Voted the fifth best choir in the world in Gramophone magazine’s ‘20 Greatest Choirs’, the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge comprises around thirty Choral Scholars and two Organ Scholars, all of whom are students at the University.
During term the Choir’s main focus is the singing of the liturgy in the College Chapel; outside term, the Choir gives regular concert performances, notably BBC broadcasts of Bach’s Mass in B Minor and Christmas Oratorio with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, and tours internationally.
The Choir’s extensive discography includes Howells’ Collegium Regale, which won Australia’s Limelight Recording of the Year in 2016; Howells’ Requiem & other works, which won a Gramophone Award in 2012; and Beyond All Mortal Dreams, settings of contemporary American a cappella music, which was nominated for a Grammy Award in the same year.
SUBLIME... The only word to describe this performance. Just incredible this is live... Someday I will travel to Cambridge to listen you guys for at least 2 weeks.... Stephen Layton masters the real "word painting", that might be the reason he uses the red pencil... CONGRATS AGAIN....
I first heard this song as it played during the credits of a mediocre movie called "Best Friends" with Burt Reynolds and Goldie Hawn. It was beautiful and it was the best thing about the movie. It isn't a song that is heard often but this performance here is absolutely the best you will ever hear. The choir is extraordinary and the well trained soloist sings the beautiful song....beautifully!
More than Sing: LIVE! You'll never sing well if you haven't lived. Take chances. Be scared, and do it anyway. Good advice for the above singers and the rest of us.
Sincere thanks to each and every one of you for consistently putting my babies to sleep with your beautiful music. Even at their crankiest, this calms them down.❤
Her soothing voice sounds like the earth's burr as it revolves and spins in its orbit. Captivating much like being frozen after seeing a spectre of a divine being
Probably the best hymn composed in the 20th century. What a descant. And a lovely rendition, worthy of the great Dr Stephen Layton. May his retirement be long and blissful.
Glorious singing and playing. I love Stanford choral music. I must, however, comment on the choir's use of 'floppy' music. I think it spoils the visual appearance, as there is a random untidiness in the way the music is handled. Rigid black folders would look so much better and make the music much easier for the choir members to manage. Has no one made this comment before? Please consider. Thanks.
Does anyone know why they are rehearsing this beautiful song, with possibly the best singer I've ever heard. Was there a concert perhaps available somewhere. Gosh so beautiful.
This is a great work that should be exciting and involving but is here inexplicably given a sleepy, uninvolved performance. Trinity used to have a bit more gumption than this. And, although they verge on being a choral society in comparison with other college choirs, it is still not as large a choir as Stanford probably had in mind for this Magnificat 'in memoriam Hubert Parry'.
