at the Britten in Oxford concert in the University Church last month. The recording features the Choir of Somerville College, Oxford, conducted by David Crown and accompanied by organist Robert Pecksmith.

The programme will be available for download from BBC iPlayer for the next seven days.

Concert at Douai Abbey

26/11/2013

 
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On Saturday the Choir of Somerville College will be singing a concert at Douai Abbey to celebrate the launch of our new album Advent Calendar.

The first half of the concert consists of a selection of seasonal anthems by Victoria, Pärt, Wood, Mozart, Mendelssohn and Rutter as well as organ music by Messiaen. The second half will be a performance of Fauré's Requiem. The concert will feature soloists Mary-Louise Aitken (soprano) and Robert Pecksmith (organ), who can also be heard on our new CD. We are looking forward to returning to Douai Abbey, where we recorded our first CD Requiem æternam in July 2011.

Saturday 30 November 2013, 7:45pm, Douai Abbey
Fauré's Requiem and a selection of seasonal anthems
The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford
David Crown, conductor
Mary-Louise Aitken, soprano
Thomas Guthrie, baritone

Robert Pecksmith, organ


Tickets: £10 (£7 concessions) from Newbury Corn Exchange

Click here to download the full programme.

Choral Scholars' Recital

25/11/2013

 
Choral Scholars
On Wednesday at 8pm Somerville's choral scholars will present From Purcell to 'Show Boat', an eclectic programme of songs, arias and duets by Händel, Mozart, Gluck, Bizet, Tchaikovsky, Verdi, Andrew Lloyd Webber and many others.

Soloists:
Ruth Akinradewo (soprano), James Aldred (tenor), Ian Buchanan (tenor), Katie Jeffries-Harris (mezzo-soprano), Joanna Perkins (soprano), Isabel Sinagola (mezzo-soprano), Alexandra Worrell (soprano), Emily Winkler (soprano)

Accompanists:
Kaan Harwood, Douglas Knight, Joanna Perkins, Robert Pecksmith

Click here to download the programme. Admission is free with a retiring collection in aid of Somerville Choir's US tour.

CD Release: Advent Calendar

5/11/2013

 
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This musical advent calendar from Oxford University's leading mixed-voice college choir is our second release on the Stone Records label, following a highly successful recording of Duruflé’s Requiem and Milford’s Mass for Five Voices. 

The beautifully-presented album is a countdown to Christmas of 24 tracks (with a bonus track for Christmas Day) featuring wonderful performances of some of the best-loved carols of all time, and a handful of première recordings that will delight all classical music lovers. Each Advent Sunday is marked by a Bach chorale, and the listener is guided through Advent, as the excitement builds for the arrival of Christmas Day. The track list includes favourite carols by Rutter, Warlock, Poston, Gardner, Cornelius, Goldschmidt and Wood as well as newly commissioned works by Toby Young, Raymond Head and Paul Sartin (member of the folk band Bellowhead).

The Choir of Somerville College, conducted by David Crown, is joined by guest soloists Mary-Louise Aitken (soprano) and Jeremy Carpenter (baritone), who was most recently seen in the Royal Opera House's production of Britten's Gloriana. They are accompanied by Robert Pecksmith (organ), Douglas Knight (organ) and Keith Fairbairn (percussion).

The album will be released on 4 November 2013 (UK) and 12 November 2013 (USA and other countries). Advent Calendar is available for purchase from Amazon UK, Amazon US, Presto Classical, Stone Records and Blackwell's Music (Broad Street, Oxford). Please see our discography for a full track list. A promotional video is available from YouTube.


Compline Recital at Keble College Chapel

2/11/2013

 
Robert Pecksmith (organist)
Robert Pecksmith will be playing a recital of rarely heard twentieth-century works on the new Kenneth Tickell organ at Keble College Chapel on Thursday evening.

The programme consists of Arvo Pärt's Annum per annum, the Adagio from Vierne's Organ Symphony No. 3 and Messiaen's L'Apparition de l'église éternelle.

Keble Chapel Compline Recital Series: Robert Pecksmith (Somerville)
Thursday 7th November 2013, 8:30pm, Keble College Chapel

Admission is free. See his website and the Facebook event page for more details.

Writing for Voices

20/10/2013

 
Britten in Oxford
Over the past few months the Choir of Somerville College has been involved in JAM's Writing for Voices project as part of the Britten in Oxford festival. Daniel Saleeb and Chloe Stopa-Hunt have written a piece called Psalm for us, a work for SATB divisi choir, SSA semi-chorus and organ. Click here to read an article about this project.

We will be performing this piece in a concert at the University Church next month (9th November, 7:30pm). Tickets (£10/£7 concessions) are available from Tickets Oxford and the Oxford Playhouse. The concert will be recorded by BBC Radio 3.

Organ Recital at Exeter College Chapel

19/10/2013

 
Robert Pecksmith
On Tuesday our Organ Scholar Robert Pecksmith will be playing a lunchtime recital on the 1994 Walker organ at Exeter. The programme will include music by Bach, Wesley, Saint-Saëns, Vierne and Messiaen.

Exeter College Organ Recital Series: Robert Pecksmith
Tuesday 22nd October 2013, 1:10pm, Exeter College Chapel

See his website and the Facebook event page for more details.

Choral Services in Michaelmas Term

13/10/2013

 
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.

New York Times

27/9/2013

 
Our Organ Scholar Robert Pecksmith is featured in an article in the Chinese edition of the New York Times: http://cn.nytimes.com/education/20130713/cc13arteducation. The text also mentions the termly Choral Scholars' Recitals organised by Somerville Music Society.
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