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The first Sounds: voices of our time CD "CURTAIN" - recorded in June 2007, as a CD dedicated to music by living composers as part of the choir's Sounds: voices of our time project.

The CD will be released in early 2008. If you would like to be notified when this is available please click HERE

My Kind of Carol - commissioned by The Tablet magazine and recorded in March 2007, this CD presents 21 Christmas carols, nominated by readers and contributors or specially selected by Exmoor Singers. The most voted for carol was O Holy Night [listen] . This compilation also includes a first recording of James Lavino's Peaceful was the night and a first recording of a carol based on an Alsatian cradle song At the Nativity [listen]. Other highlights include Jonathan Dove's The Three Kings and Malcolm Sargent's beautiful arrangement of Stille Nacht. OUT NOW !

My Kind of Hymn - commissioned by The Tablet magazine, this CD presents the top 20 favourite hymns, as voted for by readers and contributors, such as 'How great Thou art' [listen], 'Guide me, O Thou great Redeemer', 'Amazing grace', and 'Be Thou my vision' [listen], 'Here I am, Lord' [listen].

Music from the New World - features works by American composers, such as Aaron Copland's 'In the beginning' and Samuel Barber's 'Agnus Dei'.

My Spirit Sang All Day - features a wide selection of spiritual choral works, from Orlando Gibbons' 'O clap your hands', to Gerald Finzi's 'My Spirit Sang All Day', to John Tavener's 'Funeral Ikos'.

In October 2007 the choir collaborated with rock band Bloc Party in a live concert at the Camden Roundhouse as part of the BBC Electric Proms.

Unique choral arrangements of Bloc Party songs were commissioned, and the band and choir performed 12 numbers together in front of an audience of 3,000 people.

The concert was broadcast on BBC2 television and BBC Radio 1.

The choir has been commissioned several times to record special programmes for BBC1's Songs of Praise.

Exmoor Singers appeared on BBC television on a number of occasions during the televised Sainsbury's Choir of the Year competitions, culminating in the choir being awarded the accolade of Sainsbury's Mixed Voice Choir of the Year in 1998.

Exmoor Singers recorded an original sound-track, composed by Avshalom Caspi, for a documentary film on the Crusades.

'The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross' was first broadcast on British television on the History Channel in November 2005, and is now available on DVD.

In 2005, Exmoor Singers was commissioned by artist Louise K Wilson to be recorded and filmed within the former military buildings on Orford Ness in Suffolk. The sound and film formed part of a temporary art installation A Record Of Fear commissioned by Commissions East and the National Trust. The project included recording a new commissioned work by composer Yannis Kyriakides.

Exmoor Singers was commissioned by composer Philip Godfrey to record his setting of Christina Rossetti's poem 'Song' so that it could feature on BBC Radio 3's Private Passions. The recording was broadcast in August 2005.