All Souls' Requiem - Sunday 2 November 2025 - from Merton College Chapel, Oxford

Prelude Larghetto (Serenade for Strings) Elgar Setting Requiem Mass Mozart Motet Sospiri Elgar Hymns ‘Be still my soul’, ‘Abide with me’   / mertoncollchoir     / mertoncollchoir   "I've found myself dipping more and more into services broadcast live...from the Chapel of Merton College, Oxford. There is an uncommon intimacy to these broadcasts" Gramophone, February 2024 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.