The College Choir has a reputation as one of the finest Anglican choirs in the world and have recorded over seventy albums, and have been awarded two Gramophone Awards.

Anglican choirs adopted it when classicists abandoned traditional English pronunciation after World War II.

From 4 till 5 on Wednesdays and Fridays you can hear the sonorous tones of vicars reading the collect of the day and the distinctive sound of an Anglican choir.

In addition to its choral duties in the chapel, the New College Choir has established a reputation as one of the finest Anglican choirs in the world and is known particularly for its performances of Renaissance and Baroque music.

The Worcester Cathedral Voluntary Choir is an Anglican choir made up of boy trebles and male voices.

He also pursued a notable career as an organist and choir-trainer: for 12 years (1947-1959), he was organist of Westminster Cathedral, where he developed the choir's "continental" sound, which contrasts with that of Anglican choirs.

The best one can do to justify the current vogue for countertenors in historical terms would be to say that, thanks to Deller's example, we now like to hear our Palestrina sung as it might have been sung by an Anglican choir in the 16th century.

But in the 16th century no Anglican choir would have dreamed of singing Palestrina's music if they valued their lives.

The cathedral has the traditional Anglican choir of boys and men, and more recently a girls' choir, with the only dedicated choir school in the Church in Wales, The Cathedral School, Llandaff.

St Mary's has a traditional Anglican choir of boys and gentlemen, and has a long choral tradition spanning 600 years, which remained untouched even during Puritan times.