Luceat choir launch a fundraiser for their debut commercial recording

Readers may recall that I twice last year very positively reviewed recordings by the Luceat choir, which performs in Oxford and throughout East Anglia (review ~ review).

They have just launched a major crowdfunding campaign, aiming to raise money to fund their debut commercial CD recording with a CRD records. This will, hopefully, take place in Norwich Roman Catholic Cathedral in August of this year. The recording will feature repertoire most of which will have not been heard since the sixteenth century, and has been discovered by Director James Fellows’ doctoral research which focuses on the Basilica of San Petronio in Bologna. The music is of excellent quality, and firmly deserves to be rediscovered. The recording is an enormous opportunity for the choir, allowing their music to be shared with a much wider audience, and firmly allowing them to break-through into the mainstream. However, there are significant costs to a recording such as this notably covering practical costs like accommodation, subsistence, venue hire fees and the fee of the engineer. They aim to raise £10,000 from the Crowdfunder, and have already secured £5,000. 

For more information on the project, you can watch a video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RodDkpPKHA&list=RD1RodDkpPKHA&start_radio=1 and the Crowdfunder page can be found here:

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/bolognese-choral-music

Please support their efforts with a donation if you can.

Should anyone wish to hear the choir in their most recent project, here is a link to their recording of Frederick Forsyth’s ‘Fallen Soldier’ (which was played on Radio 3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Qvf8IHvK10&list=RD8Qvf8IHvK10&start_radio=1 

Ralph Moore
May 2026