Recordings National Youth Choir Recordings Celebrates 10 Years! October 2025 marks 10 years since National Youth Choir Recording's first releases, Agincourt Song and Voices for Today. To celebrate, we've created a short documentary featuring singers, composers and collaborators telling the story of our recording label and what it means to them. National Youth Choir Recordings was established in 2015. It shows the full breadth of music sung by the UK's finest young singers aged 9-25 as well as our Fellowship Ensemble and alumni. Get in touch To find out more about our recordings, please contact [email protected]Most of the recordings released on National Youth Choir Recordings are available for licensing. For more information, please click here. back to All Recordings Explore our work Our recordings & commissions An Ode to the World (Live) An Ode to the World (Live) Kristina ArakelyanNational Youth Choir Fellowship EnsembleOlivia Shotton (conductor)Released 2025-04-22NYCR-0126 National Youth Choir is delighted to release the premiere recording of Kristina Arakelyan's uplifting 'An Ode to the World" to mark Earth Day 2025, performed by our Fellowship Ensemble and conducted by former Fellow Olivia Shotton. The vibrant and youthful energy of the singers, combined with the energetic and vibrant setting of words by William Blake and Sara Teasdale, results in an extremely powerful performance of the piece, which was recorded live at the VOCES8 Centre for our 2024 Showcase event. Listen now Apple music Spotify Track list 1. An Ode to the World - Live (Kristina Arakelyan) - 04:31Recorded at VOCES8 Centre, London (2024-02-18) Production Team Producer: Josh QuinlanEngineer: Tom Mungall Performers National Youth Choir Fellowship EnsembleOlivia Shotton (conductor)Soloists:Soprano: Emily VarneyAlto: Sarina RattanTenor: Chris O'LearyBass: Antonio Oliveira Manage Cookie Preferences