Repertoire

Over the years we have performed a very varied repertoire, including the major items listed below. We aim to include in each concert at least one work that is new to us, together with items we already know.

Christmas
A Ceremony of Carols - Britten
A Christmas Fantasy - Gordon Langford
A Hymn to the Virgin - Britten
Fantasia on Christmas Carols - Vaughan Williams
O Magnum Mysterium - Morten Lauridsen
Ring out, wild bells - Percy Fletcher
Extracts from "Messiah" - Handel
When Icicles Hang - John Rutter

Traditional Christmas songs and carols, plus newer items by John Rutter, William Mathias, Herbert Howells, Bob Chilcott, David Willcocks, Alan Bullard, Philip Ledger, Peter Warlock, etc.

Lent/Easter
Three Latin Motets - Stanford
Beatus Vir - Monteverdi
Rejoice in the Lamb - Britten
Requiem - Rutter
Requiem - Fauré
Extracts from "The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace" - Karl Jenkins

Anthems and motets by Mozart, Elgar, Byrd, Tavener, Purcell, Parry

Summer
Birthday Madrigals - Rutter
Songs and Sonnets from Shakespeare - George Shearing
Five Childhood Lyrics - Rutter
Fancies - Rutter

Part-songs and folk-song arrangements by Gustav Holst, John Rutter, Edward Elgar, Gerald Finzi, David Willcocks, Howard Seymour, Stanford, Sullivan

Madrigals by Morley, Gibbons, Bennett, Farmer

General/Other Occasions
Feel the Spirit - Rutter
Cantique de Jean Racine - Fauré
Magnificat - Rutter
Gloria - Vivaldi
Maria Theresa Mass, Nelson Mass, Little Organ Mass – Haydn
Magnificat - Pergolesi
Come Ye Sons of Art - Purcell
Extracts from "Elijah" - Mendelssohn
Coronation Anthems - Handel

Songs by Tippett, Rutter, Purcell, Bruckner