It is sixty years since Prime Minister Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement with
Hitler, September 1938, and told the cheering crowds in Downing Street: 'I believe it is
peace for our time.' Within a year the young men and women of Europe were once more under
arms. At their age we are singing in an Oxford chapel music pleading for the peace they
were not given. We know how blessed we are. This disc is issued in thanksgiving that two
World Wars have not been followed by a third.
and
Peace in Our Time, also available from
Guild, has served further to enhance the choir’s growing reputation, as has its
increasingly busy touring schedule. The Choir’s principal role, however, remains
singing the office of evensong in the College Chapel each Sunday during term. Its members
are drawn principally from within the College itself, but also include a number of the
most talented singers from throughout the University. Auditions are held at the start of
each academic year, and competition for the few available places is fierce. During
vacations, the Choir tours widely: in the last five years, it has sung concerts and
services throughout England, Italy, Switzerland and Cyprus. Of the Choir’s recent CDs
for Guild Music, Peace in Our Time
proved an instant success, with BBC Radio 3 and Classic FM both using music from the CD
for their Remembrance Sunday broadcasts in 1998. The Choir has a well established
tradition of commissioning new music, and is to record Philip Wilby’s Passion of Our Times in the year 2000.
Nicholas Chalmers, Organ Scholars.
| Sopranos |
Altos |
Tenors |
Basses |
| Alex Davidson |
Matthew Burt |
Brian Chapman |
Luke Bartlett |
| Sara Faulkner |
Alice Cowen |
Jim Holden |
Nicholas Berry |
| Sophy Harford |
Aggie Davis |
Chris Hunwick |
Nick Kelley |
| Rebecca Hewitt |
Olivia Flood |
Laurence McFaul |
Paddy Lord |
| Libby Landles |
Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe |
David Potter |
Alastair Merry |
| Helen Mosley |
Carol Robinson |
David Terry |
Stephen Nichols |
| Jeni Pearson |
Alex Stephens |
Adam Tunnicliffe |
Dominic Parker |
| Jo Sherratt |
Paula Wallwork |
Alister Whitford |
Jonathan Pratt |
| Laura Smith |
Anna Wilby |
|
Pontus Petterson |
| Helen Wright |
|
|
Peter Rindfleisch |
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|
Mark Williams |
The Choir of Lincoln College
MAGNIFICAT
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The College of the Blessed Virgin Mary and All Saints, Lincoln, in the
University of Oxford’ was founded in 1427 for the study of theology, to train and
strengthen priests against heresy. It is a dedication that we do not forget; the College
crest bears the Virgin and Child, and the Chapel’s own windows of 1630 show the
Virgin on Christ’s right hand at the Last Supper.
The College choir, of men and women studying at Lincoln College and elsewhere in Oxford
University, sings the weekly services in this Chapel. Each year the choir travels to
Europe to bring its music to a wider audience. On 2nd July 1997 the choir was presented to
the Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, in Rome, and on the steps of St. Peter’s sang to
him Górecki’s Totus tuus sum, Maria, ten years (almost to the day) since its
first performance to celebrate the Pope’s return to Warsaw in 1987.
| Sopranos |
Altos |
Tenors |
Basses |
| Tamsin Barton |
Alice Cowen |
Andrew Forrest |
Martin Attkins |
| Sara Faulkner |
Aggie Davis |
David Potter |
Luke Bartlett |
| Sophy Harford |
Déirdre |
Oliver Smith |
Nicholas Berry |
| Frances Ng |
Hollingsworth |
David White |
Nick Kelley |
| Jeni Pearson |
Sophie Lunn-Rockliffe |
Alister Whitford |
Graeme |
| Abby Ramsden |
Carol Robinson |
Mark Wilderspin |
McCullough |
| Rebecca Rickard |
Alexandra Stephens |
|
Stephen Nichols |
| Marianne Rustad |
Paula Wallwork |
|
Dominic Parker |
| |
Vanessa Timmer |
|
Peter Rindfleisch |
The Choir of Lincoln College Oxford
. Lincoln College Choir enjoys the reputation of being one of
the finest mixed voice chapel choirs in the University of Oxford. Since the 1994 release
of our first CD, Sing Praises Out, the choir’s output has increased
dramatically, with six recordings since 1997, and several successful foreign tours. In
addition to this, the choir continues to sing at weekly services held in the College
Chapel.
We have toured in recent years to a variety of locations around the world. In
July 1997 the choir was presented to the Holy Father, Pope John Paul II, and sang to him
Górecki’s Totus tuus sum, Maria on the steps of St. Peter’s in Rome. In
1999 we visited Cyprus under the patronage of the First Lady, and in 2000 flew to the
United States to sing in Boston and Maine.
Our recent recordings have reflected the choir’s continuing success. Our
two previous CDs, Magnificat and Peace In Our Time, were released to
critical acclaim, while the 2000 recording of John Caldwell’s Good Friday went
on to become a Classic FM Magazine Record of the Month. The choir has featured recently
Sopranos
Helen Mosley – Rebecca Willcox – Rowena Smith
Anna Nowakowska – Hanna Wilberg – Katie Larson – Sylvia Garnsey
Altos
Agnes Davis – Katharine Hardstone
Sophie Koveos – Kate Whiting – Anna Pozo
Tenors
Stephen Follows – William
Christopher Beall – Adam Tunnicliffe – Christopher Hunwick
Basses
Mark Williams – Christopher Gabbitas
Michael Shaw – Christopher Eastwood – Keith Thomasson
GMCD 7236 Choir
The Choir of Lincoln College, Oxford
Lincoln College Choir is widely regarded as one of the
finest mixed voice chapel choirs in the University of Oxford. Its main role is to sing at
the principal services in the College Chapel, but it also tours widely and has released a
number of CDs. Recent CDs include O Magnum Mysterium (GMCD 7226); Good Friday
(GMCD 7178); Peace in our Time (GMCD 7151) and Magnificat (GMCD 7158). The
choir has also featured on BBC Radio and Classic FM, and it has toured in the USA, Italy,
Cyprus and in English Cathedral Cities.
Lincoln Windows was first performed in Lincoln Cathedral, and
the college is proud of its links with the cathedral, city and county of Lincoln. We are
grateful to Philip Wilby, who wrote this piece for us, and to Nigel Lyndsey-Renton who
commissioned it.
Further information about the choir, the chapel and the stained
glass of Lincoln College may be found on the college website: www.lincoln.ox.ac.uk.
Sopranos: Helen Mosley, Rowena Smith, Anna Nowakowska, Katie
Larson, Silvia Garnsey, Sophy Harford
Altos: Agnes Davis, Sophie Koveos, Kate Whiting, Anna Pozo,
Stephen Hearn, Barbara Titus
Tenors: Stephen Follows, William Tallon, Christopher Beall,
Christopher Hunwick, Edward Allen
Basses: Mark Williams, Michael Shaw, Christopher Eastwood, Keith
Thomasson, Greg Sanderson, Laurence Cramp, Ben Thomas
Soloists: Silvia Garnsey (Track 2); Mark Williams (Track 5);
Stephen Hearn (Narrator, Track 9); Rowena Smith (Track 10); Christopher Beall (Track 12);
Laurence Cramp (Track 13); Katie Larson (Track 15).
Christopher Eastwood conducts Tracks 16, 17, 20(=conclusion;
does this become 19 if Vox Dei is omitted?)
The Choir of Lincoln College on Guild Music
Page revised 30.01.03
The Choir of Lincoln College is made up of students at
Oxford University. The director and organist and most of our singers are at Lincoln
College itself. Our term-time singing centres on the services sung weekly in the College
Chapel and on the extraordinarily rich musical life of Oxford. In February 1998 the choir
sang in the world premières of John Caldwell's opera-oratorio Good Friday, written
for the musicians of Lincoln, Jesus and Exeter Colleges. The present disc was recorded in
Exeter College Chapel after our 1998 tour to Venice, Florence and Piedmont. This is the
choir's third disc. It follows the success of Magnificat: The Life of the Blessed
Virgin Mary in Music, which was acclaimed on its issue in 1997. We acknowledge with
gratitude the continued support of the College and its Old Members; it was thanks to their
generosity that we could commission A Peace Prayer from Philip Wilby, premièred in our
College Chapel in June 1998 and here recorded for the first time.