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  Winchester College Quiristers   [Winchester College Chapel Choir] Classical Choir of Men and Boys 
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Winchester College Quiristers Founded in 1382 by William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester and twice Chancellor of England, Winchester College is one of the oldest and best-known schools in Great Britain. Wykeham's original foundation included 70 scholars, and although the school has now grown tenfold in size, the same number of scholars continues to live in medieval chambers next to the College Hall and Chapel. Wykeham also made provision for 16 singing-boys called Quiristers, whose duty was to sing at Chapel services.

For over 600 years, Winchester College has maintained its ancient choral foundation, and the Quiristers now form the treble line in Winchester College Chapel Choir, besides singing a good deal in their own right as a boys' concert choir.

The lower voices in the Chapel Choir are provided by senior pupils (and some staff) from the College, many of whom have themselves been Quiristers or choristers at cathedrals and other choral foundations.

Winchester College Chapel Choir sings a full range of choral services in the College Chapel. It gives recitals, broadcasts and records for BBC Radio and Television, and makes regular tours abroad, most recently to Canada and Hong Kong. The current Quiristers have been particularly successful in the BBC Young Chorister of the Year Competition, winning the title in 2001, 2003 and 2004. Since 1966 the Quiristers have been educated along side the Cathedral Choristers at Pilgrim School.
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Featured Recordings Compact | Full  
Winchester College Quiristers - The Quiristers of Winchester College
The Quiristers of Winchester College (Meridian CDE 84162, CD) 1988
Featuring Francis Brett   Edward Evershed   Winchester College Quiristers   William Gibb   Tom Seligman  
Julian Smith Director, Robert Bottone Piano.
Francis Brett (treble): 1,2,3,4,5,9,12,14,15,17,18,20
Edward Evershed (treble): 1,2,3,6,12,14,17,18,20
William Gibb (treble): 12,18
Tom Seligman (treble): 5,7,12
Aaron Nouban (tenor) and Julian Smith (bass): 8,18
  1.   Mendelssohn Herbstlied Op. 63 No. 4  
  2.   Mendelssohn Gruss Op. 63 No. 3  
  3.   Brahms Vergebliches Ständchen Op. 49 No. 4  
  4.   Brahms Wiegenlied Op. 49 No. 4  
  5.   Brahms Barcarole Op. 44 No. 3  
  6.   Mozart Ridente la calma KV 152  
  7.   Mozart An Chloe KV 52  
  8.   Mendelssohn O wert thou in the cauld blast Op. 63 No. 5  
  9.   Mendelssohn On wings of song Op. 34 No. 2  
10.   Schubert Son of the Muses Op. 92 No. 1  
11.   Schubert Gott in der Natur Op. 133  
12.   Brahms Mein Mädel hat einen Rosenmund  
13.   Brahms Märznacht Op. 44 No. 12  
14.   Mendelssohn Das Ährenfeld Op. 77 No. 2  
15.   Schubert Who is Sylvia  
16.   Schubert The Lord is my shepherd Op. 132  
17.   Medelssohn Ich woll't mein Lieb ergösse sich op. 63 No.1  
18.   Mozart Hm, hm, hm, hm, Quintet (The Magic Flute) KV 620  
19.   Mozart Seid uns zum zweitenmal will kommen. Terzetto (The Magic Flute) KV 620  
20.   Mendelssohn You spotted snakes Op. 61  
21.   Schubert Nacht und Träume Op. 43 No. 2  
Available at   Merdidian records
Winchester College Quiristers - Mozart: Three Salzburg Masses
Mozart: Three Salzburg Masses (Proudsound PROU CD 128, CD) 1990
Featuring Winchester College Quiristers  
Three masses by W. A. Mozart, the Little Credo Mass, the Missa Brevis in B Flat and the Missa Brevis in C (Spatzenmesse) as well as two sonatas and the motet Ave Verum Corpus are featured on this recording. The Quiristers and four well chosen soloists give a wonderful rendition of the above listed works. They are accompanied by the Amadi Orchestra. The recording was made in Winchester College Chapel in July 1990. Meanwhile this album has gone out of print. Thus, it is not available in normal shops anymore.
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Available at   Pascal Moré Musikvertrieb
Winchester College Quiristers - Dyson Song Book
Dyson Song Book (Proud Sound PROUCD146 , CD) October 1997
Featuring Winchester College Quiristers  
  1.   Hymn To The Stars  
  2.   Thanksgiving  
  3.   Morning And Evening  
  4.   Hark-A-Day  
  5.   An Aquarelle  
  6.   When I Think On The Happy Days  
  7.   Put Your Hand In Mine  
  8.   A Lullaby  
  9.   The Pedlar's Song  
10.   Hallo My Fancy  
11.   Song Of The Cyclops  
12.   A Poet's Hymn  
13.   Valour  
14.   The Seekers  
15.   Reveille  
16.   When I Behold  
17.   Sweet, Be Not Proud  
18.   Night Piece  
19.   To The Muses  
20.   A Prayer For Harvest  
21.   I Sing Of Brooks  
22.   Four Sweet Months  
23.   Housemates  
24.   The Coronet  
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Winchester College Quiristers - I Sing of a Maiden
I Sing of a Maiden (Hyperion HAVPCD211, CD) February 1998
Featuring Winchester Cathedral Choir   Winchester College Quiristers  
Directed by David Hill (Cathedral Choir), Christopher Tolley (Quiristers)
  1.   Panis angelicus (Franck)  
  2.   (An) Old Carol (Quilter)  
  3.   King of Glory, King of Peace (Harris)  
  4.   Ave Maria (Franck)  
  5.   Cantata No. 147, 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben' (Bach)  
  6.   Cavalleria rusticana (Mascagni)  
  7.   Elijah (Mendelssohn)  
  8.   Ave Maria (Gounod)  
  9.   I sing of a maiden (Hadley)  
10.   O mysterium ineffabile (Lalouette)  
11.   Requiem (Fauré)  
12.   Psalm 23 (Schubert)  
13.   Ave verum (Fauré)  
14.   Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck)  
Available at   Amazon.co.uk
Winchester College Quiristers - That Yonge Child-Music For The Birth Of Christ
That Yonge Child-Music For The Birth Of Christ (Proud Sound PROU CD 147, CD) June 1998
Featuring Winchester College Quiristers   Charles Albin   Jonathan Bridcut   Alistair Caplin   James Cripps   Alistair Sutherland   Timothy Willott  
Winchester College Quiristers with Sioned Williams (Harp)
  1.   Ceremony Of Carols:Procession   Cantor James Cripps (Treble)
  2.   Wolcum Yole!  
  3.   There Is No Rose  
  4.   That Yonge Child   Soloist Jonathan Bridcut (Treble)
  5.   Balulalow   Soloist Charles Albin (Treble)
  6.   As Dew In Aprille  
  7.   This Little Babe  
  8.   Interlude  
  9.   In Freezing Winter Night   Soloists Alistair Caplin and Alistair Sutherland (Trebles)
10.   Spring Carol   Soloists Jonathan Bridcut and James Cripps (Trebles)
11.   Deo Gracias  
12.   Recession  
13.   Variations Pastorales Sur Un Vieux Noel for Solo Harp Theme  
14.   Var.I  
15.   Var II  
16.   Var III  
17.   Var IV  
18.   Var V  
19.   Var VI  
20.   Var VII  
21.   Conclusion  
22.   Dancing Day Prelude (Rutter)  
23.   Angelus Ad Virginem  
24.   A Virgin Most Pure   Soloist James Cripps (Treble)
25.   Personent Hodie  
26.   Interlude  
27.   There Is No Rose   Soloists James Cripps and Timothy Willott (Trebles)
28.   Coventry Carol   Soloists James Cripps, Jonathan Bridcut and Timothy Willott (Trebles)
29.   Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day   Soloist James Cripps (Treble)
30.   Six Noels Pour La Harpe (Tournier) I  
31.   II  
32.   III  
33.   IV  
34.   V  
35.   VI  
Available at   Pascal Moré Music Distribution Only a few CDs of this out of print album are still available for purchase.
Winchester College Quiristers - Something's Coming
Something's Coming (Herald  HAVPCD 276, CD) 2002
Featuring Winchester College Quiristers   Harry Sever   Nicholas Stenning   Samuel Wesley  
Nicholas Stenning (2001 Chorister of the Year), Harry Sever (2003 Chorister of the Year) and the Winchester College Quiristers
  1.   Something's coming (Bernstein) (L)  
  2.   The Salley Gardens (Britten) (L)   Soloist: Nicholas Stenning
  3.   Weg der Liebe (Brahms) (L)  
  4.   To Sylvia (Schubert) (L)   Soloist: Harry Sever
  5.   Ah perdona al primo affetto (Mozart) (L)  
  6.   Vocalise étude (Messiaen)  
  7.   O waly, waly (Britten) (L)  
  8.   The birds (Britten) (L)   Soloist: Harry Sever
  9.   Fancie (Britten) (L)  
10.   Willow willow (Grainger) (L)   Soloist: Nicholas Stenning
11.   Corpus Christi Carol (Britten) (L)  
12.   Over the mountains (Quilter) (L)   Soloist: Nicholas Stenning
13.   It was a lover and his lass (Rutter) (L)  
14.   Bridge over troubled water (Simon) (L)  
15.   La vendetta (Mozart) (L)  
16.   My ship (Weill) (L)   Soloist: Samuel Wesley
17.   Angels, ever bright and fair (Handel) (L)  
18.   Linden Lea (Vaughan Williams) (L)   Soloist: Nicholas Stenning
19.   Old Sir Faulk (Walton) (L)  
20.   Somewhere (Bernstein) (L)   Soloist: Harry Sever
Available at   Herald AV
Available at   Pascal Moré Musikvertrieb "Something's Coming" is one of the most vivid and finest albums which was available in the treble genre. Featured are the Quiristers of Winchester College, including soloists such as Harry Sever (BBC Chorister of the year 2003) and Nicholas Stenning (BBC Chorister of the year 2001/2). Unfortunately it has gone out of print and is not available in pressed format anymore. However, Herald AV still offers this album although on professionally produced CD-R only. Therefore I do not sell this album anymore but you can get it from The Record Corner www.therecordcorner.co.uk
Review at   choirbase.com
Winchester College Quiristers - Hear My Prayer
Hear My Prayer (Herald HAVPCD 303, CD) December 2004
Featuring Thomas Jesty   Harry Sever   Winchester College Quiristers  
Winchester College Chapel Choir. Chorister of the Year award winners Harry Sever* (2003) and Thomas Jesty^ (2004) are the featured treble soloists.
  1.   Hear my prayer *  
  2.   I know that my redeemer liveth *  
  3.   O nomen Jesu *^  
  4.   I will lift up mine eyes  
  5.   Hear ye, Israel *  
  6.   God is gone up  
  7.   The Woodcutter's Song *^  
  8.   O mysterium ineffabile  
  9.   Pie Jesu *  
10.   Stabat mater dolorosa *^   from Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
11.   Vidit suum dulcem natum *   from Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
12.   Eia, mater, fons amoris *   from Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
13.   Quando corpus morietur *^   from Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
14.   Amen   from Pergolesi's Stabat Mater
15.   Te Deum in C *  
16.   Jubilate in E flat  
Available at   Herald AV
Available at   Pascal Moré Musikvertrieb
Review at   choirbase.com
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Christmas with Winchester Chapel Choir (Naxos 5.557965, CD) October 2005
Featuring Winchester College Quiristers  
Recorded live in Hong Kong in December 2004.
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Available at   Crotchet UK
Winchester College Quiristers - My beloved spake
My beloved spake (Regent REGCD290, CD) April 2009
Featuring Winchester College Quiristers  
The first recording from the magnificent Chapel Choir of Winchester College since Malcolm Archer (formerly Wells and St Paul’s Cathedrals) took over in 2007. A beautiful collection of favourite anthems and several rarities including Elgar’s great setting of Light out of Darkness and works by Sumsion and MacMillan. Paul Provost was organist. Soloists were Robert Cross, Samuel Luton and Jonathan Midgely. Head Quirister was Daniel Mercer. Currently scheduled to be available 20-Apr-2009.
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Winchester College Quiristers - Tallis: Sacred choral works
Tallis: Sacred choral works (Hyperion CDA66400, CD) 1990
Featuring Winchester Cathedral Choir   Winchester College Quiristers  
Winchester Cathedral Choir, David Hill. (+Winchester Quiristers in `Spem in Alium')
  1.   O salutaris hostia  
  2.   In ieiunio et fletu  
  3.   Salvator mundi (I)  
  4.   In manus tuas Domine  
  5.   Salvator mundi (II)  
  6.   The Lamentations of Jeremiah (I)  
  7.   O sacrum convivium  
  8.   O nata lux de lumine  
  9.   Te lucis ante terminum  
10.   The Lamentations of Jeremiah (II)  
11.   Spem in alium  
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Winchester College Quiristers - Tim Wheater: Heart Land
Tim Wheater: Heart Land (Almo Sounds 80003, CD) October 1995
Featuring Jonathan Bridcut   James Cripps   Winchester College Quiristers  
The Winchester College Quiristers: Billy Budd (vocals); Oliver Bolton, Jonathan Bridcut, Francis Burt, James Cripps, Johnny Flynn, James Kelly, Patrick Kelly, Hugh McCormick, Thomas Park, Andrew Richardson, John Robb, Hugo Ryder, Antony Willott (background vocals). (Although many choristers are credited, there may not be any solo parts.)
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Available at   CD Universe
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Winchester College Quiristers - Christmas With Winchester College Chapel Choir
Christmas With Winchester College Chapel Choir (Naxos 2110512, DVD) October 2006
Featuring Winchester College Quiristers  
With Sara Macliver (soprano), Winchester College Chapel Choir, Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra / William Lacey

This selection of music for Christmas brings together East and West in the collaboration of Winchester College Chapel Choir and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra. Recorded live in Hong Kong in December 2004, this disc features a selection of perennial favourites from the Baroque period, including Bach cantatas and Handel’s Messiah, and three exquisite modern carols.

Running Time: Concert: 99:32. NTSC: Region 0. Sung texts included
Available at   Amazon US

Books Compact | Full  
Winchester College Quiristers - Lead Kindly Light
Lead Kindly Light ( , Book)
Featuring Winchester College Quiristers  
"This England's book of well-loved hymns and their writers". 159 pp. Fully-illustrated book traces the origins of approximately 90 popular hymns. Not specifically about choirs except for one composer's entry describing his work with the Winchester College Quirsters.
Available at   Alpha Records, Ltd. UK
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