Repertoire

Sacred pieces
Bach: Jesu bleibet meine freude
Bach: O Little One Sweet
Bach: O Jesu Christ, mein’s Lebens Licht
Brahms: Geistliches Leid
Britten: A New Year Carol
Bruckner: Locus iste
Chilcott: Irish blessing
Forbes-L’estrange: The Mountains shall bring peace
Franck: Panis Angelicus
Goudimel: O qui aura
Gjeilo: Ubi Caritas
Gjeilo: Northern lights
Handel: Zadok the Priest
Handel: Ecce quomodo moritur
Hogan: Music down in my soul
Messiaen: O sacrum convivium
Moore: Silent night
Mozart: Ave Verum Corpus
Palestrina: Alma Redemptoris Mater
Parry: I was glad
Praetorius:  Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
Purcell: Thou knowest Lord
Rachmaninoff: Bogoroditse Devo
Roberton: All in the April evening
Rutter: For the beauty of the earth
Rutter:  Look at the World
Rutter: Candlelight carol
Rutter: The lord bless you and keep you
Rutter: What sweeter music
Saint-Saëns: Calme des nuits
Saint-Saëns: Les fleurs et les arbres
Stainer: God so loved the world
Stopford: Lully, lulla, lullay
Sweelinck: Hodie Christus Natus Est
Tallis: If ye love me
Tavener: The Lamb
Todd: My Lord has come
Warlock: Bethlehem Down
Willcocks: Infant lowly, infant holy

Popular songs
Althouse: The glory of Love
Arlen: Over the rainbow (arr Robinson)
Carter: Goodnight sweetheart (arr Shaw)
Cohen: How can I keep from singing (photocopy from Dominic Mahony)
Chilcott: Londonderry Air
Gershwin: I Got Rhythm
Gershwin: Someone to watch over me
Goodall: The Lord is my Shepherd
Joel: And so it goes (arr Chilcott)
Kern arr. Rutter: The way you look tonight
Novello: We’ll gather lilacs
Sullivan: The long day closes
Trad: Tourdion
Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea
Willcocks: Deck the halls
Willcocks: Jingle bells
???: Have yourself a merry little Christmas
???: She moved through the fair (photocopy from Caroline Crews)

General pieces
Arcadelt: Il bianco e dolce cigno
Bruch: Wiegenlied der Hirten (Shepherds’ Lullaby)
Esenvalds: Stars
Goudimel: O qui aura
Haydn, J: Die Harmonie in der Ehe
Paulus: The road home
Reger: Unser Lieben Frauen Traum
Roberton: All in the April evening
Rutter: What sweeter music
Tavener: The Lamb
Whitacre: The seal lullaby

Books/collections
100 carols for choirs (includes e.g. Darke: In the Bleak mid-winter)
The new Oxford easy anthem book
In the mood
Durufle: Quatre motets sur des themes gregoriens
Rutter: The Sprig of Thyme
Tippett: Five Spirituals
Vaughan Williams: Five English Folksongs
Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Christmas Carols

Longer works
Bach: mass in B minor
Bach: St John Passion
Bach: St Matthew Passion
Brahms: Requiem
Faure: Cantique de Jean Racine
Faure: Pavane
Faure: Requiem
Handel: Messiah
Handel: Zadok the Priest
Haydn: Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo
Haydn: Nelson Mass
Haydn: The Creation (Part 1)
Mozart: C minor mass
Mozart: Requiem
Monteverdi: Beatus Vir (two separate editions)
Pergolesi/Durante: Magnificat
Vivaldi: Gloria

Frequent requests
Until we have a significantly larger choir, we will not have the means to sing the following frequently requested pieces – we will aspire to them for now!
Biebl: Ave Maria
Gjeilo: The Rose
Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium & Lux Aeterna
Stanford: Beati Quorum Via

Pieces the DoM suspects there won’t be a general desire to revisit
Todd: Durham Jazz Evensong
Rutter: Gloria