Recordings 

Recording under the baton of Sir Philip Ledger in December 2008

The Choir has made many recordings over the past twenty five years. Some of the most recent releases are listed below, along with sample tracks. Track listings and reviews are available at the bottom of the page. Most of the CDs can be bought from the College Porter's Lodge. Those CDs produced by Regent Records can be ordered from their website.

The Choir's CD of music by Sir Philip Ledger is directed by the composer. The recording includes Ledger's recently-composed Requiem, as well as his anthems and carol arrangements.

The Choir has recently recorded a CD of music by Wolf and Liszt. Further details to be announced.  

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Tracks listings 

Choral works by Sir Philip Ledger (2009)

REGCD305  Buy online

Sample track: Good Christian men, rejoice

Sir Philip Ledger's beautiful, original and accessible compositions are winning world-wide popularity, and this recording is the first to be devoted entirely to his choral music.  The disc includes his Requiem - A Thanksgiving for Life for choir and orchestra, which is his most substantial work to date. 

Sir Philip Ledger:

Requiem

Scarlatti (2009)

REGCD283  Buy online

Sample track: Fac ut anime, the penultimate movement of the Stabat Mater

Domenico Scarlatti's  Stabat Mater has been a popular feature of the Choir's repertoire for several years. This disc combines it with the first recordings of a recently-discovered mass and of several motets composed by his father, Alessandro.

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Missa breve, e concertata a cinque voci (14:25)

Ad Dominum dum tribularer (4:10)
Justitiae Domini (3:36)
Exsurge Domine (2:57)
Exaltabo te Domine (3:28)
Domine in auxilium meum (3:41)
Exultate Deo (2:50)

Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757)
Stabat Mater (24:26) 

"executed with assurance and eloquence ... the Christ's College undergraduates sing with freshness and security"
Gramophone 

Of a Rose Carol settings by Britten and Leighton (2007)

REGCD243  Buy online

Sample track: Of a rose is all my song - Leighton  

Website editor's notes: "Kenneth Leighton's carols are tragically underperformed masterpieces. This consideration, along with Ruth Marriott's spine-tingling soloing, induced me to make the track 'Of a Rose' available on the website despite its 6-minute duration making it far too long for a sample track. Enjoy!"

Stanford Magnificat for Double Chorus, Parry Songs of Farewell (2004)

REGCD203  Buy online
 

Sample track: There is an old belief - C H H Parry

"fresh voices, precise pitching and chording, expert pacing" ****
BBC Music Magazine

Howells Requiem, Britten Rejoice in the Lamb (2002)

REGCD169  Buy online
 

Sample track: A Hymn to the Virgin - Britten

"...truly excellent performances...the recordings are beautifully accomplished....This is a fine disc, well worth the attention of all lovers of twentieth-century English choral music"
International Record Review

Music of the Tudors (2001)

Sample track: O Lord, the maker of al thing - William Mundy

Sample track: The silver swan - Gibbons

"Voci del paradiso"
Avv. A Munari

Romantic church music from Europe (1999)

Sample track: O salutaris hostia - Liszt
 

"With music in four different languages (Latin, French, German and Italian), the disc demonstrates the outstanding skill of an extremely well-trained choir"
Suzanne Flowers

Kodaly Missa Brevis, Motets by Liszt and Bruckner

(no longer available to buy from Christ's)

Sample tracks: Locus Iste - Anton Bruckner

Gloria from the Missa Brevis - Zoltan Kodaly

"A beautifully turned collection from the mixed choir of Christ's College prefaces sacred music by Bruckner and Liszt with the Missa Brevis by Zoltan Kodály.
At times intriguingly French in idiom, this exquisite Kodály setting is given a clear, beguiling performance, well paced and contrasted, and with balance and ensemble always well judged. The recorded sound is a sheer delight.
This is a genuinely involving sacred disc, heart-rendingly sung by a group of unquestioned talent."
Church Times 30/10/98 

Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts

(no longer available to buy from Christ's)

Funeral Music and Laments from 16th and 17th century England

Sample track: I am the Resurrection and the Life from the Funeral Sentences - William Croft  

"The disc demonstrates with considerable skill the ability of these composers to write music of great emotional depths and harmonic complexity ... interpretations are suitably sensitive, and the choral sound is rich and well balanced." Chuch Music Quarterly

"This somewhat sombre collection features fine choral singing and some rarely-heard masterpieces." Early Music Review