Recordings

‘This is a choir of well-matched young voices. Out of their ranks they produce some admirable soloists’ — Gramophone

‘The Choir of Gonville & Caius show themselves once again as one of Cambridge’s most accomplished.’ - Gramophone

The Choir’s wide-ranging recorded repertoire is based on the music it performs each week in the College Chapel for services of Choral Evensong and Holy Communion, and is also supplemented by more extended sacred works and secular music such as folksongs and madrigals. Recordings have been met with unanimous critical acclaim. Caius Choir recordings are available from all good record shops, from www.amazon.co.uk, or on request from The Choir Administrator (choir@cai.cam.ac.uk)

Latest release

Judith Weir - Choral Music (DCD 34095)

Judith Weir: Choral Music (DCD 34095) — link size 10 KB

The Observer
Music for choirs varied, immediate, sparklingly inventive has been a mainstay of British composer Judith Weir's career since the 1980s. This impeccably performed disc by the Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge conducted by Geoffrey Webber displays her gifts to best advantage. Read more…

BBC Music Magazine – Choral & Song choice
The freshness and precision of Weir’s writing is perfectly matched by the well tuned, clearly articulated singing of Geoffrey Webber’s Gonville & Caius Choir, one of Cambridge’s outstanding mixed college choirs. Read more…

Choir & Organ
This welcome first recording devoted to Judith Weir’s choral music makes one wonder why the long delay. Read more…

Music Web International
Their singing gives consistent pleasure and the various solos within individual pieces are all very capably taken. Read more…

Classical Music
Performances are predictably responsive and the excellent recording misses nothing. Read more…

International Record Review
Performances are first-rate and apparently have the composer's imprimatur. One of the Caius choristers, soprano Marie-Claire Lindsay, shines brightly in the difficult solo descant to a blue true dream of sky. Read more…

The Arts Desk
the singing of Geoffrey Webber’s Choir of Gonville and Caius College is flawless. Read more…

Cross Rhythms
The athleticism, intensity and clarity that are hallmarks of the choir's singing are ideally suited to Weir's strikingly original, approachable and fascinating music. Read more…

Lyric FM
Wonderful - this would certainly be on my contemporary choral shortlist for this year. Read more…

Recordings

Into this world this day did come - Carols contemporary & medieval (DCD 34075)

Into this world this day did come - Carols contemporary & medieval (DCD 34075) — link size 72 KB‘This collection is the perfect stocking-filler ... the impressive choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, impeccably drilled by Geoffrey Webber, sings a dozen exquisitely conceived, technically challenging carols’ — The Sunday Times

Rodion Shchedrin - The Sealed Angel (DCD 34067)

Rodion Shchedrin — The Sealed Angel (DCD 34067) — link size 72 KB‘This is a splendid disc of a multifaceted, many–layered, modern masterpiece.’ — Gramophone Editor’s Choice, June 2009

Michael Wise — sacred choral music (DCD 34041)

Michael Wise — sacred choral music (DCD 34041) — link size 667 KB‘The performances are stylish, and even the soprano soloists sound like boy trebles.’ — Early Music Review, June 2008

William Turner — sacred choral works (DCD 34028)

William Turner — sacred choral works (DCD 34028) — link size 336 KB‘The Choir of Gonville and Caius College is a fine choir, which is technically reliable and sings with flair and enthusiasm ... I recommend this disc without hesitation.’ — Music Web

More sweet to hear — organs and voices of Tudor England (OXCD 101)

More sweet to hear — organs and voices of Tudor England (OXCD 101) — link size 231 KB“Caius College Choir under Geoffrey Webber is in excellent voice ... Nobody interested in 16th–century English music should be without this educational and ground–breaking CD” — Early Music Today

Charles Gounod — sacred choral works (CRC 2848)

Charles Gounod — sacred choral works (CRC 2848) — link size 288 KBA recording of the sacred choral music of Charles Gounod, including a version of the celebrated Bach/Gounod Ave Maria, arranged for soprano and violin.

All the ends of the earth — contemporary & medieval vocal music (SIGCD070)

All the ends of the earth — contemporary & medieval vocal music (SIGCD070) — link size 340 KB‘I love this CD. The ear is constantly refreshed by changes of texture and colour... and the Choir sing with great aptness and musicality under Geoffrey Webber. It's a most refreshing release and one you'll enjoy listening to again and again.’ — BBC Radio 3

The music of John Sanders (PRCD 831)

The music of John Sanders (PRCD 831) — link size 574 KB‘The performances by the choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge under Geoffrey Webber are splendid. I recommend this CD with the greatest possible enthusiasm.’ — Music Web International: Recordings of the Year

Robin Holloway — Missa Caiensis (Dutton 7134)

Robin Holloway — Missa Caiensis (Dutton 7134) — link size 299 KB‘Enthusiastic, dynamic, world-class performances’ — Classics Today

Rebecca Clarke — Complete choral music and vocal duets (ASV DCA 1135)

Rebecca Clarke — Complete choral music and vocal duets (ASV DCA 1135) — link size 282 KB‘Geoffrey Webber's choir sings with greater passion than most of its Oxbridge rivals, an advantage in the case of Clarke's bold harmonies and sweeping melodies. Recommended.’ — Classic FM Magazine

Charles Wood — Anthems Volume 2 (PRCD 779)

Charles Wood — Anthems Volume 2 (PRCD 779) — link size 229 KB‘The sound of the choir is an exact match for the music: well-blended, smooth and civilised.’ — BBC Music

Sacred Vocal Music from 18th–Century Switzerland: Meyer, Schmidlin, Bachofen, Walder (Guild GM CD 7248)

Sacred Vocal Music from 18th-Century Switzerland: Meyer, Schmidlin, Bachofen, Walder (Guild GM CD 7248) — link size 470 KB‘The world–class Gonville & Caius choir, as expected, gives full measure to these works.’ — Classics Today

Poulenc — Stabat Mater (and Litanies à la Vierge Noire) With the choirs of St John’s and Clare Colleges (DVD OA 0817D)

Poulenc — Stabat Mater (and Litanies à la Vierge Noire) With the choirs of St John’s and Clare Colleges (DVD OA 0817D) — link size 43 KB‘All three performances are excellent, and they are sensitively filmed.’ — Gramophone

Sound and video clip available at www.opusarte.com

Charles Wood — Anthems Volume 1 (PRCD 754)

Charles Wood — Anthems Volume 1 (PRCD 754) — link size 247 KB‘The Choir of Gonville and Caius sings with fresh tone, a clean style and reliable intonation. We look forward to Volume 2.’ — Gramophone

Leonardo Leo — Sacred Music (Miserere mei Deus & motets) (ASV GAU 226)

Leonardo Leo — Sacred Music (Miserere mei Deus & motets) (ASV GAU 226) — link size 240 KB‘If you treasure excellent choral singing then you should not ignore this release. The performances of the choir are exceptional in their attention to dynamics, phrasing, precision of attack and textual enunciation. Highly recommended.’ — Fanfare Magazine USA

Zürich Arise! — Swiss Music from the Renaissance to the Baroque: Zwingli, Schmidlin, Bachofen, Walder (Guild GMCD 7175)

Zürich Arise! — Swiss Music from the Renaissance to the Baroque: Zwingli, Schmidlin, Bachofen, Walder (Guild GMCD 7175) — link size 246 KB‘Performances are immaculate, with some lovely solo and ensemble singing.’ — Choir and Organ

Christ Ascended — Swiss 20th–Century Church Music by Müller–Zürich, Schaeuble, Schütter, Brunner, Scheel and Schoeck (Guild GMCD 7177)

Christ Ascended — Swiss 20th-Century Church Music by Müller-Zürich, Schaeuble, Schütter, Brunner, Scheel and Schoeck (Guild GMCD 7177) — link size 218 KB‘Caius illuminates yet another overlooked musical byway.’ — Classic CD

J. S. Bach — St Mark Passion, edited and reconstructed by Andor Gomme with recitatives and turbae by Reinhard Keiser (ASV GAX 237)

J. S. Bach — St Mark Passion, edited and reconstructed by Andor Gomme with recitatives and turbae by Reinhard Keiser (ASV GAX 237) — link size 326 KB‘Life has been breathed into a score which so easily could have been just a dry academic exercise; in short, this is a Passion with a soul. The choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, are in excellent voice, as is the refreshingly young solo team.’ — BBC Radio Three: CD Review

William Child — Sacred Music (O Lord God, the heathen, Evening Service for Four Means, O Lord, grant the King a long life, Gloria & Sanctus 8vv, etc.) (ASV GAU 182)

William Child — Sacred Music (O Lord God, the heathen, Evening Service for Four Means, O Lord, grant the King a long life, Gloria & Sanctus 8vv, etc.)  (ASV GAU 182) — link size 655 KBGramophone Critics’ Choice

‘This undeservedly neglected repertoire … is rich in colours. Such poise and technical control from a college choir, with its constant turnover of undergraduate voices, is remarkable.’ — BBC Music Magazine

Joseph Rheinberger — Sacred Music (Mass in E flat, Op. 109, Requiem in D minor, Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen etc.) (ASV DCA 989)

Joseph Rheinberger — Sacred Music (Mass in E flat, Op. 109, Requiem in D minor, Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen etc.)  (ASV DCA 989) — link size 297 KB‘This is a choir of well–matched young voices, secure in matters of balance and intonation, sensitive in phrasing and nuance. Out of their ranks they produce some admirable soloists.’ — Gramophone

Samuel Wesley — Sacred Music (In exitu Israel, Omnia vanitas, Tu es sacerdos, Magnificat etc.) (ASV GAU 157)

Samuel Wesley — Sacred Music (In exitu Israel, Omnia vanitas, Tu es sacerdos, Magnificat etc.) (ASV GAU 157) — link size 659 KB‘This issue of music by Samuel Wesley (acclaimed as the ‘English Mozart’ by Boyce) is delightful. Webber and the Choir … give a vibrant account of the vigorously contrapuntal In exitu Israel, enchant with simple melodiousness in gems like Ave Regina caelorum … and enthuse with infectious exuberance in Domine salvam fac.’ — BBC Music Magazine

Puccini — Requiem; Janácek — Mass in E flat, Otce nas, etc. (ASV DCA 914)

Puccini — Requiem; Janácek — Mass in E flat, Otce nas, etc. (ASV DCA 914) — link size 264 KB‘Wonderful music, wonderfully performed’ — Classic FM Magazine

Hadley — Cantata for Lent; Rubbra — Missa in Honorem Sancti Dominici (ASV DCA 881)

Hadley — Cantata for Lent; Rubbra — Missa in Honorem Sancti Dominici (ASV DCA 881) — link size 315 KB‘Performances of high quality ... dedicated and sensitive.’ — Penguin CD Guide

Charles Wood — St. Mark Passion; Holloway — Since I believe (ASV DCA 854)

Charles Wood — St. Mark Passion; Holloway — Since I believe (ASV DCA 854) — link size 332 KB‘Their singing is, in short, a delight.’ — Classic CD