The new Choir of Merton College, Oxford is rapidly emerging as a major force in collegiate choral music. Its debut recording – bookended by Gabriel Jackson’s ravishing version of the rarely set Johannine Prologue and Copland’s glowing account of the first seven days of creation – makes inventive play with the theme of beginnings and endings, in a sequence of Renaissance and modern works that reflects the range and reach of the choir’s daily repertoire. All is captured in sumptuous sound in the radiant acoustic of Merton’s famous chapel.

Click on the links below to hear snippets from In the Beginning:

Lugebat Absalon, Nicolas Gombert (c1495-c1560)
When David Heard, Eric Whitacre (born 1970)
Nunc Dimittis, Pawel Lukaszewski (born 1968)
In the Beginning, Aaron Copland (1900-1990)