Recordings
CD recordings are usually the culmination of a year-long project exploring a particular composer or repertoire, normally contrasted from one year to the next.
Recordings are hard work but very rewarding, with notable post-recording parties and a product that endures for life. We normally record in a venue outside Caius which might be somewhere else in Cambridge but often involves staying at a special location in London, Oxford or elsewhere, often depending on the type of repertoire being performed.
In July 2023 the choir recorded a new album of contemporary music for Linn Records in the Church of St John the Evangelist, Islington.
For sound clips from our wide-ranging recorded repertoire, visit our Spotify page.
Our CDs
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Latest Release - Philips & Dering: Motets
The choir make their debut on Linn Records with the album Philips & Dering: Motets. This recording offers a fresh insight into the lives and works of two expatriate English Catholic composers exiled to Flanders at the time of the Reformation. Peter Philips and Richard Dering both travelled widely in Europe and their music displays a variety of religious and musical influences picked up along the way.
‘…marvellously well-judged direction…everything seemsfresh and vital…evidence of sheer musical fun’
Gramophone
‘…the stellar choir of Gonville & Caius College(Cambridge) does a great job ... ensemble In Echoproves skilful and generous, both in sound andornamentation.'
De Standaard
'... never has it leapt so vividly off the page and been so thrillingly audible as in these new recordings ... The War in Heaven word-painting of Factum est silentium, with St Michael and his angels squaring off against the Devil and his followers, has never sounded so cinematic.'
Presto Music
Listen to the album and purchase it here.
Other Recordings
Supersize Polyphony
Supersize Polyphony is a celebration of large-scale choral works from the 16th century. The unique programme features epic motets, such as Thomas Tallis’ Spem in Alium and Alessandro Striggio’s Ecce Beatam Lucem, alongside his rarely performed 60 part Missa sopra Ecco Si Beato Giorno.
Cantique de Noël
This collection of French music for Christmas includes works from Berlioz to Debussy.
Julian Anderson Choral Music
This is the first recording devoted to the choral music of Julian Anderson, one of the most talented composers of his generation
Set Upon the Rood
This CD of new music for choir and ancient instruments features seven richly conceived new pieces.
Chorus vel Organa: Music from the Lost Palace of Westminster
This recording reflects the musical life of the college in its final years under Henry VIII.
Romaria: Choral Music from Brazil
This recording comprises sacred and secular Brazilian works dating from the 1950s through to the present.
Dormi Jesu: A Caius Christmas
This recording is a seasonal collection including carols by Caians Thomas Hewitt Jones and Peter Tranchell.
Cheryl Frances-Hoad,
You Promised Me Everything
This CD of vocal and choral works by Chery Frances-Hoad includes music written over nearly a decade.
In Praise Of St Columba
This CD includes 7th-century hymns from Iona, 10th-century chants from Switzerland, and 14th-century Columban antiphons.
Deutsche Motette: German Romantic Choral Music from Schubert to Strauss
A programme of German Romantic music.
Haec Dies
This recording celebrates our constant re-invention of the musical past.
Judith Weir Choral Music
In the first recording devoted entirely to Judith Weir’s choral music, the Choir explores her relationship with the medium.
Into This World This Day Did Come
A programme in which medieval works illuminate contemporary settings.
All The Ends Of The Earth
This recording celebrates the relationship between contemporary sacred British choral music and the music of the medieval era.
Robin Holloway: Missa Caiensis
This CD includes four works; two for choir and organ and two for organ solo.
Rodion Shchedrin: The Sealed Angel
The choirs of Gonville and Caius College and King’s College London record Shchedrin’s Russian liturgy.
Mansel Thomas: Requiem
This premiere release of Mansel Thomas’s Requiem was recorded at St Augustine’s Church, Penarth on 15-17 March 2009.
William Turner: Sacred Choral Works
This premiere recording presents Turner’s sacred music, including the Te Deum and Jubilate in D.
Michael Wise: Sacred Choral Music
This recording of music by Wise is the first devoted exclusively to his music.
The Anthems of Charles Wood Volume I
This recording contains anthems principally concerned with the season from Easter to Trinity.
The Anthems of Charles Wood Volume II
This recording contains anthems principally concerned with the period from Advent to Passiontide.
Charles Gounod: Sacred Choral Works
This recording focuses on Gounod’s small-scale sacred choral works.
Rheinberger: Sacred Choral Music
This recording focuses on the work of Rheinberger.
Samuel Wesley: Sacred Choral Music
This recording presents the full spectrum of Samuel Wesley’s church music for choir.
Sacred Vocal Music from 18th Century Switzerland
This collection brings together the findings of recent research into the field of church music in Switzerland.
Christ Ascended
This CD offers a representative selection of choral and organ music by composers living in Zurich in the 20th century.
Zurich, Arise!
The music history of Zurich before 1800 has hitherto largely been ignored by historians as well as by practising musicians.