Evensong Live 2015

Evensong Live 2015 is drawn from the best of the Choir's weekly webcasts recorded during the preceding academic year (2013-2014).

The recordings are made during real services, using a state-of-the-art recording system concealed in the roof, vestry and organ loft, with microphones suspended above the choir stalls and organ. Webcasts are posted every Saturday, and are available online at: http://www.kings.cam.ac.uk/choir/webcasts.html.

This album includes a selection of the best performances captured during the year, as selected by the Choir's Director of Music, Stephen Cleobury. The Choir at King's performs evensong six times a week, in addition to Sunday eucharist or matins, furnishing the liturgy with music on a daily basis.

This tradition has fostered many of the greatest choirs, singers and organists in the world.

These eighty minutes provide a cross section of some of the everyday music making that happens at King's, capturing the atmosphere and acoustic of the Chapel. It serves as a snapshot of the choir at a specific moment in time, and presents evensong as one of the jewels of our national heritage, not a relic, but a living and breathing part of our culture.

This release joins the label's other critically-acclaimed recordings. Mozart Requiem Realisations received ****Performance ****Recording from BBC Music Magazine. The celebrated Fauré Requiem received Recording of the Month from BBC Music Magazine, a **** review from Choir & Organ, Outstanding from International Record Review and No. 1 in the UK Specialist Classical Chart.