Our Past Repertoire
During its sixty-plus-year history, the Choir has performed a large and varied selection of music.
Here is a list of the larger works:
During its sixty-plus-year history, the Choir has performed a large and varied selection of music.
Here is a list of the larger works:
(Page last updated 3rd November 2017)
| Composer | Work | |||
| Charles Alkan | March on the Death of a Parrot | |||
| Johann Sebastian Bach | Cantata No.4 Christ lag in Todesbanden Cantata No.11 Lobet den Herrn Cantata No.34 O Ewiges Feuer Cantata No.80 Ein Feste Burg Cantata No.140 Sleepers, Wake! Cantata No.150 Nach dir, Herr, verlanget mich Cantata No.191 Gloria Cantata No.212 Peasant Cantata Christmas Oratorio Magnificat Mass in B Minor Mass in G Major Motet Singet dem Herrn St.John Passion St.Matthew Passion |
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| William Bardwell | Chinese Cantata No.2 | |||
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Choral Fantasia Christ on the Mount of Olives Mass in C Missa Solemnis Symphony No.9 |
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| Hector Berlioz | Requiem | |||
| Leonard Bernstein | Chichester Psalms | |||
| Georges Bizet | Carmen (concert version) | |||
| Ernst Bloch | Sacred Service |
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| Alexander Borodin | Prince Igor - Polovtsian Dances | |||
| Johannes Brahms | Liebeslieder Waltzes Requiem |
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| Benjamin Britten | Ceremony of Carols Flower Songs Gloriana - Choral Dances Rejoice in the Lamb St.Nicholas |
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| Anton Bruckner | Mass in E Minor | |||
| Geoffrey Bush | Christmas Cantata | |||
| Luigi Cherubini | Mass in D Minor | |||
| Samuel Coleridge-Taylor | Hiawatha | |||
| Aaron Copland | In the Beginning ¶ | |||
| Frederick Delius | A Mass of Life Appalachia Sea Drift Song of the High Hills Songs of Sunset |
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| Maurice Duruflé | Requiem | |||
| Antonin Dvorak | Mass in D Requiem Stabat Mater Te Deum |
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| Sir Edward Elgar | The Dream of Gerontius The Kingdom The Music Makers Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands |
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| Gabriel Fauré | Pavane Requiem |
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| Gerald Finzi | Seven Partsongs Op.17 In Terra Pax Magnificat * Lo, the Full Final Sacrifice Intimations of Immortality |
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| Stephen Foster | Four Plantation Songs | |||
| César Franck | Psalm 150 | |||
| Rudolf Friml | The Vagabond King | |||
| Edward German | Merrie England | |||
| Gerald Gover | Ave Verum Crux Aeterna This Sceptered Isle § |
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| George Frederick Handel | Alceste Athalia Jephtha Chandos Anthem No.9 Chandos Anthem No.10 Chandos Anthem No.11 Coronation Anthems Dixit Dominus Israel in Egypt Judas Maccabaeus Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened Messiah My Heart is Inditing Ode for St Cecilia's Day Samson The King Shall Rejoice Zadok the Priest |
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| Joseph Haydn | Creation Mass Little Organ Mass Nelson Mass Paukenmesse The Creation The Seasons - Spring |
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| Imogen Holst | Six Part Songs for Female Voices | |||
| Karl Jenkins | The Armed Man - A Mass for Peace Gloria |
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| Arthur Honegger | King David | |||
| Joseph Horovitz | Captain Noah and his Floating Zoo Horrortorio |
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| Charles Ives | Psalm 90 | |||
| Leos Janacek | Rikadla (Nursery Rhymes) | |||
| Reginald Johnson | In Summertime on Bredon | |||
| Laurence Kubiak | Te Deum § | |||
| Constant Lambert | The Rio Grande | |||
| Franz Léhar | The Merry Widow (Concert version) | |||
| Franz Liszt | Missa Choralis | |||
| Jules Massenet | Eve Mary Magdalene |
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| William Mathias | Ave Rex | |||
| Felix Mendelssohn | Elijah Lauda Sion Lobegesang (Symphony No.2) St.Paul |
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| Claudio Monteverdi | Magnificat Beatus Vir Dixit Dominus Gloria a 7 Vespers of 1610 |
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| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Coronation Mass K317 Mass in C Minor K427 Misericordias Domini K222 Requiem K626 Sancta Maria K273 Te Deum K141 |
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| Modest Mussorgsky | St Nicholas Mass | |||
| Carl Orff | Carmina Burana | |||
| Sir Hubert Parry | Blest Pair of Sirens England I Was Glad |
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| Giovanni Pergolesi | Stabat Mater | |||
| Montague Phillips | The Rebel Maid | |||
| Francis Poulenc | Gloria Stabat Mater |
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| Giacomo Puccini | Messa di Gloria | |||
| Henry Purcell | Come ye Sons of Art Dido and Aeneas (Concert version) Hail, Bright Cecilia! King Arthur |
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| Sergei Rachmaninov | All-Night Vigil The Bells |
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| Ottorino Respighi | Lauda per la Nativita del Signore | |||
| Gioacchino Rossini | Petite Messe Solennelle Stabat Mater |
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| Edmund Rubbra | Missa in Honorem Sancti Domini Song of the Soul Tenebrae ‡ |
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| John Rutter | A Sprig of Thyme Birthday Madrigals Magnificat Psalmfest Requiem |
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| Camille Saint-Saëns | Christmas Oratorio | |||
| Franz Schubert | Mass in G D167 Mass in E Flat D950 |
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| Robert Schumann | Requiem Op.148 | |||
| Bedrich Smetana | The Bartered Bride | |||
| Sir Charles Stanford | Phaudrig Crohoore Songs of the Fleet |
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| Johann Strauss (II) | A Night in Venice (Concert version) The Blue Danube Die Fledermaus (Concert version) |
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| Igor Stravinsky | Mass | |||
| Sir Arthur Sullivan | Trial by Jury Yeoman of the Guard The Gondoliers (excerpts) The Pirates of Penzance |
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| Karol Szymanowski | Stabat Mater | |||
| Eric Thiman | Songs of England | |||
| Sir Michael Tippett | A Child of our Time - Spirituals | |||
| Ralph Vaughan Williams | Benedicite Dona Nobis Pacem Fantasia on Christmas Carols Festival Te Deum Five Mystical Songs Five Tudor Portraits In Windsor Forest Mass in G Minor Sancta Civitas Sea Symphony Serenade to Music Three Shakespeare Songs Valiant for Truth |
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| Giuseppe Verdi | Aida - Grand March Aroldo (Concert version) Attila (Concert version) Ernani (Concert version) Requiem Four Sacred Pieces |
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| Antonio Vivaldi | Gloria RV588 | |||
| Sir William Walton | Belshazzar’s Feast Gloria Coronation Te Deum |
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| Grace Williams | The Dancers § |
* First UK performance of the original version with organ. Also first performance of the orchestral version.
¶ First live UK performance (a recording of a US concert had previously been broadcast by the BBC).
§ First performance.
‡ First complete performance (No.1 had been performed separately before).