Film and TV Work
The Choir relaxing between takes
1991
Took part in a Channel 4 TV documentary about John Tavener. The composer wrote Hymn to the Holy Spirit especially for the Choir - and the film followed the development and performance of this work Performed in Prague with Placido Domingo for a BBC TV Christmas Programme, conducted by Stephen Darlington.
1993
Provided musical backing for two releases by Rabbit Ears: The Saviour is Born - an audio and cartoon video narrated by Morgan Freeman and The Night Before Christmas - a children's cartoon narrated by Meryl Streep
1994
Sang Howard Goodall's TV themes for The Vicar of Dibley and Mr. Bean.
1995
Contributed to A Christmas Story, an Oxford University Press multi-media project released on CD-ROM.
1996
Extract from the Choir's recording of Byrd's Mass for Four Voices used on the film soundtrack of Primal Fear, starring Richard Gere.
1998
The Choir was the subject of a Channel 4 TV documentary, one of a series of four featuring great choirs of the world. The film was nominated in the Arts Programme category at the Montreux TV Festival.
1999
Blue Peter featured the Choir and the School in a special programme to mark the centenary of the birth of C S Lewis.
2000
The choir appeared in 4 programmes in Channel 4's series Big Bangs about key moments in music history, presented by Howard Goodall.
Chorister featured in a documentary about W.H. Auden
Internet broadcast of Nine Lessons and Carols
Award-winning televised Carol service for Channel 6 (The Oxford Channel)
2001
Filming completed for scenes in Howard Goodall’s Great Dates (broadcast in September 2002 on Channel 4).
The choristers sang the theme tune and incidental music for the BBC1 drama
thriller Sweet Revenge.
Televised Carol Service for Channel 6 (The Oxford Channel)
2002
A series of programmes on Religion and Art presented by the Dean of Christ Church, the Very Revd. John Drury, broadcast on Channel 5 over Christmas 2002.
A BBC documentary about Robert Hooke
2003
A BBC 2 documentary about Britten’s music for children. It is due for broadcast in May 2004.
Recording with Howard Goodall
2004
The Choir filmed and recorded The Chichester Psalms at Bayswater New West End synagogue for Howard Goodall’s Channel 4 documentary on Bernstein.
2005
BBC Radio 4 broadcast of service commemorating John Locke
Songs of Praise programme on C. S Lewis broadcast for BBC 1
2006
Songs of Praise about Christ Church broadcast for BBC 1.
BBC Radio 3 broadcast of Saxton Canticles