Rutter wrote this setting with clarinet solo of Psalm 27, "The Lord is my light and my salvation", for a friend who had just been diagnosed with AIDS, and was finding the words a comfort. This performance is by the Cherwell Singers, in the chapel of Exeter College, Oxford.

This track is from my recording of a concert called "Unheard Voices 2" in the Assembly Hall at Walthamstow Town Hall, London - a well-known recording venue. Vocal and percussion groups from a number of local schools were arranged around the walls of the hall, and there were a handful of professional instrumentalists in front of the microphone, with the director (playing the keyboard and leading the singing) behind, and the audience - entirely families, of course! - behind him. My brief was to produce a stereo recording for use the next day during an associated art exhibition, so I simply made a UHJ encoding of the surround recording - which they were delighted with; but you get the full surround version.

This track is from my recording of a concert called "Unheard Voices 2" in the Assembly Hall at Walthamstow Town Hall, London - a well-known recording venue. Vocal and percussion groups from a number of local schools were arranged around the walls of the hall, and there were a handful of professional instrumentalists in front of the microphone, with the director (playing the keyboard and leading the singing) behind, and the audience - entirely families, of course! - behind him. My brief was to produce a stereo recording for use the next day during an associated art exhibition, so I simply made a UHJ encoding of the surround recording - which they were delighted with; but you get the full surround version.

This carol was set by Britten in his early cantata "A Boy was Born". Later, after the emotion involved in writing his War Requiem, he took it out in isolation and reworked the setting for a solo voice, which is what you hear here (performed in the University Church of Oxford University). The words are usually associated with the grail legend; but modern scholarship suggests a link with Anne Boleyn, whose badge was a falcon.

This is the chorus "How Happy the Lover", in the form of a passacaglia, from Purcell's semi-opera King Arthur, recorded in The University Church of St Mary the Virgin, Oxford in a performance by The Cherwell Singers. The orchestral wind parts are played on the organ.