Repertory

A list of (nearly) everything we have performed since our foundation in June 2003

* means performed with orchestra or instrumental ensemble as appropriate; other pieces are a capella or organ-accompanied

Astorga

  • Stabat mater*

Bach

  • Wachet auf! (Cantata 140)*
  • Cantata 158 (solo baritone and chorus)*
  • Jesu, meine Freude
  • Komm Jesu, komm

Biber

  • Magnificat*
  • De profundis*

Bononcini

  • When Saul was King over us*

Brahms

  • O Heiland, reiss die Himmel auf
  • Op 17 songs (women’s voices)*

Brewer

  • D major service

Britten

  • A Ceremony of Carols*
  • Hymn to St Cecilia
  • Rejoice in the Lamb

Bruckner

  • Os justi
  • Afferentur regi*
  • Ecce sacerdos*
  • Christus factus est

Buxtehude

  • Magnificat*

Byrd

  • Short service
  • Four-part mass
  • Teach me O Lord
  • Laetentur coeli
  • Vidimus stellam
  • Regis Tharsis
  • Responses
  • Haec dies

Caldara

  • Missa dolorosa*

Campion

  • Never weather-beaten sail

Carissimi

  • Jephthe (semi-staged)*
  • Vanitas vanitatum*
  • Jonas*

Charpentier

  • Le reniement de St Pierre

Cleobury (arr)

  • Let all mortal flesh keep silence

Clemens non Papa

  • Crux fidelis
  • Magi videntes stellam

Cornelius

  • The Three Kings

Duruflé

  • Requiem

Eccard

  • When to the temple Mary went

Elgar

  • Ave verum corpus

Farrant

  • Lord, for thy tender mercy’s sake

Fauré

  • Requiem

Foster

  • Nativity

Fux

  • Nisi dominus

Gibbons

  • O clap your hands
  • The Silver Swan
  • See, see the Word is incarnate
  • This is the record of John*
  • Almighty and everlasting God
  • Short service

Greene

  • Jephtha* (with Bampton Classical Opera and Players)
  • Harken unto me, ye holy children*

Guerrero

  • Canite tuba

Handl

  • Ab oriente venerunt magi
  • Omnes de saba venient

Handel

  • Acis and Galatea* (with Bampton Classical Opera and London Mozart Players)
  • The King shall rejoice*
  • Let thy hand be strengthened*
  • The Choice of Hercules* (semi-staged)
  • Messiah* (with Bampton Classical Opera)
  • How dark, O Lord, are thy decrees*
  • Ode on the birthday of Queen Anne*
  • Chandos anthems: O praise the Lord with one consent*; The Lord is my light*
  • Funeral anthem for Queen Caroline*
  • Utrecht Te Deum*

Hassler

  • Hodie Christus natus est

Haydn, J

  • Canzonettas (solo soprano)
  • Little Organ Mass
  • Maria Theresa mass*
  • St Nicholas mass*

Haydn, M

  • Requiem in C minor*

Holst

  • This have I done for my true love

Humfrey

  • E minor service

Howells

  • Take him, earth, for cherishing
  • Like as the hart
  • This is the little door

Ireland

  • Greater love hath no man

James

  • Christus solus habet immortalitatem (first performance)

Janacek

  • Otcenas*

Kodaly

  • Matra Pictures

Legrenzi

  • Compline*
  • Salve, Regina*

arr. Ledger

  • Sussex carol

Linley

  • Ode on the spirits of Shakespeare*

Lhéritier

  • Surrexit pastor bonus

Marenzio

  • Tribus miraculis
  • Cruda Amarilli

Manchicourt

  • Missa Reges terrae

Mathais

  • A child is born

Mendelssohn

  • Ave Maria
  • When Jesus our Lord (from Christus)
  • Am Himmelfahrtstage
  • Psalm 43

Monteverdi

  • Missa da capella
  • Beatus vir*
  • Quel augellin
  • Ecco mormorar l’onde

Morales

  • Ecce virgo concipiet

Mozart

  • Missa brevis in D minor*
  • Organsolo mass
  • Ave verum corpus

Mundy

  • Magnificat

Rheinberger

  • Abendlied

Palestrina

  • Missa Papae Marcelli
  • Missa Dies sanctificatus
  • Missa Aeterna Christi munera
  • Missa brevis
  • Missa Iste confessor
  • Stabat mater
  • Tu es Petrus
  • Sicut cervus
  • Exsultate Deo
  • Justus ut palma florebit
  • Dum aurora finem daret

Parry

  • My soul, there is a country
  • Never weather-beaten sail
  • Blest Pair of Sirens

Phillips

  • Ascendit deus

Poston

  • Jesus Christ the Apple Tree

Poulenc

  • Quatre motets pour le temps de Noel
  • Timor et tremor
  • Vinea mea electa

H Praetorius

  • Magnificat quinti toni

M Praetorius

  • Quem pastores laudavere

Purcell, D

  • E minor service

Purcell, H

  • Dido and Aeneas (semi-staged)*
  • O Sing unto the Lord*
  • Jehova quam multi sunt hostes mei
  • Hear my prayer
  • Funeral music for Queen Mary
  • Welcome to all the Pleasures*
  • Come, ye sons of art, away!*
  • Rejoice in the Lord alway*

More

  • O sonno

Rose

  • Responses

Rutter

  • Sans day carol

Sanders

  • The Reproaches

Scarlatti, D

  • Stabat mater*

Schütz

  • Deutsches Magnificat
  • Psalm 100

Sheppard

  • Gaude, gaude, gaude Maria

Smith

  • Responses

Stanford

  • Beati quorum via

Stainer

  • The Crucifixion

Steffani

  • Stabat Mater*

Tallis

  • Short service
  • Lamentations of Jeremiah
  • If ye love me
  • O nata lux de lumine
  • Salvator mundi
  • Missa Puer natus est nobis

Tchaikovsky

  • The Crown of Roses

Telemann

  • Laudate Jehovah* (Psalm 117)

Tomkins

  • When David heard that Absalon was slain
  • Great and marvellous
  • My shepherd is the living Lord

Vanhal

  • Missa pastoralis* (possible UK premiere)

Vaughan Williams

  • Fantasia on Christmas carols
  • Mass in G minor
  • Three Shakespeare Songs

Vautor

  • Sweet Suffolk owl

Viadana

  • Exsultate justi

Victoria

  • O magnum mysterium (mass and motet)
  • O quam gloriosum (mass and motet)
  • Tenebrae Responsories
  • Ave Regina caelorum
  • Salve, Regina
  • Officium defunctorum (Requiem; 1605)

Vivaldi

  • Gloria*
  • Magnificat*

Walton

  • A Litany
  • What cheer?

Warlock

  • Bethlehem Down

Weelkes

  • Hosanna to the son of David
  • When David heard that Absalon was slain

Wilbye

  • Adieu, sweet Amaryllis
  • Draw on, sweet night
  • Sweet honeysucking bees
  • Yet sweet take heed

Zelenka

  • Lamentation I* (solo baritone)
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