Following a hugely successful first recording of Elgar’s choral works for SOMM Recordings, the renowned Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea will be making a second disc, paying homage to his extraordinary quality and breadth of writing. Released in 2022, ‘The Reeds by Severn Side’ received extensive critical acclaim: ‘All told, this is another […]

“As a chorister in the 1960s I can still remember the lines of the British Legion who would parade up to the village church and the war memorial to hear the names of the dead read out. My memories of those chilly, solemn November Sunday mornings are still vivid. They were occasions charged with deep […]

The British Music Society reviews the Chapel Choir of the Royal Hospital Chelsea’s new recording in memory of the centenary anniversary of the end of the First World War, In Remembrance: “This issue marks the 100th anniversary of the end of the first World War in a highly appropriate and imaginative fashion. … the professional […]

Royal Hospital Chelsea Music Director William Vann has a fabulous new post about his choirs and their new SOMM release, In Remembrance on the Gramophone Magazine website: “November is an important month of the year for anyone connected to the military; November 2018, falling 100 years after the Armistice that ended the First World War, […]