The Phoenix Singers of Shrewsbury : Music performed, 1998 to 2008

Mentioned are the more important works and in addition to them performances been have been given of many shorter works such as folk-song arrangements, part-songs and Christmas music.

Bach, J.S.           Mass in B Minor*; Christmas Oratorio*; St Matthew Passion*

                         St John Passion*; Cantatas 4* (Christ lag in Todesbanden); 63* (Christen ätzet diesen  Tag); Motets: Singet dem Herrn; Lobet den Herrn

Barber                       Re-incarnations

Bax                          Sing of a Maiden

Brahms                    Gesange aus Fingal* (women’s voices)

Beamish, Sally          Bird Year (A Phoenix commission, 2006)

Bennett, R.R.            Five Carols

Bernstein                   Choruses from The Lark;

Blow                         God Spake Sometime in Visions*; various other anthems

Britten                    A Boy Was Born; Choral Dances from Gloriana; Five Flower Songs; St Nicolas*;

                              The Ballad of Little Musgrave and Lady Barnard (men’s voices); Hymn to St Cecilia

Brown, Nicholas       Two Pieces Concerning Time (resulting from the I.S.M.’s "Adopt-a-Composer"  scheme.)

Bruckner                 Mass in E Minor*; motets with brass;

Buxtehude               Magnificat*; HerlichLieb, hab ich dich*; Das neugebor’ne Kindelein*

Byrd                       Numerous motets etc

Copland                 Las Agachadas

Debussy                  Trois Chansons

Delius                     To Be Sung of a Summer Night on the River

Elgar                        There Is Sweet Music Here; My Love Dwelt in a Northern Land;    

                               O Wild West Wind

Finzi                         All This Night; White-Flowering Days; In Terra Pax*

Gabrieli, A & G       Various motets, mostly with brass

Gibbons, O             See ! See ! the Word is Incarnate*; Hosanna to the Son of David

Handel                    O Come Let Us Sing*; Let Thy Hand be Strengthened*

Harris                     Faire is the Heaven

Haydn                   Te Deum in C*; Missa in Angustiis (The Nelson Mass);

Holst                     Eastern Pictures (women’s voices); This Have I Done For My True Love;    

                             Bring Us In Good Ale; Terly, Terlow

Janequin                La Bataille de Marignan

Kellam, Ian            Jolly Wat

Kodaly                   Jesus and the Traders

David Lord           The History of the Flood

Lloyd, Richard      Deep in the Fading Leaves of Night (Phoenix commission)

Maconchy             This Day (women’s voices)

Mathias                 Ave Verum

Messiaen               O Sacrum Convivium

Moeran                 Songs of Springtime

Mozart, Leopold    Missa Brevis in C

Naylor, Bernard      In Ascensione Domini

Palestrina                 Exultate Deo

Parry                        At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners

Paul Patterson         Kyrie

Peerson                   Man, Dreame, no More

Philips                     Ecce vicit

Poulenc                     Four motets

Purcell                     Funeral Music*; Come, ye Sons of Art*; Welcome to All the Pleasures*;

                                My Heart Is Inditing*;O God, Thou Art My God.

Ramirez                    Misa Criolla*; various S.American part-songs

Rawsthorne             A Canticle of Man*

Respighi                 Lauda per la Natività del Signore*

Schubert                 Mass in G*

Schütz                     Historia der Geburt Jesu Christi; various motets

Sherlaw-Johnson      Puer Natus (Phoenix commission, 2000)

Tallis                       Spem in Alium; other motets

Tippett                    Dance, Clarion Air

Vaughan Williams     Mass in G Minor; O vos Omnes; O Clap Your Hands*

 

Music marked * : performed with orchestra or other instrumental ensemble.