King's College Choir has been awarded a silver play button for reaching 100,000 subscribers on its YouTube channel. The choristers, right, celebrated with a picture in front of the Chapel, holding the glamorous award. The Choir reached 100,000 subscribers just before Christmas 2021, and since then has added another 20,000 fans to the total. Some of [...]
Acclaimed harpist Parker Ramsay is to release a recording on the King's College label of a new work for harp commissioned by King's College. The Street is a concert-length work for harp, plainsong and narration, based on the 14 Stations of the Cross, with music by American composer Nico Muhly and text by poet Alice Goodman. [...]
Subscribers to Apple Music can now find an option to view time-synced lyrics for Christmas carols sung by King's College Choir. The platform has published lyrics for all the carols featured on its Classic Christmas Carols playlist, allowing users to sing along with the carols at home – perfect for those who might not be able [...]
King's College has marked Armistice Day with the release of an audio webcast interspersing Fauré's Requiem with readings of scripture and poetry. It is the first recording of the full choir since the UK went into lockdown in March this year, with the choral scholars spread out amongst the congregational stalls. The choristers, who are in [...]
Credit: Tatiana Daubek Former Organ Scholar Parker Ramsay has published an article in the New York Times on Bach's Goldberg Variations, ahead of the release of his recording on the King's record label. In Is Bach Better on Harp?, the King's alumnus presents some of the questions and challenges that arose while working with the [...]
King's College has released a half-hour musical tour of Bach's St Matthew Passion, often described as one of the greatest sacred choral works of all time. Presented by the singer James Gilchrist, it uses musical extracts from the performances in April 2019, for which Gilchrist was the Evangelist. The same concerts were recorded for the new [...]
We announced this week that King's will be releasing a webcast recording of a choral service each and every day between now and July, in place of the choral services that would have taken place in the Chapel. King's College recently closed to all but essential visitors in response to UK government advice. [...]
It was with great sadness that King's College learned of the death of Sir Stephen Cleobury last Friday, St Cecilia's Day. Stephen was Director of Music at King's from 1982 until his retirement only recently. His last engagement with the Choir was Evensong on 7 July; a moving service that you can listen to again on [...]
The most recent album on the King's College label, 100 Years of Nine Lessons & Carols, has enjoyed unprecedented success for the King's label, becoming the second-best-selling all-classical album in the UK during 2018. The album, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Christmas Eve service 'A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols', has now been #1 [...]
Each year, a leading composer is commissioned to write a carol for the Choir to perform at A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols on Christmas Eve. The custom was instigated in 1983 with Stephen Cleobury’s appointment as Director of Music as a scheme to refresh continually the celebrated tradition he had inherited. Composers are chosen not [...]
