John Rutter: The Twelve Days of Christmas
The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford
David Crown, conductor
Douglas Knight, organ
The first promotional video for our new album Advent Calendar, which will be released by Stone Records later this year: John Rutter: The Twelve Days of Christmas The Choir of Somerville College, Oxford David Crown, conductor Douglas Knight, organ Next week the choir will be recording its second commercial CD for Stone Records. The album will feature a selection of advent music by Bach, Cornelius, Wood, Warlock, Poston and Gardner as well as newly commissioned pieces by Toby Young, Raymond Head and Paul Sartin. Soloists and accompanists include Mary-Louise Aitken (soprano), Jeremy Carpenter (baritone), Robert Peckmith (organ), Douglas Knight (organ) and Keith Fairbairn (percussion). The recording sessions will take place in the chapel of Keble College, Oxford. The new CD of advent music is a follow-up to our successful debut album Requiem æternam and will be produced by Alexander Van Ingen and Matthew Bennett. A recording from the last chapel service of the academic year 2012/2013: Herbert Howells: Behold, O God our defender David Crown, conductor; Douglas Knight, organ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I960dJbXLzA Tomorrow our Junior Organ Scholar will be playing a lunchtime recital at Harris Manchester College Chapel as part of the series The many sounds of Oxford's Organ Scholars. The programme includes works by Buxtehude, Sweelinck, Howells, Schnittke and John Williams. HMC Lunchtime Recital: Robert Pecksmith (organ) Thursday 13th June 2013, 1:30pm, Harris Manchester College Chapel See his website and the Facebook event page for more details. 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. Tomorrow Somerville Music Society will present the termly choral scholars' recital, an excellent opportunity to hear members of the choir perform solo works and duets. This term the programme will include songs and arias by Händel, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Puccini, Strauss and Vaughan Williams.
Choral Scholars' Recital Tuesday, 21st May 2013, 8pm, Somerville College Chapel Ian Buchanan (tenor), Stephen O'Driscoll (baritone), Laura Schack (mezzo-soprano), Isabel Sinagola (mezzo-soprano), Emily Winkler (soprano), Glenn Wong (countertenor), Robert Pecksmith (piano), Orly Watson (piano) 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 Pecksmith This week our Junior Organ Scholar will be playing a lunchtime recital at Hertford College Chapel. The programme includes works by Bach, Brahms, Reger, Elgar, Leighton and John Williams.
HCMS Lunchtime Recital: Robert Pecksmith (organ) Wednesday 8th May 2013, 1:10pm, Hertford College Chapel See his website and the Facebook event page for more details. Prospective applicants who want to find out more about the Choir of Somerville College can download our leaflet, which will be distributed at the Open Day. If you want to know what it's really like to be a member of our choir, you can read short profiles of three of our singers.
Following the redesign of Somerville Music Society's website, the Choir of Somerville College will now have its own homepage. The new site is still a work in progress and more content will be added over the next few weeks. We would be grateful for any comments and suggestions.
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