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 recordings of a version of Handel’s Zadok the Priest, edited by Stephen Darlington, and new pieces by John Rutter and Howard Goodall. The recording is the latest in an award-winning series on the Avie label. The CD was the highest new entry in the UK specialist Classical chart on its release.