Recordings

  

Further details, photographs and some audio clips are available by clicking on highlighted text and images.

CDs

photo image (c) Phil Hoffman

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'.



To order one of these CDs, please email info@exmoorsingers.org, specifying which CD you are interested in.



Television

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.

  BBC Electric Proms

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.

                logo used with the kind permission of the BBC
  logo used with the kind permission of the BBC


Film sound-track

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.



Art installation

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.

  


Radio

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.

logo used with the kind permission of the BBC The Tallis Festival 2007 was recorded by
the BBC and featured on Radio 3's The Choir on 28 October 2007.


All audio clips on this site

There are audio clips in various pages on this site, related to specific projects. For ease of access they are also listed here, along with the page on which they reside. All recordings are included with the kind permission of composers and artists as appropriate.

About us: Monteverdi - Vespers (Domine) [1.8MB]
My Kind of Carol: O Holy Night [0.7MB]
My Kind of Carol: O Tannenbaum [0.5MB]
My Kind of Carol: Coventry Carol [0.6MB]
My Kind of Carol: At the Nativity [0.7MB]
My Kind of Carol: O Little One Sweet [0.8MB]
New music: Paul Ayres - Ruth [1.8MB]
New music: Paul Ayres - This Sceptr'd Isle [5.2MB]
New music:
Radio broadcast:
Philip Godfrey - Song [3.3MB]
New music: James Lavino - Turn, Beloved [5.2MB]
New music: James Lavino - An Exhortation of St Peter [4.3MB]
New music: Peter McGarr - Dreaming England (This Sceptr'd Isle) [6.8MB]
New music: Artem Vassiliev - From the Song [8.8MB]
Crusades: Avshalom Caspi - Non est timor [2.5MB]
Crusades: Avshalom Caspi - Escrito esta en mi alma [3.8MB]
Crusades: Avshalom Caspi - Salvum (with boy treble solo by Ciaran Walsh) [2.4MB]
Crusades: Avshalom Caspi - Arab Horse Beat [2.5MB]
A Record of Fear: Ward - Come, sable night (sampled, around Trident Nuclear Missile) [0.9MB]
A Record of Fear: Bennet - Weep, O mine eyes (solo in centrifuge chamber) [2.7MB]
A Record of Fear: Bennet - Weep, O mine eyes (choir in centrifuge chamber) [3.9MB]
A Record of Fear: Kyriakides - U (amplified choir & sine oscillator) [7.0MB]
My Kind of Hymn: How Great Thou Art
My Kind of Hymn: Be Thou My Vision
My Kind of Hymn: Here I Am Lord
My Kind of Hymn: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
My Kind of Hymn: Be Still, for the Presence of the Lord
New music:
Tentatio:
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi - Tentatio - part 1 (Tallis Festival Choir) [3.0MB]
New music:
Tentatio:
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi - Tentatio - part 2 (Tallis Festival Choir) [4.1MB]
New music:
Tentatio:
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi - Tentatio - part 3 (Tallis Festival Choir) [3.2MB]
New music:
Tentatio:
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi - Tentatio - part 4 (Tallis Festival Choir) [3.5MB]
New music:
LYBATS:
Peter McGarr - Love You Big as the Sky - part 1 (Tallis Festival Choir) {4.8MB]
New music:
LYBATS:
Peter McGarr - Love You Big as the Sky - part 2 (Tallis Festival Choir) [4.8MB]
New music:
LYBATS:
Peter McGarr - Love You Big as the Sky - part 3 (Tallis Festival Choir)[6.8MB]