1965 – The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
1963 landmark recording of Allegri’s Miserere featuring treble soloist Roy Goodman – reissued in 1965 as a 45 rpm EP.
Allegri Miserere Discography
Recordings in the Allegri Miserere Discography
1965 – Regensburger Domspatzen
A particularly fine rendition of the Miserere without abbellimenti. Reissued by RCA Victor Canada.
1966 – Amherst College Glee Club
The best of the Glee Club recordings to date – a degree of expressiveness and quality not even seen in the Harvard performances. In fact, the whole album is a delight, no doubt aided by the quality of the recording and the near-mint condition of the copy.
1967 – The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
BBC Choral Evensong broadcast live from King’s College, Cambridge on Ash Wednesday 8th February 1967, conducted by David Willcocks.
1967 – The Caltech Glee Club
A recording believed made during the annual Choral Concert in 1967 which featured the Caltech Glee Club, the UCLA Women’s Choir, and the Caltech Chamber Singers.
1967 – Guildford Cathedral Choir
A fabulous parallel to the King’s College ‘Evensong for Ash Wednesday’ – ‘Music for Passiontide’ also ends with the Miserere in English, a refreshing performance of equal merit which is further enhanced by its placement as the last item in this Passiontide collection.
1968 – Chor und Orchester von St. Michael, München
This performance of the Miserere by the Choir of St. Michael, München is oddly not recorded in their own church, but in an Abbey church some 25km north-west of Munich. Of early recordings, it is a superior performance “without abbellimenti”. There are two flavours of this reissue with different album covers – potentially from different years – however no date for the second version (with a patterned cover) can be located.
1971 – Guildford Cathedral Choir
Guildford Cathedral Choir toured the north-west of England during the summer of 1971, and this private recording was made at the final concert of the series on 30th July 1971 at the Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral. The music was sung from different locations within the building. The Miserere is sung in English.
1972 – The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge
This compilation album was released in 1972, the same year the curator of miserere.org was born. The ‘World of King’s opens with ‘Zadok the Priest’ (Handel) and besides the ‘Miserere’ contains treasures such as ‘This is the record of John’ (Gibbons) and Croft’s ‘Burial Service’ – notable in the King’s recording for being sung in procession around the chapel. For many, this will be the first time that the ‘Miserere’ was heard, and the release of this compilation was, in our opinion, part of the reason that Allegri’s ‘Miserere’ is so recognisable and appreciated today.
1973 – The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge
BBC Choral Evensong broadcast live from St John’s College, Cambridge on Ash Wednesday 7th March 1973, directed by George Guest.