A breakdown of the numbers held in each of these types and categories of recordings
as at April 2018
444 Radio broadcasts of services, concerts & recitals
2000 BBC Choral Evensong broadcasts
381 TV broadcasts of services, concerts & recitals
380 Radio & TV documentaries
65 Privately recorded & In-house video/DVD
20 Home movies
53 Choir promo video/DVD
32 Music promo video/DVD
71 Commercially released video/DVD
60 Special or Private Pressing on shellac 78rpm, Vinyl, cassette & CD
47 Test Pressings on shellac 78rpm
48 BBC Transcription discs on shellac 78rpm & Vinyl
12 Un-issued recordings on Vinyl & CD
1500 Private recordings on reel-to-reel tape, cassette and CD (each recording is a one-off copy)
2500 Commercial CDs on international labels, independent labels & small independent labels
650 78rpm shellac records
250 Commercial cassettes
1700 Vinyl records
A grand total of over 10,00 individual recordings, representing the 815 different choirs in the Archive making it the world's largest collection of recordings by men and boys singing in the
English Cathedral tradition.
