The group has an extensive repertoire of mainly European sacred and secular choral music from the medieval to the present day.
2019 SPRING CONCERT PROGRAMME
* indicates music for the concert at St Sarkis Armenian Church on June 15th
*Cantate Domino - Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
*Ego flos campi - Jacobus Clemens non Papa (1510-1555)
*Hark, all ye lovely saints - Thomas Weelkes (1576-1623)
*Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone - John Farmer (1570-1601)
*I love, alas, I love thee - Thomas Morley (1557-1602)
Cucu, cucu!- Juan del Encina (1464-1523)
Fata la parte - Juan del Encina
Un cavalier di Spagna - Francesco Patavino (c.1478-c.1556)
*O morte - Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
Trois chansons - Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)
*I was glad Henry- Purcell (1659-1695)
*Hear my prayer, O Lord - Henry Purcell
Chi la gagliarda, donne, vo'imparare- Baldassare Donato (c.1530-1603)
Quivi sospiri - Luzzasco Luzzaschi (1545-1607)
Kacen divoka- Leos Janacek (1854-1928)
Ach Vojna, Vojna! - Leos Janacek
*O vos omnes- Pablo Casals (1876-1973)
*Armenian folk songs - Komitas (1869-1935)
Addional repertoire:
*Three Motets by Charles Stanford
Justorum animae
Coelos ascendit hodie
Beati quorum via
*Two partsongs by Robert Pearsall
Lay a garland
Who shall have my lady fair
*Jesu, dulcis memoria by T.L. da Victoria
*Excerpts from the Divine Liturgy (Armenian) by Makar Yekmalyan
CHRISTMAS 2018 PROGRAMME
Parry - Welcome Yule
Dering - Gaudent in coelis
Ledger - Adam lay ybounden
Tallis - O Nata Lux
Pearsall - In Dulci Jubilo
Britten – Hymn to the virgin
Victoria - O magnum mysterium
Gjeilo - Northern Lights
Carol Ann Duffy’s poem 'The Christmas Truce’
Whitacre - Lux arumque
Victoria - Gaudent in coelis
Gaudete
Dumigan – Can it be true
Head -The Little Road to Bethlehem
Rocking Carol
CURRENT MUSIC IN PREPARATION FOR CONCERTS IN 2020
Jubilate Deo by Giovanni Gabrieli
Cantate Domino by Claudio Monteverdi
O Lord God of Hosts by Henry Purcell
O clap your hands by Orlando Gibbons
Nunc Dimittis by Gustav Holst
Jesu dulcis memoria by Victoria
All creatures now by John Bennet
Sleep fleshly birth by Robert Ramsey
Due rose fresche by Andrea Gabrieli
Lieto Godea by Giovanni Gabrieli
El Grillo by Josquin Despres
Fata la parte by Juan del Encina
Cucu by Juan del Encina
Chi chi li chi by Orlando de Lassus
Che fa oggi by Luca Marenzio
Gia torna by Luca Marenzio
Io mi son giovinetta by Alfonso Ferrabosco
O salutaris hostia by Giachino Rossini
Pater noster by Giusseppe Verdi
Os justi by Anton Bruckner
Three Shakespeare Songs by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Ubi Caritas by Maurice Durufle
Lay a garland by Robert Pearsall
The Blue Bird by Charls Stanford
2018 PROGRAMME
Angelus Domini (1735) Claudio Casciolini (Italy 1690-1760)
Regina caeli laetare Heinrich Isaac (Netherlands c.1450-1517)
Crucifixus a 8 Antonio Lotti (Italy 1667-1740)
Ave Maria Josquin Desprez (France c.1440-1521)
Eli Eli György Deák-Bárdos (Hungary 1905-12991)
Jesu, dulcis memoria attrib. T.L.de Victoria (Spain 1548-1611)
Nunc dimittis G.P.da Palestrina (Italy 1525-1594)
Ave maris stella Edvard Grieg (Norway 1843-1907)
Warum ist das Licht gegeben dem Muhseligen Johannes Brahms (Germany 1833-1897)
Un soir de neige Francis Poulenc (France 1899-1963)
Si ch'io vorrei morrire Claudio Monteverdi (Italy 1567-1643)
Quel augellin che canta Claudio Monteverdi
Margot labourez les vignes Jacques Arcadelt (Flanders 1507-1568)
Ancor che col partire Cipriano de Rore (Flanders d.1565)
Il bianco e dolce cigno Jacques Arcadelt
Un doux regard Pierre de Manchicourt (Flanders c.1510-1564)
Que n'est elle aupres de moi Pierre Certon (France 1515-1572)
Au joli jeu du pousse avant Clément Janequin (France c,1485-1558)
La, la, la, je ne l'ose dire Pierre Certon
Dana Dana Lajos Bárdos (Hungary 1899-1986)
Abenlied Josef Rheinberger (Liechtenstein 1839-1901)
The programme for 2017 included:
HENRY PURCELL::
Funeral sentences
Hear my prayer, O Lord
Remember not, Lord, our offences
In God's word will I rejoice
Lord, how long wilt Thou be angry
I was glad
Jubilate
Magnificat
Nunc dimittis
My Beloved Spake
Dido and Aeneas (excerpts)
My spirit sang all day by Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
The blue bird by Charles Stanford (1852-1924)
I love my love by Gustav Holst (1874-1934)
I sowed the seeds of lov eby Gustav Holst
My love dwelt in a Northern land by Edward Elgar (1857-1934)
Funeral sentences by Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Man that is born of woman
In the midst of life we are in death
Thou knowest, Lord, the secrets of our hearts
Kyrie from Mass in G minorRalph by Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)
I was glad by Henry Purcell
Hear my prayer, O Lord by Henry Purcell
Three Motets by Charles Stanford
1. Justorum animae
2. Coelos ascendit hodie
3. Beati quorum via
The programmes for 2016 included:
Parry - Lord, let me know mine end
Elgar - My Love Dwelsl in a Northern land
Selig sind die Toten- Heinrich Schutz (German 1585-1672)
Enek Szent Istvan Kiralyhoz - Zoltan Kodaly (Hungarian1882-1967)
Turot Eszik - A Cigany
Sum Tuum Praesidium - Jan Dismas Zelenka (Czech 1679-1745)
Jesu, meine Freude - Johann Sebastian Bach (German 1685-1750)
Yugoslav Folksongs - Matyas Seiber (Hungarian 1905-1960)
Totus Tuus - Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki (Polish 1933-2010)
Steh auf, meine Freudin - Philipp Dulichius (German 1562-1631)
Hortobagy - Gyorgy Ligeti (Romanian 1923-2006)
The programmes for 2015 included:
Scarlatti - Exultate Deo
Viadana - Exultate Justi
Gesualdo - Languisco e moro
Palestrina - Missa Brevis
Monteverdi - Cantate Domino
Gesualdo - In Monte Olivetti
Monteverdi - Che se tu ser il cor mio
Monteverdi - Io mi son giovinetta
Palestrina - Jesu Rex Admirabilis
Monteverdi - Mentrio miravo fiso
Monteverdi - Baci soavi et cari
Agricola - Amore che sospirar
Rore - Ancor che col partire
Rossini - O Salutaris Hostia