An interview with Francis Spufford, author of 'Unapologetic: Why, despite everything, Christianity can still make surprising emotional sense'.

Francis Spufford

Recorded on 11/11/13 in St Patrick's Cathedral at Evensong. Sung by the Gentlemen of the choir. Cantor: Eoghan Desmond. Composed April 2006.

Fauxbourdon Nunc Dimittis

Fauxbourdon Magnificat

The Advent hymn ‘Hills of the north, rejoice!’ sung in Hertford College Chapel for Advent Sunday (1 December 2013), with Ed Whitehead organist.

text: Charles E. Oakley (1832–1865)
adapted: the editors of English Praise, 1975
music: Little Cornard, Martin Shaw (1875–1958)

Hills Of The North, Rejoice

Hertford College Chapel Choir, Bruges Tour 2008

Deck The Halls

Hertford College Chapel Choir - Bruges Tour 2008

Ding Dong Merrily On High

Hertford College Chapel Choir, Krakow Tour, 2009 - at Częstochowa, with the shuffling sounds of pilgrims approaching the altar for communion.

O Salutaris Hostia (Howells)

Hertford College Chapel Choir, Krakow Tour, 2009 - at Częstochowa

Steal Away (Tippett)

Hertford College Chapel Choir, San Francisco Tour, 2010 - Morning Eucharist, 4th July, St Mark's Episcopal Church, Berkeley

O Nata Lux (Tallis)

GÉANT, the pan-European data network serving 50 million research and education users at speeds of up to 500Gbps, demonstrates its power by sonifying 36 years’ worth of NASA Voyager spacecraft data and converting it into a musical duet

Voyager 1 & 2 spacecraft duet

The Chapel of Hertford College.
One of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford.

Hertford College Chapel is in the heart of Oxford: next to the Bridge of Sighs and opposite the Bodleian Library. Built in 1908 by Thomas Graham Jackson, its mix of carved oak and stone makes for a wonderful acoustic. Hertford College Chapel Choir sings at services in the chapel and tours internationally twice a year.

Members of the public are welcome to most services, and may visit whenever Hertford College advertises that we are open for visitors.

You will often find a lot of music in the Chapel: services, lunchtime recitals, concerts, or just people practising with the beautiful pipe organ, the piano or other musical instrument.

The main services of the week are
• Sunday Evensong (5.45 pm) with full choir. Most Sundays have guest preachers drawn from a diverse range of backgrounds of faith and life experience. Evensong is followed by drinks and formal hall
• Wednesday evening Eucharist (6 pm) with a smaller choir, followed by free supper
• Tuesday night Compline (10 pm) with unaccompanied plainsong by candlelight

Hills Of The North, Rejoice

Hertford College Chapel

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