Advent Carol Service - 1 December 2024 - from Merton College Chapel, Oxford

A service of Music and Readings for Advent sung by Merton College Choir. Music by Byrd, Parsons, Joubert, MacMillan, Panufnik and Burton.

This year, the collections from our Advent Carol Services will go to The Charlie Waller Memorial Trust and The Oxford Parent Infant Project. If you’d like to make a donation to support their important work, you can do so here:
https://charliewaller.org/
https://www.oxpip.org.uk/

You can view the order of service for this Carol Service here: https://www.merton.ox.ac.uk/sites/def...
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The Choir of Merton College consists of 30 undergraduate and graduate students at Oxford University, UK reading for degrees in a variety of subjects. The choir's primary duty is singing at regular services of Evensong and Choral Eucharist in the famous 13th-century Chapel.

Since the establishment of Merton’s Choral Foundation in 2008, the choir has gained an international reputation for offering the best of choral music through tours, recordings and broadcasts. In 2020, the choir won the award for best choral album at the BBC Music Magazine Awards for its recording of Gabriel Jackson’s The Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. The choir’s discography on the Delphian Label has seen numerous five star reviews and many recordings have been named ‘Editor’s Choice’ by Gramophone magazine.