Listen to complete performances of Oxford’s sacred and secular choral works, newly-published in 2015. Many of OUP’s recent choral titles for 2015 are featured on our new promotional sampler CDs. We know that choral directors find our top-class recordings to be a real help when choosing repertoire; these are conducted by Bob Chilcott, and engineered and produced by John Rutter. 

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Choral Highlights 2015

Welcome to the OUP Music Soundcloud collection. Here you will discover a wide selection of choral music from Oxford University Press including highlights of our sacred, secular, and Christmas music. Whether you’re looking for ideas for concert programs, music to match your mood or a better understanding of the sound worlds of OUP composers, our music collection will help to inform, entertain and inspire you.

OUP Choral Music

Matthew Owens: This joyful Eastertide

Gabriel Jackson: Holy is the true light

John Rutter: O give thanks unto the Lord

Howard Helvey: Song of Creation

Michael Berkeley: Build this House

Bob Chilcott: Beneath the Mat (from Mouse Tales)

These performances are a selection from OUP's anthology, The Oxford Book of Easy Flexible Anthems. The book enables church choirs of all types and sizes to have at their fingertips easy music, flexibly scored, for every occasion. The Oxford Book of Easy Flexible Anthems includes more than 65 new flexible arrangements of modern classics and traditional favourites with a focus on ease of learning and of performance. Perfectly suited to mixed voice, unison, upper-voice and male-voice choirs, choirs with few men, small choirs, and all other groups. Discover brand new pieces by composers including Malcolm Archer, Alan Bullard, Bob Chilcott, Cecilia McDowall, Sarah Quartel, and John Rutter.

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We Love the Place, O God — Paul Leddington Wright

Before the Ending of the Day — Kerry Andrew

Alleluia  — William Byrd

Christ the Lord is Risen Again! — Alan Smith

A Prayer of St Columba — Cecilia McDowall

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Bob Chilcott: Beneath the Mat (from Mouse Tales)

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