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In the Bleak Midwinter

In the Bleak Midwinter reflects a Christmas that was unlike any other in recent history.

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Bach: St Matthew Passion

King’s College presents a new account of one of sacred music’s greatest masterpieces, the Bach St Matthew Passion, performed with the Academy of Ancient Music.

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Bruckner: Mass & Motets

Bruckner’s E Minor Mass and a selection of his profoundly beautiful motets were selected by Sir Stephen Cleobury as his last album at King’s, recorded only a few months before his death.

A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols: The Centenary Service

A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols: The Centenary Service

Presented in a stunning hardback book with over 50 pages of notes, commentary and photography, this is the definitive account of a piece of musical history.

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Evensong Live 2019: Anthems and Canticles

A glorious collection of choral music by British composers, recorded live during services of Choral Evensong in King’s College Chapel.

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Howells: Cello Concerto & An English Mass

A double-disc set of orchestral, choral and organ music by one of the most distinguished English composers of the 20th century. 

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The Music of King's: Choral Favourites from Cambridge

A celebration of choral music throughout the ages and around the world.

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Messiaen: La Nativité du Seigneur

Nine extraordinary meditations by one of the twentieth century’s musical titans, performed on the magnificent King’s College Chapel organ by former organ scholar Richard Gowers.

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100 Years of Nine Lessons & Carols

Celebrating 100 years of A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, this double-CD album features brand-new recordings of favourite carols.

Byrd: Motets

A vibrant selection of motets by one of England's most renowned Renaissance composers, William Byrd.

Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem & Bernstein: Chichester Psalms

Two enchanting works of peace in intimate arrangements for small forces.

Tecchler’s Cello: from Cambridge to Rome

Celebrated cellist and former King’s chorister releases a new album on the King’s College label.

Grier: lit by holy fire

Stephen Cleobury and the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge present a live world premiere recording of Francis Grier’s lit by holy fire. 

Bach: St John Passion

Stephen Cleobury and the Choir of King’s College, Cambridge are joined by the Academy of Ancient Music in Bach’s much-loved St John Passion.

The King of Instruments: A Voice Reborn

A voice reborn: the first surround-sound recording of the famous Harrison & Harrison organ since its restoration.

Hymns from King’s

Hymns from King’s is a collection of twenty hymn arrangements for choir and organ by Stephen Cleobury.

Classics

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In the Bleak Midwinter

In the Bleak Midwinter reflects a Christmas that was unlike any other in recent history.

Carols from King’s (DVD)

The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge presents its 2013 Carols from King’s service, as filmed for BBC2.

Evensong Live 2015

The tracks on this album were recorded live during Evensong services in the 2013-2014 academic year, as part of the College’s regular Chapel webcasts.

English Hymn Anthems

The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge presents an album of anthems based on hymn tunes from the Anglican choral tradition.

Organ Works

This album brings together the first ever surround sound recordings of the great Harrison & Harrison organ set within the chapel of King’s College, Cambridge.

Easter from King’s (DVD)

Seasonal hymns and readings alongside choral favourites, including Allegri’s Miserere and the Hallelujah Chorus from Handel’s Messiah.

Mozart Requiem: Realisations

Mozart Requiem: Realisations is an exploration of the history and influence of Mozart’s famous Requiem.

Favourite Carols from King’s

‘Favourite Carols from King’s’ is a collection of the most popular carols featured in A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols over the years.

Britten Saint Nicolas

Britten’s enchanting choral masterpiece featuring soloist Andrew Kennedy and the renowned Britten Sinfonia.

Fauré Requiem

This critically-acclaimed album was recorded in January 2014 with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and former choral scholar Gerald Finley.

After Hours

A selection of unrecorded pop and jazz a capella arrangements.

Nine Lessons & Carols

The essential Christmas tradition for families all over the world.

Duruflé: Requiem

King’s College’s recording of the Fauré Requiem was the best-selling core classical album of 2014.

Twelve Days of Christmas

The King’s Men is the close-harmony vocal group formed by the current Choral Scholars of King’s College, Cambridge.

Evensong Live 2016

The tracks on this album were recorded live during Evensong services in the 2014-2015 academic year, as part of the College’s regular Chapel webcasts.

1615 Gabrieli in Venice

This recording pays homage to one of the most influential musicians of the Venetian Renaissance from within one of the great buildings of the English Renaissance.

Choir News

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King's commissions a new carol for Christmas Eve

This year’s carol has been written by composer and Cambridge alumna Cheryl Frances-Hoad. ‘The Cradle’ is a setting of an English translation by Robert Graves of an anonymous seventeenth century Austrian text.

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Remembering David Briggs

Sunday's Evensong was in memory of David Briggs (KC 1936), the former Headmaster of the King's College School who died in 2020 at the age of 102. 

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Sermon Before the University delivered by Nicola Reindorp

King's alumna and CEO of Crisis Action, Nicola Reindorp, gave the annual address on 'the importance of doubt'.

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