harmony … choral singing

I can’t remember all the glorious choral music I’ve sung continuously over the past 37 years in the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus (and its predecessor, Melbourne Chorale) but it’s all been composed by these wondrous people and many others. The repertoire in below.

The repertoire sung :

• Bach Mass in B Minor, Johannes Passion, Matthäus Passion, Singet dem Herrn
  BWV 225
• Beethoven Symphony No 9 ‘Choral’ ... sung from memory, Mass in C Major,
  Mass in D Major ‘Missa Solemnis’
• Benjamin, arr by Bernard Herrman
  The Storm Clouds Cantata … for the film,
  The Man who knew too much
• Berlioz La Damnation de Faust, Grande Messe des morts Op 5 (Requiem),
  L’Enfance du Christ, Lelio, Te Deum
• Bernstein Chichester Psalms, Mass
• Borodin Prince Igor—Polovtsian Dances
• Boulanger Psalm 129
• Brahms Ein deutsches Requiem Op 45 with Piano Four-Hands, and with Orchestra, Schicksalsleid
• Britten Carry her over the Water, Chorale—after an old French Carol, Ballad of Heroes Op 14,
  St Nicolas, War Requiem Op 66
• Bruckner Mass in F Minor,
  Geistliche Chore
• Cheetham Eumeralla—a War Requiem
  for Peace
• Dean The Last Days of Socrates
• Di Lasso Timor et Tremor
• Dun The Buddha Passion
• Duruflé Requiem Op 9
• Elgar Spirit Of England, The Dream of Gerontius
• Fanshawe African Sanctus
• Fauré Requiem Op 48, Pavanne
• Gorecki s Op 44, Amen Op 35
• Grainger A Tribute to Foster, Danny Deever, King Solomon’s Espousals,
  Marching Song of Democracy,
  The Bride’s Tragedy
• Handel Athalia, Joshua, Messiah, Solomon, Zadok the Priest
• Haydn Missa In Augustiis H22/11 ‘Nelson Mass’, Theresienmesse H22/12,
  The Creation (in English), The Seasons
  (in English, and Deutsch), Te Deum in C
• Henze Jüdische Chronik
• Janacek Glagolitic Mass
• Kancheli Styx
• Kodály Háry János
• Lambert The Rio Grande
• Ligiti Requiem Kyrie from 2001 :
  a space odyssey
• Machuel Über dem Dorn
• Mahler Das klagende Lied, Symphony 2 ‘Resurrection’, Symphony 8 ‘Symphony of aiThousand’ ... performed at the Opening of the Sydney Olympics 2000 Arts Festival, and a year later in Melbourne, celebrating Australian Federation
• Marlow (after Bach) Advent Responsory
• Maskats Da ispravitsja molitva moja (Psalm 141)
• Mendelssohn Die erste Walpurgisnacht, Elijah, Mein Gott, warum hast du mich verlassen Op 78 No 3
• Mozart Coronation Mass K317, Mass in
  C Minor K427 (417a), Requiem K626
• Orff Carmina Burana ... In 2001, we performed this with gestures, from memory 15itimes in airow, on stage with the Australian Ballet
• Orlovich The Listening Land
• Parry I was Glad, ‘Jerusalem’
• Poulenc Gloria, Videntes Stellam
• Prokofiev Alexander Nevsky
• Puccini La Fanciulla Del West (iniConcert)
• Purcell Hear my Prayer O Lord
• Rachmaninov All-night Vigil Op 37 ‘Vespers’ Liturgy of St John Chrysostom (Four parts), The Bells Op 35
• Ravel Daphnis et Chloë, L’Enfant et Les Sortiléges (in Concert)
• Rossini Guillaume Tell (in Concert), Stabat Mater, Petite Messe Solenelle
• Schnittke Choir Concerto
• Shchedrin The Sealed Angel
• Schoenberg Gurrelieder
• Schubert Gesang der Geister über den Wassern D 714, Mass in G Deutsche Messe D872—Sanctus
• Schultz In Tempore Stellae
• Shore The Lord of the Rings film music
• Shostakovich Symphony 2 in B Major
  Op 14 ’To October—‘aisymphonic dedication’, Symphony 13 in Biflat Minor Op 113 ‘Babi Yar’
• Stanford Magnificat, Magnificat in B flat, Nunc dimittus in B flat, Te Deum
• Stanhope Exile Lamentations
• Strauss II An der schoenen blauen
  Donau (the original version containing
  an SATB chorus)
• Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms
• Tchaikovsky 1812 Overture Op 49
• Tippett A Child of our Time
• Tobias Jonah’s Mission
• Twist How shall we sing in
  a Strange Land?
• Vasks Pater noster, Ziles Zina
• Vaughan-Willams A Sea Symphony, Dona Nobis Pacem, Serenade to Music
• Verdi Four Sacred Pieces, Otello (in Concert), Requiem
• Vivaldi Gloria in D RV 589
• Wagner The Flying Dutchman
  (in Concert)
• Walton Belshazzar’s Feast
• Weber Missa No2 ‘Jubel-Messe’
• Westlake Missa Solis ‘Requiem for Eli’
• Plus Backing Nick Cave and Warren Ellis in an MSO show of their film music, backing Barbara Streisand in concert, and various other non-choral gigs.

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With the accompanying music set by Parry, this is one of my most favourite ‘sings’ :

And did those feet in ancient time
(aka Jerusalem)

by William Blake

And did those feet in ancient time.

Walk upon England’s mountains green:

And was the Holy Lamb of God,

On England’s pleasant pastures seen

And did the Countenance Divine,

Shine forth upon our clouded hills

And was Jerusalem builded here,

Among these dark Satanic mills?

Bring me my bow of burning gold;

Bring me my arrows of desire:

Bring me my spear: O clouds unfold

Bring me my Chariot of fire!

I will not cease from mental fight,

Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand:

Till we have built Jerusalem,

In England’s green and pleasant Land.

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