The Elysian Singers (Wetherby)
16th Century
William Byrd Haec dies
Jacobus Gallus Estote fortes in bello
Giovanni Palestrina Agnus Dei
Passereau Il est bel et bon
Sermisy Vous perdez temps
John Farmer Fair Phyllis
T L de Victoria O Quam Gloriosum
17th Century
William Byrd Mass for 4 voices: Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei
William Byrd Sing Joyfully
Giovanni Gabrieli Jubilate Deo
Claudio Monteverdi Beatus Vir
Claudio Monteverdi Cantate Domino
Henry Purcell Hear my prayer, O Lord
Thomas Weelkes Hark, All ye Lovely Saints
18th Century
J S Bach Jesu joy of man's desiring
John Blow Salvator mundi
G F Handel Zadok the priest
Antonio Lotti Crucifixus a 8
W A Mozart Ave verum corpus
A Vivaldi Gloria
19th Century
Anton Bruckner Ave Maria
Anton Bruckner Locus Iste
Anton Bruckner Os justi
Robert Lucas de Pearsall Lay a Garland
Edward Elgar As Torrents in Summer
Gabriel Faure Cantique de Jean Racine
Felix Mendelssohn Psalm 43 (Richte Mich Gott)
Josef Rheinberger Abendlied
Camille Saint-Saens Les Fleurs et les Arbres
Camille Saint-Saens Calme des Nuits
20th Century Sacred
Peter Aston Alleluia psallat
Alan Bullard Cantate Gloria
Alan Bullard Prayer for Peace
Pablo Casals O Vos Omnes
Maurice Durufle Ubi caritas
Howard Goodall Psalm 23 (Vicar of Dibley)
William H Harris Faire is the heaven
Gustav Holst Nunc Dimittis
Gabriel Jackson O sacrum convivium
Morten Lauridsen O magnum mysterium
Pawel Lukaszewski Ave Maria
William Mathias Make a joyful noise
A Parker, R Shaw (arr) My God is a rock
C Hubert Parry I was glad
Jonathan Power Jubilate Deo
Jonathan Power Let all the world
John Rutter A Gaelic Blessing
John Rutter The Lord bless you and keep you
Pat Shaw (arr) Satan go 'way
C V Stanford Three motets: Justorum animae,
Coelos ascendit hodie, Beati quorum via
John Tavener Two hymns to the Mother of God
Michael Tippett Five negro spirituals from 'A child of our time'; Steal Away;
Nobody knows; Go down; Moses; By and by; Deep River
Judith Weir Love bade me welcome
Jim Wild (arr) My Lord what a morning
Mary Wilkinson Ave Maria
Roderick Williams (arr) I got a robe
Trad., arr Ziemann Joshua fit de Battle of Jericho
20th Century Secular
Dominic Behan Liverpool Lou
Mike Brewer (arr.) Hamba Lulu: five African songs
Cy Coleman arr A.S Wilde Rhythm of life
Con Conrad The continental
Edward Elgar The Shower
James Erb (arr) Shenandoah
Gerald Finzi My spirit sang all day
George & Ira Gershwin, arr Christopher Clapham I got Rhythm
Andrew Goff Ave rosa sine spinis
Marvin Hamlish The Way We Were
Gustav Holst (arr) I love my love
Gustav Holst (arr) Swansea tow
Bart Howard Fly Me to the Moon
Donald James (arr) Bushes and Briars
Billy Joel, arr. Bob Chilcott And so it goes
Richard Leigh Don’t it make my brown eyes blue
Jaakko Mantyjarvi Four Shakespeare songs: Come away, Death; Lullaby;
Double, double toil and trouble; Full fathom five
Johnny Mercer et al Autumn Leaves
Johnny Mercer, Hoagy Carmichael Lazybones
György Orbán Daemon irrepit calidus
Cole Porter Anything goes
Jonathan Rathbone (arr) Three Folk Songs: The Oak and the Ash,
Swing Low Sweet Chariot, Nine Hundred Miles
Richard Rodgers, arr David Blackwell Blue Moon
John Rutter (arr) Dashing Away with the Smoothing iron
John Rutter Five childhood lyrics: Monday’s child, The owl and the pussy-
cat, Matthew Mark Luke and John, Sing a song of sixpence
John Rutter For the beauty of the earth
John Rutter It was a Lover and his Lass
John Rutter (arr) O Waly Waly
Percy Snowdon (arr) Two Northumbrian Folk Songs
C V Stanford The Blue Bird
Michael Stocks (arr) Every Night when the Sun Goes Down
Brian Trant (arr) Deep River
George Weiss, Bob Thiele What a Wonderful World
Ralph Vaughan Williams Five English folk songs: The dark eyed sailor, The Spring
time of the year, Just as the tide was flowing, Wassail song
Philip Wilby (arr) North Country folk songs
Alan Woods Ode on St Cecelia's Day
Len Young (arr) Dance to your daddy
Trad. folk song Blow the wind southerly
Trad. Sea shanty, arr Alan Woods Sacramento
21st Century
Ken Burton Rest
Paul Chamberlain Songs from the Requiem'
Bob Chilcott I share Creation
Paul Mealor Ubi Caritas
Eric Whitacre Lux Aurumque
Eric Whitacre Sleep
Alan Woods When Music Sounds [commissioned by us for our Ruby Anniversary]
(This list does not include Christmas items.)
These are some of the items that we have sung in our concerts in the past few years:-
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