The album With a Merrie Noyse, made with the viol consort Fretwork and featuring the works of the English composer Orlando Gibbons, was nominated for a Grammy in 2004.
Paul McCartney's Ecce Cor Meum was written especially for the college choir, and the subsequent EMI recording won the Classical BRIT Award for album of the year in 2007.
Other recordings with Magdalen College Choir include Listen Sweet Dove, a selection of Ives's liturgical works, and Duruflé's Requiem.
He was also commissioned to compose the centre-piece anthem, "The Gift of Grace", for the national commemoration service marking the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire, held at Westminster Abbey in 2007, which was attended by Queen Elizabeth II, Tony Blair and other high-ranking politicians and public figures.
Westminster Abbey later commissioned three new arrangements of music by Hubert Parry (I was glad, Hear my words, ye people, and the Coronation Te Deum) for a recording released in 2015.