![]() The choir has also released many acclaimed recordings, including Howells's Stabat Mater and Missa Sabrinensis Vaughan Williams's Dona Nobis Pacem / Sancta Civitas (2010), which received a Gramophone award nomination and Frederick Delius's A Mass of Life, which received a coveted Choc de Classica from French classical magazine Classica, and was named Album of the Week by The Sunday Times and The Telegraph. The Bach Choir has performed for many film scores, including Kingdom of Heaven, Prometheus, Robin Hood, The Chronicles of Narnia, Shrek the Third, Jack the Giant Slayer, and The Martian. Its vice presidents are Dame Janet Baker, James Bowman, Dame Felicity Lott and Sam Gordon Clark. ![]() In 2013, John Rutter was appointed president of the choir, following the death of Leopold David de Rothschild in 2012. Other musical directors have included Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, Ralph Vaughan Williams and Reginald Jacques. Its conductor laureate was David Willcocks, who was the choir's musical director from 1960 to 1998. Directed by David Hill MBE ( Yale Schola Cantorum/ Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra) it regularly performs and records across London and the UK, including at the Royal Festival Hall, Royal Albert Hall and Abbey Road Studios. ![]() The Bach Choir is a large independent musical organisation founded in London, England in 1876 to give the first performance of J. For other Bach choirs, see List of Bach choirs.
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