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Since 1964 the Cantata Singers have studied and performed a wide variety of music. This list comprises much of that repertoire and is sorted by composer. Let us know if you have favorites in this list you'd love to hear again and if you have favorites not on this list you think we should tackle!
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Dadme albricias, hijos d’Eva • E la don don, Verges Maria • Magnificat anima mea • Riu, Riu, chiu
Dominick Argento
Gloria
Ronald Arnatt
Festival Psalm
Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach
Magnificat
Johann Christian Bach
Magnificat
Johann Christoph Bach
Der Gerechte • Der mensch, vom Veibe geboren• Ich lasse dich nicht;
Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach
Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme • I: Wachet auf • II: Zion hart die Wachter singen • III: Glorie sei dir gesungen • IV: Chorale: Gloria sei dir gesungen • V: Des sind wir froh, ewig in jubilo
Johann Michael Bach
Das Blut Jesu Christi • Herr, wenn ich nur dich have
Johann Sebastian Bach
Ascension Oratorio • Cantata 4 • Cantata 8 • Cantata 21 • Cantata 29 • Cantata 30 • Cantata 31 • Cantata 50 • Cantata 68 • Cantata 78 • Cantata 79 • Cantata 80 • Cantata 82 • Cantata 102 • Cantata 106 • Cantata 118 • Cantata 131 “Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir” • Cantata 137 • Cantata 140 • Cantata 150 • Cantata 160 • Cantata 161 • Cantata 180 • Cantata 182 • Cantata 192 • Cantata 196 • Chorale: Vater unser im Himmelreich • Christmas Oratorio (complete) • Easter Oratorio • Gaudete, omnes populi • Himmelskonig, sei Willkommen • Ich lasse dich nicht • Kyrie (From Mass in G minor – BWV 235) • Magnificat in D Major • Mass 2 in A Major • Mass 4 G Major • Mass in B-minor • Mass in F Major • Mass in G Major • Missa Brevis No. 4 G-minor • Motet 1: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied • Motet 2: Der Geist hilft unsrer Schwachheit, auf • Motet 3: Jesu, meine Freude • Motet 4: Fuerchte dich nicht • Motet 5: Komm, Jesu, komm • Motet 6: Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden • O Jesu Christ meins Lebens Licht • Passion of St. Matthew • St. John Passion • Wir haben einen Gott • Trio Sonata 1 in E-flat • Quodlibet • Concerto in A Major • Jesu, der du meine Seele (BWV 78, #2) • Erforsche mich, Gott, und erfahre mein Herz (BWV 136, #5) • Es ist das Heil uns kommen her (BWV 9, #5) • Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihn (BWV 1127) • ich lasse dich nicht, du segnenst mich denn! (BWV 157, #1) • Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen (BWV 66, #5) • Wachet auf ruft uns die Stimme (BWV 140, #6)
Edward Bairstow
Let all Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
William Ballet
Lute-Book Lullaby
Carol Barnett
The World Beloved: A Bluegrass Mass
Mrs. H. H. A. Beach
Festival Jubilate • Credo from Mass in E flat • Peace on Earth (A Christmas Anthem)
Warren Benson
A Score of Praises (commissioned for 20th anniversary) • The Singers
A. Benham Sr.
Hark! Hark! Glad Tidings Charm Our Ears
Jean Berger
A Rose Touched by the Sun’s Warm Rays • Create in Me a Clean Heart • Songs of Worship
Hector Berlioz
Thou Must Leave Thy Lowly Dwelling
Leonard Bernstein
Chichester Psalms
William Billings
A Virgin Unspotted • David’s Lamentation • Rutland • As Shepherds in Darkness
Nancy Bloomer Deussen
Flowers by the Sea • Et in terra pax
Johannes Brahms
How Lovely is Thy Dwelling Place • Es is das Heil un kommen her • Marienlieder • O Heiland reiss die Himmel auf • Schaffe in mir, Gott ein rein Herz • Troste mich wiedrer mit deiner Hilfe • Unsere Vater • Verwirf mich nich von deinem Angesicht • Warum is das Licht, gegeben dem Juehseligen • Wenn ein starker Gewappneter • Wo ist ein so Herrlich Volk • Liebeslieder Waltzes • O Savior Rend the Heav'ns on High
Gena Branscombe
I Bring You Heartsease • God of the Nations
Benjamin Britten
A Hymn to the Virgin • Ceremony of Carols • Festival Te Deum • Hymn to St. Cecelia • Jubilate Deo • Rejoice in the Lamb • A Boy was Born
Anton Bruckner
Ave Maria • Christus factus est pro nobis obediens • Ecce sacerdos • Locus iste a Deo factus est • Mass in E minor • Offertorium • Os Justi meditabitur • Three Graduals • Tota Pulchra Est
D. Buxtehude
In dulci Jubilo
W. Byrd
Ave Verum Corpus • Lord in Thy Rage • Magnificat • Nunc Dimittis • Save me O God (Psalm 54) • The Passion of St. John • O lux beata Trinitas • Gaude Maria • O magnum mysterium (motet)
S. Calvisius
Freut Euch Un Jubiert
Elliot Carter
Magnificat
Pablo Casals
O Vos Omnes
Rene Clausen
Set me as a Seal
Clement
Adoramus Te
Comes
Magnificat for two Choirs
Aaron Copland
In the Beginning • Gift to be Simple • Simple Gifts
Henry Cowell
Supplication
Michael Cox
O Holy Child • Today in Bethlehem Hear I
Harold Darke
In The Bleak Mid-Winter
Ivor Davies
Prayers from the Ark (Poetry of Carmen Bernos de Gazstold) 1) Noah's Prayer 2) The Prayer of the Little Bird 3) The Prayer of the Cat 4) The Prayer of the Mouse 5) The Prayer of the Raven 6) The Prayer of the Dove
William Dawson
Every Time I Feel the Spirit
Cristobal De Morales
Pastores Dicite • Quidnam Vidistis
Tomas Luis de Victoria
Ave maria • Four Motets • In venisti enim gratiam • O Magnum Mysterium (Mass) • O Magnum Mysterium (motet) • Two Motets
Claude Debussy
O Praise Ye The Lord
Norman Dello Joio
Psalm of David
Josquin des Prez
Le Roi David
Orlando di Lasso
Jubilate Deo, omnis terra
Hugo Distler
The Christmas Story • Sing to the Lord a New Song • Totentanz (Dance of Death)
William Doane
To God Be The Glory
Guillaume Dufay
Magnificat (8th Mode)
Maurice Durufle
Four Motets 1) Ubi caritas 2) Tota pulcra es 3) Tu es Petrus 4) Tantum Ergo; Requiem
G. Dyson
Hail Universal Lord
Gabrielle Faure
Requiem • Cantique de Jean Racine
Gerald Finzi
Magnificat
Dan Forrest
Hosanna • Arise, Shine • Carol of Joy • Never a Brighter Star • Requiem for the Living
Lucas Foss
Behold! I Build An House
Cesar Franck
Psalm 150
Melchior Franck
Du bist aller Dinge schön
Andrea Gabrieli
Angelus ad pastores
Henry Balfour Gardiner
Te Lucis Ante Terminum
Orlando Gibbons
Josanna to the Son of David • O Lord, Increase My Faith
Christoph Gluck
De Profundis
Jose Gomez
Christmas Jubilation
Carl Heinrich Graun
Der Todd Jesu
Vinicius Grefiens
Three Christmas Carols 1. Riitiiciam printr-o griidinii 2. I-an iesiti voi mari boieri 3. Ia sculati voi, boieri mari!
A. Gretchaninof
Nunc Dimitis • Holy Radiant Light
Franz Gruber
Stille nacht
G. F. Handel
Dettingen Te Deum • Messiah (complete)
Jacob Handl
O Admirabile Commercium • Omnes de saba venient
Hans Leo Hassler
Angelus ad postores ait • Dixit Maria • Verbum caro factum est • Cantate Domino
Franz Joseph Haydn
Ave Maria • The Creation • Lord Nelson Mass - Mass in D minor • Saint Cecilia Mass • The Last Seven Words of Christ
Bernhard Heiden
Divine Poems of John Donne
Robert Herrema
Laudate Pueri Dominum
Jennifer Higdon
Fiddlin'
Lara Hoggard
Personent Hodie
Oliver Holden
Coronation
Gustav Holst
Christmas Day • Nunc Dimittis • Psalm 149 • Psalm 86 • Four Old English Carols 1) A Babe is Born 2) Now Let us Sing3) Jesu, the Virgin Born 4) The Saviour of the World is Born
Arthur Honegger
King David • Une Cantate De Noel
Alan Hovhaness
Unto Thee, O God
Herbert Howells
Magnificat • Requiem • Take Him Earth For Cherishing • Te Deum and Jubilate
Charles Ives
God be Merciful unto Us (Ps 67) • Psalm 100 • Turn Ye Turn Ye • A Christmas Carol
William Ives
Shout the Glad Tidings
Karl Jenkins
Adieumus • The Armed Man: a Mass for Peace
Ulysses Kay
Choral Tryptich
Zoltan Kodaly
Missa Brevis • A Christmas Carol
Jean Langlais
Suite Medievil
Libby Larsen
Missa Gaia: Mass for the Earth
Morten Lauridsen
O Magnum Mysterium
Isabella Leonarda
Litany of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Henry Ley
Come thou Long Expected Jesus
Patrick Liebergen
A Festive Alleluia
Franz Lizst
Via Cruces • Missa Choralis • Christe, du Lamm Gottes • Nunc dimities • Mein Herz erhebet Gott, den Herrn
Faye Lopez
There is a River
Stephen Main
The Darkest Midnight in December
Marianna Martines
u vittime non vuoi • Deh dammi un altro cuore
Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
Hiob • Two Gartenlieder (Opus 3) • Schone Fremde (No. 2) • Abendilch schon rauscht der Wald (No. 5)
Felix Mendelssohn
There Shall a Star from Jacob • Sing to the Lord
W. A. Mozart
Adoramus Te • Ave Verum Corpus • Missa Brevis in C major • Missa Brevis in d minor • Regina Coeli • Requiem • Vesperae Solennes de Confessore • Mozart's Fa-la-la (arr. P. Kern)
Herbert Murrill
Magnificat (My Soul doth Magnify the Lord)
Johannes Ockeghem
Missa Mi Mi
George Oldroyd
Song of the Passion
Johann Pachelbel
Christ lag in Todesbanden
Alice Parker
Psalms for Barbara
Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Adoramus te Christe • Alma Redemptoris Mater • Canite Tuba • Missa Aeterna Christi Munera • Et in Terra Pax (Beata Virgine) • Hodie Christus natus est • Kyrie (Beata Virgine) • Missa De Beate Virgine • Missa Tu es Petrus • Missa Brevis • Missa Papae Marcelli • O Bone Jesu • Sicut cervus • Stabat Mater
G. B. Pergolesi
Magnificat
Flor Peters
Entrata Festiva
Daniel Pinkham
Canticle of Praise • Christmas Cantata Sinfonia Sacra • Festival Magnificat • Jubilate Deo • Nativity Madrigals
Elizabeth Poston
Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
Allen Pote
A Jubilant Song
Francis Poulenc
Gloria • Hodie Christus Natus est • Motets for the season of Christmas • Motets for the season of Lent • Quem vidistis Pastores • Timor et tremor • Vinea mea et electa
Michael Praetorius
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen • Geborn ist Gottes Soehnelein • Psallite • In dulci jubilo
Henry Purcell
Funeral Music of Queen Mary • Let My Prayer Come Up • Magnificat
R. Purvis
What Strangers are These
Sergei Rachmaninov
All Night Vigil (3 selections) • Ave Maria • Blessed is He • Bogoroditse Devo • Cherubic Hymn• Come Let us Worship • Praise The Lord from the Heavens
Maurice Ravel
Ondine from gaspar de Ia nuit
John Redford
Rejoice in the Lord
Max Reger
Five Pieces • Virgins Slumber Song
John Rutter
Requiem • Creations Alleluia • Musica Dei Donum • Shepherd’s Pipe Carol • There is a Flower • Wildwood Carol • Gaelic Blessing • For the Beauty of the Earth • The Lord Bless You and Keep You • I Wish You Christmas
Rebecca Sacks
Arirang
Camille Saint-Saens
Ave Verum
G. B. Sammartini
Magnificat
Scarlatti
Exultate Deo • O Magnum Mysterium • Te Deum Laudimus
Samuel Scheidt
Magnificat Quinti Toni
Peter Schickle/PDQ Bach
Four Curmudgeonly Canons • Throw the Yule Log On, Uncle John • Good King Kong Looked Out,
A. Schoenberg
Friede auf Erden
Franz Schubert
Mass in G • Miriam’s song of Triumph • Omnipotence
Heinrich Schutz
A sower in His Field His seed was Sowing • Bringet her dem Herren • Cantate Domino • Deutsches magnificat • Jauchzet dem Herren • Passion according to St. Matthew • Psalm 100 • Psalms of Despair and Hope • Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (Ps 98) • Trostet Mein Volk
Leo Sowerby
Turn Thou to Thy God
C. Saint Saens
Ave Verum
Igor Stravinsky
Ave Maria • Mass: Two Prayers
J. P. Sweelinck
Hodie Christus natus est
Tomas Tallis
O Nata Lux De Lumine
Phyllis Tate
Carol, With Lullaby
Randall Thompson
Alleluia • Glory to God in the Highest • Mass of the Holy Spirit • Psalm 23 • The last Words of David • The Lord is My Shepherd
Thomas Tomkins
Absalom • Then David Mourned
Giuseppe Verdi
Ave Maria • Laudi alla Virgine Maria • Stabat mater • Te Deum
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Praesepe
Antonio Vivaldi
Gloria • Concerto 9, L'Estro armonico (Opus 3)
Hildegard von Bingen
Virtus Sapientam
Gwyneth Walker
I've known Rivers • New Millennium Suite • White Horses • Tree of Peace • Acquaintance with Nature 1) I Seek Acquaintance With Nature 2) I Perceive the Spring in the Softened Air 3) Mornings 4) Dry, Hazy June Weather 5) Dew on the Cobwebs 6) The First Star is Lit
Johann Walter
Christ lag in Todesbanden
William Walton
What Cheer?
Peter Warlock
Benedicamus Domino • Bethlehem Down
Thomas Weelkes
Let Thy Merciful Ears, O Lord • Sacred madrigals • Laments by David • Hosanna to the Son of David
Eric Whitacre
i will wade out • hope, faith, life, love • i thank You God for most this amazing day
James Whitbourn
Luminosity
W. Wickham
Blessed Dawn • Gloria • Qui Natus Est de Virgine • Soli Deo Gloria (commissioned) • The Power of Music (commissioned for 40th Anniversary) • Each Song is a Journey (commissioned for 50th Anniversary) • Where Sacred Waters Divide: 1) Sacred Water Falling 2) Gorge 3) Enormous Story 4) Lake Morning Reflections 5) Self Portrait - in the Eyes of Stone 6) My Aunt Sarah Falls 7) Spring Pond Song 8) From Source to Mouth 9) Flood: At the Shelter 10) After the Flood: A Questing Fish 11) Flood: At the Fire Station 12) Dancing to the Falls 13) Seneca
Healey Willan
An Apostrophe to the Heavenly Hosts • Hodie Christus natus est
Vaughan Williams
Valiant-For-Truth • Festival Te Deum • Magnificat • Mass in G Minor • O Clap Your Hands • Two Chorals
Hugo Wolf
Sechs Beistliche Lieder
Bernd Alois Zimmermann
Psalmkonzert • This day a Child is Born