Over a century of recorded church music, religious services, concerts, documentaries and radio and TV broadcasts from the BBC are contained in the expansive Archive of Recorded Church Music. In 1902, St. Andrew's Church in London became the first choir to issue a gramophone record, marking the beginning of the archive. The physical collection contains recordings from international labels spanning across the world and is comprised of a wide diversity of formats (78rpm, metal and vinyl records, reel-to-reel tapes, etc.). Materials in the collection are digitized to provide access via the digital archive. From the homepage, users can access an interactive video presentation entitled, "A century of recorded English church music," and scroll down to view choral performances available on the archive's YouTube channel. The archive also provides an interactive Advent calendar, with each day containing a special choral performance for the first twenty-four days of December.
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