The Singers were originally formed to specialise in a cappella Renaissance music but has gradually diversified its interests, developing concerts around particular themes often integrating music with appropriate prose and poetry readings. Our repertoire is constantly expanding and the following is a list of many of the works which the choir has performed – see the examples of concert programmes for more detailed repertoire.
Works premiered
Nicholas O’Neill Adam lay ybounden Christmas with The Singers, 17 December 2021
Steve Locks Go to the Child Christmas with The Singers, 14 December 2019
Lisa McMaster Two Introits on Icelandic Texts St Giles at Six, 14 July 2019
Edmund Hunt Vita Hominum Christmas with The Singers, December 2018 [broadcast on BBC Radio 3, 8 January 2019]
Steve Locks While Shepherds watched Christmas with The Singers, December 2017
David Haslam Kyrie Christmas Candlelit Concerts, December 2010
David Haslam Gloria Christmas Candlelit Concerts, December 2009
Stuart Murray Responses Southwark Cathedral, London, 29 August 2009
Sarah Robinson Stille Nacht Christmas Candlelit Concerts, December 2008
Stuart Murray Crux Fidelis St Giles Cathedral, Edinburgh, 27 May 2007
Repertoire
| Composer | Work |
|---|---|
| Aleotti, Raphaella | Angelus ad pastores ait |
| Allain, Richard | Balulalow |
| Allegri | Miserere |
| Arcadelt | Margot labourez les vignes |
| Arnesen, Kim André | The Lamb |
| arr. Cashmore | My love is like a red, red rose |
| arr. H T Burleigh | My Lord, what a mornin |
| arr. Moses Hogan | De blin man stood on de road an cried |
| arr. Moses Hogan | Elijah Rock |
| arr. Moses Hogan | Ezekiel Saw de Wheel |
| arr. Moses Hogan | We shall walk through the valley in peace |
| arr. Norman Luboff | Were you there |
| arr. Whittaker | Bony at morn |
| Attwood | Turn thy face from my sins |
| Bach | Jesu Meine Freude |
| Bach | Jesu, joy of mans desiring |
| Bach | Magnificat |
| Bach | Wachet auf |
| Barber | Agnus Dei |
| Biebl, Franz | Ave Maria |
| Britten | Ceremony of Carols |
| Britten | Choral Dances from Gloriana |
| Britten | Flower Songs |
| Brown, Christopher | Dormi Jesu |
| Bruch, Max | Morning song of praise |
| Bruckner | Ave Maria |
| Bruckner | Christus factus est |
| Bruckner | Locus iste |
| Bruckner | Os justi |
| Buxtehude | Das neugeborne Kind |
| Buxtehude | Magnificat |
| Byrd | Audivi vocem de caelo |
| Byrd | Beata viscera |
| Byrd | Haec Dies |
| Byrd | O Lord, make Thy servant Elizabeth |
| Charpentier | Messe de minuit |
| Chilcott, Bob | The Shepherds Carol |
| Clausen, René | Tonight eternity alone |
| Crecquillon | Vous perdez temps de me dire mal delle |
| Crotch | Lo! star-led chiefs |
| de Monte, Philippe | Super Flumina Babylonis (a 8) |
| Dering, Richard | Quem vidistis, pastores |
| Dove, Jonathan | Into thy hands |
| Dove, Jonathan | The Three Kings |
| Duruflé | Tantum ergo |
| Duruflé | Tota pulchra es |
| Duruflé | Tu es Petrus |
| Duruflé | Ubi Caritas |
| Dvorák | Songs for mixed chorus, Op. 29 |
| Elder, Daniel | Twinkle, twinkle little star |
| Elgar, Edward | Ave verum |
| Esenwalds, Eric | Amazing Grace |
| Esenwalds, Eric | Only in sleep |
| Esenwalds, Eric | Stars |
| Fauré | Cantique de Jean Racine |
| Górecki | Euntes ibant et flebant |
| Górecki | Ko?ysz?e si? ko?ysz (from three Polish lullabies) |
| Gardner, John | When Christ was born of Mary free |
| Gershwin, arr. Steve Zegree | Love walked in |
| Gesualdo | Ave, dulcissima Maria |
| Gesualdo | Dolcissima mia vita |
| Gesualdo | In Monte Oliveti |
| Gesualdo | Miserere |
| Gesualdo | Recessit pastor noster |
| Gjeilo, Ola | Serenity: O magnum mysterium |
| Goldschmidt | A tender shoot |
| Gombert, Nicolas | Missa Beati Omnes |
| Grigorjeva, Galina | In Paradisum |
| Grieg | Ave maris stella |
| Guerrero, Francisco | Duo Seraphim clamabant |
| Guerrero, Francisco | Maria Magdalene |
| Guerrero, Pedro | O beata Maria |
| Guest, Douglas | For the fallen |
| Guilment | Ave verum corpus |
| Gutierrez de Padilla, Juan | Missa Ego flos campi |
| Hakenberger | Exsultate Justi |
| Hallgrímsson, Hafliði | Joseph and the Angel |
| Halsey, Louis | Balulalow |
| Handel | Messiah |
| Handl, Jacob | Omnes de Saba |
| Harris, Matthew | Shakespeare Songs |
| Harrison, Julius | Open Thy Gates |
| Hatfield, Stephen | African Celebration |
| Haydn | Harmonie Messe |
| Hensel, Fanny | Schweigend sinkt die Nacht |
| Herzogenberg, Heinrich von | Meine Seele erhebt den Herrn |
| Hillier, Paul | Adam lay ybounden |
| Holst | Nunc Dimittis |
| Holst | Psalm 86 |
| Holst | Turn back, O man |
| Howells, Herbert | Here is the little door |
| Howells, Herbert | Long, long ago |
| Howells, Herbert | Sing Lullaby |
| Howells, Herbert | Take him earth for cherishing |
| Hunt, Edmund | Sanctus |
| Hunt, Edmund | Vita Hominum |
| Jackson, Gabriel | Salus aeterna |
| Jackson, Gabriel | The Truro Service |
| Janequin | Ce moys de May |
| Joel, Billy, arr. Chilcott | And so it goes |
| Jones, Tamsin | Noel: Verbum Caro factum est |
| Karlsen, Kjell Mørk | O magnum mysterium |
| Kemner, Gerald | Now Shout! |
| Kosma, arr. Ryan OConnell | Autumn Leaves |
| Lassus | Jubilate Deo, omnis terra |
| Lassus | Margot labourez les vignes |
| Lassus | Penetential Psalms |
| Lassus | Sicut mater consolatur |
| Lauridsen, Morten | Ave Maria |
| Lauridsen, Morten | O magnum mysterium |
| Lobo, Alonso | Versa est in luctum |
| Steve Locks | Go to the Child |
| Steve Locks | While Shepherds watched |
| Lovell, Percy | December Rose |
| Lovell, Percy | Lullaby |
| Macfarren | Remember me, O Lord |
| Macmillan, James | A Childs Prayer |
| Macmillan, James | The Gallant Weaver |
| Malcolm, George | Missa ad Praesepe (Mass at the Crib) |
| McMaster, Lisa | Lullay my liking |
| McMaster, Lisa | Two Introits on Icelandic Texts |
| Mendelssohn | Ave Maria (a 8) |
| Mendelssohn | Hear my Prayer |
| Mendelssohn | Kyrie (a 8) |
| Mendelssohn | Richte mich, Gott |
| Mozart | Ave Verum |
| Mozart | Laudate Dominum |
| Mozart | Masonic Cantata |
| Murray, Stuart | Crux fideles |
| Musgrave, Thea | Four Madrigals |
| Nystedt, Knut | Immortal Bach |
| O'Neill, Nicholas | Adam lay ybounden |
| O'Regan, Tariq | Ave Maria |
| O'Regan, Tariq | Locus iste |
| Pärt, Arvo | Bogoroditse Djevo |
| Pärt, Arvo | Magnificat |
| Padilla, Juan Gutiérrez de | Missa Ego flos campi |
| Palestrina | Missa Brevis |
| Palestrina | Missa Dies Sanctificatus |
| Palestrina | Motets from Canticum Canticorum |
| Palestrina | Stabat Mater |
| Parry, Hubert | Welcome, Yule! |
| Parsons | Ave Maria |
| Patterson, Paul | Salvum fac populum tuum Domine |
| Pearsall | Adieu! my native shore |
| Pearsall | Caput apri defero |
| Pearsall | In dulci jubilo |
| Pearsall | Lay a garland |
| Philips | Ave verum corpus |
| Philips | Gaudeamus omnes |
| Philips | O beatum et sacrosanctum diem |
| Philips | Surgens Jesu |
| Philips | Tibi laus, tibi gloria |
| Poston, Elizabeth | Jesus Christ the Apple Tree |
| Poulenc, Francis | Videntes Stellem |
| Praetorius, Hieronymous | In dulci jubilo (a 8) |
| Praetorius, Hieronymous | Magnificat (a 8) |
| Praetorius, Michael | Wachet auf |
| Praulin, Ugis | Missa Rigensis |
| Rachmaninov | Bogoroditse Djevo |
| Rheinberger | Abendfriede |
| Rheinberger | Abendlied |
| Roberton | All in the April evening |
| Rutter | Come down, O love divine |
| Rutter, trad. arr. | Cradle Song |
| Schubert | Mass in G |
| Sermisy | Au joli bois |
| Sjöberg, JohanMagnus | Ave maris stella |
| Smith, Andrew | Pulchra es tu Maria |
| Stainer | God so loved the world |
| Stainer | How beautiful upon the mountains |
| Stanford | Beati quorum via |
| Stanford | Communion Service in G and B flat |
| Stanford | Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in A |
| Stanford | Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in C |
| Stanford | Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis in G |
| Stanford | Quick! we have but a second |
| Stanford | Te Deum and Benedictus in B flat |
| Sullivan | The long day closes |
| Sweelinck | Hodie Christus natus est |
| Tallis | Lamentations |
| Tallis | Missa Puer natus est |
| Tavener, John | Angels |
| Tavener, John | As one who has slept |
| Tavener, John | Funeral Ikos |
| Tavener, John | Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis Collegium Regale |
| Tavener, John | Song for Athene |
| Tavener, John | The Lamb |
| Tippett | Magnificat & Nunc Dimittis St Johns Service |
| Tippett | Spirituals from A Child of our Time |
| Tschaikovsky | Dostoino est |
| Tschaikovsky | Sviati Bozhe |
| Vaughan Williams | Fantasia on Christmas Carols |
| Vaughan Williams | Lord, Thou hast been our refuge |
| Vaughan Williams | Three Shakespeare Songs |
| Vaughan Williams, arr. | The Springtime of the year |
| Victoria | Alma redemptoris Mater a 8 |
| Victoria | Ascendens Christus in altum |
| Victoria | Ave Maria (a 4) |
| Victoria | Ave Maria (a 8) |
| Victoria | Cum beata Ignatius |
| Victoria | Iste sanctus |
| Victoria | Magnificat primi toni (a 8) |
| Victoria | Missa O magnum mysterium |
| Victoria | Ne timeas Maria |
| Victoria | Requiem (a 6) |
| Victoria | Sancta Maria, succure miseris |
| Villette, Pierre | Adoro te |
| Villette, Pierre | Hymne à la Vierge |
| Villette, Pierre | O magnum mysterium |
| Walker, Robert | As the apple tree |
| Weelkes | In pride of May |
| Weir, Judith | Two Human Hymns |
| Wesley, S S | Blessed be the God and Father |
| Wesley, S S | Praise the Lord O my soul |
| Wesley, S S | Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace |
| Whitacre, Eric | Abide with me |
| Whitacre, Eric | Lux Aurumque |
| Whitacre, Eric | This Marriage |
| Whitacre, Eric | When David heard |
| Whyte, Robert | O praise God in his holiness (a 8) |
| Wilby, Philip | Three North Country Songs |
| Wood, Charles | Missa Portae Honoris |
| Wood, Charles | View me Lord |