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 |
|---|---|
| Adam, Adolphe arr Rutter | O Holy Night |
| Aleotti, Raphaella | Angelus ad pastores ait |
| Allain, Richard | Balulalow |
| Allegri | Miserere |
| Amner | Come let's rejoice |
| Arcadelt | Margot labourez les vignes |
| Arnesen, Kim Andre | 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 man’s 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 neugeborÂ’ne Kind |
| Buxtehude | Magnificat |
| Byrd | Audivi vocem de caelo |
| Byrd | Beata viscera |
| Byrd | Haec Dies |
| Byrd | O Lord, make Thy servant Elizabeth |
| Carrington, arr. | My love is like a red, red rose |
| Charpentier | Messe de minuit |
| Chesnokov, Pavel | Salvation is Created |
| Chilcott, Bob | The Shepherd'’s Carol |
| Christiansen, P Melius arr. | Beautiful Saviour |
| Clausen, Rene | Tonight eternity alone |
| Cornish | Ah, Robin, gentle Robin |
| Crecquillon | Vous perdez temps de me dire mal d'elle |
| Crotch | Lo! star-led chiefs |
| Darke, Harold | In the bleak midwinter |
| de Monte, Philippe | Super Flumina Babylonis (a 8) |
| Dering, Richard | Quem vidistis, pastores |
| Dove, Jonathan | Into thy hands |
| Dove, Jonathan | The Three Kings |
| Durufle | Tantum ergo |
| Durufle | Tota pulchra es |
| Durufle | Tu es Petrus |
| Durufle | Ubi Caritas |
| Dvorak | Songs for mixed chorus, Op. 29 |
| Elder, Daniel | Twinkle, twinkle little star |
| Elgar, Edward | Ave verum |
| Erb, James arr | Shenandoah |
| Esenwalds, Eric | Amazing Grace |
| Esenwalds, Eric | Only in sleep |
| Esenwalds, Eric | Stars |
| Faure | Cantique de Jean Racine |
| 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 |
| Gibbons | The silver swan |
| Gibbons | O Lord in Thy wrath |
| Gjeilo, Ola | A spotless Rose |
| Gjeilo, Ola | Serenity: O magnum mysterium |
| Goldschmidt | A tender shoot |
| Gombert, Nicolas | Missa Beati Omnes |
| Gorecki | Euntes ibant et flebant |
| Gorecki | Kolyszze sie kolysz (from three Polish lullabies) |
| Grieg | Ave maris stella |
| Grigorjeva, Galina | In Paradisum |
| 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 |
| Hallgrimsson, Haflidi | 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 Mark | O magnum mysterium |
| Kemner, Gerald | Now Shout! |
| Kosma, arr. Ryan O'Connell | Autumn Leaves |
| Lapwood, Anna | O nata lux |
| 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 |
| Locks, Steve | Go to the Child |
| Locks, Steve | While Shepherds watched |
| Lovell, Percy | December Rose |
| Lovell, Percy | Lullaby |
| Macfarren | Remember me, O Lord |
| Macmillan, James | A Child’s Prayer |
| Macmillan, James | O Radiant Dawn |
| 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 |
| Mendelssohn | Then shall a star |
| 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 |
| Padilla, Juan Gutiarrez 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 |
| Part, Arvo | Bogoroditse Djevo |
| Part, Arvo | Magnificat |
| 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 |
| Praulins, Ugis | Missa Rigensis |
| Rachmaninov | Bogoroditse Djevo |
| Rheinberger | Abendfriede |
| Rheinberger | Abendlied |
| Roberton | All in the April evening |
| Rutter | Come down, O love divine |
| Rutter | There is a flower |
| Rutter, trad. arr. | Cradle Song |
| Sander, Kurt | He made the moon to mark the seasons |
| Schubert | Mass in G |
| Sermisy | Au joli bois |
| Sjolberg, Johan-Magnus | 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 |
| Trotta, John | A magnum mysterium |
| 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 a 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 |