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Past Season Index
56th Season, 2011-2012
55th Season, 2010-2011
Past Season Index
55th - 56th Seasons
(M) Men Only (W) Women Only (A) Accompanied
56th Season, 2011-2012
| Composer | Dates | Nationality | Title |
| Arne, Thomas | 1710-1778 | British | Which is the Properest Day to Drink? |
| Bantock, Granville | 1868-1946 | British | The Golden Journey to Samarkand |
| Barber, Samuel | 1910-1981 | American | Ad Bibinem Cum Me Rogaret Ad Cenam |
| Bartók, Béla | 1881-1945 | Hungarian | The Wanderer (Sz. 93, 2) |
| Berkeley, Lennox | 1903-1989 | British | I Sing of a Maiden |
| Bingham, Judith | b. 1952 | British | Glimpses of a Remoter World |
| Blow, John | 1649-1708 | English | On the King's Coming Home (W) |
| Brahms, Johannes | 1833-1897 | German | Drei Lieder (op. 42) |
| Britten, Benjamin | 1913-1976 | British | The Holly and the Ivy (arr.) |
| Byrd, William | 1540-1623 | English | Ye Sacred Muses |
| Chilcott, Bob | b. 1955 | British | The Rose in the Middle of Winter |
| Cleobury, Stephen | b. 1948 | British | A Shropshire Carol |
| Cornelius, Peter | 1824-1874 | German | Beethovenlied (op. 10) |
| Crabtree, Paul | b. 1960 | British-American | Five Miniatures from The Simpsons |
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Cummings, William Hayman |
1831-1915 | British | Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (descant by David Willcocks) |
| Davies, Peter Maxwell | b. 1934 | British | One Star, At Last |
| Diepenbrock, Alphons | 1862-1921 | Dutch | Caelestis Urbs Ierusalem |
| Dufay, Guillaume | 1397-1474 | Franco-Flemish | Urbs Beata Ierusalem |
| Gardner, John | 1917-2011 | British | Cantor Popularis Vocis (op. 68) |
| Garrett, John | b. 1969 | American | Drink To Me Only (world première) |
| Gauntlett, Henry John | 1805-1876 | British | Once In Royal David's City (harmonized by A. H. Mann, descant by David Willcocks) |
| Gibbons, Orlando | 1583-1625 | English | Hosanna To The Son Of David |
| Gombert, Nicolas | c.1495-1560 | Franco-Flemish | Musae Iovis |
| Guillaume, Sydney | b. 1982 | Haitian-American | Le Dernier Voyage (world première; written for SLCC) |
| Hassler, Hans Leo | 1564-1612 | German | Ihr Musici, Frisch Auf! |
| Verbum caro factum est | |||
| Helvey, Howard | b. 1968 | American | Sunset: St. Louis (written for SLCC, from "Three Teasdale Madrigals") |
| Hindemith, Paul | 1895-1963 | German | Trink Aus! (Zwölf Madrigale, 4) |
| Holst, Gustav | 1874-1934 | British | Bring Us In Good Ale (op. 34, 4; H. 131) |
| In the Bleak Midwinter | |||
| Howells, Herbert | 1892-1983 | British | The Scribe |
| Joubert, John | b. 1927 | South African | There Is No Rose of Such Virtue (op. 14) |
| Kodály, Zoltán | 1882-1967 | Hungarian | Drinking Song (M) |
| Ledger, Philip | b. 1937 | British | I Saw Three Ships (arr.) |
| Liszt, Franz | 1811-1886 | Austro-Hungarian | O Roma Nobilis (S. 54, new edition) |
| Manning, Sasha Johnson | b. 1963 | British | Christmas Bells (à 2
chori) (world première; written for SLCC) |
| Mendelssohn, Felix | 1809-1847 | German | Trinklied (op. posth.75, 3) (M) |
| Weihnachten (op. 79, 1) | |||
| Milhaud, Darius | 1892-1974 | French | Traversée (op. 393) |
| Monteverdi, Claudio | 1567-1643 | Venetian | Ave Maria (à 3) (M) |
| Ockeghem, Johannes | 1410/25-1497 | Franco-Flemish | Mort, Tu Es Navré/Miserere
(ed. Philip Barnes) |
| Ord, Boris | 1897-1961 | British | Adam Lay Ybounden |
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Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da |
1526-1594 | Roman | Urbs Beata Ierusalem |
| Pärt, Arvo | b. 1935 | Estonian | Bogoróditse Dyévo |
| Pettman, Edgar | 1866-1943 | British | The Angel Gabriel (arr.) |
| Pontio, Pietro | 1532-1596 | Parmesan | Urbs Beata Ierusalem |
| Poulenc, Francis | 1899-1963 | French | Chanson à Boire (M) |
| Praulins, Ugis | b. 1957 | Latvian | Missa Rigensis |
| Prèz, Josquin des | c.1445-1521 | Flemish | La Déploration de Okeghem |
| Richards, Monica | b. | American | Frater Ave Atque Vale (W) |
| Rubbra, Edmund | 1901-1986 | British | Dormi Jesu (op. 3) |
| Schubert, Franz | 1797-1828 | German | Trinklied (D. 847) (M) |
| Trinklied im Winter (D. 242) (M) | |||
| Schumann, Clara | 1819-1896 | German | Drei Gemischte Chore |
| Schumann, Robert | 1810-1856 | German | Der König von Thule (op. 67, 1) |
| Schütz, Heinrich | 1585-1672 | German | Das Ist Je Gewisslich Wahr (SWV 277) |
| Sculthorpe, Peter | b. 1929 | Australian | The Birthday of Thy King |
| Seiber, Mátyás | 1905-1960 | Hungarian-British | Sirmio |
| Zwei Schweinekarbonaden (M) | |||
| Stanford, Charles Villiers | 1852-1924 | British |
Magnificat
in B flat (op. 164) (double choir) |
| Tavener, John | b. 1944 | British | Prayer to the Holy Trinity |
| Thompson, Randall | 1899-1984 | American | God's Bottles (from Americana) (W) |
| Tučapsky, Antonin | b. 1928 | Anglo-Czech | Nunc Est Bibendum (In Honorem Vitae, 3) |
| Wade, John Francis | 1711-1786 | English | O Come, All Ye Faithful (descant by David Willcocks) |
| Walker, Robert | b. 1946 | British | The Ale Songbook (written for SLCC; world première) |
| Walton, Willam | 1902-1983 | British | All This Time |
| Weelkes, Thomas | 1576-1623 | English | Death Hath Deprived Me |
| Thule, The Period of Cosmography | |||
| Willcocks, David | b. 1919 | British | Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day |
| Williams, Ralph Vaughan | 1872-1958 | British | Prayer to the Father of Heaven |
|
O Little
Town Of Bethlehem (descant by Thomas Armstrong) |
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55th Season, 2010-2011
| Composer | Dates | Nationality | Title |
| Anonymous | 15th c. | English | Alleluya: A Nywe Werke |
| Nowell Sing We | |||
| There Is No Rose | |||
| Anonymous | 16th c. | Scottish | Balulalow (arr. Kenneth Elliott) |
| Bantock, Granville | 1868-1946 | British |
Darest Thou
Now, O Soul
(world première; written as part of an unfinished “Whitman Symphony” but shelved until its discovery in 2008) |
| Invocation to Pan | |||
| The Isles of Greece | |||
| Zeus, Lord Of Heaven! (M) | |||
| Bárdos, Lajos | 1899-1986 | Hungarian | Cantemus |
| Barnes, Philip | b. 1958 | British-American | The Lord At First Did Adam Make |
| Bednall, David | b. 1979 | British | From Heaven Above (written for SLCC) |
| Billings, William | 1746-1800 | American | Lamentation over Boston |
| The Dying Christian's Last Farewell | |||
| Bingham, Judith | b. 1952 | British | A Bird Is
Singing (world première; written for SLCC) |
|
The Drowned Lovers (à 10) (after Stanford’s “Blue Bird”) |
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| Brahms, Johannes | 1833-1897 | German |
Benedictus (from Missa Canonica [WoO 18]) |
|
Warum ist das Licht gegeben? (op. 74, 1) |
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| Byrt, John | b. 1939 | British | All And Some |
| Cornelius, Peter | 1824-1874 | German | Drei Psalmlieder (op. 13) |
| Requiem | |||
| Fattorini, Gabriele | fl. 1598-1607 | Northern Italian |
Audi Coelum
(reconstructed by Craig Monson) |
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Hymnum Cantate Nobis (reconstructed
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| Gabrieli, Andrea | c.1532-1585 | Venetian | Choruses from "Oedipus Tyrannos" |
| Gesualdo, Carlo | 1566-1613 | Neapolitan | Jerusalem, Surge |
| Gubanov, Yakov | b. 1954 | Russian | The Garden
of Roses (world première; written for SLCC) |
| Howells, Herbert | 1892-1983 | British | A Spotless Rose |
| Kelly, Bryan | b. 1934 | British | This Lovely Lady |
| Kodály, Zoltán | 1882-1967 | Hungarian | Homo Perpende Fragilis |
| Jézus és a Kufárok | |||
| Ode to Franz Liszt | |||
| Leifs, Jón | 1899-1968 | Icelandic | Requiem (op. 33b) |
| Lekberg, Sven | 1900-1984 | American | Lament |
| Liszt, Franz | 1811-1886 | Hungarian | Ave Maria (S.20, i) |
| Pater Noster (S.29) (from Christus) | |||
| Maclean, Clare | b. 1958 | New Zealander | Psalm 137 (written for SLCC) |
| Susannine
(world première; written for SLCC) |
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| Slow Gold (written for SLCC) | |||
| Mahler, Gustav | 1860-1911 | Austrian | Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (à 16) (arr. Clytus Gottwald) |
| Manning, Sasha Johnson | b. 1963 | British |
Ode to Love
(world première; written for SLCC) |
| Milhaud, Darius | 1892-1974 | French | Les Deux Cités (op. 170) |
| Monteverdi, Claudio | 1567-1643 | Venetian | O
Jesu Mia Vita, arr. Aquilino Coppini (d. 1629) |
| Si ch'io vorrei morire | |||
|
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da |
1525-1594 | Roman | Super
Flumina Babylonis (à 4) Surge, Illuminare, Jerusalem (à 2 chori) |
|
Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings |
1848-1918 | British | Six Songs of Farewell |
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Prado, José Antônio de Almeida |
1943-2010 | Brazilian | Oráculo (à 16) |
| Praetorius, Michael | 1571-1621 | German | Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen |
| Purcell, Henry | 1659-1695 | English | Hear My Prayer, O Lord (à 8) |
| Redman, Reginald | 1892-1972 | British | All Silent Now |
| Rorem, Ned | b. 1923 | American | Ode to Man (written for SLCC) |
| Rossi, Salamone | c.1570-1630 | Mantuan | Al Naharot Bavel |
| Rózsa, Miklós | 1907-1995 | Hungarian | The Lord Is My Shepherd (op. 34) |
| Rutter, John | b. 1945 | British | Hymn to the
Creator of Light (à 2 chori) |
| Sandström, Sven-David | b. 1942 | Swedish | Hear My Prayer, O Lord (à 8) (after Purcell) |
| Seiber, Mátyás | 1905-1960 | Hungarian-British | Missa Brevis |
| Three Graces | |||
| Shaffer, Martha | b. 1946 | American | Hostis Herodes (written for SLCC) |
| Shemer, Naomi | 1931-2004 | Israeli | Yerushalayim Shel Zahav |
| Stanford, Charles Villiers | 1852-1924 | British | The Blue Bird (op. 119, 3) |
| Stravinsky, Igor | 1882-1971 | Russian-American | Tres Sacrae Cantiones of Gesualdo |
| Sumsion, Herbert | 1899-1995 | British | In Exile |
| Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilyich | 1840-1893 | Russian | The Crown of Roses (op. 54, 5) |
| Thomson, Virgil | 1896-1989 | American | O My Deir Hert |
| Walton, William | 1902-1983 | British | Make We Joy |
| Willaert, Adrian | c.1490-1562 | Flemish | Dulces Exuviae |
| Williams, Ralph Vaughan | 1872-1958 | British | The Turtle Dove (arr.) |
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Williams, Ralph Vaughan and Martin Shaw |
1872-1958, 1875-1958 |
British | This Endris Night |
| Wishart, Peter | 1921-1984 | British | Alleluya! A New Work Is Come On Hand |
| Zuk, Patrick | b. 1968 | Irish | Ye Sons Of Men (written for SLCC) |
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