WINCHESTER composer David Lol Perry’s innovative ‘Three Wings’ featuring Winchester College Quiristers, is out now on CD and download.

It includes BBC Young Chorister of the Year Angus Benton, would be equally at home in chapel as on an episode of Broadchurch.

Two years in the making, Three Wings (Part 1) was released on Friday.

David has taken the Quiristers’ a capella melodies and given them soothing, contemporary arrangements. It is the first time that world-renowned Winchester College Quiristers have departed from the classics on disc and is a bittersweet, yet anthemic and uplifting reworking of medieval plainsong that will appeal to a wide audience.

Their behind-the-scenes video has already been watched over 37,000 views on YouTube and won 3,000 Facebook followers.

The Qs are led by Malcolm Archer, Winchester College’s director of chapel music, formerly director of music at St Paul’s Cathedral.

David said “The sound the Quiristers create is very evocative. Light and dark. To write music that complements it is tough but with so much support with us we hope many more will be taken by it, fly.”

No other independent senior school in England continues to support its own choir boy foundation.

Since 1382 when William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester and twice Chancellor of England founded Winchester College, his statutes called for 16 pauper boys to be supported alongside the original 60 boys to be educated.

The Quiristers (or ‘Qs’), who uniquely take their name from an old form of the word ‘Chorister’, still sing in Chapel.

The boys regularly perform in Winchester Cathedral, around the UK and abroad, including recent performances at the Vatican and in Russia.