EVENSONG - sung day after day in the collegiate chapels and cathedrals of Great Britain - is an irreplaceable jewel in our cultural landscape. For centuries it has been enriched with an unparalleled repertory of settings and anthems. offering a unique environment of words and music, of celebration and reflection, of aesthetic fulfilment and prayer. In this recording, New College celebrates its medieval founder, William of Wykeham ,whose statutes for New College established a benchmark for the establishment of choral foundations throughout the country. At New College, the listener is in touch with the roots of the English choral tradition, as vigorous and enterprising in the twenty-first century as it was at the end of the fourteenth.