Blackwell's music shops in Oxford and Cambridge are specialists in the recorded choral repertory of their respective college choirs. Many fine recordings have been produced over the years under some legendary music directors including David Willcocks and Philip Ledger in Cambridge and Edward Higginbottom and Stephen Darlington in Oxford.

Perhaps the best known college recordings of all are from King's College, Cambridge at Christmas. For many, Christmas really begins with the service of Nine Lessons and Carols on Christmas Eve. There's more to discover here than just Christmas recordings however. Formed to provide music at daily chapel services, the choir's natural focus is music from the Anglican choral tradition.

In the last ten years, Christopher Robinson and the choir of St. John's College Cambridge produced a series of recordings of twentieth-century English choral music for Naxos, which now appear as a 10 disc set. The choirs of Christ Church cathedral, Oxford and Clare College, Cambridge have recently added to this recording tradition with music from the younger generation of church composers, Howard Goodall and Tarik O'Regan.

In addition, many of the choirs frequently branch out from their Anglican catalogue to produce some fresh yet highly crafted recordings of much wider repertoire. In 2008, the choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge joined forces with the choir of King's College, London, to produce a disc of Russian liturgical music by Rodion Shchedrin. Bill Ives' last disc with the choir of Magdalen College, Oxford was a superb rendering of the Duruflé Requiem, the first to use a countertenor soloist.

Oxford:

Christ Church Cathedral | Keble College | Lincoln College | Magdalen | New College | Oratory Scholars | Oriel College | Oxford Bach Choir | Oxford Camerata | Oxford Philomusica | Schola Cantorum | Trinity | Worcester

Cambridge:

Cambridge Baroque Camerata | Cambridge Singers | Cambridge Taverner Choir | Cambridge Voices | Christs | Clare | Corpus Christi | Girton | Gonville and Caius | Jesus | King's | Schola Gregoriana | Selwyn | St John's | Trinity