Broadcasts and recordings
April 30, 2009
Behind the microphone
The Chapel Choir is regularly invited to broadcast both the Daily Service and Sunday Worship for BBC Radio 4. Sometimes these are recorded in the University Chapel, but live broadcasts normally take place in Wellington Church, situated directly opposite the main University building in University Avenue. The Choir has also recorded music for BBC Radio 2's Sunday Half Hour, and for a Christmas Day chat show on BBC Radio Scotland.
In 2007 the Choir made its most recent commercially-released CD - Spirits and Souls - which is available from the University Shop, and to download from this website.
It features several première recordings, including Benedicite by Lionel Steuart Fothringham, commissioned to celebrate the launch of the new Chapel organ in 2006.
A CD of music by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies - Solstice of Light - is the choir's latest recording and will be released early next year.
On a lighter note, 8 choristers appeared on the Christmas edition of the BBC "soap" River City - you can view it on BBC iPlayer until 29 December.
Link: CD review
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