It’s curious really because I don’t feel a year older than ten, like my choristers…(Edward Higginbottom)

• The New College Choir, Oxford, is one of the leading choral ensembles in the world, celebrated for its distinctive and stylish performance of music from five centuries.

• This DVD edition includes the moving documentary “Inspiring Voices”, a filmed concert and two CDs, packaged in a luxury DVD-sized digipack.

• The documentary “Inspiring Voices” portrays Edward Higginbottom’s last weeks as the Choirmaster of New College Choir which he had led for thirty-eight years. Higginbottom unveils the secrets of his pedagogy and his devotion to choral music at a critical and moving moment in his life.

• The concert at the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford on May 31, 2014 was designed to draw together various strands of the Choir’s life, past and present.

“For me it is a bit of a personal journey through music I directed first as an undergraduate, to music that is never far from the top of my piano. It is also a programme which celebrates the accomplishments of musicians with connections to the Choir.” (Edward Higginbottom)