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04 May 2012
CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL CHOIR, OXFORD A vacancy has arisen for a COUNTERTENOR LAY CLERK from SEPTEMBER 2012 This will involve the daily sung liturgy at the Cathedral, as well as concerts and tours. Suitable voice, at least three years' choral experience and advanced sight-reading skills required. Preferably educated to post-graduate level. Accommodation available. For full details regarding salary and duties please write to Dr Stephen Darlington, The Organist, Chris...
27 January 2012
John Bridcut's 2004 television documentary, Britten's Children, featuring Christ Church Cathedral Choir, will be repeated today (Friday) at 7.30pm on BBC Four. The programme explores the music that Benjamin Britten wrote for and about children, and includes an interview with the actor David Hemmings who discusses the time he spent with Britten. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0074rwp
17 January 2012
These treasures are linked with varying degrees of intimacy to Christ Church. Tallis’s Salvator Mundi is in its Baldwin partbooks, an important source of English Renaissance polyphony. John Taverner was the institution’s first informator choristarum, justifying the inclusion of his Christe Jesu, while John Tavener wrote his alluringly simple setting of The Lord’s Prayer for the choir in 1984. Slightly less directly connected are John Rutter’s appealing Canticle of t...
09 December 2011
Christ Church Cathedral choir’s latest CD ‘The Treasures of Christ Church’ will be Radio 3 Essential Classics featured CD of the week of 12 December. This is a newly recorded, special collection spanning 500 years of English choral music, all of which has some connection with Christ Church cathedral, the college or its precious manuscript collection. It includes several works from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as well as premiere recor...
08 November 2011
TREASURES OF CHRIST CHURCH as reviewed by BBC Music Magazine This looks like a highlights disc, but isn’t: the recordings are new, and celebrate over 500 years of choral singing at Christ Church, Oxford. All the pieces featured have some connection with its cathedral, college or its precious manuscript collection. The real backstory here, though, is the quality of the singing, which has developed during the 26-year tenure of the choir’s director of music, Stephen Darlington...
01 September 2011
Treasures of Christ Church is a newly recorded, special collection spanning 500 years of English choral music performed from original manuscripts, uncovering the unique history of music at Christ Church, Oxford. All of the works on Treasures had an association with Christ Church, stretching back to the tenure of John Taverner, through Tallis, Handel, Purcell and Byrd to present day world premiere recordings of works by John Rutter and Howard Goodall. John Taverner, the most outstanding...
07 June 2011
23 & 24 December 2011 The ever-popular services of Nine Lessons and Carols will take place at Christ Church Cathedral at 7:30pm on Friday 23 December and 3pm on Saturday 24 December 2011. There is no charge for tickets and they are allocated on a strict ‘first come, first served’ basis. These may be obtained by sending a letter to the Cathedral Office between 15 September and 15 November 2011 only, specifying the service for which tickets are being requested, the nu...
13 May 2011
SATURDAY 21 MAY at 6.00 p.m. World Premiere of a new work by Robert Saxton Christ Church Cathedral Choir will give the world premiere of Robert Saxton’s Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis at Evensong on Saturday 21 May. The work has been commissioned by the Friends of Christ Church Cathedral and is the third in a trilogy of specially composed pieces by the composer. Robert Saxton is University Lecturer in Music at Worcester College, Oxford.
26 April 2011
Photos from the Easter performance of the St. John Passion now up! Many thanks to Ralph Williamson. http://www.chchchoir.org/photos/view/2011_johnpassion
30 January 2011
We are pleased to announce the launch of the USA & Canada 2011 Tour Blog! http://usa2011.chchchoir.org/ In the weeks preceding our next tour, we aim to give you a behind the scenes look at Christ Church Cathedral Choir. There's even a small video series to go alongside it - we hope to release about one a week before now and April. See Rob's post (http://usa2011.chchchoir.org/2011/01/welcome/) for a full welcome!
30 January 2011
So we've finally taken the plunge - we now have a Facebook page! That means you can now find us on Facebook and YouTube, or subscribe to our mailing list. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christ-Church-Cathedral-Choir-Oxford/185343841498305 http://www.youtube.com/user/chchchoir
23 November 2010
Light and shade: that seemed to be the prospect in this Remembrance Day concert. Both works were by Mozart — his bubbling and sublimely melodic clarinet concerto in A major, and his Requiem Mass in D minor. And yet, did the Remembrance Day backdrop make the clarinet concerto’s central Adagio sound especially poignant, and just like a reflection on a life now ended? Certainly it seemed that way in soloist Mark Simpson’s masterful performance — Simpson, reading music ...
07 September 2010
The choir's recording 'More Divine than Human - Music from the Eton Choirbook (Avie AV2167)' has been shortlisted as one of three nominees for the Early Music category in the 2010 Gramophone Awards More information can be found at http://www.gramophone.co.uk/awards/2010/early-music
08 June 2010
We're pleased to announce that a new recording has been released by Nimbus. A Catholic convert from Judaism, Wellesz composed a significant amount of sacred music, including five masses, two of which – the first and the last – feature on this disc. Wellesz’s operas of the 1920s contain a significant amount of virtuoso choral writing, and this quality carries over into his church music, although on the whole they are written in a simpler, more traditionally tonal idiom...
23 May 2010
As if a new website wasn't enough.. We now have a mailing list - you can sign up here on the site at http://www.chchchoir.org/mailinglist/. We're not planning to send out tonnes of email - just the odd notice which might be of use to those of you who don't frequent this site too often. In order to subscribe to the list, fill in the form at the above address. You should then recieve an email with a confirmation link in it - this must be clicked to finish the subscription! Don't forget to ch...
19 May 2010
Fauré and Howard Goodall: Charlotte Mobbs (soprano), Ronan Collett (baritone), Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford Philomusica, Marios Papadopoulos, Stephen Darlington, 6.5.2010 (BBr)Fauré: Requiem, op.48 (1893 version – edited and reconstructed by John Rutter)Howard Goodall: Eternal Light: A Requiem (2007/2008) We’re used to hearing Fauré’s Requiem in a version with full orchestra, but that wasn’t his original intention. It was whilst undertakin...
06 April 2010
It's been a while coming, but we're pleased to unveil our new website. There are a fair few changes! The Discography is now much more comprehensive: each entry has not only related reviews, but also audio clips (for most of the newer discs) We've added a Blog - instead of just snippets of news, we hope to bring you more substantial stories from tours & events Photo galleries - have been updated for a quicker browsing experience As with all new websites, there are occasionally err...
05 April 2010
“Characterised by technical skill and exquisite beauty of sound, the choruses were the highlights of this unforgettable evening.”(Neue Rhein Zeitung) The Cathedral Choir gave two "triumphant" performances of Haydn's Creation in the fine Mercatorhalle in Duisburg Germany on 24 and 25 March. The conductor was Jonathan Darlington, General Musical Director of the Duisburg Philharmoniker and Stephen Darlington's brother. The fact that this was the first time that the bro...04 May 2012
Vacancies
27 January 2012
Britten's Children
17 January 2012
Review of Treasures from Sunday Times – Culture - 15/01/12
09 December 2011
Radio 3 Essential Classics featured CD of the week
08 November 2011
BBC Music Magazine on Treasures of Christ Church
01 September 2011
19 September Brings New Treasures!
07 June 2011
Tickets for Nine Lessons and Carols
13 May 2011
World Premiere of a new work by Robert Saxton
26 April 2011
Photos from the St.John Passion
30 January 2011
Announcing the USA & Canada 2011 Tour Blog
30 January 2011
Find us on Facebook!
23 November 2010
Oxford Times Review - Mozart Requiem
07 September 2010
2010 Gramophone Awards Nominations
08 June 2010
Egon Wellesz - Choral Music
23 May 2010
New Mailing List
19 May 2010
Seen and Heard Review
06 April 2010
A New Website!
05 April 2010
Triumph der Schöpfung